AJ,

if possible could you give us some insight into 3.0?

what are the major things we can expect?

i just think it would be WISE for Ketron to inform their "future" buyers of what to expect, sonner than later or naturally we may look elsewhere for our TOTL arranger.

leezone so now are you buying an AUDYA?

I got one in-stock

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Only one??

Hmmmm,
if you send it to me as a gift worth less than 35$ (then it would be custom/taxfree)
and I pay you the US pricelevel, I would do a real bargain!
Specially compared to the robbery going on in this country..... LOL

Oh well, guess time will be my best force, they have to do something to it if compete
sales of the other top of the range arrangers.

Cheers
GJ

not sure if an AUDYA is in my future,

or maybe a Roland G-80, or a T4, PA3X

Ketron have already told us what the Audya will do in the future....

EVERYTHING!

Mind you, they haven't managed to deliver on what they promised in the past (multiple audio streams, multitasking, etc.), so it's anyone's guess what they will actually deliver, and also how good it is.

Case in point is the style and sequence editing, which, if you read rikki's posts, was judged barely adequate on the finished SD-1. To be honest, there aren't any announcements coming from Ketron that style and sequence editing are going to be a quantum leap forward (unlike their announcement of the Audya's feature set TWO YEARS before it was ready), so if you want a good idea of what the Audya's editing is going to be like, look close and hard at the SD-1.

Everybody looked pretty hard at the SD-1 when it came out (and since). Few chose it (compared to K & Y). It still had the live drums back then, too. The way that the Audya has ended up crippled compared to its' pre-production announcement, it doesn't strike me as all THAT much more than an SD-1. If you discounted the SD-1 in the past, especially for editing abilities, I wouldn't imagine your position is going to change, all that much.

If the Audya was priced comparably with current TOTL offerings from Korg and Yamaha, it might make sense. A great sounding ROM only preset style player. But as crippled as the editing is right now (nonexistent) and as unlikely as it is to improve beyond SD-1 levels (barely adequate, IMO), it is STILL hard to figure out just what that extra $1500 is getting you...

SO that we all understand what your saying about editing capibilities, are we/you talking about it the ability to listen to the file play, change sounds, volumne levels, sound choice and effects and save ...

Please explain how you edit midi sequences on a G70, in real time.. ?

That's just the makeup tools... realtime header modifiers.

Next thing you need is detailed editing of sequencer tracks, the ability to go in and change one note to another, one track to another change anything into anything, to push the timing of a track or just one note within a drum track, to take all the backbeats and even them out without adjusting the rest of the track... basically, anything you could do in a computer should be doable from your arranger.

Rikki (who owned an SD-1) has posted in detail about the primitive editing on Ketron's, and I haven't heard you berate HER...

I'm just reading this stuff, I'm not making it up...

You had a Roland didn't you? Heck, the same sequencer and style editing capabilities and header editing exist on all E and G series arrangers currently out, from the least expensive to the most... This ain't no TOTL only stuff.


[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 05-28-2009).]

Then take the SD5, which is newer then SD1, no Seq, no Event Editor, you cant copy from element
to element if its not the same length, there is no sound editing at ALL and lots more...

Comments, Dan?

I told you... I'm not making this stuff up.