lordgalvar wrote:I was on the preorder list for the gizmotron. Saw them at NAMM too. It's cool, but not 450 cool. I was really excited, but saw the mounting stuff before NAMM and the final construction just strokes me as cheesy. But I also have a bias against plastics (and it is somewhat irrational I guess...just hate that everything has plastic haha).
Yea, when I saw the price I backed down. I think it went up 50-100 dollars. But I think it is really cool. They just needed to take it up one notch in design to really get me to justify it (but I don't know what that step would be).
Dang, was typing this up as you posted
I think the high price suggests they're trying to recoup their development funds back too rapidly. I get that they spent a substantial amount of time retooling this, investing in mold fees, et cetera, but you can't get it all back right away. I think they're shooting themselves in the foot by asking for this much right out of the gate.
When you factor in all the accessories, it looks like this is more like $500-550. If you compare that to the versatility of a MIDI synth, it seems hard to justify the pricing. You could get a used GR-55 or a Minilogue for the same price point and have hundreds of bonus sounds compared to the Gizmotron II.
I don't know if they're being greedy at this price point, or if they simply over-extended themselves upfront and are desperately trying to recover as quickly as possible. Either way this seems like a disastrous recipe.