I got mine too

wow the overal sounds are fantastic ,better than my sd90
the sounds were improved and they are in the level of the Genos and sometimes better ,like the acoustics and electric pianos , strings and of course the drums ,though the arrangments of the styles in Genos that i had and sold are more moderen and more deverse.

still i love the Event better than the Genos because it sounds more lively and with more punch.

That’s not great news about legacy Ketron styles being incompatible. It already trails Yamaha and Korg hugely in the availability of extra styles (Korg’s bonusware is even free) but one thing you always got (with them at least) was the ability to take styles you paid for and use them in the next model you bought.

Hopefully, Ketron can find a way to in-house re-engineer those styles owners of previous products bought so they’ll play in the Event.

Are they audio styles, Micheal? For an SD90, that means just drums, or is it drums and bass too? Also, just curious, but will the Event play legacy Ketron styles if they have no audio content?

One of the issues I tend to have with audio based arrangers is, you can’t edit or change the audio parts radically (think brushes instead of sticks on the drums, or acoustic guitars instead of electrics) so you can’t really stretch a style for more variety very easily. So it becomes really important that every additional style you buy is an investment in the future. Having to pay hundreds of dollars additionally for styles you already bought once would be a tough pill to swallow.

Has you contacted AJ about the issue? Perhaps he’s hard at work converting them for the Event, and would either send you the converted ones, or at least offer you a substantial discount?

The styles (on pen drive) i bought from Ketron Italy and AJ for my SD90 doesn´t work on Event. I contacted Ketron and they said the problem was the copy protection. The styles I have bought from other manufacturers works fine (though they aren´t always that good from the beginning - as a matter of fact, some of the third party styles are crap).
Ketron said they intend to rework the styles from Audia and SD90/9/60 for Event. And when I suggested a nice price for old custumers, they replied that it would not be impossible.
To be continued...

If copy protection is the only issue, as a registered purchaser, they would be able to send you new versions with the copy protection at zero cost to themselves (other than the pen drive). I guess you would have to return the protected SD90 pen drive (or you would now have two copies of the style for the price of one!), so even that shouldn’t be a big deal.

I understand that Ketron would probably like to add some Real Guitar and Bass tracks to them, and that would definitely justify an additional charge, but if the customer simply wants to use the old SD90 style as is, I think he deserves to have the copy protection changed for next to nothing.

I sincerely hope Ketron do the right thing for their loyal customers.

Hi Michael,

This is the exact same issue I have. I also own an SD60 and I bought almost all of the additional pen drives which cost me a fortune and I wanted to know if I could use them on my Event. I did email Ketron but I have had no response back at all which is quite poor service really. However you have provided the answer that I suspected anyway that it was related to copy protection. It would have been nice to receive a reply from Ketron since I have spent I lot of money on Ketron products, both hardware and software so would have been nice of them to acknowledge my email.

I don't think I would ever let go of the SD60 because it is a very unique model, not sure if I would class it as rare (yet), but you don't see many of them mentioned to finding one to buy is nearly impossible (I was very lucky how I got mine) so I think it's a keeper especially with all the software that I've bought that's locked down to it.