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Albert, I don't know what
Albert, I don't know what you mean.
Dave Polich wrote:
"Part of this was due to the expanded set of new synth and effects waves in the XS - many courtesy of fellow Yamaha programmer Peter Krischker, others from our brilliant Yamaha samplists in Tokyo and Hamamatsu."
Athan wrote:
" There are lots more people to tell you about- Ohgai-san, Murata-san and Ito-san and the rest of the Japan team, Martin Harris and his European team that worked on the arps and Ken and Ben at Yamaha US who manage all the insanity, but it's getting late and after four long days at NAMM, it's time to call it a night."
So, there is your answer. All the hardware design+implementation should be done in Japan for the big 3, its only the sampling and programming are shared by US + Europe along with Japan.
One reason why I feel that that the Japanese 'shy away' is because of their less articulate English skills (understandably) compared to the western counterparts who feel very comfortable in front of the camera. But they are pretty amazing when it comes to audio and electronics, I must say.