you know & I know it will most likely be a less featured T2 w/speakers now dont we?

SD1:

KEYBOARD
76 weighted keys .After touch. 6 Velocity Curves.

POLYPHONY
64 notes. 32 multitimbral.

SOUND GENERATION
48 Mbyte PCM ROM. 310 Presets, 350 GM Voices. 128 User Voices. 80 One Touch setting. PCM, Analog, FM Voicing. 16 digital Drawbars. Up to 1000 Drum Percussion Sounds.

RAM SOUND
16 Mbyte RAM Sounds. Single & Block Sound loading. Files .Wav, .Msp and .Ins supported. Sounds Autoloading.

ARRANGER
307 Custom Styles: 109 Flash rewritable - 198 ROM. Up to 999 instant access Disk Styles. Up to 64 RAM Styles. 48 Style setting. Single and Block Style loading. Style&Sound loading. 4 Arrangers, 3 Intros/Endings, 3 Fills Ins, Break, Fill To End. Multi-Fill function. Interactive accompaniment. Manual Bass. Jump. Arrange Lock. Wav. file synchronized with tempo. Tap tempo. Accelerando/Ritardando. Tempo Slow/Fast. Pedalboard.

DRUM SETS
24 internal Drum Sets. 24 User Drum Sets. 24 Live Drum Sets. Controls: Volume, Reverb, Panpot. Drum on/off switches. Manual Drums. Drum Mixer. 10 Drum Sections. Ram sounds assignable to User Drum Set.

PROGRAMS
128 Programs. 4 voices, 4 splits, Effects, Sustain, Portamento, Expression. Modes: Duet, Trio, Steel, Morphing. Velocity Switch.

2ND VOICE
2nd Voice programmable for each Preset and User Voice.

MIDIFILE PLAYER
SMF Song playback. Real Time song recording. Songs with lyrics, karaoke and files Txt. Conv Transposer. Song list. Song Chain. Song & Sound loading. Wave Sync. Demo & Hit folder. Alphabetical Drum & Bass. Lead Off.

OCTAVE
Up/Down +/- 1 Octave.

HARMONY
Pull, Jazz, Double, 5th, Bluegrass, Trill, Repeat.

PORTAMENTO
Rate control +/- 64- Mono Legato function.

TRANSPOSER
+/- 24 half tones

AFTERTOUCH
Assignable to Cut off, Volume, Bend, Slide, LFO, Attack, Threshold and Sensitivity control.

MOD. WHEEL
LFO to Pitch, to DCF, to DCA, Wha Wha, Swell, Rate. Rotor speed control.

PITCH WHEEL
Tune +/- 99 Cents . Vibrato On/Off. Bend value 0/24. Bend to LFO, DCF, DCA.

ARABIC SCALE
Tune +/- 99 Cents . Vibrato On/Off. Bend value 0/24. Arabic set ups foot switch assignable.

ACCORDION
International, Belgique. Left/Right velocity control. Bass octave. Bass Sustain. Bass to Chord recognition, Lower octave. Left drum to Bass & Chord.

EFFECTS
3 digital multi effects DSP's. 60 differents effects, Reverberation, Chorus, Flanger, Delay, Wha Wha, Distortion, Overdrive. Rotor, Equalizer +/- 12 dB (Low, Middle, High). 16 User Effects.

SAMPLER
16 Mbyte sampling 16 Bit - 44.1 kHz. Sample editor. Multisampler editor. Files .Wav Sync to Style.

VOCALIZER
Vocalizer unit. Harmonizer. Vocoder, Melody types. MIDI Vocalist track. Left&Right assign .Reverb,Delay,Transpose,Level,Hold.

MICRO
2 Micro input: XRL Balanced, Mono Jack. 2 Micro Out to external mixer. Level Pan Pot, Echo, Reverb, Pitch Shift +/-12, Dry.

MIDI
In1, In2, Out, Thru. 32 MIDI channels. General MIDI Standard.

SEQUENCER
16 Tracks, 150.000 notes.

FLOPPY DISK
3.5 2DD/HD.

HARD DISK
Type ATA IDE 2.5. 6 Gbyte. Up to 99 folders. 999 files for folder. Master folder. MIDI files, Styles, Programs, Registrations, Demo&Hit, Txt, User, Sounds. Hard Disk backup to PC.

DISPLAY
240 X 128 Pixel backlit graphic TCF

OUTPUT
Out 1Left/Mono. Out 2Right. Out 3. Out 4. Sustain Pedal. Footswitch (6 or 13 switches).

OUTPUTS ASSIGN
GM/Keyboard Out assignment to 4 audio Outputs.

INPUTS
Stereo headphone. MicroXRL. Micro Jack. Micro Gain control.

OPTIONAL
Video Interface. Volume Pedal. Volume Pedal 4 switches. Sustain pedal. Footswitch FS6 - FS13.

COMPUTER PC/MAC

Interface Cable & Software.

DIMENSIONS
119 x 39 x 12 Cms

WEIGHT
Kg 16.5 Lbs 36.5
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SD1 Plus:

KEYBOARD 76 half-weighted keys.After touch. 6 new Velocity Curves.

POLIPHONY 64 notes.32 multitimbral.

SOUND GENERATION 310 New Presets ( programmable ), 350 GM Voices.
128 User Voices. 80 One Touch setting.
16 digital Drawbars.Up to 1000 Drum Percussion Sounds.

RAM 16 MB RAM. Single &Block Sound loading. Files.Wav,Msp and Ins supported.

ARRANGER 131 New Flash Styles (rewritable ).168 ROM Styles. Style setting. 4 Arranger, 3 Intros/Endings, 3Fills Ins, Break, Fill To End, Jump. Interactive accompaniment. Tap tempo. Accelerando & Ritardando.Tempo Slow/Fast. 1 Touch to Style. Chord solo .
BASS Manual Bass, Bass to Lowest, Basso to Root. Bassist .

PIANIST Auto/Standard mode.

DRUM SETS 24 New Internal Drum Sets.24 User Drum Sets. 50 Live Drums. Manual Drums.Drum Mixer.10 Drum Sections.

PROGRAMS 128 Programs.4 voices.Modes uet,Trio,Steel,Morphing. Single & Global Program Disk loading.

2ND VOICE 2nd Voice programmable for each Preset and User Voice. 2nd Voice to Disk.

MIDIFILE PLAYER SMF Song playback.Real Time song recording.Songs with lyrics,karaoke and files Txt. Juke box.Intelligent Transposer. Demo&Hit folder. Drum&Bass. Lead Off. XD Series Remap.

DRUM REMIX Real time interactive MIDI ?le and Style playing. Song and Style select.

OCTAVE Up/Down +/-1 Octave.

HARMONY Full,Jazz,Double Up, Double Down, 5th, Bluegrass,Trill,Folk1, Folk 2, Repeat & Speed control.

PORTAMENTO Rate control +/-64.Mono Legato function.

TRANSPOSER +/-24 half tones

AFTERTOUCH Assignable to Cut off,Volume,Bend,Slide,LFO,Attack,Treshold and Sensitivity control.

MOD.WHEEL LFO to Pitch,to DCF,to DCA,Wha Wha,Swell,Rate.Rotor speed control.

PITCH WHEEL Tune +/-99 Cents .Vibrato On/Off.Bend value 0/24.Bend to LFO,DCF,DCA.

ARABIC SCALE Tune +/-99 Cents per note.13 Arabic set ups footswitch assignable.

ACCORDION MODE International,Belgique.Left/Right velocity control.Bass octave.Bass Sustain.Bass to Chord recognition, Lower octave. Left drum to Bass &Chord. Bass Off on Stop.

EFFECTS 3 digital multi effects DSP 's.60 differents effects,Reverberation,Chorus ,Flanger,Delay,WhaWha,Distorsion,Overdrive,Rotor,Equalizer +/-12 Db (Low,Middle,High).16 User Effects.

SAMPLER 16 Mbyte sampling 16 Bit -44.1 KHz. Multisampler editor. Wav Sync to Style.

VOCALIZER Vocalizer unit.Harmonizer.Vocoder,Melody types.MIDI Vocalist track.Left&Right assignment.
Filter edit.Vocalizer modes.

MICRO 2 Micro input:XRL Balanced,Mono Jack.2 Micro Out to external mixer.Level Pan Pot,Echo,Reverb,Pitch Shift+/- 12,Dry.

MIDI In1,In2,Out,Thru.32 MIDI channels.General MIDI Standard.

SEQUENCER 16 Tracks,150.000 notes.

FLOPPY DISK 3.5 2DD/HD.

HARD DISK Type ATA IDE 2.5. 6Gbyte .Up to 99 folders.Master folder.
Bonus Library : Stereo Grand Piano.Orchestral sounds. 200 Midi files. 200 Song Single Registrations. 35 Patterns. Internal Style backup folder. X & XD Series Style Conversion.

DISPLAY 240 X 128 Pixel baklit graphic TCF

OUTPUTS Out 1Left/Mono.Out 2Right.Out 3.Out 4.Sustain Pedal.Footswitch (6 or 13 switches).Micro1 Out.Micro2 Out.

GM/Keyboard Out assignment to 4 audio Outputs

INPUTS Stereo headphone.MicroXRL.Micro Jack.Micro Gain control.

OPTIONAL Video Interface .Volume Pedal.Volume Pedal 4 switches.Sustain pedal.Footswitch FS6-FS13.MIDI Pedalboard.

COMPUTER PC/Mac Interface .Cable&Software.

DIMENSIONS 119 X 39 X 12 Cms

WEIGHT Kg 16.5



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Larry
SynthZone Frapper

I guess they are the same except for color buttons

I just downloaded a review of the SD5 from a mag in Britiain

Been there and done that.
DonM

Hi Frank,
I didn't realize you'd already owned an sd1.


Came across some sd5 demo's.
http://www.bck.co.uk/htm/sd5demo.htm

best wishes
Rikki

yep we're stuck with whats out there for now.....& that's not a bad thing, but hopefully the future will bring much improvement, needs, & wants....we'll see!

I read in a review that the SD5 has only 64 note polyphony, I thought I heard somewhere it was 128?

Hey Frankieve,

I now have a T2 but have had different Ketron products in the past. I too miss the "up front" accompanyments and even some of the solo voices.

I have been toying with the idea of getting the Ketron SD2 which is a very small cheap Ketron module but has all the factory voices of the SD5.

I haven't checked it out yet but I am assuming that I can use the T2 styles to drive the Ketron drums and bass via midi.

This will probably require me to program some "null voices" for the yam drums and bass but that's an easy thing to do. I couldn't just shut the volumes down on the Yam's drum and bass channels as this would also reduce the SD2 volumes.

Anybody doing anything like this out there using a Tyros as a master - If this works then I can buy the SD2 for just £250 here in the UK which should give me the best of both worlds.

Regards - Keith

It will work for some stuff, but allot of the heart of Ketron styles are a audio groove that's mixed in wtih the actual midi notes, so you will get the better sounding bass adrums but will miss allot of that live audio grooves