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I'm not sure this is at all true,
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I am sure it's not true. It was a joke in response to the humorous post before it.
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take two examples, the most recent Kurzweil and Roland workstations. Both have inferior samplers and inferior sequencers to their predecessors,
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Both are no longer the same companies. The Kurzweil we love had Stevie Wonder , Ray Kurzweil and different ownership. Maybe Ray can upload his consciousness to the cloud and knock out another classic workstation with Stevie?
Roland also had different owner, staff , facilities, etc.
I usually find it more useful to look at the engineers and design team rather than the company to find stuff I like.
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they literally dumbed them down and gutted half the more professional features that were already there
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That's because the pros moved onto other gear, changing the market.
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. It is all part of this shift from the music equipment industry making products that potential working musicians could use into specifically targeting the much larger hobby market, dumber devices but way more customers.
I think the market has split and changed. There's jus as much pro gear as novice gear.
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There's a hollowing out in the middle zone, you can buy all manner of cheap toys, hardly anything in the middle, and then it jumps to the serious studio installation gear that commercial studios would buy.
That's happening with most goods and property. It's not just synths.
If the old stuff is so good why do you need anything else anyway ?