Nedim, i thought you were the KETRON GURU ??? ;-)

Yes he were...emphasis on the were.

AJ be the new Guru.

Didn't you get an Audya yet, Lee? Sheeesh...I thought for sure you were under the Guru's spell and Sikh of that old out of date Korg PA2X-Con....

you must have me mistaken,

i do not have a Korg Arranger
i have the G-70 and Ketron XD3

and no AUDYA yet...

i'm waiting for the AUDYA2
or even better...
the AUDYA2 MODULE :-)

If the audya follow the same time table as SD1, you'll be waiting 6 years.

.....for the prototype.

Sorry my friend, it must be, the other Lee...gee!

I think you'll see a baby Audya first...soon as they discontinue this one, some of the technology will drift down....maybe.

Then again, a module wouldn't be too far astray.

The G70 is a cool instrument...sinfully heavy, but I guess we all got to pay for our sins.

It sounds some good, just the same!

Never heard or seen an XD3...is it a module, or is it a keyboard? If so, how many keys...how old?

Never see Ketron in my neck of the woods....I sure hear good things about them here on SZ.

Are they related to Solton?

Ian

Later edited to add... I find it!









[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 11-24-2009).]

Ian,

The XD3 is the module of the XD9 (61 keys), it was released 2002.


Solton was a distributor, which just put there name on the keyboard. It was always made by Ketron Labs.

what else do you want to know?

[This message has been edited by mc (edited 11-24-2009).]

Thanks mc...a buddy of mine used to have a Solton module...must be 20 years ago...he had it hooked up (midi'd) to an accordion...sounded great...I remember the styles were particularly good, especially the Swing and Latin.

Ian

I,ve got an SD3 great live drums and Bass, but the the styles are no where near enough to make it viable.

I am annoyed that Ketron would not finish a product first before they start selling another one, yeah I know AJ has indicated that there are updates comming for SD5/SD3 but a year away, I mean come on, please before I would consider a $10k Aus$ keyboard it should have been perfected before it was released, and they should have developed what they already have sold.

I have divested myself of the Korgs, because of the failing led fiasco in the PA2X, and the early boards that were not right, I do thank Music Link Australia for fixing the issues in the end, but Korg should have had a recall to begin with, and also the Oasys which they are not developing further, I know they just released more sounds, the one thing that we all wanted was a sequencer that worked, (the same as the M3XP and M series) and a more flexible opp sys in the oasys, and they can't or wont give owners that, after they said they would further develop the board. and this was the one to end all. I mean it looks as though keyboard manufacturers are followibg the lead of software manufacturers, by releasing unstable systems and product in the hope that by some major miricle they will have all the bugs sorted before the disenchantment becomes more of a problem.

The good news is I now have the Tyros 3, and midied to a Fantom G7 you want punchy drums and bass, boy this thing rocks, and at under $10kAus$ for the lot, Ketron are really going to have to pull the fat out of the fire here. Audya needs to be $5k Aus and perfect before its in my sights

Sounds like the LED display was a real problem for Korg PA2XPro.. Wow. Sorry to read this.