Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Some thoughts:

It´s like summer sales at woolworth:
- EMU dropped the at first announced prices of the Command Stations 
(3.400 german marks or 1.700 Euros, if my memory serves me right)so 
fast I couldn´t believe it. 
- The same goes with the sound cards
- The latest Promo sales are only adding to the price decay now: Buy 
an XX-7, get a sound card for free (thats worth around 300 Euro I 
guess)
- I didn´t notice anything new coming up at EMU except some 
repackaging of known products. This applies as well to the sound 
library.
- Is it true they haven´t attended the summer namm?

But talking about product innovation: Roland, Yamaha or Korg haven´t 
presented anything new in the hardware workstation field except 
repackaged products. I have the feeling the market seems to be 
saturated with gear and there´s not enough buyers interest to be seen 
at the moment. Except: Can I find it cheaper, used, or on ebay? This 
is not only because of weak summer sales and vacations.

Maybe I´m wrong, but I believe the whole music industry in general is 
suffering from this. It would go along with the development of other 
branches - at least here in germany...

I hope for the best: 
Emu coming up with new products (even if that means our command 
stations will be out of date some day - will they ever? ;-)and
Emu still supporting the XX-7 in the future. Their support on this 
website is why I still stick with the command station, bought two 
soundcards and would go someday for another EMU product, because I 
love the specific EMU sound! I´d be missing this company really if I 
was left to choose between Roland, Yamaha, Korg.

Come on, EMU, tell us you´re alive and kicking!!!

All the best to you.

HEinrich