Listen up, folks. This last post asks probably the MOST important question, as far as Ketron owners OUGHT to be concerned about.

"love the styles, but are there any more for this model??"

Sure, you CAN put User audio styles together, but who amongst us has the skill to do this? Precious few from the SD-1 days, that's for sure... So, probably Question #1 from all Ketron potential buyers of the Audya OUGHT to be "How many more styles do you PROMISE to make...?"

Because, in all likelihood, this is the only place you are likely to get them from (unless you are perhaps one of the niche regional style users from Portugal, who seem to have strong Ketron developers). And, as good as the live drums make them sound, you are not going to want to put up with all your NEW styles sounding inferior (by using the MIDI drum kits) to your ROM styles.

The depth of support for new styles that the SD-5 and SD-1 received is probably a VERY telling indicator of how much Ketron are likely to put into new Audya styles once you have bought it. I don't know about you, but a never ending supply of new styles is one of the reasons I can hang onto any arranger for any length of time. We all get 'style fatigue', even with the best of them, and need new ones to lift our interest in something we may have been playing for a few years. But Ketron's adherence to the live loop audio drums thing basically makes translations inferior, few, I honestly think, have the skill to put great ROM quality styles together themselves, so what are you left with?

Ketron themselves, Unfortunately.

I would take a CLOSE look at just how many NEW audio loop styles (NOT new styles using existing drum loops) Ketron came out with for the SD-1 and SD-5 after they released it. This might give an indication how many you are likely to get for the Audya.