Access is not a big company like Roland, korg and yamaha. Just think about how many products these companies make. I bet you anything alot of their products are covered by others.....meaning that some products are inevitably flops....
Access on the otherhand have
one product - synths (in several flavours). Access cant afford a flop....they have no other products to cover themselves with. Big companies can afford to cut back features and mass produce for cheap (SH201). It would not be viable for a company like Access to regress and make ever simpler products....they'd get blown out of water by lots of other companies doing the same thing....all battling for a small market share. Nope.....this is why Access are committed to continually evolving their range.....steadily getting ever more complex (but at the same time refined). This is Access's destiny - where it will lead is anyone's guess.....but im sure they will be along round for a long time to come. Why? Because they have balls. They may not always get things right....but they do try (alot of other companies take the easy road and emulate Prophet 5's.....hmmm Arturia).
Dispite all the bickering and tensions.....I say good on you Access for trying....the day Access stop trying will be the doomsday
DS