TWD,

A little bird told me that you fixed his Audya for him and it's now works perfectly, I wish to thank you for that, you are a good guy. Just wanted to know how and what ketron are doing with the Audya, perhaps a face lift now they have sorted and fine tuning out, times are bad out there and not many people got that sort of cash, anything now will need to be worth changing and sound much better and look good. I think only the big boys will have the cash to do this.

BTW TWD Henni has an Audya, battered around in the African bush, full of dust, runs off a generator, pounded by the sun and it still works, can't be all bad, wonder what day that Audya was made, got to be Wednesday...

Tony

Leezone,

Whatever you say??? Still glad you are like Henni loving every minute of your kit, that's nice, BTW are you playing over Christmas???

One of the best church organ sounds I have every heard on the Audya.

Tony

Tony,

For the most part, the most increase has been in those upgrading current AUDYAs with the AJAMSONIC upgrade kit here and oversease in UK, Germany, AUS, France ... etc. Ever since we made it possible for the end-user to now install this without having to ship the keyboard to us, we've been doing pretty well. Feedback (and from many who reside on this forum as well) speaks volumes ... in many cases even mentions what we either didn't do a good job doing, or in words better than ours could - and for that, we are thankful and greatful and happy to have put out a product that they and other end-users helped initiate and are now enjoying.

The next increase in sales here in th US but especially in EU and AUS has been of those purchasing AUDYAS with the AJAMSONIC upgrade already installed. With the new VCE-2 Voice Articulations, even converted styles from other manufactureres now sounds more decent on these AUDYA products. If all goes well, we are hopeful to include a conversion program with future updates which will be able to properly map Mega, SA and RX voices to equivalent VCE-1 and VCE-2 KETRON AUDYA voices for styles converted from other manufacturers .... that's up the pipes but it's being looked into as current conversion programs are obsolete (they do not account well for the new technology [sample switching, voice crossfading ...etc] being used in current modern Arranger keyboards).

Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year 2013 (while we stay at work with the intent to bring our customers even more in 2013).

The New "LIVE Grand Piano" soon to be released should put a smile on faces.

Hi AJ,

That's AWESOME news!!! I for one will have much use for such a
Mega voice mapper. Looking forward to it my talented friend.

Kind regards,

Henni

The problem your little bird told you about turned out to be two issues:
1) a non compatible hard drive supplied by a third party specialist. (indicated by the HD LED on all the time)
2) his 76 key Audya had been force loaded with Audya 5 OS and would not accept OS updgrades. (this is also linked to no. 1 and I still don't understand how it was accomplished!)

Once the correct hard drive was installed and the main board forced with the correct OS it was plain sailing. Just had to do a factory restore followed by the various updates. Its no wonder nobody could sort the keyboard out remotely!

Exactly like I've said & been guilty of myself,

The Audya runs partly off a operating system on the hard drive, same as a Windows based computer. If you tamper with it, it WILL byte you. I've been there myself & TWD had to run to my rescue with restoration DVDs.

I still suspect that MANY initial Audya problems were software related which could not be solved remotely.

So, don't tamper with the files on the hard drive, & it won't byte you. Other arrangers do not suffer from same as their system files cannot be accessed. Before you point out to me what a bad thing is is for the Audya, I dare you to show me a single other arranger on the market today that will accept such a MAJOR update as the AJAMSONIC upgrade. This is only possible because much of the operating system resides on the hard drive.

Henni

Hi Henni

The Wersi Pegasus Wing (You forgot that one didn't you )

Also it has one of the best B3 (And Vox, Farfisa etc.) emulators on any arranger, with Real drawbars.

Bill

Hi Bill,

I'll accept your word for it as I know absolutely nothing about this product. I do not even have demos for it. I do not even know if it is a true arranger.

Keep well my friend,

Henni

Hi Henni

Here are the details Wersi Pegasus Wing the demo is of the V1 model however it is now up to V2 and like all OAS instruments the V1 can be upgraded to V2 via a free downloadable update from the main Wersi Website, here there is also another demo here

B3 emulator included as standard is the VB3 VST from GSI

Changes since the keyboard was first introduced R00:01

Changes in software R 00:01 – R00:02
New options for saving Total Presets
Better display of karaoke lyrics
Additional settings Sequence Transpose and MIDI in Multi-mode
Correction of the foot switch control

Changes in software R00:02 – R00:03
Additional foot switch settings
New Wersi Edition VB3 drawbar system
Number of settings savable increased with enhanced display
New optional Sound Package "Best of Accordions" for Pegasus Wing
Error messages after restoring the factory settings from backup eliminated

Changes in software R00:03 – R00:04
Enhanced MIDI Editor
Enhanced Style Editor
15 new drawbar sound presets (level 7-9)
New optional package "James Last Edition" for Pegasus Wing

Changes of software R00:04 – R02:01
All Styles has been adjusted in volume
50 new live presets by Robert Bartha
New optional package "Franz Lambert Edition" for Pegasus Wing
New optional Sound Package "portamento sounds" for Pegasus Wing

Changes of software R02:01 – R02:02
50 new presets by Claudia Hirschfeld
New optional extension "Selector Plus" for Pegasus Wing

Bill

If you look at all the features and improvements to the G70 (got up to V3 in more than two increments!) I think the G70 counts as a significantly improved by FREE upgrades arranger!