So, what's the big deal even if it's "only" USB 1.1?

Lot's of possabilities as far as I can see:

HARD DISK: 80 GB ATA 2.5”.
USB: 2 USB host + 1 USB device.
MASS STORAGE DEVICES: USB sticks, USB floppy disks, MP3 players, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM, HD.

Just now I would like to know when we will se any items here in Scandinavia, and also
to what price the consumers have to pay.
If the high price level predicted are correct, it most be a h*** of a keyboard to make
me choose it instead of i.e. both PA2X Pro and a Tyros 3 for the same amount of money!

I think I start with a closer look at the downloaded 'quick start manual'

GJ

Just so you know ... the document on our website is a QUICK GUIDE/START and not the full/complete MANUAL. The complete manual will be put up soon.

So if it sounds like crap but has USB 2 then it's ok? Yes, i'm sure Ketron is hiding something, it still uses 5.25 inch floppy disks. They had a whole bunch left over that they want to unload on the general public. Can you find something actually worth obsessing about. Wow!

Tom

[QUOTE]Originally posted by frankieve:
[B]The Audya is not in America as of yet, it still is a few weeks away.

There has also been no actually price announced for America either.

Frank


-------------------- http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/575040-REG/Ketron_AUDYA_AUDYA_76_Key_Advanced_Music.html

quoted as $5599.00 ( NY city)

Whoa! Think I'll wait and buy Donny's.



chas

Un-freakin'-believable!

You go all ballistic about USB1 or 2, which won't make the slightest bit of difference in a live situation (you've got a friggin' 80GB ATA HD, fer' Pete's sake!), but you don't ask Question #1 about which different chords the Audio loops have recorded (maj, min, dim, maj7, min(maj7), aug, 7(#9), etc.)...?

Are you a computer geek or a MUSICIAN?

My bet would be the former...

It's-the-End-of-the-World-as-We-Know-It!(tm)

LOL

over $5K?

NO WAY

it's gotta be in low $4k or less if Ketron wants to sell a good amount...and compete with Roland, Korg, Yamaha

Do we all have memories THAT short?

Doesn't anyone remember what happened to 'home organs' before they went extinct (in any practical sense of the word)?

Yep... they got expensive as hell, as fewer and fewer people used them, and the only market the manufacturers could make a living from (and still is, today, in fact) was wealthy retirees with more sense than money and a nostalgia for the instruments they learned on.

Remember how most of us scoffed at the last organ holdouts, as they payed 5 figure prices for things that any passable arranger, synth or WS could outperform? Welcome to THEIR world!

Either the arranger manufacturers have to do SOMETHING to attract the younger players that are changing (or not even playing to begin with) to WS's en masse, or the Audya's price is only the START...

Chas that ain't gonna happen sorry.....
I dont need an audya for my needs, the price isn't a factor.



[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 12-19-2008).]