Now I try to read the manual how to copy the HD to my Pc but I have a hard time with this manual.Is there a better way. i have Window7 (64bits)

ok, its going to take a while so do it in stages over a few evenings to prevent problems. honestly its going to take many hours due to the Audyas USB interface (this is the only time you will be bothered by its slow data transfer rate)

first of all you need to make all files and folders visible from your computer - otherwise you will miss out a big chunk of stuff. just google "how to make all files and folders visible".

Then make a new folder on your computer and call it "Audya Back Up_date" (put the date in so you remember when you last updated it.)

Then connect a USB cable (printer type with one spade and one square plug) to the rear of the audya and your PC

Then open two windows on your desktop, one showing the contents of the audya, one showing the so far empty contents of your new backup folder.

copy all the 'files' in Audya's root directory to the new folders, then one folder at a time (dont touch the 'system' folder yet) copy the Audya folders over to you new backup folder. DJ loops and sfx are going to take a long time.

once thats done make a new folder in your backup folder called 'system' and enter it. On the audya enter the opaque 'system' folder so you can see the contents. Now copy, one folder at a time each Audya folders over to you new 'system' folder on your computer. This is going to take some time.

This method will help prevent cyclic redundancy errors. If you do get an error then disconnect the audya, and delete the folder on your pc that was being copied at the time. Trying to copy the entire hard drive in one go will definitely give you problems.

Lastly - if you don't fancy doing the above your retailer can order a system restore disk from ketron which includes all the data minus the 2011 update which must be applied after doing the system restore.

Is there anyone out there who could send me instructions on how too open the Audya?

http://www.ketron.it/images/ketron/manualiPdf/Espansione_web.pdf

...The wave file that I just recorded isn't that high in level compared to the other sounds on the instrument. Is it possible to adjust the recording level some way?

you need to 'normalize' the recording afterward. From memory, you have to import the wav file into the editor and then select normalize.

...when your Audya is "up to date" ( OS 4.2B ) you won´t need the laptop ( and software like audacity ) for normalizing. You can do it directly within the Audya

use the checksum test to make sure you do not have any problems.


The following instructions only refer to the AUDYA 4 - AUDYA 5 - AUDYA keyboards having serial numbers starting from: F1AA12013M.

A) HOW TO PERFORM THE CHECK SUM TEST ON THE AUDYA

1. Keep the F1 key pressed down and switch the machine ON. Release the key when on the display the menu with the first diagnostics of the instrument appears.
2. Press the F5 “CONTINUE" key. On the display the single sections of the test menu appear.
1. Press the F2 key to access the DSP0 (9708) menu to carry out the Flash checksum tests.
2. Press the ENTER key to perform the test on all flash memories in sequence, from 1 to 11.



F1: KetA01 9858F021
F2: KetA02 86AC504E (86AC1D49)
F3: KetA03 CF8AB654
F4: KetA04 96EA4099
F5: KetA05 E21D4766
F6: KetA06 8C328379
F7: KetA07 C212A530
F8: KetA08 D5790C9A
F9: KetA09 B80F62EC
F10: KetA10 EA609798
1/6: KetA11 42638FB2

If there are no errors displayed, press EXIT several times to exit the Test Menu. Audya will be automatically restarted.

If, instead, there are errors shown for one or more flash memories, write down the relevant name (e.g. KetA01, KetA03, etc.) shown on the left-hand side of the display, after the indications F1, F3, etc., and press EXIT several times to exit the Test Menu.
Audya will be automatically restarted. Follow the indications of section B) to restore the data.


B) HOW TO RESTORE WRONG CHECKSUMS

Important:
If the corrupt flash memory should be Ket02, before rewriting go to the main Root and select the 9708f1av00,SAM file, then press ENTER to load it. Then the following operations can be executed.

1. While the instrument is ON, press DISK to go to the main directory (C:\).
2. Go to folder C:\SYSTEM and press the ENTER key (twice); select the FACTORY folder with the DATA/VALUE wheel and confirm by pressing the ENTER key. Select the SOUND folder with the DATA/VALUE wheel and confirm by pressing the ENTER button. On the display a list appears. Use the table below to select the files you are interested in, then press ENTER.

A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
If the flash memories test shows that there is an error in "KetA05" (ERR), select file KET0600.PCM (see the table below) and then press the ENTER key to start loading.
Once the loading phase is completed (requiring about 10 minutes per flash memory), repeat the TEST to make sure that the operation was completed successfully.

IMPORTANT: if during loading the message "Flash write error" appears, contact the technical service of KETRON s.r.l..


Folder - C:\SYSTEM \ FACTORY \ SOUND


F10 KetA10 10KET0300.PCM
1/6 KetA11 11KET0500.PCM
F1 FKetA01 1KET0800.PCM
F2 KetA02 2KET0000.PCM
F3 KetA03 3KET0200.PCM
F4 KetA04 4KET0400.PCM
F5 KetA05 5KET0600.PCM
F6 KetA06 6KET0A00.PCM
F7 KetA07 7KET0900.PCM
F8 KetA08 8KET0700.PCM
F9 KetA09 9KET0100.PCM



C) CHECKING THE “ALL TABS” FILE

Important: This file must be controlled each time the steps described in section A) and B) are carried out.

1. On the main screen page, press the F5 USER 1/6 keys at the same time. On the display a test page is displayed, with a list of points with the indication OK at the right side.
2. Press the >> “FORWARD” key and on the left lower area of the display the current ALLTABS version is displayed, i.e. 2C349B72
3. Press the EXIT key to go back to the main menu of Audya.
4. If the Check sum of the All Tabs file is wrong, proceed as follows to restore it:
5. Open the SYSTEM folder, open the FACTORY folder and then the TABLE folder.
6. Select the ALLTABS.TAB file and confirm by pressing the ENTER key.
7. Once the loading phase is completed, repeat operations 1 and 2 of paragraph C.

D) OTHER CHECKS TO BE PERFORMED FROM THE TEST MENU

1) Keep the F1 key pressed down and switch the machine ON. Release the key when on the display the menu with the first diagnostics appears.
2) Press the F5 “CONTINUE" key. On the display the single sections of the test menu appear.
3) Press the F1 key to access the test checking the correct functioning of the switches and the potentiometer, pedals, modulation and pitch bender.
4) Press the F3 key to check the DSP1 effect (check sum: 6819), whereas for the O.S. 4.2a and higher the check sum is the following: 372)
5) Press the F4 key to check the DSP2 effect (check sum: C67D)
6) Press the F5 key to access the test checking the outputs of the instrument.
7) Press the F6 key to access the test checking the USB ports.




Important Notice: After the 2011 Upgrade the:

F2 KET A02 changes to 86AC1D49

and the All Tabs changes to 2C2BE9C5

its not so easy these days to 'reset' a modern instrument. Old style keyboards used only ROM or RAM so it was simple to reset to a factory state, but even then you sometimes had to reload sounds using cards or disks (Korg M1 or Farfisa F1 for instance). However the Audya is far more complex as just like your PC, the hard drive features strongly in how the instrument operates. If you make changes to the hard drive the only way to get it back to original is to use a backup (or restore disk available from your distributor). BUT....if you have used updates or USB upgrades then you also have to re-apply these as they will have made deeper changes to the instruments Flash RAM. If you use old data on the hard disk and that data does not match the flash memory, your Audya is going to be scrambled.

So if you realy do want both hard drive and Flash to the CURRENT factory default, my suggestion is to ask for an up to date system restore disk (it will be pre-2011 USB upgrade though). Once you have it format the hard drive (using the format command on the AUDYA and not your PC), then copy all the data over - but to avoid problems copy only a few folders at a time (don't forget to make system files and folders visable from your PC too). Next apply updates as required - if you used a USB update its vital to re-install it. Finally run the CHECKSUM/ALLTABS tests and make sure you have the latest test procedure from your distributor so you do not make a mistake with KETA02.

If you only want to reset your custom start up, there is an option when you press SAVE. F10+unplugged reloads the currently installed OS.

In the manual it says to select a program and to modify it to the individual requirements. Do I have to save them always in the different voice banks or can I create a new folder with all my individual programs ? How to avoid overwriting existing programs (happened when I modified existing ones even when I saved them under a different name).

The PROGRAM LOCATIONS unfotunately are fixed and so you simply over-write the factory ones. To store the factory files so that you can always revert to them when needed, make a back up of the following file in your AUDYA's HD (which is where the programs get stored) ...

C:/SYSTEM/INIT/PRESETS.PRG (make a copy of this in another folder (e.g C:/WAVE/DEFAULT). This way you can change your programs as you see fit, but when you want to get back to the factory, simply copy this file back into the location above.

...When you press SAVE - you're saving the currently selected PROGRAM into memory (on the panel), i.e simply overwritting the current PROGRAM in memory with your new one. When you press SAVE DISK, ALL Programs are saved as 1 file to the Hard Drive - PRESETS.PRG

Maybe there is possibility to separate the drums and bass and
The guitar Acc ? Drums Separate ch Bass separate ch Etc

Yes.. You can..Press:

MENU/OUTPUT ASSING F 1-OUTPUT 3&4 or 3 and 4

F 2-OUTPUT 1&2 Drums or 1 and 2 (for the Drums and Percusions instruments). Here you can to send a sound of Drums in Output 1&2 or 1 and 2, for example Kick in Output 1, Snare in Output 2, or only Kick in 1&2 (stereo) etc..

F 3-OUTPUT 1&2 or 1 and 2 for the Right hand, all the Drums and Midi 1.

(IMPORTANT)

All sounds in any Output is without DSP effects...

You can to apply Effects with a external Effect processor like Lexicon, TC, ect..

...what are the best ways of using a mp3 or wav file as a song intro before continuing with a song style ? Should I create 2 registrations and then just switch in the style ?
Franconia

the besta fast way is to save a registration that has styles + mp3 or wav. you can start play mp3 or wav and then start the styles, together too, you can across from mp3 to style using the volume, of course only the problem is sync. but if you want to us mp3 as intro that don't have the drum or tempo is ok for effect. another way is to assign mp3 to key. is only important you press the key at tempo during play styles, then they are sync, but I don't know if registration save or recol the key mode (don't remember the "name" but is the keys where is program, voice list, ram then "key..." this is.

The best is create a User Audio Drum with your MP3(convert to wav) or WAV.And now is sync!

...There are 47 brand new styles and 32 re-vamped styles from Ketrons XD series.

The brand new styles have been really tweaked especially the balancing of the drums. I really like the sound of them. It almost feels like your playing a whole different keyboard.

What ever Ketron did to create the sound and feel of these new styles is dead on! It would have been awesome if they would have redone all the styles with this balancing and used more of the new drum tracks.

The 32 XD styles are located in the unplugged section. These are pretty good, however no comparison with the brand new styles.

Robert Messier was heavily involved with the creation of 10 new styles for Ketron. Unfortunately, all of them were not included in the upgrade. Robert is a musicians musician when it comes to utilizing the Audya's full capabilities. Big mistake on Ketron's part not taking full advantage of Robert's talent!

The Organ Bebop style located in the swing section is my favorite. In variation 4 the drummer really shows his stuff. I increased the volume of the drum track to make the drummer stand out even more. If you like swing/boogie, you'll all enjoy this style! Fun stuff!

All in all, the upgrade was worth the wait. The new styles and the additional super solo voices alone are worth the upgrade. I noticed a few improvements in the OS also. I don't use midi files, so I can't comment in that area...

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.