Who will be the leader - Roland or Yamaha?

[Andrew]

Hello everyone:

I know I tend to "stir the pot" or "open up a can of worms" with a few of my posts - this one will be no different.

Question 1) Who do you believe will release a new workstation first? Roland or Yamaha.

Question 2) Will it continue the family line (e.g. Fantom Studio or Motif Studio) or will they start a new line?

Question 3) When (as a logical estimation) do you think they will release it? Winter NAMM perhaps?

I personally don't think Korg will release anything soon considering the Triton line is so huge. If nothing else, expect some attrition here.

While were at it - does anyone have the official release dates for the Roland Fantom X and Yamaha Motif ES? This should make scientific speculation somewhat easier.

Thanks for your patience - you all would make great doctors since you all have lots of patience. (patients... LOL)

Best,
Andrew

[bisibuuu]

tell me it's a joke...really....; )..
who will win between Microsoft and Sony?
Spectrum and C64?
Atari and Amiga?
Nintendo and Megadrive Sega?
apple and Windows?
between hd-dvd and Blueray?
between diesel and gasoline?
between plasma and lcd....?
etc etc,,,
i saw this soo many times...
i think that evry time wins the technology...
next namm will win the best tech specs at the right price
with the right desires included in it...

i've loved fantom and tritons then i've found my Oasys..i'm dead...i haven't money for the water...

[DonPhilippo]

Andrew wrote:

> Who will be the leader - Roland or Yamaha?

I, Don Philippo, will be your leader. And I order you to exclusively use Roland products. Yamaha is in the sewing machine and moped business. So unless you're a grandma with a Jack Kerouac dream, just follow me and obey my commands, OK?

XXX, Don Philippo

[Artemiy]

Yamaha makes nice scooters!

[melnikov_project]

i think i will answer the who win q////\\\\

the roland's cool, yamaha , makes cool cd-rw drives ,
and all other shit,,, roland special is music ,,, so in like 50 years roland will be the rulling company in music indrustry along with korg and yamaha ...
so no need to get excited about it there is nothin U can DO,,,,
if ur father is not the manager of 1 of those companys...

[V-CeeOh]

follow the leader, leader,leader
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follow the leader, leader,leader
follow the leader
follow Philippo, ippo, ippo
follow Philippo
follow Philippo, ippo, ippo
follow Philippo
follow the leader, leader,leader
follow the leader
...
...

(fix Da mix with a nice techno beat)


o - ...just could not afford the 8
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hear what I've done with the 7

[DonPhilippo]

fixthemix wrote:

> follow the leader, leader,leader
> follow the leader
> follow the leader, leader,leader
> follow the leader
> follow Philippo, ippo, ippo
> follow Philippo
> follow Philippo, ippo, ippo
> follow Philippo
> follow the leader, leader,leader
> follow the leader

Seems like I found myself a court composer.

XXX, Don Philippo

[Andrew]

Oh well, maybe we are just scared of the future. I brought this up after re-reading Sound On Sound's review of the Motif ES. Also, if you have the official Motif ES brochure you will notice words like "the best so far", and other future indicators like "yet" - hinting that something else is coming soon.

Does anyone have those official release dates of the Yamaha Motif ES or Roland Fantom X? Yes, I know they have been out for a while. I would just like to look at the time it took to release each model.

Best,
Andrew

[nsheldon]

Thread moved to "Free zone."

Regards,

Nathan Sheldon
http://www.nathansheldon.com/

[DonPhilippo]

nsheldon:

> Thread moved to "Free zone."

O, great. Now I'll have to rule my kingdom from down here.

XXX, Don Philippo

[GregC]

While were at it - does anyone have the official release dates for the Roland Fantom X and Yamaha Motif ES? This should make scientific speculation somewhat easier.

You could do a google for that. A better question is when did the companies ' announce ' those products.

I think Yamaha announced the ES in August 2003. The ES was available in late Sept. If you look around this forum you can determine the Fantom X

GregC

[Andrew]

Thanks I will see what I can come up with. Thanks for the response and the info. Wow, it seems like yesterday when the Yamaha Motif ES was announced. Interesting to know. I do know that the Motif was released in late spring/early summer of 2001 and the EX5/EX7 were released in summer 1998.

So roughly a 3 year span before another flagship workstation is announced. Hmm. So if the Motif ES was announced in August 2003 - then 3 years would be... next year!

Thanks again!

Best,
Andrew