Hi AJ,

Would it in this case load the correct voice, or will it once again load whatever resides in that specific memory location?

Kind regards,

Henni

Henni,

The actual voice is loaded.

This approach also gives the user the choise to simply select a style and play with all the existing MIDI parts OR select a style and have that style LOAD any corresponing AUDIO/SOUND parts. Ofcourse with the pre-load, you have to wait a few seconds to play the style ... which is why I still suggest keeping the AUTOLOAD on at the begining where all relative AUDIO/SOUND parts are loaded so whenever you select a style, you can now INSTANTLY play it (as is the case with any other arranger) and not wait for any loading ...

However the only downside to this method is ... you have no way of knowing the % of memory left so if your RAM is already getting full (with all the AJAMSONIC voices already pre-loaded) and you now go to select a style which requires an extra voice whose size is larger than that left in RAM ....

We're working on another solution for this...but ideally the 1GB memory suggestion on the table seems best - where with the back up battery, you pre-load these voices only once and they are there each time the machine is powered on.

We will see :-)

AJ

Hi all,

Herewith all new(extra) AJAMSONIC styles, listed by genre for Ver 2.0:

BALLAD:
8 Beat Ballad 3
a Folk Ballad
At the Movies
An Old Beat
Electro Ballad
Golden Beat
Home Beat
Hot Ballad

PARTY:
Ethnic 5_4
Ethnic Dance
Ethnic Pop
Ethnic Tropic
Slow East

LATIN:
1 Drop Reaggae_R
a Bikutssi
a Compa Feeling
a Cuba Salsa
a Kazet Party
a Makossa Story
a New Soca
a New Zouk
a Salsa
a Soca Rumba
a Soca Slide
a Soweto Feaver
a Tropical Island
Another Bolero
An Afro Jazz
Banjon Tropicana
Bachata
Cha Cha Slide
Cumbia
Cumbion
Disco Chacha
Makossa 1
Ndombolo 1
Ndombolo 2
New Mambo
African Mambo
Afro Calypso
All Time Cha Cha
Beguine Train
Bolero Uno
Bossa Schlager
Bossano Dream
Cha Cha Man
ChaCha One
Lambada Brazil
Latin Schlager
Live Salsa
Love Samba
Raggaetone
Real Merengue

POP:
a 50's Pop
a 6_8 Pop
a British Pop
a Guitar Beat
a Hip Hop School
a Hip & Hop Mix
a Mega Rapper
a New Rap
a Rap 1
An 8 Track
An Afro Funk
Be Street Smart
Frank's Pop
Hip n Hop
Hip Hop
Hip Today
Midnight Blues
Midnight Dream
Moonlight Up
Our Beat
Phill Collins
Soft Beat

ROCK:
a 60 Blues
a 6_8 Gospel
a Blues Rhythm
a Blues Bro Rock
a Blues to go
a Country Rock
a Gospel Rock
a Gospel Hit
a Gospel_5
a RnB Fusion
a Shufle
a Soul Blues
a Soul Rock
a Soul Train
R&Blues_3
The Soulfull Bro

DANCE:
a 70's Disco
a Boyz2Men Dance
a Cool Dance
a Dance Fever
a Dance Room
a Disco Flavor
a Disco Heat
a Disco Highlife
a Fresh Dance
a Hot Hit
a House Dance
a Progress Dance
a Real Dance
a Schlager Heat
a Trench Tech
a YMCA Dance
An Electro Dance
An Indian Dance
Afro Generation
Ballad Techy
Dance Ibiza
Dance Schlager
Last Countdown

COUNTRY:
a 2 Step Ballad
a Contry Pop
a Country Rock
a Country Surf
a Slow Country
a Soft Ballad
Country Pop

SWING:
a 12_8 Flip Flop
a 5_4 Jazz
a Bepop
a Big Band
a Gentle Ballad
a Live Bigband
a Small Bigband
An Organ Hit
AJ's BigBand
Golden Swinger

R&ROLL:
a 60's Rock
a Rock Ballad
a RockRiffonAll
Rock Horses
Sister rock
Soulful
Downtown

BALLROOM:
Dixie Fox
Fox Trot
French Mussette
Hully Gully
Middle Fix
Moderato
Musette
Pasodoble 3_4
Polka
Tango
Tarantella
Waltz

FOLK:
a Charlston
a Friendly Polka
a Modern Polka
a New Orleans
A New York
a Polka Dream 1
a Ploka Dream 2
a Polka Dreamer
a Polka Fox
a Polka
a Polka Fox Band
Schlager Shuffle

Keep well all my friends,

Henni

Hi all,

Please allow me to elaborate a little on some of the new AJAMSONIC voices: Over 200 New Voices/Samples. 86 of these are automatically loaded when powered on, and can be found in the PRESETS & PROGRAM section for Synth, Guitars, Sax/Brass/ Woodwinds with new VCE-2 and RAM /INS (raw samples with no effects) - new human voices in CHOIR group.

Play a voice, let Audya add charterization 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. Control vibrato by pressing harder on keys when "Aftertouch" lights up automatically or press harder for bends or press 2 notes and hear a 2nd instrument play harmony (DUET) or...simply play.

Grand & Grand2
Sound & effects through the entire keyboard range - and not just in the center octaves!

Latino, Grand Paras & Grand Pizza
Great "synth" effect when key is held down for a period

Space piano & Vopiano
Piano sound with human vocals attached

Grand, Pad & Grand Mando
Heavy acoustic piano sound

Spark_FM & Elect_HM
Sounds like thev real thing!

Spark_Eden, Sparklight & Trans Seq
Electric synth piano with great effects

Steel+FX
New steel drum with effects!

Organ Morph, B3-Special & Tibia Organ
New organs with rich sounds & new rotor slow & fast speeds

Celeste & Harmonica
Playing hard or soft adds character (VCE-2) to the new tones in this category

Nylon, Stereo Gtr, Distor SFX & African Gtr
New clean authentic samples. Play hard & automatically add bend notes, tap & fret noises. No extra key needed to press to activate VCE-2: Audya works for you!

Vintage Amp, Rocks, Strato & Hard Rock
Analog vintage amp sound included (in vintage amp sound)

String Fall
Play hard & add bending notes to sound

Voice1, Acapella_1, Acapella_2, Acapella_3, You Dreamer, Ahh, Hey, You Delayed, Hey Panned, Ahh You & Latin Vocals
New choir voices sampled from boys & girls together with a new breath_taking achapella (from Italy)

Brass Shake, BBand and Modl, Brass B&S, Trumpets, Mute Trumpet, Shake Brass & Horns
The brass sounds have all been re-done with authenticity added by real musicians. Play hard & add bends. Play very soft and add "roll off" notes. Release a note & instantly play another, and hear VCE-2 kick in

Blowtner U, Alto Sax D, Growl Sax, Altosoft D & Clarinet B
New sax recorded by actual saxophone players...as they played. Release notes & hear "roll off". play hard & hear notes bend "up". Play soft & when you release, saxophone player takes a breath!

Irish Acts, Irish Air, Nylo Flute & Flute Above
New Irish flutes with VCE-2 as you play hard & soft.

Space Gtrs, Movie, Quiet Pad, On Synth, In Space, Paris_112, Gold, Moments, Pizza_112, Renovation, Nylopad, Pad, 2X(MORPH), (MORPH) SP, Softarp_HM & Phatty Pad
A whole new category. Rich sounds with the intend to move DANCE, MODERN end users. Rich layers of sounds with crossfading, morphing...etc - now with ARPS ready to be syncronized to your style/Midifile!

Buzzer, Reverse_it, Dazzy, Heaven Up, Eden, Jitters, Hook, Punch, Hook &, Spin About, Bubble, Press Hard & Disco
A whole new category of rich synth sounds. Here we listened to our customers & gave them a boost in one of Audya's weakest areas. Now sound like a poweful Synth Workstation with a press of a button!

Mandolins & Mandolin
New rich sounds with "DELAY" syncronized to the temp of style/Midifiles

I'm really, but really enjoying my AJAMSONIC upgrade!!!

Keep well all my friends,

Henni

...The Arps and Licks are to be used in the styles only. With the AJAMSONIC package, the Arps can also be played as lead voices as is the case with regular workstation synths!

When you select a style that you like and want to make modifications to it by adding these, simply press STYLE VIEW which will display the style's components (Drums, Bass, Chords ... etc).

* Press F4 (Chord 4) quickly twice to toggle between the Midi chord part programmed within the style and the ARP&Lick table provided by Ketron which can be inserted in this style to replace the Midi part.

* Play the style and use the Data wheel to now go through the various ARP&Licks currently available.

* When satisfied with a selection, repeat for all the other ARRANGER PARTS (A-D), then press SAVE and save your new style (it will be saved under the same group - but in the USER STYLE folder, so when next you want to play this modified FACTORY style (or any style you load into the machine), press the USER STYLE button first! This preserves the FACTORY styles.

This and a lot more is clearly illustrated in our 3+Hrs DVD tutorial manual so you can see and hear how it's done and the effects it has on your over-all sound/music!

This (STYLE MODELLING) can also be applied to :-

* DRUMS (F1) - Midi, Factory AUDIO or USER AUDIO Drums
* GROOVE (F2) - Midi Drum Kits, GROOVES or Percussion
* BASS (F3) - BASS BANK or style's MIDI Bass
* Chord 1 (F6) - PIANO BANK or style's MIDI part
* Chord 2 (F7) - GUITAR BANK 1 or style's MIDI part
* Chord 3 (F8) - GUITAR BANK 2 or style's MIDI part
* Chord 4 (F9) - ARPS & LICKS BANK or style's MIDI part
* Chord 5 (F10) - LIVE Guitar or style's MIDI part

Hope this helps...

...what exactly does createsongstyles have to offer? do they have styles SPECIFICALLY created for Audya? i don't have time to tweak them ;-)

hi Henni,
i tried to download some of the styles on the create song style site..however when transferred to the audya, the DISK reads it as a corrupt file.. am i downloading the correct file e.g. I've downloaded the .PAT files. how did you get it to read on your audya. thanks Henni. Ky

Hi Ky,

I did nothing special. I created another directory under the "User Styles" directory & called it "More Ketron styles". Next, I unzipped all those new styles, each group in it's own directory and then I copied all those directories under my new directory as per above.

To access these styles, I have to use the "Disk" function. They can only be accessed using the built in explorer and they should be accessed like you do with any other file using explorer. Just click on the style and it will become active.

The other way is to unzip those styles, copy each style (not with it's directory, but the style only) seperately under the various existing directories under your "user styles". You cannot sort by genre, as it would we impossible to know for all of them. But you can spread them evenly between those directories. In this way, you can access them in the normal way, using the "user" button for each style section. I initially did it this way, but it becomes all too messy too soon and later on it is hard to know which original styles originally belonged to each directory. If you choose this way, Ketron has a complete description on their Website on how to do this, however, I do not recommend this method. There are far too many new styles.

If I was you, I'd create a seperate directory and copy all your new directories in there. If you then later access a style via the "Disk" function & you edit it, you can always save in one of the normal original genre directories.

I hope you can understand the above my friend. All the best,

Henni

Hi Ky,

This is how mine is done.

Hope it helps,

Henni

and the last page...

Hi Ky,

Forgot to tel you that there are quite a few styles over there that do not work properly. You'll see that I created a "No Work" directory & I put them all in there.

It is just possible that the first styles you've tried are some of those.

Note that some directories listed i.e Sokratis is just used to store stuff that I intend to use later. All of his stuff work properly as intended. Please do not be confused by my list.

Keep well my friends,

Henni