Hi Don,

Moving the Audya around is like a lump of lead and not gold and number of people say they like stick rather than a wheel, I don't know. You were very lucky not to have any problems with your Audya, there are very few of you, a lot of people have had something go wrong. The Company needs to gets its act together or it won't survive, there is a lot of competition out there and if you are the top of the pile with regard to cost you need to offer more than just live drums, the high cost should not reflect retrospectively the number of products you sell, the real cash value of an Audya needs to come down more in line with the competition, not what Ketron think they can con out of the customer, that’s is presently what is happening. Don't get me wrong when real proofs start to play the Audya it sounds fantastic look at Jack Cannon, but so does the T5 and the Pa3x, they all sound good in the right hands. I can get some hellish sounds out of the T5 but I have to work hard to make the Audya sound good and the styles on the T5 are far, far better, there are more around also. What Ketron will do is stand still, they don't have a business plan that includes the customer, their motto must read “ the customer is always wrong ", they will get left behind, this is a big boys business and they need to up their game. People on SZ appear to changing KB like they are all going out of fashion, it’s rather interesting, I don’t know what going on, they will either find their own level or run out of KBS to buy. I think the T5 and the Kronos will see me out, I can’t think of a better set up, I have seen one or two demos with people who do have this setup, if you want to program lead voices to some tune the Kronus is the beast, it will be like playing the Mighty Wurlitzer, you won’t get the same sound twice in one day.
Good luck Don with whatever you get.

Kind Regards
Tony