Hi Guys

I think you may have missed one minor point, wheras an SD2 will probably play back a roland style quite well, ( the few I've tried to date , sound quite good ) a Roland soundsource will not play back a Ketron style that uses Live Drums ( ie sd1 styles ). My impression has been that Roland only has the the one drum track?? not percussion & drum like Korg, Yamaha, Ketron??
Even if it has 2 drum tracks, Live Drum tracks are not easy to duplicate. I recently converted one of my favourite SD1 styles Slow Orch to PA3X using VArranger to create the midifile for my conversion. Discovered the Brush Live Drum kit it used consisted of at least 40 or so different types of brush swishes taps, hits etc and the style used about 20 of them. Basically the kit is like a sliced loop. For me personally I'd be able to play the style using the sd2 for the Live drums, even went to the extent of trying to create a Live Drum Kit from my sd2 Soundfonts, but in the endI decided to redo the track completely.




vArranger works wonderfully with the Ketron module. The next step is to have it work wonderfully with something like the BK-7m, or Korg Micro Arranger, or an S910 (so those with one kind of arranger can play styles easily from other makers). Then the NEXT step is to have it work well with MoXF/S's, FantomG's, Jupiter80's, JunoDi's, etc.