Anyone think for one minute that this thing is going to clock in at less than 45lbs? I guess it's already outmoded, eh? There are going to be a lot of disappointed people if they never come out with a 25lb 61 note version (with speakers).
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Common misconception...size and weight NEVER equal quality and performance. Guess I'm fooled. And in good company....

AUDYA Advanced Music Station
Specifications
Keyboard: 76 semi-weighted keys. 8 Velocity curves.
Pitch & Modulation Wheel. Aftertouch. Portamento.
17 Slider Volume controls ( 2 Assignable ),
Assignable tabs.
Display: 320 x 240 Colour Graphic Display TFT.
Hard Disk: 40G ATA IDE 2.5. (upgradeable to 80G).
USB: 2 USB Host + 1 USB device.
Mass storage
devices
supported: Floppy, Stick, Mp3 players, CD/DVD Rom, HD,
Computer keyboard.
Sound
Generation: 360 MB PCM Wavetable. 384 New Orchestral
Presets Sounds. Stereo & Multilayer Voices. 384 GM2
Sounds. 32 parts Multitimbral.
Total
Polyphony: 197 notes.
Voice List:
320 programmable 1 Touch - Favourite Sounds.
Drawbars: 9 Digital Drawbars slider controlled. New Rotor,
Percussion and Overdrive effect.
Programs: 320 Programs. 3 Voices, 3 splits. Sustain, Portamento,
Velocity switch, Duet, Trio, Morphing, Steel, Slide,
Harmony. Single & Global Program loading. Editing
capabilities: A,D,S,R, Cut Off, Resonance, Effects and
keyboard assignments.
2nd Voice: 384 Preset & programmable Second Voices.
2nd Voice 1 & 2.
Ram / Ins: 64 MB Ram Sound (expandable to 256 MB).
Up to 128 Voices control.
Sampler: New Sampling unit 64 MB. 44 KHz / 16 bit.
Professional
Multiplayer: 2 x Wav, 2 x Mp3, 2 x Midi fi le Player. Hi-quality real
time stretching and transposition. Play List, Autoplay.
2 tracks HD recording. MP3 Encoder (with editable
resolution). CD Audio tracks Ripped to int. or Wave.
Midifi le
Player: SMF Song playback with karaoke and Txt fi les.
Converts .kar & Midi type 0 fi les to 1. Juke box.
Intelligent Transposer. Song Chain. Drum & Bass.
Lead On/Off . Save Song setup.
Drum
Remix: Real time interactive Midifi le and Style playing.
Song and Style select.
Registrations: 320 global panel settings. Single & Block modes.
Drum 1: 32 New Drum sets . 24 User Drum Sets. 10 Drum
sections. Drum Mixer. Manual Drums.
Drum 2: 62 Live Drum Loops. Acoustic, Electro and
Latin Loops.
Real Audio
Arranger: Stereo Live Drums ( Wave) and Real Acoustic &
Electric Guitars plus Bass Accompaniments. Over 200
Internal Styles, featuring new Unplugged, Latin, Pop,
Ballad, Traditional, Swing and Ballroom Styles.
Arranger part Mute. After Fill.
4 Arrangers: A, B, C, D. 3 Intro/Endings, Fill In, Break . Interactive
Accompaniment. Manual Bass. Jump. Tap Tempo.
Accelerando-Ritardando. Tempo control. Pedalboard
functions. Rootless & Standard Chord recognition.
Pattern: New Pattern section with advanced Editing functions.
Song
Recording: Real time Song Recording to Disk (HD or FD).
Pianist: Standard & Auto Piano-style arranger playing modes.
Sustain On/Off.
Octave: 1 octave Up/Down.
Double: lower octave coupling.
Harmony: Full, Jazz, Double, Bluegrass, Trill, Repeat, Folk 1,
Folk 2.
Transposer: +/- 24 half tones.
Arabic Scale: 13 arabic setups (footswitch assignable).
Tune + / - 99 cents per note.
Accordion
Mode: International, Belgique. Velocity control to Left&Right.
Bass&Lower octave. Left Drum to Bass&Chord.
DSP: 3 new Multieffect DSP’s with Reverberation, Chorus,
Flanger, Delay, Tap Delay 4 / 8, Wha Wha, Distortion,
Overdrive, Rotor Slow/Fast , Bass Boost. Portamento,
Mono - Legato.
Micro 1 /
Micro 2: 2 Microphone Inputs with separate Gain control ,
10 bands Equalizer, Echo, Reverb, Pan/Pot,
Pitch Shift, Talk , Voice Transform.
Voicetron: new 5 Voice Harmonizer. Vocoder, Auto-Harmony,
Midi Vocalizer track, Advanced Voice editing,
Pitch to Midi.
Midi: In 1, In2 , Out, Thru. 32 Midi Channels. GM2 standard.
Outputs: Left/Mono, Right. 4 Separate assignable outputs 2
stereo or 4 Mono). Sustain and Volume Pedal.
Footswitch (6 or 13 switches). Digital SPdif In / Out.
Inputs: Stereo headphone. 2 x Microphone. 2 x Line in
Video
Interface: System: PAL, NTSC, Super VHS. Monitor, Mirror,
Zoom, Karaoke ½ page and full screen,
Mark, Underlined. Size and position controls.
Optionals: Hard Case, Pedal Sustain Piano type, Pedal Volume,
FS6 / FS 13 Footswitches.
Dimensions: L x W x H = ( 114 x 43 x 15 cms. ) ( 45 x 17 x 6 “ ).
Weight: 18,5 Kg. ( 38 lbs )
Power: Automatic Voltage detection (110V/60Hz – 240V/50Hz)
- Plug and play.

Very nice demo...cool keyboard.

Ian

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Common misconception...size and weight equal quality and performance. Don't be fooled.

Great Keyboard..!!

Thanks Bruce

George

38lbs..... pretty light for a 76-er. Not bad, Ketron. I don't see any speaker specs, so is it un-speakered?

If it's 76 keys Diki and only weighs 38lbs, I think it's safe to assume "no speakers" in this model.

Squeak

To be honest, squeak, a full featured sequencer on board seems kind of overkill nowadays. I wouldn't want to do anything serious on the arranger itself, MUCH preferring to work on the computer. No itsy bitsy little screen is as good as a nice sized monitor, and there is usually only a fraction of the power of editing with on-boards. I like to work in a full featured piano roll environment, and have yet to see a decent implementation (or at least anything that stacks up against Cubase) in a keyboard.

A simple 'record the arranger, store as an SMF' ought to be enough, and then transfer to the computer for detailed editing. I like the Makeup Tools kind of editor on board, but just for fine tuning or changing patches, drum sounds, velocity and volume etc., on a global scale, but editing MIDI on some display smaller than a Commodore 64 seems so retro..... and bad for your eyesight!

I still think an awful lot of people are gaga over 'features' in an arranger that are done FAR easier in a laptop or computer - sequencers, HD recording, sampling.... And all at the cost of purely ARRANGER features like more variations, fills, flexible hold features, sequencer/style play interaction, break/fill/mutes, chord sequencers (groan!), things that are actually about arrangers.

My worry is that, as more and more workstation 'features' get grafted on, the arranger itself becomes more of an afterthought. That will be a sad day....

I agree with Squeak. I prefer to sequence using the instrumemt itself and not a computer. Whichever way you prefer to sequence it cannot possibly add anything to the weight or the cost of the instrument and they already have the software developed in previous models so i dont understand the reasoning for not including it. All its ommission does is alienate parts of the market that need/want it. The specs overal of the Audya are very impressive and i am looking forward to more demos . AJ indicates that the patterns can be fuly edited which might be good workaround in terms of a sequencer if all you wanna do is loop or chain loops together but its no help for straight pure linear sequencing unfortunately.

The instrument is not due for release just yet, as it is more of a prototype to get feedback before the final specifications are sorted, therefore if there is demand for a full sequencer then I am sure it will be added.

Bill