Yamaha aquires Line 6

[psychedelicrelic]

http://line6.com/news/pressReleases/1520

Some pretty big and exciting news. I'm eager to see what becomes of this.

[retinal orbita]

Compelling opportunities

[oldangelmidnight]

US owned to Japanese owned. I wonder if that'll make any kind of difference.

[Gone Fission]

Yamaha has made some nice guitar stuff in the last 15-ish years that has generally gone over like a lead balloon. Finally getting some traction with the THR li'l amp things. Hopefully the alliance pays off in good ways.

[retinal orbita]

US owned to Japanese owned

Sounds like quality controll might have some compelling opportunities

[hazelwould]

Hopefully they'll do a really good creative looper with a similar layout but more powerful and for progressive musicians. Rang Killa

[rfurtkamp]

Line6 has been in a rut with no real new products for a long, long time - all they started doing was putting more effects that used to be standalone in the bigger boxes.

I mean, the simple fact they never updated the DL4 or cut the price on it says a ton honestly, it went from being pretty damned cutting-edge to 'that old thing', which in the modeling world isn't exactly great.

Also it's a case of modeling and looping and the like have become commodity items outside of outliers like the Fractal stuff.

Yamaha can't possibly do much worse than the last few years of yawn.

[rfurtkamp]

Line6 has been in a rut with no real new products for a long, long time - all they started doing was putting more effects that used to be standalone in the bigger boxes.

I mean, the simple fact they never updated the DL4 or cut the price on it says a ton honestly, it went from being pretty damned cutting-edge to 'that old thing', which in the modeling world isn't exactly great.

Also it's a case of modeling and looping and the like have become commodity items outside of outliers like the Fractal stuff.

Yamaha can't possibly do much worse than the last few years of yawn.

[spacelordmother]

Line6 has been in a rut with no real new products for a long, long time - all they started doing was putting more effects that used to be standalone in the bigger boxes.

I mean, the simple fact they never updated the DL4 or cut the price on it says a ton honestly, it went from being pretty damned cutting-edge to 'that old thing', which in the modeling world isn't exactly great.

Also it's a case of modeling and looping and the like have become commodity items outside of outliers like the Fractal stuff.

Yamaha can't possibly do much worse than the last few years of yawn.

Totally. All of this.

And I now I'm all fired up again about the fact that they never released a proper update for the M series after all that tagline bullshit about updatable/expandable/blahblah. On top of that they totally got trumped on a huge opportunity when the Toneprints came out. So much lost potential...

[friendship]

The amp modeling in the HD series is pretty outstanding. Hopefully access to Yamaha's resources will allow them to truly expand their shit.

[rfurtkamp]

The modeling in basically everybody's front-line stuff is pretty damn good these days is where L6 fell behind. And then didn't do anything about the effects, which seemed an odd choice.

I suspect the Variax was a very, very expensive albatross as well - but it lets Yamaha to get back in the modeled/synth guitar market v Roland, which they left in the late 90s.