The AJAMSONIC package upgrade includes the following NOT found on the regular AUDYA series keyboards:-

• 120+ New Styles (USER STYLE Section – Styles start with the blue dot “ .”) with Human response and feeling using longer audio loops (i.e. 16 -32 bars long). Great new and modern Disco, Dance, Techno, Pop, Folk, authentic Caribbean (Zouk Love, Soca … etc), and African styles (Ndombolo, Makossa, Highlife … etc) developed and performed by Musicians from these respective regions of the world. Special care was taken into considering the US market with flourishing styles of music which includes real Big Band and Swing, Real Country which uses Audio Drums and Guitars recorded by actual Country musicians [e.g. musicians who have played with Don Williams, Dolly Parton … to name but a few], and others who participated in this project, True Gospel, Rich RnB, Soul and – yes, even RAP … etc. With longer measures in each style (16+ measures long in many cases), we were able to make the styles ‘breath’ by reducing the redundancies associated with ‘loops’. With the new Interactive Arranger, you simply play and AUDYA adds or subtracts parts of the Arranger section based on how you play. Longer loops also means your style doesn’t sound like … a loop, but a piece of music fully blown and produced with professionalism due to various musical tones at various parts of the style and intuition from … AUDYA. The STANDARD package has 30 New styles.

• Compressor [Premium, and Deluxe Packages]. Finally, per our customers request, with the new compressor, you now have AUDYA sounding ‘tight’ with some studio feeling, especially on the new STUDIO AUDIO DRUMS. Feel the punch of the tighter kick drum, the noticeable snare or the precision of the high hat!

• Over 123 New Voices/Samples. 30 of these can be found in the PRESETS and PROGRAM Section – for Synth, Guitars, Sax/Brass/Woodwinds with new VCE-2 and RAM/INS (raw samples with no effects). With the optional 128 or 256MB RAM expansion, even more can be loaded at once from the Hard Drive. Play a voice, let Audya add characterization automatically suited for that voice, like human breath, guitar slides, run ups/downs, key off sampling notes, eliminate attack on legato notes where applicable … etc. These voices start with “AJAM” [Premium package with has extra voices not found in the Standard Package due to RAM expansion], “New” or “Live” when displayed on the screen in PROGRAM mode. The PRESET voices which incorporate these new samples also start with the word “LIVE” or “NEW” to distinguish them from the other factory voices. The STANDARD Package comes with 15 new voices and no RAM expansion circuit board.

• New ‘HUMAN’ voices recorded from choirs (You, Who, Whow ... etc) and some of these are also used to ‘accent’ relative styles, such as the new Gospel or Blues styles … etc.

• New Arpeggios. Originally only available on high-end Synthesizer Workstations, AUDYA now brings you new Arps which you can now play using distinctive lead voices – great for Modern Dance/Techno beats. These voices (believe it or not) can also be used by the Arranger bringing a sense of randomization to your music. They can be loaded from the DISK – INSTRUMENTS and start with ARP*.MSP (e.g. ARP_BRITE130.MSP) – where 130 is the suggested BMP of the style you want to associate this MSP with/to. Many of these are loaded when turned on and used in the new Dance styles… plus others.

• Corrected Original AUDIO Drums (Premium and Deluxe Packages). Now experience no Audio ‘skips’, spaces or freezes in the HD as you switch from Arranger to Arranger or call up a style on the fly. In some cases the AUDIO Drum loops have been re-truncated to ensure smooth transition between audio files being streamed when using the arranger. We listened to the request of our customers and made sure that all the Factory styles and users styles now sound ‘proper’ with no ‘hiccups’.

• Added Over 800 new Audio Drums. (450 in the Standard package). These are used with current Factory (corrected) and the New styles. These audio drums (about 480 Studio Live drums [120 in Standard Package]) include performances done by musicians both in Live Play situations and Live Studio settings! You will ‘feel’ the drums and not be driven away by them the minute you sit down and play with any of the new styles. Some of the factory styles have also been re-tweaked to incorporate these new exciting Audio Drums.

• New AUDIO Guitars which can be used with any style. These have been added to the existing AUDIO GUITARS table (seen when you press F5 from the STYLE VIEW Mode and use the Data wheel to scroll through them).

• New GUITAR MODE – Use your Left hand/chords or Right hand (when Pianist/Bassist is activated) to manually strum AUDIO GUITAR parts. Simply hold a chord and use any finger on the left (or right in Bassist Mode) to ‘strum’ AUDIO GUITAR live. The Audio guitar follows your strum style.

• New Chord Recognition Mode – Incorporated into EASY-2. Play a chord with a SINGLE FINGER and the Style plays complete chord, but any style with a vocal patch plays just the root of the Chord (used to introduce variation as you play).

• BALANCED all styles. Now, style volumes remain constant as you change from style to style. Great when performing live – sound man can ‘rest’ and not have to fidget with levels each time you switch from a style/song to another, even when switching between the various Arranger parts of the same styles.

• BALANCED all Voices so now, don’t be scared to switch from say a Sax to the Distorted guitar – all volumes are relatively even on all instruments.

• New TONE MATCHING FEATURE (Premium and Deluxe Packages) A TONE MATCHING feature has been incorporated into instruments such as the new Distorted and Rock Guitars, so the warm feeling of the amplifiers used to create these sounds is now present in the voice as well (by recording the signals from both the guitar itself and a microphone placed close to the amplifier to capture what your audience actually ‘hears’, AUDYA carefully manages both signals – depending on notes pressed and intermittence between notes pressed). Listen to the new Vintage and Rock Lead guitars to appreciate what TONE MATCH does!

• Re-Adjusted sensitivity on VCE and now Voice Character Emulation is used with many more preset and Program voices. Listen to the new Preset Alto Sax or Tenor Sax for an example.

• Voice Character Emulation - 2. Experience the world of realism when your trumpet comes to live with trills or your sax with the sounds of the valves and breathe of the player, or new Guitar sounds (e.g. Nylon, African Strato, Rock Lead … etc) with real fret or slides or body-tap or … sounds. Test this with all the new “AJAM”, “LIVE” and “NEW” voices as you play – press harder, slide up or down on keys or play legato or … etc. Without having a dedicated button/control, you focus on playing and let AUDYA automatically do the rest. If you don’t want any characterization added to a voice, simply play normally. The more you express yourself, the more AUDYA expresses what you’ve just expressed … musically!

• New start up features and balanced DSP for warmer natural sounds and also includes new Compressor settings.

• New VOCALIZER Settings. Now you can use vocalize with minimum feedback and basically no distortion on harmonized voices, thanks to the new algorithms included with this package!

• New VOCAL HARMONY HOLD (*) – A singer’s best friend. Sing and press a pedal (pre-assigned) to ‘hold’ the note you just sung, while you sing on top of the “sustained” note. The note(s) held could either be simply your voice or your voice harmonized by the ‘sweet ladies’ in your keyboard. Either way, if your back-up vocalist is late or a no show, AUDYA has you covered regardless.

• New Favorite Style Voices - Pick a style. AUDYA will automatically pick four One Touch relative voices best suited for this style. These voices change automatically as you go from Style variation to variation. This keeps out all the guess work or eliminates you having to SEARCH for the appropriate voice for each style you play. You also automatically experience some of the new and revised voices which are also in the PREMIUM or DELUXE packages, used in the styles themselves!

• New Favorite Voices linked to styles If the “new Favorite STYLE VOICES” feature mentioned above (which associates four voices to each new style) isn’t enough, what about associating twenty? Pick a new style - Audya picks the best 20 voices for this style of music automatically. You can instantly select these voices from the screen without searching all over the place, by simply pressing one button. Of course, these can be edited by you eventually if needed (as explained in the manual or our Tutorial and Manual DVD … soon to be released). This feature will soon be expanded to ALL current AUDYA styles in a free upgrade.

• New Effects synchronized to styles and midi tempo/clock, such as DELAY.

• Bonus Songs (Mp3, and Midifile/Karaoke). (Premium and Deluxe Packages) For those who want some music during a performance break or songs to perform with, this huge collection (over 8000 songs from all Gendres including music from the 40’s – 80’s, Country, Disco, Latin, Kids songs, Old School, Party, Polka, Standards, Rock, Soul, Pop, Dance, Reggae, Soca, Ndombolo, Highlife, Mapuka … etc) provides you with a huge library of songs to play, sing along with or relax to. Some include lyrics which are automatically displayed on the screen. Use AUDYA’s Lead VOICE MUTE to mute the lead voice while you sing/perform over the original track, or transpose the track to your key without changing the pitch, or change the tempo of the track without changing it’s pitch or …. The combinations are endless. Either way, AUDYA follows you (not the other way round as is the case with most Arranger and Workstation Keyboards).

• Bonus Styles. Includes over 90 styles from the Ketron Style library which have been re-programmed (balanced and tone matched) for the AUDYA Series. These reside in the UNPLUGGED style group. More of these will be available for free for AJAMSONIC customers.

• 2nd Hard Drive Installation connector (optional). This can be used to install a 2nd Hard Drive in your AUDYA. This adaptor REPLACES the option to use the 2nd USB connector [2nd from left] on the front panel (do you really need 2 USB connectors anyway?)

• New 1 year extended warrantee (**). Giving our customers peace of mind was a factor we seriously took into consideration as well. If given the opportunity to install this package for you, we will look through the entire instrument and make sure your AUDYA product is well serviced and is armed right to face tomorrow’s music challenges.

VIDEO TUTORIAL & MANUAL INFORMATION
A ~ 3hrs long tutorial and manual will soon be released (***). This video manual goes into great detail showing you how to faithfully use your Ketron AUDYA – Standard and with the AJAMSONIC package installed, and it shows you tips and tricks to get the best out of AUDYA in performance, studio or house of worship situations; with many questions answered and new ideas demonstrated.

Contact us at 267-323-5005 for more information and future updates and new styles sounds, new Song Registrations (settings for popular songs for your KETRON Keyboards) soon to be released.

• * Requires a new and modified Sound card
• ** Warrantee is valid only if we do the installation!
• *** 30% of Video tutorial with purchase of the AJAMSONIC upgrade (serial number needed).


PRODUCT Availability:- December 2011.

Now tell me,

Does the above excite you or what!!!

Henni

Your enthusiasm is great, but hearing is believing too. I still question those items I pointed out and one big question too...Seems os 5 from Ketron is coming soon - well reading here soon can be a long time away - but can Ketron upgrades be loaded (improvements directly from the factory) adjacent to AJamSonic? So far we've had some dealers say support is gone and up to AJ once loaded. Doesn't matter for any who have had their Audya longer than a year but seems support as minimal as it is is there for those long time owners even when warranty is up without this upgrade.

Again, some demos played are great but overall I don't hear everything you state above except for the longer loops. We would need more precise demos and comparisons directly to an Audya without the upgrade to hear those differences IMO.

I am totally convinced that AJ will incorporate all factory upgrades into his upgrade & offer those as free downloads for AJAMSONIC owners.

But AJ, I think it's time for you to confirm this yourself - a valid concern that future AJAMSONIC customers might have.

As for me: I fully intend to have two Hard Drives at all times:

1. Latest Ketron factory updates including all new OS, styles & sound upgrades.

2. Latest AJAMSONIC upgrade.

Nothing odd to the above - why else would we run virtual partitions on our PCs and have different window platforms installed on one PC?

AJ even supplies a connector for a 2nd Hard Drive. I hope that he can present a way for the Audya to decide from which one to boot. But even if not, the above is still worth the effort to me.

Yes, I agree, maybe a slight shlep, but then definitely worth the outcome at least for me. It will be like having two completely different arrangers, determined by the Hard Drive booted from only. And I'll always have a immediate backup available should I mess up the operating system again like I did with mine.

And lastly: Since my Audya, no other arranger impress me anymore. I'd rather spend my money turning my Audya into everything it could be than spending it on yet another arranger. So the price is not such a major factor for me to consider...Just imagine the amount of work AJAMSONIC must have put into this upgrade!

Keep well mate,

Henni

Yes, it's me again,

I just remember reading somewhere (by Tonewheeldude) that a new style for the Audya costs approx $20 000 to produce because of the efforts and artists involved.

Read through the AJAMSONIC description, and tell me what was involved in creating those? Thus, in my opinion a very reasonable price for such a major upgrade.

Anyway, just my opinion. I found something of GREAT value that really EXCITES me & I thought I'd share. If you search the internet, you'll find I always shared what I found with others, from flight simulators right down to arrangers. That's just my nature.

I'd like for others to also be thrilled by the things that thrill me. And above all, I like to share.

Keep well all,

Henni

Team,

For those of you with the AJAMSONIC upgrade, once you've installed OS 4.0 or higher, no further adjustments will be needed when you want to install any future AUDYA Updates ... simply download from Ketron's website and install. You won't loose anything but gain what the update has to offer.

Hope this clarifies this?

Thanks,

AJ

Hi AJ,

That's GREAT news indeed. Thanks for sharing. It also shows me (at least) clearly that AJAMSONIC & Ketron are working together, and not against each other. This is also GREAT news as both parties brought something AMAZING to the table & I can only imagine what is to follow...

Keep well my friend, (looking forward to your upgrade - you already have a satisfied customer, even if based on demos only! Those demos don't lie)

Henni

Hi all,

My AJAMSONIC hard drive is installed. All my 2011 & 2012 updates back in place.

I spent most of the night watching the two DVDS. AWESOME!!! I learned so much. I never knew such complex things could be achieved with the Audya. Too bad the nay sayers cannot watch these DVDs. They'll be impressed to the very extreme...

There are so many, many new styles. I listened to the intro and only bits of each variation of each style. This took more than three hours, there are just that many. Voice selections are excellent!!! I am very much impressed with these new styles. They are of very high quality indeed!

Next I played with the talking choir voices. They have to be loaded into RAM before one can use them. AWESOME!!! I'll find much use for those. There are close to if not more than one thousand three hundred extra complete drum loops. a Great many new live guitar audio sections. No ways to go through all of these in a single day. I'll report back on these after quite some time after I tried them out thoroughly.

Many, many, a GREAT many awesome MP3s, Midis & waves supplied. They will be handy for anyone in the gigging business.

Have not touched the harmonizer as yet. I'm so tired from the lack of sleep that I do not feel to rig up for singing as yet. I'll re-install all my registries & user styles next.

Will give some more detailed feedback later. I am extremely happy with the purchase & it was money well spent. I'll recommend to anyone without any hesitation - go for it!!!

Keep well all my friends,

Henni

we aspet your demos with new choir and ajamsonic style!:)

Hi all,

First of all, AJ was very, very helpful in responding to my various questions to him over the weekend. He responded promptly to every one of those & I had quite a few that I put to him.

Also, my parcel was packed & wrapped very carefully - I was really impressed by this.

Well, the whole of yesterday was spent in loading back all my User Styles, User Drums, all my own MP3s, my own registries (and they all work properly!),all my own Midis, my own Waves, my own MSPs and various other stuff I had on my Audya before. This really took a full day to do & I was only finished late last night.

So, I only had a half hour or so to play with my new AJAMSONIC stuff before I HAD to go to bed. I cannot do with another sleepless night again...

I am super impressed. Now that I switched on the 2nd voice, I'm even more amazed by the excellent voice selection for the various arrangements for each style.

Played around with the new choir voices again - the are AWESOME & I must learn to apply & use them properly.

I cannot emphasize enough what valuable info resides on the two tutorial DVDs. Unfortunately I cannot & will not share too many of those, as the info belongs to AJ. All I can say is that I never knew the complex things that could be achieved on the Audya. If only someone like Diki (who likes these kind of things) could have these videos, he'll be blown away by it - it's just THAT amazing!!!

We've been invited to sing at the parking lot of a semi large shopping center every Saturday till end of year - this is big for us (remember, we don't gig). So we'll have an excellent opportunity to use our new AJAMSONIC upgrade. I'll post some pics & live songs over at the forum for all to see. I have much work ahead of me this week to prepare new music for these events.

Keep well all my friends,

Henni