By the way, has anybody come across an estimated time of arrival for these instruments? I mean, the total list comes to about ten instruments. This could take years to accomplish.
Exactly. They've pulled the pages on their site, which makes me think they may have been trolling. Or they were doing a pre-NAMM tease, though if so, like you pointed out, the timeline for releases would be over years.
The best bit about all this is Roland have spent 20yrs trying to remake their own gear and keep stuffing it up, yet Behringer are hitting 6's when remaking other company's synths (well one so far).
I think I would have ignored The Wasp and the Cat and others and focussed on the 2600 and SH but I also would have released a Jupiter 8 clone this year. Just to see Roland lose their damn minds.
Heheh, I don't like to be anti-Roland although I may come across as such. I do wish they'd stick at one thing and make it great before moving on. They were headed towards complete drum machine domination with the Human Rhythm Composer range making each new machine more and more of a percussion workstation than an auto-drummer. Having owned an R8, an R-70 and a DR660 (pretty sure the Doctor Rhythm's were the basis for the HRC's), I was under the impression that all drum machines had song modes, boy was I wrong!
I do wonder though if the small number of 2nd hand MC303/505's etc on the market is because they are being kept for a reason by their owners, or like all of my digital drum machines, they have died.
Addendum:
Weird how the bathroom make one think of things they have over looked.
I just remembered a conversation a friend and I had about 'comfort' synths: synths people won't sell because they mean something to the owner, but don't use much if at all. For me it's my M1. I've pretty much replaced it, but I won't sell it as it was my first brand new synth and it means a lot to me. For him, his MC303 is never leaving his possession despite him not using it for more than a sound module for over a decade due to the joy he gained from it when it was a current device.