<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Even offering to pay for a new OS is not going to be useful; they spent SO much money (old Alesis) that new Alesis decided to keep on making A6s, even though it is NOT a successful product. Compared to the real moneymakers: ADAT, Midiverb 2, HR16 Drum Machine, this was not a popular model. THey probably only make A6s because they have parts and it is already DONE. To spend more time on it would not make it sell better; it is already the great synth that was promised, what we are asking for is still "trivial OS details" - only important to people who already are customers. <BR>
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I'm willing to bet they move onward and spend their time and money working up a new product that will sell thousands more. Maybe not as cool, but more SELLABLE.<BR>
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Brian Kehew</FONT></HTML>