Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:25 +0000, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Yes it does sound a bit excessive, doesn't it? According to the same website, Roland is selling for $40 billion. This includes their Video gear though. And then again, Yamaha is selling for only $4 billion, which is highly surprising compared to the two others?! Did something get lost in translation? Are these figures really Taiwan or Hong Kong dollars? Yen? Roland is publically traded and hence publish their key data, which tells us that their sales for 2009 were at ¥100,506,864,000 (Yen!) which then again still translates to around a billion US dollars - but nowhere near the forty like it was quoted in the link I gave yesterday. Sorry ... Roland: $1 billion http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C39242560 Yamaha: $4 billion http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C39283560 Kawai: $1/2 billion http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C392AK960 My guess is that KORG would be selling maybe like Kawai? (while of course targetting an entirely different market.) In any case, $16 billion does not sound reasonable. ... And now back to our regular programming: "How to make useful musical instruments out of the techno-trash others have thrown in the dumpster?"