Wow! Very nice sound demos. Finally..

Now before you throw me to the Lions I want to clarify the above statement. This is the first time there has been an excellent quality "audio" demo along with a video presentation that I can recall. There have been many other videos of the Audya of course but these videos outshine them by far in my humble opinion. Kudos to Ketron and the demonstrator for really making the Audya shine in these videos. Extremely well done, and furthermore, it finally illustrates the magnitude of the Audya's capabilities.

I predict that the Audya will garner many accolades and awards from the Media in the coming months, including next years M.I.P.A. award for best portable Keyboard/Organ. That is unless of course Yammie, Korg, or Roland beats Ketron to the punch by releasing something at either Summer NAMM '09 or Winter NAMM 2010. As it stands now though Ketron is the easy favorite in my opinion.

I have to fess up and tell y'all that even though Michael Jackson may have been considered the King Of Pop the Ketron Audya is definitely "KING OF THE HILL" as far as I'm concerned. The "mystery" of the Audya is now beginning to unfold for the good. No other Arranger, current or past, can measure up to what the Audya brings to the table regarding sound realism and features. Yes, the Audya does lack in some areas e.g. paltry internal RAM capacity, audio styles don't work in conjunction with sus/dim/aug chords, only USB 1.1 etc., but using the Audya simply as a Live instrument keyboard it truly appears to outshine all the others including the T3, Pa2X, G70, etc.

Two other concerns with the Audya that I have are when using the audio guitars there is no ability to add modulation or pitch bend to them right? And there is NO Registration(s) feature similar to what Yamaha has on their arrangers if I'm not mistaken correct? Also, the demonstrator seems to be preoccupied with pushing buttons and it detracts from his performance somewhat. If Registrations (if it has them) could be set up beforehand most of that "pushing" could have been done away with. Although, maybe Ketron wanted people to see the relative ease at which it could be accomplished - pushing the buttons that is. Maybe they didn't show the demonstrator's face because they didn't want people to see him squint repeatedly. Those sure are small buttons.

All the best,
Mike