Tomorrow, Ketron will be showing the new SD5 arranger keyboard with 61keys-128note polyphony & on board speakers. I don't know all the spec's and I didn't get a chance to play it that much, but here's how I would describe the keyboard:
Solton MS60 type size & weight and durable construction...All Silver with XD9 dis- play... very nice button layout, I'd say the buttons are 1/2 the size of the tyros, but lay flatter or closer to the casing.

The keyboard has the same action as the SD1.

The SD5 has a joy stick vs. pitch bend and modulation wheels on previous products.

Hard drive and vocalizer are options.

It's 10:45am est and gotta run, i'll be back later today....


Dan O'

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ok....

There's a new feature on the SD5, it's called "riff" mode. While playing a style, your able to activate a riff that will improvise from whatever chord you use, prior to hitting the riff ... while it plays, you can improvise solo's overtop of the riff, in full piano mode... select a variation and the style goes back to where you were....
Does that explanation make sense ?

The joy stick is located on the far left and just above there are 16 buttons...these buttons have some cool features...
#1. You can assign the 16 tracks associated with a midi file and instantly take parts off or on in real time...
#2. You can assign the buttons to handle the individual parts of the drum kit being used within a style or midi file..allowing real time adding and subtracting of the drum parts...

My understanding is that the SD5 has direct outputs dedicated for using a subwoofer...

What else..... hummmmm..... I'll be back

The body style of the SD5 is it like the MS50/60 or the x1/xd9.

Any speakers?

It's more like the mS60 and yes,it has onboard speakers...

Sounds better than the MS60 speakers... ...

Dan, whats the MSRP expected to be?

(I kind of like that idea of being able to control the low freqs with a separate subwoofer out)

My head is getting bothered by the model name/number. Make it SD-6, for year 2006.


[This message has been edited by MrEd (edited 01-18-2006).]