Ketron EVENT :

Polyphony: 216 notes, multitimbral.

Keyboard: 76 half weighted keys. 4 Dynamic curves. Pitch and Modulation wheels. Aftertouch. Portamento.
Legato Mono_Poly. Transposer -/+ 24. Octave +/- 2. Expr. Pedal with 6 curves.
Controls: 15 sliders with RGB Led indicator. Brightness and color controls. 8 potentiometers for external EFX
control.

Display: 7” touch capacitive. Brightness control. 5 different skin colors.

Factory Sounds: 10 Voice groups: Piano, Strings, Organ, Brass, Sax, Pad, Synth, Guitar, Bass, Ethnic. 464 Preset
Voices. Voice 1, Voice 2, each Voice with up to 3 different sounds. Drawbars. Factory Advanced Voice Editing.
High quality multilayer Sounds with a vast selection of Real Solos ®. Factory overwrite and restore. Up to 1.280
User Voices available. Arabic scale and key shift programmable per Voice.

User Sounds: 2,5 GB free storage in non-volatile Flash memory (1,5 GB for additional Factory Sound Banks – 1
GB for User samples). Sample Editor: up to 8.192 samples (max 6 seconds per sample). Up to 4 layered stereo
instruments (Voice or Drum Set). Advanced editor with Split, Octave, Level, Range, Tune, Cut off, Velocity, Adsr.
Sample Loop utilities. User Drum kits.
Adsr/Filter: separate sound controls for Attack, Decay, Sustain, LFO, Cut Off and Resonance.

Drum Set: 62 Stereo Drums kits. 32 User Drum kits with Remap, Filter, Tune, FX controls. Drum Mixer: 9 sections
with separate controls for level, pan, reverb, pitch, velocity compression. 86 Midi Drum styles (Pattern)
available on Grv1_Loop section.

Drawbars: 9 digital drawbars. Slow-Fast Rotor. Overdrive, Click, Vibrato, Reverb, Percussion. Full
programmability. 24 Organ Presets. Twin Organ: possibility to mix PCM and Digital organ tones for a wide stereo
sound reproduction.

Arranger: Over 400 Styles. Real Styles, featuring a mix of Midi and audio parts (see below), Live Styles and Midi
Styles. 10 groups: Ballad, Pop, Dance, Rock, Swing, Latin, Country, Folk, Party, Unplugged. 3 Intro, 3 Ending, Fill
to End, ABCD, 4 Fills, 4 Break. Reintro, Count In, Pause, Key Start, Key Stop, Variation. User Styles with unlimited
store capabilities.
5 Midi Chords and Bass. Close, Parallel, Logic mode. 3 x Lower with Mono/Poly function. Chord Variation.
Varitone. Voice to ABCD. Auto Fill, Fill to Arrange, Fill to Aftertouch. Chord modes: Easy1, Easy2, Easy3, Fingered
1, Fingered 2. Orch. Variation Morphing. Rootless mode. Manual Bass, To Lowest, To Root. Bassist and Pianist
mode (Standard/Expert). Bass and Chord Lock.

Live Drums: 580 Live Drums with a complete Arranger structure (3 Intros, 3 Endings, ABCD, 4 Fills, 4 Breaks).
Reverb and 3 band Parametric Equalizer with 10 presets, programmable on each style. Drum Boost. Possibility
to load external User Live Drums. Drum Lock.

Grooves: 3 x independent Groove sections. Huge library of more than 780 Latin percussions, Electro and
Acoustic Drum loops, Single percussion hits. Groove to Variation. Separate volume and EFX controls.

Live Guitars: 216 sliced Guitar patterns including Long Chords. Separate volume and EFX controls.

Real Chord: More than 300 Real audio accompaniments covering a full chord range (up to 13 different chords).
A wide variety of electric, acoustic, and jazz guitars patterns and other orchestral sequences perfectly
synchronized to Midi. Dedicated Insert EFX with full editor, programmable for each style. Possibility to load
external User Real Chords.

Real Bass: 256 Real audio Basses synchronized to Midi. Twin Bass: possibility to switch Midi or Audio on the
same style. Support to external User audio Basses. 3 band Parametric Equalizer with 10 Presets, programmable
on each style. Possibility to load external User Real Basses.
Style Modeling: navigate and choose Drums, Grooves, Bass and Chords from the massive Midi and Audio
Library. Multichord and Multibass templates.

Style Edit: advanced pattern recording and editing. Copy, Quantize, Velocity, Octave functions. Special quantize
available for oriental styles (7/8, 9/8, 13/8, etc.).

Registrations: 4 Banks with unlimited Registrations controlling the global set up of the keyboard.

Performance: provides fast access to Styles, Registrations with Style, Mp3, Wav or Midi files. 7 Sets with
unlimited file storage.

Play Mode: Master, Accord/Style, Accord/Classic, Organist.

Phrase: real time recording and play for Style chord sequences.

Custom Slider: 2 x Custom slider (alternative to Lower 2 And 3) assignable to Micro, Arranger sections, Drum
filter and other functions.

Footswitch: 4 programmable Set. Assignable to the most relevant machine functions and features.
Arabic Scale: 16 sets. 6 scale memories.

Dsp: Reverb, Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Overdrive, Distortion, Tremolo, Autopan, Equalizer. 2 stereo EFX Insert
assigned to Voice and Voice 2, 1 Insert to Arranger chords, 1 Insert to Real Chord. External panel controls:
Overdrive, Brilliance, Chorus/Wah Depth and Rate, Delay Feedback and Level, Reverb Time, and Level. 64 Single
Presets and 64 Chain Effects. Deep editing.

Stem: 4 Scenes. 5 audio tracks per scene to be played simultaneously. Lead track, Transpose, Time Stretching,
Loop, Solo, Mute, Autoplay. Fixed pitch for Drum section. Support for external User Stems.
Player: 2 separate Player units feat. Transpose, Audio Time stretching, GM, Jukebox, Playlists, Drum Remix,
Markers, Lyrics, Cross Fade, Search, PFL, Midi Mix, Karaoke Backgrounds. Support for wav, midi, mp3, mp4, avi,
mov, flv, cdg, jpg, png, txt and pdf files.

HD Recording: 1 stereo audio track. Midi and Song Style recording.

Audio Miltitrack: 5+1 audio tracks with separate slider control.

Micro: 2 x Micro inputs. Micro 1 (XLR) with gain control. Effect with Reverb, Delay, Equalizer, Pitch shift. Micro
2 (jack) with volume and reverb control.

Voicetron: 3 voice vocalizer. Assignable to Arranger or Midi file with Presets, Equalizer, Mode functions.

Video: HDMI connection for displaying lyrics, pictures, and videos. Mirror mode. Up to Full HD Resolution.
Support for external touchscreen displays.

Bluetooth: Streaming audio input (ad2p profile).

Wi_Fi: Networked remote control via KETRON app.

Storage: 240 GB internal SSD disk (80 GB reserved for System). Optional external SD Card (up to 512 GB ).

Side Connections: 2 x USB device. USB Host. HDMI.

Rear Connections: Main Out Left / Right. Aux 1 & Aux 2 (Left/Right). Headphone. Sustain pedal. Volume pedal.
Footswitch. Midi In1, Midi In2, Out, Thru. Line In L/R. Micro 1, Micro 2.

Optional: Volume pedal normal or deluxe. Sustain pedal normal or piano type (available also with Footswitch
connector). Footswitch 6 or 13 switches. Midi Pedalboard 13 notes (K8 ). Soft bag. Hard case.

Dimensions: 114 x 36,5 x 12,5 cm (44,8 x 14,3 x 5 in)

Weight: 14,8 Kg (32,6 lbs.)

Some interesting stuff there. Many people, myself included, are using multitrack backing tracks instead of sequences these days but the issue has always been, inside the keyboard itself there’s no remixing or loop/marker functions, and if you need that, you are forced to use a laptop.

The ability to mute the guitar parts, or percussion etc. if you play in a variety of settings without either doing it from a laptop or redoing everything at home and exporting new mixes, and the ability to restructure audio backing as easily as you can put Markers into an SMF so those additional players can have extra choruses or solos is a real game changer for an arranger.

I’ll keep it brief about the chord types supported by the audio guitar and bass patters, but it does bear noting that it says ‘UP TO 13 chord types’ and until full documentation is out, we don’t know how many or which styles offer the larger selection. Hopefully, this can be cleared up soon. The machine is capable of it, it just seems a shame they didn’t just get the guitar player to do them for all styles while they had him there!

There’s some quite forward looking stuff here. I wonder who is going to be the first to bite! Maybe you, Taike?!

What is the value of "Stems" ?

Should have googled before asking......

Found this
https://www.epidemicsound.com/blog/what-are-stems-in-music-production/

Could be a "changer" in Arranger Boards.. It has my attention now !

Nah, Diki, I'm not interested. Ketron's not represented in China so I'm not going to take the risk.

Hello. The "Stem" feature recently appeared in Ketron and we first encountered it in the new multiplayer Lounge.
There are two official video tutorials that exclusively present this very cool new feature that will now also be present in the Event.

KETRON Lounge -Tutorial Stem # 1 (Easy Tutorial )



KETRON Lounge -Tutorial Stem # 2 (ADVANCED Tutorial )

Sokratis 1974

You are an important resource for Ketron. The "Event" has my attention but I struggle to find any video/tutorials on creating and editing new styles.
Can you direct me to such resources ?

Ron

Stems is more of a DJ thing in common practice, but more and more musicians are finding good use for them live. It’s a bit like the mute buttons for style parts. Variety is the slice of life!

For me, I’d like custom groupings of stems, so one command could strip you down to say just bass and drums, or percussion only, and the ability to label the buttons in a huge vision friendly font!

Quick question about the loops…

My ideal would be a multitrack audio backing with markers I could drop in for song sections, like verse, chorus, solo’s vamps, bridge and endings etc., and a nice clear display with those sections easily seen and selected (big enough that you wouldn’t accidentally select the wrong section!).

Does the Event allow this? Or do you have to export each song section individually and then build a roadmap for the arranger to play them in the correct order if you don’t intervene?

Thanks you very much dear friend.
I would like to say that there will be many high quality tutorials coming soon to my YouTube channel for the Event, many of them in English will be spoken by my son Manolis who is the one who can be heard in the above two videos I attached yesterday about the stems . My english is horrible!!

Diki.
Event stems work exactly as described in the two videos I attached above. I don't know if you watched them. Personally, I haven't had time to check them out yet, but from the two videos I've watched, the way you manage them is pretty good and easy.
For now I am attaching the lounge manual which also describes it very well.
It's on page 100
https://www.ketron.it/images/ketron/Lounge/Lounge_inglese.pdf

I would like to say that there will be many high quality tutorials coming soon to my YouTube channel for the Event, many of them in English will be spoken by my son Manolis who is the one who can be heard in the above two videos

Please give a link to your YouTube Channel.