You're just describing stage keyboards. I'll grant you that there is zero innovation there. But that's because the customers in that market want a very simple

You're just describing stage keyboards. I'll grant you that there is zero innovation there. But that's because the customers in that market want a very simple thing which is essentially a commodity, to which the market has converged. It's like complaining that the market for peanut butter has no innovation. Some historic digital innovation. It seems to me that almost everything PPG and Waldorf ever made or makes would be considered innovative, including the upcoming Kyra. Other innovative digital synths would include the VS and Wavestation family; the Fizmo, Morpheus, UltraProteus, and Proteus 2000; the FS1R; and perhaps the Prophet X. And I must grudgingly admit that the MicroKorg was innovative given what they crammed in there for the price. I'll grant you that most of those devices are two decades old. The current incentive for innovation (and hence risk) for digital devices has been destroyed by software synthesizers and laptops. Most digital stuff nowadays has gone for cheap rather than new, in the hopes of going after the poor musician. Monologue, Monotribe, Volca, Reface, Boutique. I don't know if that's bad, but it does make me sad.