Team,
Just wanted to let you know - we now have the official information of the new XD-series keyboards now up on our website (www.ketron.it).

Thanks,

AJ

KEYBOARD 61 keys velocity sensitive. 6 Velocity curves.
POLIPHONY 64 notes. 32 Multitimbral.
SOUND GENERATION 24Mbyte PCM ROM. 290 Presets Sounds. 292 GM Voices. More than 1000 Percussive sounds.
FLASH SOUNDS
(optional board) 8 Mbyte Preset Voices – Disk rewritable.

USER VOICES 110 User Voices. Editing : A,D,S,R, Cut Off, Resonance, Effects.
1 TOUCH 60 programmable 1 Touch Sounds. To Style assignment.
DRAWBARS 10 Digital Drawbar effects.
PROGRAMS 120 Programs, 4 Voices, 4 splits. Sustain, Portamento, Velocity switch, Duet, Trio, Morphing,
Steel, Harmony and 2nd voice assign. Single Program & Global loading.
2ND VOICE 292 Second Voices preset & programmable. 2nd Voice Edit .
DRUM 1 24 Drum sets . 24 User Drum Sets. 10 Drum sections. Drum Mixer. Manual Drums.
DRUM 2 50 Live Drum sets.
ARRANGER 172 Internal Styles. Rewritable parameters. 4 Arrangers, 3 Intro/Endings, 4 Fill Ins.(1 break).
Interactive Accompaniment & Brass. Manual Bass. Jump. Tap Tempo. Accelerando-Ritardando.
Tempo control. Pedalboard
functions. Rootless & Standard Chord recognition. Automatic MS Style Conversion.
PATTERN up to 50 internal Pattern locations. Edit functions : Record, Clear, Copy , Remap. Expansion
memory (optional).
SONG RECORD real time Song Recording to Disk.
OCTAVE 1 octave Up/Down.
HARMONY Full, Jazz, Double, Bluegrass, Trill, Repeat, Folk 1, Folk 2.
TRANSPOSER +/- 24 half tones.
WHEELS Pitch & Modulation
ARABIC SCALE 13 arabic setups - footswitch assignable. Tune + / - 99 cents per note.
ACCORDION MODE International, Belgique. Velocity control to Left&Right. Bass&Lower octave. Left Drum to
Bass&Chord.
EFFECTS Multieffect DSP. 60 different effects. Reverberation, Chorus, Flanger, Delay, Wha Wha, Distortion,
Overdrive, Rotor, Bass Boost. Portamento. Mono – Legato function.
MICRO Input with Gain control. Echo, Reverb., Pan/Pot, Pitch Shift, Dry.
VOCALIZER (optional unit) Harmonizer, Vocoder, Melody types, Midi Vocalizer track, Vocalizer to Arranger,
Vocal effects. Left & Right Harmonies.
MIDIFILE PLAYER SMF Song playback with karaoke and Txt files. Convert files .kar & Midi type 0 to 1. Juke box.
Intelligent Transposer. Song Chain. Drum & Bass. Lead On/Off. Save Song setup.
DRUM REMIX Real time interactive Midifile and Style playing. Song and Style select.
MIDI In 1, In2 , Out, Thru. 32 Midi Channels. GM standard.
FLOPPY DISK 3.5 2DD/HD.
HARD DISK (optional unit) Type ATA IDE 2.5. 6Gbyte (max).
DISPLAY 240 x 128 pixel backlit graphic TCF.
OUTPUT Left/Mono, Right. Sustain and Volume Pedal. Footswitch (6 - 13 switches). Micro out.
INPUT Stereo headphone. Micro jack.
DIMENSIONS 119 x 39 x 12 Cms
COMPUTER PC/Mac Interface socket .
VIDEO INTERFACE (optional unit) Systems - PAL, NTSC, Super VHS. Monitor, Mirror, Zoom, Karaoke 1/2 page and full
screen, Mark, Underlined. Size and position controls.
AMPLIFICATION 2 x 22 W RMS Stereo (with enhanced bass).
OPTIONALS Video Interface, Vocalizer, Hard Disk, Pattern expansion (2 Mbytes), Flash Memory (8 Mbytes)
blank or preloaded.
DIMENSIONS L x W x H = (117 x 40,5 x 15,5 cms.) (46,8 x 16,2 x 6,2 inches).
WEIGHT 16 Kg. (35,2 lbs)

AJ

can you tell me the difference between the X4 module and the XD3 please?
Pro's and Con's?
What will be the approx. price of the XD3 here in the US?

Thanks

Eric

XD3 vs X4 ?

XD3 navigation will be the 1st thing you noitce . On the X4 ...all styles are listed .
All sounds are in categorys .
With XD3 you will have to look more into the screen . Access styles/sounds via the function buttons on side of screen .

NAVIGATION different !

XD3/XD9 will allow you to syncipate a arrangement drum track to a midi sequence .

FYI ........my brother + sister arranger friends ! dano

Eric,
The Ketron distributor in the USA says prices will be known on or around July 1. Other differences will be no 16 track sequencer and no sampler in the XD3 as there is in the X4. The sequencer in the XD3 is a one track direct to disk sequencer. This is like the sequencer in the MS40 module from several years ago.
In the information Dnj posted I don't see anything about registration memories. I would be surprised if this wasn't included because every Solton/Ketron product has registration memories. Maybe AJ can answer this.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

Does the XD3 support aftertouch?

DanO and George

Thanks for your answers

Eric

I can't figure out all the differences in the XD9 and the Vega, other than the very obvious ones.
DonM

The new KETRON XD-series will be replacing the renoun MS-series keyboards and modules.

George Kaye,
You're right. The XD3/9 does have 198 Block Registration memories & the capacity to have 999 per optional HD folder or within the FD.

Tonkan.
The XD9/VEGA does have aftertouch (and this is also supported in the XD3)- which will be programmable in later OS.

Eric, B, the differences include;
* There are more live loops within the XD3 than the X4.
* There are more sounds on the XD3 units and a better sound generation engine.
* Navigation on the XD3 series is sceen dependent, whereas on the X4, it was panel dependend (sounds and styles selection).
* There is a 150,000 note sequencer standard on the X4 (expandable to 300,000 notes),where-as there is no sequencer on the XD3.
* There is a SAMPLER on the X4. XD3 does not have a sampler.
* XD3 has more of the less-live features in menus (PLAY & LEFT MENU controls) leaving the board less cluttered and easier for use.
* XD3 has a new Drum Mix feature (not found on the X4) which allows for total replacement of MIDIfile drums with live/standard XD3 drums.

... plus much more features which will soon be released.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

AJ

AJ,
Sorry I called you at your gig yesterday! But I thought I would get back to you and let you know I was successful at using the Ketron Software downloaded from their website to plug the X1 and SD1 directly to my computer's hard drive, then allowing me to view all the files on my SD1/X1's hard drive, copy it, change the order, etc. into the computers hard drive and then sending it back to the same SD1/X1's hard drive or any other Ketron keyboards hard drive. I love this feature. No more having to use floppy's to back up everything and load when I receive new keyboards. The directions on the website were easy to follow. If anyone hasn't tried this yet, all you need is the Ketron PC connecting cable which sells for about $20.00.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

Hi AJ,

thanks for your answer. I think the XD3 might be a nice addition to my Pro.

Eric

The portuguese dealer's promises indicate the month of June as the most probable release date for the new XD series instruments. If I get the chance of testing them I'll keep you posted about my impressions.

-- José.

www.synthplanet.com has already put a price on XD-9 that is almost the same as PSR 2000.