Wow! Scratch the Audya 4 off my list as a possible module consideration. Ketron should be ashamed of themselves. >> Slap a product together, inferior to anything else on the market, and then have the audacity to charge an arm and leg for it to boot? Have you no shame Ketron? Have you no conscience Ian, er, Ketron? Have you no self respect, let alone respect for your 'valuable' customers?? Unbelievable...

BTW, regarding AJ's situation. Listen, if Ketron hadn't "messed up" in the first place selling a shoddy product to begin with i.e. the Audya (a beta at best it appears and a shoddy beta at that apparently too) AJ wouldn't have needed to provide a "side job" fixing Ketron's original mistakes, right? AJ is putting in "extra" time and effort to fix Audya's shortcomings and: "the laborer is worthy of his hire" and you shouldn't "muzzle the ox that treads out the corn". In other words, AJ is providing a 'valuable' service to Audya owners even though I agree that Ketron themselves should be held liable and responsible for selling less than suitable totl arrangers to an otherwise innocent and trusting public - who buy their enormously expensive arrangers and some would even say useless paper weights when it comes to products like the original Audya and apparently now the Audya 4 as well.

AJ is doing an honorable service in that he is trying to give Audya owners something specific i.e. an optimized (workable) keyboard that eliminates many of the problem(s) that Ketron wasn't able to deliver from the factory apparently. Kudos to AJ and of course he should be justly compensated for his noble efforts in my opinion. Even though he works for Ketron and is on their payroll. Overtime is overtime, only instead of Ketron footing his bill (his work) the people who actually get a workable an optimized keyboard happily do. So what's the big deal? The only unfortunate thing is Ketron should be competent enough to deliver "workable/optimized" keyboards from the factory which would eliminate AJ's having to do "double duty" to fix them afterward; and which apparently Ketron is unable to do from the factory it looks like. At least concerning the Audya, and as far as modules go, the Audya 4 apparently too. Ketron needs to get their act together or we may soon see a "belly up" sign on their door i.e. out of business. Straighten up and fly right or become a statistic... your choice Ketron. I, for one, would like to see them stick around but only if their products begin to 'pass muster' and stay 'up to snuff' with the competition. You know, so they don't freeze every other boot up and/or cause endless glitches when they do happen to work. [img]http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/wink.gif[/img] Ketron seems to be going down hill at a rapid pace and the brakes may be heating up too much (lack of money, resources, etc.) to keep this apparent train wreck from occurring. Sad, very sad. We'll see, but it doesn't look good... obviously.

All the best,
Mike