Youd have to start with Americans expectations, which are already bananas……
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I’m new around here and have no idea what the most recent tangent is boiling down to, but geo-politics and synths is a cereal that doesn’t need any milk lol. It’s all dry torture with every bite.
Small tidbit to add to the OP, Roland sued and won against IM just last year. An egregious patent infringement of the #2 brand that shaped modern sound. Anyone else think they’re next in line for the hostile IM takeover?
Roland won’t be taken over by InMusic. They are massive and have multiple successful subsidiaries all going strong.
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And I thought we were talking about the prospect of Moogs being manufactured in Taiwan…
I’d hope Roland or Korg being taken over by someone such as InMusic is as likely as Microsoft buying out Nintendo or Valve. I expect if they needed to, they’d ‘merge’ with a company with a music instrument heritage and an extremely solid future - Yamaha, for example.
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if you ever tried to buy a house or even a condo in LA/NYC on one person’s salary, it wouldn’t seem so bananas
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The ‘average person’ doesnt live in NYC or LA. The survey itself has nothing to do with 'but I wanna live here!!!"
I bought a condo in Manhattan, and no…it wasnt easy, and i didnt need to make 230k to ‘get by’ according to the average.
The mere fact an ‘average’ person thinks they need 200k+ minimum is bananas.
This is “that guy has a porsche, i should be equal as well” and living like a 5% er…
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There are people thinking those thoughts 
Oh yes I know that. I expect it had the same reaction as last time MS tried it.
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I just had 2 liters of Sangria. We can talk about anything and tomorrow I won’t remember a thing. But I just wanna say I love all you crazy folk around the globe wherever you are! 
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Would’ve been funny if Nintendo bought Avid. I wonder what Protools would’ve turned into. 
Not much different. Working in PT is already like Super Mario World comical 
And this was fun while it lasted:
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Wow!!! Roger Linn is usually a very humble and friendly guy so this really says something…
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Roland’s market cap somewhere around 800m USD. It’s hard to guess how much money InMusic has on hand as they’re a private company. But some estimates put their yearly revenue at ~$130–150m (before the Moog aquisition). They’d have to save for a bit.
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Honestly…elektron is far more primed for this kinda takeover than roland is.
Wouldn’t that make some people lose their minds? These Moog feelings would pale in comparison.
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yearly revenue about 10m - Check
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fanatical fan club - Check
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premium pricing - Check
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costs can be brought down further - Check
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roatating leadership roles - Check
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No focus at all
And student loans and health care (or medical debt) and child care and…
I know plenty of working professionals who basically live paycheck to paycheck because of those things.
Maybe the average person doesn’t live there, but together those two cities alone account for about 10% of the US population. That’s a pretty good chunk, more than a bunch of flyover states put together
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You don’t have to live in NYC. I don’t anymore.
If you want to, that’s fine. You can do it on less than 200k.
No, you won’t be on 16th and 6th, or williamsburg, or……
230k a year is a lot of money. Plain and simple.
And I’m unsure how people can say otherwise.
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As a longtime Moog fan, I’m disappointed in where it is heading. I loved my Moogerfoogers, my Little Phatty, my Minifoogers, and my current Subsequent 37. I learned so much about synthesis from learning Moog stuff.
That said, I’ve been perplexed by their products over the last several years. Stuff either felt way too expensive or like toys.
I’ll be hanging on to my Subsequent 37. That synth is brilliant.
Wow. I looked up the top 5% and 1% of earners in Canada by province and my conclusion is that the US had a lot of rich people (and of course a lot more poor people).
On topic: Sad for the Moog employees, I don’t like all the private equity floating around the music tech industry.
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