Hi All,

I'm worried about AJ, is he OK, or simply put are you OKAJ.

I have not seen a reply from him for months, he appeared to be the main man when people had problems with KETRON parts, since the launch of the dreaded AUDYA he has gone AWOL.

From now on I will be typing Audya in short form as "AD", since no doubt much will be written about it from now on in, as the factory gets up to speed and AD saturates the market place and of course EXMAS is coming this will help sales soar!

So you all keep on ADinggggg and swing along the keys!

Regards

Tony

Tony,

Thanks for your concern.

I just spent the last week moving to Delaware and it was not as easy as I had planned. We are just settling in and getting Internet, Electricity, Water ... (all the boaring stuff) transfered to our names and activated, but I am back on line.

In a nut-shell, what did I miss?

We've also resumed work after being off for 3 weeks (factory that is) - which is the norm in Italy for most firms during the month of August.

Thanks,

AJ

AJ nice to hear you are well, in a nutshell you missed nothing, you get some sleep now, I am off to the day job!

Regards

Tony

AJ,

if you get a chance can you clarify the debate on the other thread?

user audio drum loops question,
whether they will stream from HD as do the factory loops,
or if we will be limited to the paltry 48MB or so, because they will have to be in ROM

leezone,

Both USER and FACTORY audio drums stream from the Hard Drive (just located in different folders there). There appears to be this mis-conception from some (which has led to comparison with the Pa2X's memory) that the smaller memory available to users on the AUDYA limits the number of audio drums that can be used. Since the AUDIO is streamed directly from the HD, the 'memory in question' (if you want to compare) is actually the size of the free HD space (roughly 50GB since the other space is occupied with FACTORY data). When using the SAMPLER/MSP, memory alocation becomes a factor (which will later be upgraded) as the sound files have to be loaded before being manipulated with. With HD streaming, there is no manipulation required. The USER AUDIO files should have already been 'cut' and prepared by an external sampler .. e.g. REASON (TM). When you load/select a STYLE (user or factory), simply press DRUMS (F1) repeatedly in the STYLE VIEW screen to assign the drums to either FACTORY AUDIO, USER AUDIO, FACTORY MIDI or USER MIDI drums. There is almost no limit as to what you can do with this STYLE MORPHING Feature from KETRON - just the HD's size!! Expanded upon this, we also have a similar feature with new Sound Banks available for BASS, DRUM2 (GROOVES), CHORDS 1-3 (new PIANO and GUITAR loops) for OS3.0.

Combining this with the soon-to-be-released STYLE EDITOR (both PC and on the AUDYA [Pattern EDITOR] ), you will have so many style templates to use that re-creating one from scratch could become a feature used by few but made available anyway!!

This also now enhances DRUM REMIX as you can assign your AUDIO DRUMS to your midifiles. The only restrictions in both cases are ...

1. When changing the tempo of the midifile/style you can do so without loosing the quality of the AUDIO DRUMS by +/-45% of the original BMP which the audio file was recorded in.

2. You have to make the AUDIO DRUM have the same Time Signature as the style/midifile you want to associate it with!

Hope this makes it clearer ...

Thanks,

AJ

WGT AJ....what would Ketron ever do without you?

Has OS3 done anything about the number of chord TYPES available for the audio section?

And has it changed the number of audio streams the Audya will play, simultaneously?

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 09-12-2009).]

i think OS3 will just give us more guitar loops and piano loops, not more chords, maybe different patterns, and different sounding guitars,

just a guess, but AJ would know for sure

Aj, can you answer a couple of questions for me?

I have a SD3 (same as SD5, but is the module) what is the lastest OS for the SD5, and love the styles, but are there any more for this model??

Thanks

Listen up, folks. This last post asks probably the MOST important question, as far as Ketron owners OUGHT to be concerned about.

"love the styles, but are there any more for this model??"

Sure, you CAN put User audio styles together, but who amongst us has the skill to do this? Precious few from the SD-1 days, that's for sure... So, probably Question #1 from all Ketron potential buyers of the Audya OUGHT to be "How many more styles do you PROMISE to make...?"

Because, in all likelihood, this is the only place you are likely to get them from (unless you are perhaps one of the niche regional style users from Portugal, who seem to have strong Ketron developers). And, as good as the live drums make them sound, you are not going to want to put up with all your NEW styles sounding inferior (by using the MIDI drum kits) to your ROM styles.

The depth of support for new styles that the SD-5 and SD-1 received is probably a VERY telling indicator of how much Ketron are likely to put into new Audya styles once you have bought it. I don't know about you, but a never ending supply of new styles is one of the reasons I can hang onto any arranger for any length of time. We all get 'style fatigue', even with the best of them, and need new ones to lift our interest in something we may have been playing for a few years. But Ketron's adherence to the live loop audio drums thing basically makes translations inferior, few, I honestly think, have the skill to put great ROM quality styles together themselves, so what are you left with?

Ketron themselves, Unfortunately.

I would take a CLOSE look at just how many NEW audio loop styles (NOT new styles using existing drum loops) Ketron came out with for the SD-1 and SD-5 after they released it. This might give an indication how many you are likely to get for the Audya.