Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> Thank you, Chris. If it's any consolation, I've heard about, and
> talked with, not a few people over the years who brought such and
> such an idea to so and so and had every reason to believe that a deal
> was imminent, only to have it languish into oblivion. Frankly, even
> though times have certainly changed, the question seems to remain
> whether it is cost-effective for a company to work our some sort of
> financial settlement with an outsider or to hold the line and keep
> R&D in-house. After all, everyone is already paying Roland (grin).
>
> It is strange how few resources are used in electronic drums. Maybe
> it's because the various makers feel that they won't be regarded as
> alternatives to each other if they stray too far from the status quo,
> or maybe it's simply the reasonable inertia of a small market that
> needs tight mfg. standards, which is completely understandable.
>
> Well, these are just the ramblings of someone with the business sense
> of a hillside.
>
> Ed

Hi Ed,

All valid points.  

Yup, anyone who thinks it's simply a matter of "build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" is incredibly naive about the process of selling, marketing, and distributing a product.  History (especially the MI business) is littered with great products that failed for a number of reasons, none of which had to do with the validity of the product.

It's always easy to stand on the side-lines and say, "why doesn't Yamaha or Roland do such-and-such and build this?"  It's always easier when it's not OUR money at stake, isn't it?  :)

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FWIW, I've always envisioned the e-drum market as struggle between two flesh-eating behemoth dinosaurs, both feeding on different ends of the same carcass.  Each beast is ready to attack the other, but only if the other upsets the uneasy detente'.

Down on the forest floor are the smaller rodent-like creatures, fighting over and feeding off any morsels that happen to fall from one or the other behemoth's mouthes....  The presence of the rodents is hardly noticed by the behemoths, except when one of the more fool-hardy rodents tries to nibble directly on the main carcass, or even bites on the foot of one of the dinosaurs...  :)

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Glad I'm not in THAT business: mine is just as amusing.   ;)

Chris