Well, you can look at it from two different perspectives if you will. First thing that I feel is absolutely true is that the market is changing, and even though it might not be that apparent, so are companies' strategies and therefor their products. If you take a look at the stuff Korg has been doing in the past couple of years and the focus they put into different areas other then workstations, I'd say you have some answers there. And that's not a bad thing, as well, because some of the innovations they did are pretty much astonishing. I mean, DS-10 for Nintendo? That's freakin' cool!peter m. mahr wrote: out of curiosity and although being off topic may this generel question be allowed - what is the reason for a company to join such a trade show like the NAMM if there are nearly no new products presented or announced?
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Second thing, NAMM is, in music industry, a place to be at. So is Frankfurt Messe, but for whatever reason I can tell you this - I prefer going to NAMM over Messe any day of the week. Not only because it's earlier in the year, although it's a big part usually. Messe tends to be the "let's repeat NAMM in Europe" thing in terms of products. And that's a waste of time for many people, myself included. So, NAMM is kind of a... inertion thing. You just gotta be there.
In all "fairness", I think that M3 also did all sorts of weird stuff to Korg. I have a strong feeling that the catching-up game they've been playing with M3 and the big "hole" they left on their own market by discontinnuing Triton Extreme before M3 was ready, while putting a lot of time and effort into M3 XP development is something that cost them. I just hope that they finally come to terms with some strategies because there's been way too much confused decisions by them in the recent months and years.
