Nigel,

With the KKW (Korg Kronos Workstation) it’s a new start and thanks for you post.


I spent a lot of time with the Audya, had a lot of problems with it early on and would have loved at the time to just hand it back and get my money back, for reason which I can only tell you on a PM I could not do that, I was locked it to keeping it, it was a dealer thing from where I bought it. I was battered when I came on SZ by one person in particular (you know who, cleverest man on the planet), the Audya is good but alas not that good. In fact you know I have the T4 on top and the Audya on the bottom and frankly they are Worlds apart and they are probably like a fine tuned Yamaha racing bike and a Harley Davison, the later being the Audya, it will get you there but you will need to work at it, it’s heavy going. There are a lot of people who have had lots of problems with the Audya and still have. Skude I know is not a upfront complainer, but he still has major problems and it was never ever right that he should suffer in this way, and all the other Audya owners who gig and fear the hell of turning it on an it not working, this is not right. It does appear than Ketron are not concerned, if they were they would step up to the plate and fixed these thing. The Ketron design is dated, but like me swayed with it and even some SZders went on over the drums etc, even DonM bought one reckoned he never had one bit of trouble with it, best thing since sliced bread, but it was so good he got rid of it about a year back, I am a slow learner. If you have both T4 and Audya you will know if you want to go out and impress someone straight off you would take the tyros 4, why first of all when you plug it in and it boots up its going to work, Yamaha made 1000’s, the Audya I doubt if they made 1000. I have had not had any problems recently but others will tell you they still have, you can read their stories on Ketron SZ, there are still people with problems and Ketron aren’t going to help them, Ketron are a Company devoid of heart, soul and consciousness, they never had a PR department that perhaps tells all. (help-at-Keton@co.it) would have been at start. Once you have bought a Ketron you are in the hands of the dealer and most know nothing about the Audya. I don’t know of any Audya that’s ever gone back to Italy and been fixed. I have given it long enough I just hope there is someone out there who is mad enough to buy it from me, I know I am going to take a big hit and hey guys if someone doesn’t want to buy it to play it, they can always buy it for spare parts. If Ketron ever go out of business ( if they carry on as is) they may, an Audya for spare parts will be a real prize. DonM moved on it’s time for me to do so.

Remember one thing, owning an Audya if you want to send it back to Ketron is like toothpaste, easy to get out of the tube, but impossible to put it back in.


Thanks Nigel

Tony