Hi Everyone,
I am a NEW proud owner of the great VEGA and I have used it on many jobs already, and to many compliments! Thanks to the great people in this forum, my conversion from Technics is final!

Now to some details:

The sounds are great and keep turning heads. I am so pleased. Overall I am very impressed.

I recently upgraded to VEGA OS 2.0 and I love the forward movement in development and the addition of new features. Thanks. Keep 'em coming!

A decent manual would help things, as now I am using the XD-9 manual as best as I can, and the new VEGA MS doc's floating around.)

A few issues:

1) The Default Startup Save feature doesn't work as indicated. I set the VEGA with all the setting I want, and I try saving with Startup Save (in Utility menu) so it defaults to that upon power up, but it never works. It ignores the present settings. Anyone have success with this feature? I tried all different variations with no luck.

2) Why is it so difficult to use Registrations? You have to go through at least 3 steps to enable you to use the numeric buttons to call up any Registration, and then you cannot switch styles unless you DISABLE the registration option, again 3 steps. Can't it be assigned to a (user selected) dedicated button? I know the XD9 is supposed to have this, but can't this be a simple enhancement to the VEGA in the software (like TAP/Count).

Also, it would be nice if you could view the registration names on both sides of the screen (like styles and sounds) and choose them with the Function buttons. Now you have to memorize the numbers of your registrations and hope you choose right, while the audience is standing and watching.

3) It would also be nice to have a "BACKUP ALL" option in the Save to Disk menu. Now I have to double and triple check that I got everything (styles, registrations, settings, etc.) backed up before I load other stuff or reset.

4) In pattern edit, I miss the feature from the KN (oops) where you could see the midi events on a screen and can delete one at a time. Great if you hit too many drum notes at once and don't know which to delete with the Note Delete.

5) The Ending button operation is weird. A simple method might be to press once for ending 1, twice for ending two, etc. Now you have to be in that variation to get the right ending, making you sometimes add an extra measure for nothing.

6) The Ritard/Acell doesn’t work from the TAP button. Why on the XD-9 it does and here not?

7) It would be nice to allow users to dedicate a button to turn on and off harmonies. Now it's buried in menus.

I am sure there are more tweaks I can think of, and some of you to, and the greatest thing is that we can all contribute to make this a great product since the Ketron programmers check this forum often and post and take us seriously.

I sure hope one will address the issues above.

Thanks Ketron!

Hassid,

I wasn't aware that there were so many differences between the XD9/Vega operating features some of which really concern my way of peforming live and considerations toward an XD9 for a future purchase.

Dnj

The VEGA is definitly a specialty keyboard with it's own way of doing things. I am sure it makes sense to certain people in certain functions. While I love buttons and a more "traditional" operating system, I am enjoying the VEGA and getting used to its way of doing things.

The good thing is that as more people use it and point things out we can all have a part in its development.

AJ is great, so is George Kaye, and many others who dedicated themselves to support Ketron users.

Hassid