I received an email today from members of the solton group which listed an email to download a version of the2.0 operating system for the SD1 Ketron keyboard. This site seems to be out of Belgium and I don't know of it's origin. It could be a beta version and it might be the finished product. One of my customers who is a member of the Italian Solton Club, was in touch with members of his club today who say this is probably still a beta version and that they expect to have the finished 2.0 within the next 2 days. Stay tuned!
http://shioule.free.fr/sd1.htm
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene

[This message has been edited by George Kaye (edited 10-25-2001).]

Hello George,
I used this program to translate the page you brought us on the SD1 2.01 Software>

Translation Results
Babel Fish Translation, In English:
- complete Instruction manual in English: (that in French is made wait) - additional Documentation: Update of the SD1 version 2.01a of October 2001: - Installation of the update: will inserez a formatted diskette in the reader of your PC éxecutez the file " updateSD1_v2-01a.exe " the files copy themselves automatically from the diskette Extinguish your SD1 Inserer the diskette in the reader of your SD1 Light your SD1 by maintaining inserted the key F6 " midday / jukebox " once that all is charged is that you etes on of work of your SD1, etteignez your apparatus. When you will relight it, you realize that the version changed and you wish that a thing: NOT TO THINK MORE OF THE BUGGS OF THE VERSION1 - from of excluded Here the improvements made with version 2.0: UPDATE 2.0 for SD1 IMPLEMENTATIONS 1) the Keyboard to transpose will be backed up in the midifile by function SONG SETUP. 2) Presets in mode Song Play will not put up to date any more the type of effect (Chorus, Distorsor, Delay). In more the type of Reverb 1 will not be changed any more by Presets. 3) One added on Footswitch the functions Rotor On/Off and Rotor Slow/fast. 4) the functions Voice Up/Down on Footswitch will advance also the sounds of the style setting 5) the value of volume on the function Swell to Right will be memorized in registration. 6) One improved the recognition of the agreements by adding several agreements with the low fundamental one omitted (Rootless Chord Recognition). 7) Style Rename. Even the interior name of the file will be updated. 8) One inserted on Arrange Mode (Page 2 - RETRIGGER&MODE) the function INVERSION. It makes it possible to modify the threshold where the automatic agreements will be turned over when it are managed in Parallèle mode. 9) One inserted on Arranger Lock the possibility of excluding the Multifill function. 10) In Pianist mode the Low manual one excludes the Right section to Split. 11) With the Stop of Song the normal value of Song Balance will be restored independently of the value selected by Song Setup. 12) One inserted on Sequencer option GM On/Off MODE. (FUNCTION - > OPTIONS). By GM MODE One, if the preset channel on the selected trace is different from All(i.e. a channel of 1 up to 16), on the part Right one will be able to select and record on the selected channel only the basic sounds (GM) or them User Voices. That to avoid any problem of superposition of Program Exchanges and the Parameters caused by Presets or Programs. 13) The simultaneous pressure of the keys Page-/Page+ of the menu Arrange View will address to the South out all the parameters of the keyboard part: Arab scale, Sound Bank, Prog. Change, Volume, Reverb, Pan, Effect amount. This function will be very useful in phase of recording via Midi. 14) One inserted the option ½ Screen (finely VIDEO in SONG PLAY)sur Power One Setup. 15) In Registration Reverb 2 (Drum)ne will be replaced more at the beginning of measurement by that interior of the style. 16) Registration will memorize Volume and Reverb of the séction of the Clap/Fx percussions. 17) Maintaining the Style Software Worked will be recorded correctly in SONG RECORD. 18) One improved synchronism and the quantification in the recording of the Low Automatics in SONG RECORD. 19) With the Pianist function and Sustain inserted the notes of the 2nd Voice will not be unobtrusive any more when one désenclence Sustain. 20) One corrected the update of the Low omitted Automatics on the agreements of C Min 7a with ä. 21) One corrected the error of transposition of note over Midi Out for the sections Right, Global and Left in the event of Midifile transposed by Song to transpose. One activated in Program Key Shift To use it Voice. FIRM0000.SND (REVISION SOUNDS) 1) One optimized the filter and the parameters of the sounds in the bass voices and on all the percussion instruments. 2) One improved the curve keyboard on all .
Hope you enjoy reading this!
Best Regards
Nobby


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[This message has been edited by Nobby (edited 10-24-2001).]

... I would wait for the official OS2.0 to be posted on Ketron's official website prior to upgrading your SD1. 'Beta' versions might still have some fixes that might have been analysed but not addressed ... until the final release.

Just my advice.

AJ

I agree AJ !

I expect the latest release soon (in my mailbox).

Roel

Hi guys,
Think I should delete all that I will, I saw George's posting was in French so I used The Babel Fish Translation Program to translate it! I wanted to see if it worked!
To me it don't make much sense anyway. But to someone else it might!
Regards,
Nobby

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dano

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