for now,
i'd love to hear what AJ has come up with

For now, I'd love to hear what the European USERS are saying, rather than what the salesmen are...

Precious few OWNERS talking about them here, even though they have been sold for a while over there... What do they know that we don't?

Its a secret...Roswell 1947...thats where the Audya technology comes from...
i meant Roswell not the year 1947, more like 1997...

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What's the matter, Nedim? Has the bloom come off the rose for Ketron now? After all your rosy promises to us, you now accuse them of ten-year old technology...?

Hey, my ex wife was great when i married her...
then started showing colors...she has been EX
for the last 8 years...

And another thing, i am always honest and i pick no sides thats why i always sound
arogant and rebelious, i dont care if i work for Korg or Ketron, if they have flaws i will
tell it like it is, i dont care. As far as the Audya goes i still stay on what i said, did it
happen yet? NO! Will it happen? YES! When? I dont know! Does the Audya sound
great in General? YES! Does it sound great for me? NO!!! IT SUCKS!!! Why? Cuz
i cant do anything with it what i want, all i can use is whats inside...see???
I am not affraid to tell it...is the technology as it is now up to date? HELL NO!!!
A stupid KORG PA500 which is 1300$ does at least 10 times more then Audya...
but for now...tomorow? We have hopes and promises. But its still a good machine.
The sad thing is, a machine 2-3 years old (SD5) has nothing newer then what
a 20 years old machine had (KORG M1) or (KORG I3) and actually did more.
To say something to the people that deal with it, create it, invest in it, design it, they
will say...ah its a good machine, it will make it...HOW??? I personally dont accept a
5000$ either, i will, when they give me EVERYTHING Korg PA2X offers plus another
80% of different features, extra...does it have that? Not even 50% of PA2X...I am not
in love with Ketron nor my father is the owner but i still own 11 Korg machines and
forever i will...why??? They made me do so, same as the guy today made me buy
Parfumes from him...after the Pizza with LeeZone in Manhattan...in the rain...

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In which case, perhaps next time, Nedim, you might reserve your adulation for a new, untried arranger until AFTER you get it and give it a serious workout...

Oh, and you MIGHT consider cutting a little more slack to those of us capable of spotting the 'gotchas' BEFORE it comes out from simply reading about the specs...

In the light of how you feel now, do you consider some of your rabid and borderline insulting comments from a recent months perhaps just a BIT premature? Imagine, if you will, some jumped up fanboy starts insulting YOU, now, for expressing the same reservations about the Audya now, that we had weeks (months) ago? I mean, SURELY the Audya HAS to be the greatest, yada yada yada? ALL it's flaws will doubtless be fixed (despite the same flaws remaining unfixed on SD-1 etc.), how DARE you imply it is no good, blabber blabber blabber...

This is a great forum, and all that, but coming in guns blazing can only end in you shooting your own foot off if you aren't cautious. Personally, I tend to view ALL manufacturer generated hype as dubious at best, and so far, have rarely been proved wrong! Jumping in and 'defending' a manufacturer for their hype and marketing exaggeration rarely turns out to be a good move.

Perhaps now you can move over to the "realists'" side of the aisle, rather than the "optimists'"... you'll find plenty of company

Now I'm even more curious about what Frank will have to say when he gets them all side by side in front of him.

Lucky

Hi Lucky,
excuse me for butting in, but I think AJ may be reffering to modern dance styles ie Techno , rap etc

On my SD1+ "Dance" is modern dance the Audya may differ? ,

Sounds to me like Technics type styles may have suited for the type of music you play. I had at least 20 foxtrots for my Technics keyboards, plus heaps of the other type styles you mentioned. Technote created dozens of style disks.

Technote, company that created Technic styles, actually ended up doing the same styles for Roland. Don't know how good they sound on Roland Keyboards, as I don't own one. I nearly did a Roland though, just to get the styles back & save me having to convert the ones I wanted.

best wishes
Rikki
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lucky2Bhere:
[b] AJ,

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since the AUDYA's sampler/hardware is a bit crippled due to the lackluster RAM, ROM, HD

what Ketron NEEDS to do to stay ahead of the game is simple, 2 things...

give us that style software for PC & on AUDYA to create and manipulate styles.

come up with lots MORE styles, especially a bit more modern ones