RE: ASR-X Pro vs. MPC2000

["Douglas Lawrence" <douglas-lawrence@home.com>]

>>heh, Ensoniq was bought by Creative Labs earlier this year - Creative is
>>from Singapore. Creative also owns E-mu. It'll be interesting to see how
>>that affects things....

>>kim

... but the Ensoniq folks are still located in good 'ole Malvern,
Pennsylvania. I have no idea where they actually manufacture their 
products.
To me it seems like Ensoniq is trying to seriously pare down their product
line and focus on making specific market-driven products. This may be the
Creative Technology bean counters watching the bottom line. How this will
effect the quality and direction, who knows?

I do know that quite a few people are starting to complain about the 
quality
of Kurzweil keyboards since they were purchased by Young Chang. They seem 
to
rely on their resellers for additional support, such as Sweetwater. It
doesn't seem like Ensoniq has been able to build up that kind of following.

Another angle is Yamaha. I almost never hear anybody complain about the
quality of their products, just the customer support. Yamaha A3000 OS 2.0 
is
a good example ... it too them about a year to get it out in response to
customers wishes.

Geez, if we could only get the Yamaha, EMU, Akai, and Ensoniq engineers
together with Kim .... hey Kim, you own an MPC2000, don't ya? Any opinions?