Besides the obvious which is style editing and creating, event editing, along with some great Roland-like makeuptools is.....

The ability to load in YOUR OWN audio grooves. Drums and guitar

Being limited to use only what Ketron gives us makes for such a closed-end system...

The "Obvious" items you pointed our are basic functions of any arranger keyboard and KETRON quite simply have a neck like a Giraffe to be trying to sell the Audya in it's current state.

This is the first keyboard from this company that I don't like one bit. I don't like it because it's not finished and it scream the sound of a company in serious trouble.

If Ketron want to compete with the likes of KORG, ROLAND and YAMAHA, then they need so some serious work on everything including the price.

Just my 2 Cents.

your 2 cents plus my 2 cents makes 4 cents,

we just need to find another 499,996 cents
to buy the actual thing ;-)

lol... try selling one because that's even harder.

I help out at a music store when more advanced users come in. The owner makes an appointment for me to drop down and I take people through all the advanced features. I've spent some serious time on the Audya lately and I'm going down on record here as saying that this is the first keyboard I can't sell.

I could sell snow to an Eskimo but not a Audya to a single Ketron user, let alone try convert a Yamaha or KORG user.

[This message has been edited by Irishacts (edited 05-29-2009).]

maybe you can't sell one because it is MISSING some very BASIC tools REQUIRED in ANY arranger

oh ye,

and MAYBE because it is WAY TOO EXPENSIVE !!!

i hope i got my point across

Supposedly, you'll be able to load your own drum grooves in (but could do that with an SD-1, too) but even Ketron can't stream the guitar voices. Those are in ROM and played directly. Don't ever expect to do that until the Audya2 (if ever).

James, what is the #1 reason folks don't buy the Audya? Price? Sound? Styles? I doubt it is the lack of editing (few use that much, anyway )...

What do you get from them?

No Dikki, as it is now you cant load any any Audio in it, loops or samples.

Once again, the English thing...

'You'll be able to' is FUTURE tense, Nedim. I know full well it can't do it now, but given that even the SD-1 could do this, it is reasonable to assume they will deliver on this feature... Possibly OS3, maybe OS4...

But given that they can't even stream guitar loops themselves from HD, it is also reasonable to assume they won't be able to let users do this, either... OK?

Well, if they look closely at the Technics composer and panelmemory features and OS userfriendlyness
and add something similiar as well as what you say here, they sure have to look at the price too.
They probably would raise it. And guess what, in that case it most likely would be worth the extra
bunch of dollars!

Cheers
GJ