Ketron Midjay Lead Mute Feature

I fell really stupid. I've had a few phone calls the past few days asking if the Midjay could remove the vocals from CD's. My reply has been "no". I just called AJ to tell him how important this feature would have been to have implemented on the Midjay and he informed me that it has it already.
If you have a wav file, there is a mute lead button (which I just never noticed) which automatically finds the frequencies and digitally removes them. The only catch is that you must do this with wav and not mp3 files. However, you can take any audio CD and plug it into the stereo inputs and record the song, which becomes a wav file and then you can use the lead voice mute function. Or, you can convert mp3's in a computer to wav files and then just copy these through the USB jack into the hard drive.
I hope those who called me read this forum. I'm sorry for not taking a phone number to call you back.


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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

George, I spent 5 hours with the Midjay today, trying to help a friend use a midi guitar to play styles..A major failure unless I missed something..
Can we change the chord recognition to Pianist with out the optional footswitch?
Will this allow the Midjay to only change the chord recognition when playing 3 or more notes [like Roland keyboard arrangers].
My friend uses a Casio 380 midi guitar with a Roland RA 95...He can assign the pedal[PS15] to chord recognition..he can hold down the pedal to read a chord recognition and than play over top with out changing untill he depresses the pedal and plays another chord change...This works perfect for a guitarist..Do you think it is possible to set up the Midjay this way.? The parameters would have to be set by the Midjay..He also needs to be able to mute the lead sound and just play the Guitar sounds as an option..[in style play]..I couldn't set this up either...
If I was a guitarist trying tou use a Midjay..after this 5 hour session...I would just forget about!!
Do you have any Guitar customers that tried to use the Midjay yet?
Those that I talked to say it isn't going to do the job..

For the keyboard players that use a capable controller, the Midjay has possibilities..Changing from wave play, MP3 play and SMF play..and also style play is quick and easy...You can search any other group while any of the media is playing..On the downside...you need to use program change to select a voice[controller]. If you scroll to pick a preset voice..as you scroll and highlight it selects the highlighted voice...It would have been better to have to "enter" as the Midjay does with Wave,MP3,and Style..

Sound wise...It's got it!!!

Fran Carango,

I would not suggest the Midijay for a guitarist who is trying to use the Arranger features as you cannot change the tonality of the chords ... unless you use a Bass pedal and change chords .... with both feet for minors, 7ths... However to play along and record, it is perfect.

The guitarist in question will be better off with the Ketron XD3 which has these features you mentioned similar to the Roland instrument as well. I might have already cooresponded with this person.

Thanks,

AJ

AJ, we did leave a message on your cell phone this afternoon...and yes you did email him with this suggestion..Thanks Fran

Fran,
Sorry I didn't see your post until now but I too have asked this question to AJ and he has also suggested the XD3 for the reason that he said, however, the tonality pedal is usually used for guitar players who also choose to use the bass pedals to trigger the chords and the 4 switch tonality pedal for the majors, minors, sevenths and minor sevenths. I would think that if you use a midi guitar, just like a keyboard, you should be able to play chords (different types) on the guitar and the midjay should recognize them. I haven't tried this because my midi guitar isn't near my midjay but I will and maybe AJ could answer this question for us.


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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

Fran,
OK, I just tried the Roland GR20 Midi system into the MidJay.
AJ is right....it will only recognize Major Chords. I'm not sure why this is happening. If I use a keyboard's Midi Out, it recognizes my chord changes. Why is this different with a MidiGuitar? AJ?
As for the pianist mode. I turned it on by going first to style (turning on the style light to red) and then hitting edit. I then see pianist in the screen and use the wheel to scroll down to pianist and hit enter. It goes from off to on and puts a check in front of it.


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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California