Korg's new Volca series - linkable $150 grooveboxes

[Pedro Sánchez]

Dear Roland:

What the fuck have you done lately? Jeez. The whole series is more than a little reminiscent of the 303 and similar Roland designs. While Roland ponders whether or not to re-release the 303, these guys are gonna sell a fucking shitload of these units IMO.

They are too busy making them shit overpriced performance keyboards and a watered down Juno every couple of years.

If the electronic music community put their money where their mouth is like the people playing in churches do, maybe there would be an incentive for them to actually make something that we want.

How many people in here actually have bought a new product costing over $1k? Not many. Electronic musicians are like the most niche market of niche markets on the market.

That doesn't make sense, why would a product need to top 1k for it to be of quality and still profitable, clearly Korg know this and are at a guess making a huge profit from this plus I'm pretty sure it's usually electronic musicians that are in the market for electronic music equipment, so not that niche.

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Also: it's harder to justify expenditures > $1000 because so few things are actually worth that much these days (both in perceived and actual value.) We're pretty spoiled by the ready availability of software options that do the job. It's been a while since I heard something that made me say "omg I have to have one, price be damned."

$150 is significant as a price point because it pretty much guarantees success for the line for Korg as well as incentivizing the competition to come out with similar offerings. And in all honesty, these things aren't revolutionary technologically; it's all tried & true stuff that's been around longer than most of the posters in this forum...

[SKIN E]

Very cool, wouldn't mind having one of these!

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