Yeah, but it doesn't surprise me that Access doesn't have a new product at this point, after releasing the new OS just a while ago. With this crysis developers can't afford to take risks, they can either hit the market with a win win product, or they'd better hold it. And I guess it shows. I think the biggest part of the market, today, must be affordable mono synths with a nice interface with knobs, and of course analogue - which more and more people, of this new generation of electronic music, have a wish for (including myself). And I think some companies are being smart about it. Like Korg, I also think they tested the market for small analogue stuff (with the all mighty ms-20 filter, worth the money by itself) and the very tiny controllers to, that are great for people using laptops for playing gigs not having to carry a big controller with them... I'd say this reencarnation of the MS-20 reads to me like a genius marketing move by Korg. No need to spend money creating new circuit design and testing it, they already had a winner - they knew it just seeing for how much the original would go on Ebay, and the acceptance of the digital emulations of it. One has to imagine, what would happen to the world if Roland would make a reencarnation of their own legends? I mean... Why let 303 clones make a living out of their legend? And the number of plug-ins emulating their hardware classics is just beyond belief...
As for Waldorf, I think they rushed things... I think they probably didn't have more then a Blofeld painted black and a list of features to show, and if it was me behind it, I'd probably cancel it. For a bit more you get a classic with all the knob action and patching fun... The MEK was a product that appeals to this kind of market: mono analogue with knobs and small keyboard. I think that's what people want eheh. Either that, or digital with as many functions as space shuttles and a nice ergonomic interface along with it... (I think that's the virus on my dictionary)
As for Access, they would hit big with a plug-in! more so if it was some kind of modular, perhaps with an interface... yeah, there's room for digital modular to (if someone's reading this), just check how much people would like something like a nord modular g3 to become true... Just saying...
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