THE NEW KETRON EVENT. THIS IS THE NEW FLAGSHIP

Dear friends,
It is my great pleasure and honor to announce to you the new flagship of the company with the name EVENT.
This joy and honor is also very great for me because I have been working on this model for a year, specifically since the end of July 2021.
Yesterday, the company just made a first announcement on its Facebook site and he just announced the name of the model and so I can make this post which, however, will not be accompanied by any other information since there has been no official announcement of the new features, specs etc but only the name of this new model.
The only thing I can tell you about the present is the following:

A Revolution is under way!!

P.S. Please not send me private messages because I won't answer any questions at all and I won't give any other information.
I am expressly bound by the NDA I have signed.
When it is officially announced we will have a lot to say and of course to hear and see.
Thanks

Any idea when we will know more about "Event" ?

No timeframe. No specs. No price. No details.

No interest.

A quick Google search brought up these sites with a few pictures but no additional info:
https://musicsklep.pl/keyboardy/ketron-event.html

(Click picture to enlarge)

and here:
https://klawiszowe.pl/ketron-event-p-4980.html

I am SO tired of being teased by those not in the know, or outside the official channels. Are we eight year old kids? They treat us like them. Desperate for social media attention but bereft of facts…

I miss the days of seeing a full blown keyboard the first time when it was finished and available. Pictures. Demos. Specs. Price.

Not this dribs and drabs from the sidelines. It’s about time the majors enforced their own NDA’s.

Dear Diki.
You are not wrong to complain about everything that is happening.
However, each company's policy is different (good or bad).
And maybe you're right.. I shouldn't have made this post. But the excitement because I know what's coming and because I'm excited about what's to come (and believe me it will be very creative), prompted me to make this post.
I apologize if I upset you. It wasn't my intention.

I think you're both right but I think Diki is a little MORE right. Everybody hates 'teasers'. I'm not interested in the 'sonogram', call me when the 'baby' arrives .

chas

Well,
as long as the thread is at the gen arr forum, my guess is that it is a new arranger, and the pics show 76 keys.
Looks like it is if look at the buttons at lower row, and if look at sliders at both sides of the screen, it also looks like it may be two sections of players or somehing..... 🤔

Dear Jonny. As I said in the original post, I've been working on this project for a year and I have the Event here.
But unfortunately I can't give any other information yet.
However when it is announced I promise you an immediate and complete analysis of everything!
And of course we continue to work until its release.

You are right dear friend..

But to be fair, we shouldn't forget what Yamaha also did with the Genos (without of course considering it correct).

1) Early August 2017 uploads this video with the title : Genos is comming soon.
https://youtu.be/4Sva8QktXf0
Not Specs, not photos, not any other informations.

2) At the beginning of September 2017, Yamaha publishes on its website the first meaningless video, even today, entitled: Genos in action without any other explanation https://youtu.be/jHdbmEGyyNg

3) In the middle of September 2017 Yamaha continues with the second mysterious video with the same title: Genos in action
https://youtu.be/nSJhKv1ZGIk

4) At the end of September, he continues the same pattern without giving the slightest other details.
https://youtu.be/ZWLkgGZpJWE

5) And finaly on 2nd October 2017 the official announcement is coming.

Of course, none of us ever got the slightest answer as to what exactly the company meant (Genos in action) in these three mysterious videos.

The problem, as far as I am concerned is that yes, PERHAPS this kind of ‘teaser’ marketing might appeal to the younger generations, but arranger players are primarily (let’s face it, almost entirely!) from the generation that came from the era of no social media leaks (no social media in the 80’s and 90’s!) and we got our info from NAMM and Musikmesse from the manufacturers when they were good and ready.

The first we heard of something, it was in production, full specs and details and price were available, and we could judge pretty much on the spot whether it was something innovative, something we could afford, something we needed.

Now I got to wait God knows how long before Ketron decide to release any of that kind of information, and particularly in these days of supply side shortages and chip scarcity, just how long before it comes available to ship. Or if I could even afford it.

Bottom line, if I WERE actually looking at new arrangers (I’m not!) I couldn’t let this affect a decision, because who knows when they ship or what they cost?

Never owned a Ketron product but from what I've seen of their pricing history, this thing is going to make a Genos seem like a Walmart Black Friday sales item.

chas

Well, at least it’s cheaper than a a Wersi! 😂🎹

Here in Europe Ketron has always had similar prices to the rest of the big boys, (Although we are now down to 2 (Yamaha and Korg) so if it does what you want then go for it.
Interestingly there are more home organ manufactures than arranger manufactures these days, even though they became a niche market in the 90s. (Who’d have thought?)

Bill

There may be more organ companies, but I’d wager the total number of units shipped is still a tiny fraction of arranger numbers…

Then there are offshoot companies like Medeli, and Casio are still pretty strong in the segment, and while Roland may have left the upper end of the market, they are still busy churning out low end and low-mid end arrangers.

There are a lot of boutique car manufacturers making a handful of cars per year. I doubt Toyota are worried!

Ferrari too is not worried about how many millions Toyota have been sold last year (vs the 5000 or so Ferrari manufactured per year, intentionally limited not to inflate the brand).
I think they are more worried if the average price of their sales, per single car, is down from 400 k€ to 350 k€.

And, for what it matters, most people dream to own a Ferrari (being well aware this will never happen), I have never seen anybody dreaming a Toyota.

In Miami Vice, well known TV series of the 80s, Sonny Crockett drove a Ferrari, not a Toyota. I think this is not by chance.

I don’t really think of Ferrari as all that boutique. 8.5k/year units shipped isn’t exactly ‘boutique’!

How many units did Wersi sell this year? Couple of dozen? Now THAT’s ‘boutique’!

KETRON officially posted images of the EVENT and some of those who are officially working on the project simply echoed what KETRON put out. Not sure what was wrong with that - but I can say this for a fact, that as an Engineer working with/for KETRON since 2006, SOKRATIS 1974 does not fall into the category of someone who is "not in the know, or outside the official channels". I say this just for others who may read this and assume he is.

Thanks,

AJ

Exactly. You beat me to this response as this is what I was referring to above.

Thanks AJ..