I sent the following email to Ketron. Thanks to those who signed the petition. Maybe we will get a positive response.


Dear Sir/Madam:

The attached files and links are petitions of over 35 Ketron users of Vega, XD9, etc. keyboards that would like Ketron to sell or make available the software to create the SND files that upload new samples in our keyboards.

Because of the limited number of sound samples in the market, we the users of Ketron keyboard have been very frustrated about not being to create and add our own sample files. In addition, since most of the samples in the market are sold with the hardware flash card (without the sofware), you are stuck with them and can't add new samples. You basically have to open the keyboard and replace the flash card which is not practical and very expensive.

We think that if Ketron makes the software to create SND files available to the users, this will result in an increase in keyboard sales. Lack of this capability will continue to be a source of complaint by many users as you have seen in these forums.

The petition files in the attachment are the same information from the links below in case you can't open the links. They are from the MIDI Eastern forum and Synthzone forums on Ketron keyboards.

We are hopeful that your response to our request will be yes.

Regards and thanks in advance for your kind consideration,

N Hakimi (Ketron Vega user for almost 3 years)

Links to petitions:
http://www.abdallahsafar.com/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7084
http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum22/HTML/000668.html