I tried to load some SD40 files into my Event and couldn't.

Hi Bernie.

Here is a video about EventX and SD90 compability that may be for any help.
Maybe same issues regarding Event and SD9?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W3oSMDsF6w

Did they use audio drum parts?

Hi Gunnar and Diki

Thank you for the replies, although late. I t appears to me to just forget it. I have more than enough with my Event X.

Bernie

I often find myself wondering, why multiple arrangers from the same manufacturer? Presumably the styles are the same, or if not can be exported from one to the other. And the sound sets I would imagine are very similar also…

I can understand multiple arrangers from different manufacturers. The styles are utterly different, and so are most of the sounds. But I have never felt the need to play two arrangers from the same manufacturer.

Not everybody is comfortable with connecting a Midi controller keyboard to their arranger to have a 2 keyboard setup, so they just get another arranger that matches the arranger keyboard they already have, the fact that it is significantly more expensive to have 2 of the same arranger is secondary.

Bill

I think many manufacturers of arrangers are missing out on the opportunity to design a second manual to go underneath the primary arranger that is nothing but keys. A lot of arranger's have a mode where a dumb keyboard with one channel can be automatically mapped to all the splits on the primary keyboard. All that needs to be added is the ability to map additional splits to the lower manual.

Controller keyboards are very inexpensive, as low as $300 or less. A dumb controller keyboard with no controls at all should be even less. Who WOULDN'T add a lightweight second manual to their arranger it was that inexpensive?