latest news for Frankfurt...

The new Ketron Keyboard "Audya" will be shown in Frankfurt on Stand 5.0B18.


This keyboard is a audio loop based keyboard.\
I was told that you can have a guitar player, play a 4 measure riff and that riff can be incorporated into a style ..Audio loops that respond to chord changes...

LOOK OUT ....


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http://www.esnips.com/web/SongsfromDanO
ketrondan@yahoo.com

We have revolutionalized the Arranger market yet again with a very unique Arranger that emphasises on LIVE and STUDIO quality and lives up to the Ketron moto of BEST NATURAL SOUNDS. We've thought of endless possibilities and flexibility and came up with an arranger that pretty much need not be called an Arranger but (being in a class by itself) we decided to call it the AU*** (will complete the name in time as I am not at liberty to release now).

Talk about massive multi-media connectivity, a totally renovated OS which you can pretty much use to operate basic functions (yes, without a manual) on the keyboard, clean layout and design (I hope I didn't kill too many trees this time around), live controls at your finger tips (you asked for slidders, we gave you slidders [17] ), Artificial Intelligence interactive Arranger (eliminates style playback and creation with loops - you'll see), true human experience (even less of a mechanical feel on styles - rather than using humans to program software to create the styles - we ... well, we used humans to guide humans to create the style), .... plus more!!! With over 300MB of wave ROM (just to give you a point of referense the SD1 is 48MB and sounds good) ... the possibilities are endless!!

Rough price? 76 or 61 notes? (You knew I was going to ask.....) Chord Sequencer (not that pre-canned Riff feature)? Sampler?

Just don't mention the weight!

To add a little to what Dan has stated. I've heard 3 USB ports (2 to device and 1 to computer). 64 MB standard sampling memory and expandable to 256MB. More than 128 note polyphony! I also hear that it won't be available until either late this year or early next year.

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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
818-881-5566
www.kayesmusicscene.com

Better get TRUE USB 2 speeds to load up that sampler....! Fed up of arrangers that take 4 or 5 MINUTES to load a measly 64MB.

If Ketron are massively expanding on their 'Live Drums' concept, with beat-sliced real audio loops, that 300MB of wave ROM will get chewed up REAL fast.

Beat sliced drums can be VERY authentic sounding, but offer MUCH less opportunity to edit. I think a better use of massive ROM is to have VERY detailed, multi-velocity drum samples (like BFD or DFH2) with ambience sampled in, and have real drummers play electric kits to play them for the style. This would offer MUCH greater opportunity to change beats, or sounds within a kit (can't do that with a beat-slice loop - the snare slice probably has some hi-hat on it, too) with normal, familiar editing tools.

I know that quite a few of you have messed with Acid, or Live, or even old school Recycle, and are probably aware of the time spent trying to find the perfect loop for a particular song. If you don't have it, editing the loop itself (or at least the closest you can find) to be PERFECT is quite a task! It's an awful lot easier to edit a MIDI file to change the beat......

Hopefully, the Ketron won't go completely looped.

Are full details going to come out at Musikmesse if the release date is so far off, or do we continue to get teaser statements?

Brochures with the full specs and pictures will be released.

After the show, I will be able to provide the brochure and preliminary specs.

More information being discused here http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum22/HTML/001062.html

[This message has been edited by Ketron_AJ (edited 03-25-2007).]

Only 256mb max sampling memory, that's not much in todays age, but matches the Korg PA800 nicely
Looking forward to hearing this. The SD1 was a good instrument.

Unfortunately, loading even a measly 256MB of RAM at today's paces takes 20 minutes or more. Much more....

Until all the manufacturers wake up and dramatically improve data transfer into RAM, big samplers are primarily a home or studio tool, unsuitable to the improvisational needs of an arranger player. And sadly, most modern sample libraries are not as optimized for small RAM requirements as they used to be in the Akai S2000 days, making the problem even worse.

When are we finally going to see RAM data transfer as fast as laptops? Even my 15 year old K2500 design was four times faster than any current arranger sampler....

Diki,

You'll be pleased at what speeds we've been able to obtain with the latest tech... both in loading and execution.
AJ

This keyboard seems to be the Tyros 2's Lex Luthor lol