Best of luck with that one! It seems more and more that even big manufacturers are content to stick up a consumer camcorder at some promotional event and post the video, warts, bad sound and all, on their website.

Especially bad are the shots of pro demonstrators (sometimes the ONLY time you can hear them actually being PLAYED, rather than complex SMF playback that doesn't reflect the users' experiences) that pretty much suck in the audio area.

It's kind of sad to see a supposedly expert company in the audio field can't even be bothered to provide a line-in from the presenter's mixer to the camcorder....

There is only one public day at Frankfurt, (There hadn�t used to be any public days) and so the Audya may only have been shown to the dealers. (The board being removed for the public day)
If memory serves correct, the video came out during the show, where as the public day was the last day.
I also don�t think the video is available on any official Ketron site.

Bill

keybplayer

You are partially correct (on working for/with CMC distributors in the US).

Here is the other 1/2 of the story you apparently might not know...

1. I do work for Ketron.
2. I am (very) limitted by Ketron as to the information I can disclose on any open forum as an Engineer because as you'd understand our competition also monitors these. This is especially true for developing projects!
3. Despite the limitations, I still try to give the public the best info I can (without crossing company lines). I write the brochures (and will do the manual) so before it is made public, ofcourse I've had access to the material, prototypes ... etc.
4. If the information I provide is not enough, at the back of most/all Ketron brochures is a (039 ...) number you can call or email ketron@ketron.it (the emai will eventually end up in my laps anyway so I suggest you use the phone) and attempt to get more info.

Hope this makes it a little better to understand.

AJ

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No company impresses me with their video demos. They're all way too short and most of the time don't show that much of what's new. Even a Michel Voncken demo isn't that informative. All you get is a couple of catchy tunes but you can get the same in about any shop where there's an in-house demonstrator. And than hoping that he/she knows his/her stuff. So basically we all pay big bucks for something we don't really know about but hearsay.

Taike

The whole idea of the video demo is to not show u everything... this makes u want to go into the shop and try it. by getting u to walk into a shop and stand in the front of the machine is more chance of a sale...

Its logically the smart thing to do from the company in that sense. of coarse it pisses us off, but if we were the companies we would be doing the same...

I don't need to be shown EVERYTHING, but I would sure like what I AM shown to not sound like sh*t......

i think what korg did, posting an hour long video on their official arranger site is a nice idea. if you're really interested, no need to go in a store to try it by yourself, especially if there's no store around, but just watch carefully the presentation.
and it gives you a preety good idea what that keyboard is about.
as for a good official video demo on official websites... is yet to be seen!

True, but then again, pretty much every OFFICIAL demo does not sound bad. some don't show enough features or examples of new sounds etc. but at least they are a good indication of the quality of the instrument.

Its the ones where u have a person standing in a crowd of ppl with a handy cam taking video and then they download onto their pc in a low quality to save bandwidth.. thats where the problem lies.

Team,

We have yet to release any video on the Audya ... the current video in circulation of our prototype was filmed by a spectator at the Music Messe in Germany earlier this year.

AJ

AJ, please let it be a long one and not just a snippet. We get enough of these.

The best demo I've seen so far was the one with Leon Kuypers playing the Hammond XE1 XB2, and the B3. 40 Minutes of pure joy.

Taike