Just me all alone with a Ketron SD1..........
..........and a usermanual left at the store!

So at last, a Ketron SD1 is standing along with my excellent KN
Oh no, I've not bought it yet, just have it for tryout this weekend
to see if it is a keyboard that I'll go for.
Long time since I was playing so heavy as today, and as long as I
used the buildt in styles and presets, it is just G R E A T!
The accordeons is better than I remember it from the demo/stand
that I was visiting some time ago, but still not as good as the KN's.
The patterns/styles is playing as a real band, and I'm looking
around me for the other bandmembers, but don't see any other...
The 76 keys are good to play on, and the key-springing feels OK to
my kind of taste and type of playing.
So far everything is just nice, but how long was Adam in Paradice?

About 3-4 hrs. if you ask me, because when I start to really explore
it, I tought I would be able to handle the most elementary things such
as load from diskette and HD, do a simple record and save, even if I
did not manage to grab the manual before I left the shop.
NOPE, it seems that I have to spend several years at the college of
advanced technology to find out how to operate this machine.
Guess who was going to try out converted styles from KN's and other
keyboards to see how it work, and still know nothing about it...

During playing and changing patterns without stop the rhythm, I had
two times totally "freeze", and had to turn the power off and on.
(The OS version is 1.0a)

I've given it up for today, turned it off - and turned on the KN5000.
The buttons on my KN do exactly as they suppose to do according to
the letters/marks who tells what happens when I push them.
Strange that that's not what happens when I try to navigate by the
buttons at SD1.

Did I hear anyone mention the word userfriendly, well I guess it don't
fit to Ketron SD1.
Well, at least not when I try to do anything more than just play it
"as it is".
Maybe I was too full of expectation, and got myself a kind of disappointment
that I did not expected when try to do some "simple" steps without the
"cookbook" at the front of me.

I'm going to give it another try the next two or three days, but as long
as I don't have the usermanual, I guess it's wasted time....

GJ

BTW,
next week I'll try out the KN6500 to see if there is just as hard to
figure out how it work too, but I have a feeling that I'm going to manage,
even without a usermanual.