Mike I think TWO Tyros 2's (gotta have backup) would suit your needs better for that money ....& you'll have a some left over to take the Mrs. to a show & dinner & weekend at a 5 Star Hotel.......
don't stress yourself too much its Christmas time!

Well, probably better than you can speak Italian!
Why don't you try contact them before use such remarks? To me they replied
perfectly and understandable in english even if my request (as always) was
in very bad english language. :P

Cheers
GJ

It obvious that you didn’t do your homework, listed below are dealers from Ketron usa website which are located in California. Also maybe if you put the same effort in to researching a keyboard as you bash them, you will probably find all the answers you need and yes, they do speak English very well actually.

BOUN'S MUSIC
5 HARRISON CT
EL SOBRANTE, CA 94803
Phone No: 510-917-7400

CALIFORNIA MUSIC CO
4322 GALLAGHER ROAD
RIO OSA, CA 95674
Phone No: 530-633-4487

FREEDOM GUITAR
6334 EL CAJON BLVD.
SAN DIEGO, CA 92115
Phone No: 619-265-0577 www.freedomguitar.com

JIM'S MUSIC CENTER
14120 CULVER DR. SUITE J
IRVINE, CA 92604
Phone No: 949-552-4280 www.jimsmusic.com

KAYE'S MUSIC SCENE
19369 VICTORY BLVD
RESEDA, CA 91335
Phone No: 818-881-5566 www.kayesmusicscene.com

MUSIC FOR ALL
16 TIERRA SEGURO
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA 92688
Phone No: 949-766-0071 www.music-instruments.biz

PROFESSIONAL SOUND & MUSIC
4593 MISSION GORGE PLACE
SAN DIEGO, CA 92120
Phone No: 619-583-7851 www.prosound.com

TOBY'S MUSIC
27581 PACHEA TRAIL
HEMET, CA 92544
Phone No: 951-500-0462

Have a Happy Holiday

Sounds great.
Can't wait to see how things go for Ketron with sales. It's a lot of money, but it does look and sound like it's worth every cent.

Regards.
James.

PS. Shame about the awful amateur website though. It's like a poor "fan boys" website rather than an official company site.

James,

Happy Holidays to you & yours!

enjoy it!

dp

I respect the whole "Please answer my questions" stuff, after all everyone can do what he likes, but what is the problem about the USB?

If it indeed is 1.1, so, it takes longer to get a sample in, the first time...doesn't Audya has a hard drive? After the first time, it will load from a hard drive. How many megabytes in a sample? 64MB.... it won't take more than 2 mins on USB 1.1, right?

And if it continues to be problem, the whole thing could have been:

"I contacted Ketron about USB specs and still I don't have an answer... I suspect the Audya is USB 1.1 and they won't answer my questions in fear they will lose sales. I don't like that and have lost my faith in the company, I will not buy their products."

Trident you are correct, I believe.

The Audya simply uses the USB interface to load samples/other data to the hard drive, and then streams from there.

It does not use the USB port for streaming anything in any live sense (apart from USB midi).

So I would agree that 1.1 or 2 doesn't matter much really.

I can understand when people get frustrated with no response, and AJ and Ketron may be a bit remiss, but I have got to say they are about the same as Korg Italy when it comes to responding to direct questions...

However I suspect they would be frantically trying to get everything through customs and sorted in the states fro NAMM at the moment so he/Ketron may be a bit pre-occupied.

AJ's time would be restricted at the moment and as he also has to reply to ALL the emails getting sent to him by owners of ALL Ketron products (he is the ketrton tech after all), he simply may not have enough time left to log onto the SZ.

I would say that all questions will be answered at NAMM or just after.

Dennis

Does anyone know what this Audya KB does vs a regular arranger KB? It's a bit confusing, do you play some sort of mp3 or smf loops along with the styles? I want to play not be some kind of DJ/Kb player.
Does anyone actually know yet?

This demo with Robert should answer your question:
http://www.audya.ch/video/Messe2008.wmv

You will be able to play this keyboard with styles as any other arranger out there, the
style parts are just real audio in stead
of looped samples.

In addition to this you can also in fact manipulate mp3 and wave and play along with it.

We wont be seing it in USA probably before New Year.