From tonysounds@yahoo.com Fri Jul 16 09:16:14 2004
Subject:Re: The rights or wrongs of recovering R&D costs....

The difference is Roland and Korg and Nord (although a much smaller company) have a variety of products to use this technology in: clones (yay!), synthesizers, work stations, drum machines, and guitar products. Also, those three companies have a much larger demographic, and the quantity of instruments sold using that technology is probably 100 to 1 compared to HS.

Nord is different; like HS, they are a niche market company, so in their own little product worlds -clones and analog modeled synths- they are more highly regarded, at least in the analog "synth" demographic and Nord has a higher market share than Roland or Korg (again, talking about the analog "synth" demographic). But they have a number of products to recoup their R&D on, and a lot of models sold to support it.

When talking about the new B3 or the PortaB, what we really are talking about are Rolls Royces. My wife would KILL to own a Corniche. But it ain't in the cards; at least not in the foreseeable future. But are they really worth the money? What does a Rolls do that a Toyota doesn't do? Guess you'd have to get behind the wheel of one to find out.

The subject line of this topic shows the ridiculousness of this thread: "The rights and wrongs of recovering R&D costs." It is now unethical for a company to recover their investments? While the technology being used might not be tomorrow's, obviously they have made some real improvements in that technology; otherwise we wouldn't be discussing the XK3 or the new B3....they would sound like the XB2.

T

Rohan Baker wrote:
From: "emmanualpedal"

< of R&D with a brand new state of the art technology like sampling.>>

Korg, Roland and Voce etc offer various modeling technologies instead of sampling. Again nothing new here as the digital modeling of sine waves has been around for a while. Maybe commercially not as long as sampling, but we do have examples that were readily available going back to the early 80's.

I guess those companies (Roland, Korg, Nord etc) didn't have to spend a lot in R&D too.

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