Maybe, but based on the amount they gush about the keybed that idea may even have come first: The making of Sequential's all-analog, polyphonic, expressive Fourm - CDM Create Digital Music
As for some manufacture being moved overseas, they did that some time ago with the Take5 (after the first batch) and Teo5.
I just hope the new instsrument they are thinking of scales this keybed up, but I’ve not played this bed - maybe I’ll find its scale fine.
They don’t quite have a budget mono and, I suppose, they still don’t, but I don’t hate the idea of a polyphonic mono if that’s more or less what this is.