From Ben Bradley Sent Wed, May 1st 2019, 03:29
From Ben Bradley Sent Wed, May 1st 2019, 03:29
I just double checked this ideascale.com site, you have to register (free) and log in (to each company's site on ideascale) to even read any of the discussion on the site (at least for some companies - I've only signed up for yamahasynth, not sure if I'll add any comments there or not). I have the impression that quite a few companies use this site to solicit customer feedback, but the site doesn't list who uses it outside of a very few examples. I used my Google Fu with keyword music to find these others: https://line6.ideascale.com/ Sibelius is open for reading without registering: http://sibelius.ideascale.com/ Avid used this, but the text says they've shut down their ideascale site and they're doing something similar on their own website: http://avid.venue.ideascale.com/ There's this odd one, not a company, just looks like some short ideas for daily activities: https://projectfortnight.ideascale.com/ I don't really see this as Yamaha "raising a flag" or doing vaporware advertising outside of the yamasynth ideascale thing, as the discussion there is private. It looks to me a signed-up member got excited about seeing "something" about a possible future CS-80, got all excited and mentioned it to the synth news sites. Admittedly, it appears Yamaha IS asking (a few select people/groups) about it, among other possible products. Here's another article on it, from just today: https://www.musicradar.com/news/is-yamaha-considering-making-a-new-cs-80 On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:31 PM Synth Parts <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Unless they can get the Mitsubishi made voice chips in production again there's no point. > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 7:07 PM Edward Schultheis <xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: >> >> I think its just fluff to get people excited. Like what behringer did >> >> On Apr 30, 2019, at 5:51 PM, M V <xx_xxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: >> >> Right. Relying on your in-house team and their market "insight" alone will just result in the kind of clueless, uninspired garbage that Roland have been putting out for the last decade. >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Mike SynMike <xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 7:46 PM >> To: Neil Harper; Analogue Heaven AH >> Subject: Re: [AH] CS80 >> >> Isn't asking for input like from users this exactly what a marketing research team might do to gather market input? >> >> >> > On Apr 30, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Neil Harper <xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 4/30/19 2:37 PM, Ben Bradley wrote: >> >> "If we made a CS-80, do you want a vintage reissue or a modern evolution?" >> > >> > why don't you ask your designers, engineers and market research teams?? >> > seriously... hire someone with a vision and figure this shit out yourself. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > /// Neil Harper >> > /// Every Wave is New Until it Breaks >>