Thanks Russ,
Everything left today.
For everyone reading this post of Russ's and need some clarification of the SD5's RIFF mode, let me try to explain to those of you who haven't been able to try one out.
When you play one of the 30 or so RIFF styles in the SD5, variation 4 becomes the riff trigger. By this I mean, whatever chord you played when you pushed this button, the keyboard plays a continuous 8 - 16 measure loop in that key. Russ was hoping he could play his own chord progressions and the loop would play it back. The chord progressions are preprogrammed by Ketron. Only coming out of the loop and choosing a different key (by playing a different chord) allows you to change keys. The Chord progression will be the same unless you play a minor chord and then the riff chord progression will be different. Many customers have complained that this gets booring after you've used it a few times because there is no random playback and it is always the same.
I also think there needs to be more riff styles coming from ketron so a library could grow and be more helpful.
The second point to comment on is that the sound set in the SD5 is not exactly the same as the SD1 and so when customers load in SD1 styles that are not in the SD5 (fewer styles than the SD1 comes with the keybaord) they don't sound the same as they are expecting because of there not being all the exact same sounds.
I thought a little clarification might be appropriate.


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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
818-881-5566
www.kayesmusicscene.com