I think since 1997 till today is 12 years, not 10.

ouch... 12 years,

maybe it's like wine, it gets better with age... ;-)

My grandma didnt get better with age...

Hi Rikki,

Yes…I did read AJ’s post again….he IS talking about modern dance styles.

This short dialogue we’ve had is starting to make me realize it’s also the dance styles that are problematic for me. I need really “dry” styles that I can build on during performance. I have a Roland E-300 which was very advanced for it’s day. It has very basic styles (but convincing) that I can start out with and then add 4 sets of “layers” of drum variations to the SAME basic beat. It works well for me.

The thing I have noticed over the years is that with each generation of keyboard styles, they HAVE to make a new pattern (you can’t sell a new keyboard with an old patch (dance style). And over the generations they lost sight of the basic dance style pattern. I found this noticeably so with the Fox Trot and “Tango’s.” I like tango’s and many other basic dances, particularly Latin. Ketron is still somewhat traditional, but I found the Korg to be bordering on overkill with their drum patterns.

I have hundreds of great dance styles for my Roland. Many I bought and many were downloaded from the Net. Also I have styles that fit one situation only…example: Beach Boys/Fun, Fun, Fun, Beatles/Michelle/ Yesterday, Jerry Lee Lewis/ Whole Lot of Shakin & Great Balls of Fire, etc. I would really miss all of these. When I get time I’m going to have to look into whether or not I can convert these styles fairly easy to a new keyboard format.

No one responded to my post about "who (or what country) makes up the drum patterns for the various keyboards." Or HOW they get made up. Do you have any ideas on this?

I wish I had the time to do proper keyboard shopping, but in the meantime no one has complained yet about my E-300!

Lucky

[This message has been edited by Lucky2Bhere (edited 04-23-2009).]

AJ. Any idea when 2.0. Will drop? Mr. Sound in Brooklyn NY has the Audya in stock. But I wanted to try Audya with 2.0. Installed.

Lee, i dont think Joel has one.

OS 2.0 should be up on our website soon.

As to prgrammers, I can't speak for others, but KETRON gets programmers from the stdyle's background e.g Reggaes and Salsa(Jamaican and someone from Puerto Rico), Country (someone from Nashville 2 guys actually), Hip hop (2 from Baltimore) ... I do the socas and some African/Caribbean styles etc. We believe the only way to get the styles close to authentic is ... get programmers from those areas of the world.

Thanks,

AJ

MC,

Please send me an example of that style from Africa (axa130@hotmail.com - subject 'SUGGESTED AUDYA STYLES') you were refering to above.

Currently lined up (included in OS2.0) will be the following new styles ...
* New ZOUK (French West Indies)
* Makossa (Cameroon - West Africa)
* Ndombolo (Ivory Coast - West Africa)
** Many others ... which you will be able to load into the USER memory location.

Because AUDYA reads USER styles directly from the HD, the number of styles (e.g with a 80GB HD) appoaches 9,999 (with audio parts associated with each style).

Thanks

AJ

PS: Yes, AUDYAS are in the US and the first orders have been shipped. MR SOUND in NY should have one on the floor. Other dealers should start getting them tomorrow/Sat as they've all been shipped out!!

Dance Styles - Created in Italy.

[This message has been edited by Ketron_AJ (edited 04-30-2009).]

Perhaps I could suggest that if the Audya wants to be successful in the US, perhaps as well as developing Zouk or Ndombolo, they might try a few US styles as well

Something from this century might be good...

The styles always sounded great before, why ruin a good thing.