That was the Ketron SD40 demo
It’s a full rich sound and the styles have a very ‘live sound’
Similar to the Technics sound of many years ago .......
I’ve had so much fun with it as an arranger, easy to connet any controller from 49 to 88 piano. the touch screen works flawlessly and it’s only 2kilos.....
I will report back on how it hooks up,
Pino
Hi Pino,
thanks for the "update" on the Ketron SD40 demo The the sax was so realistic it made me feel it was not done just by playing keyboard keys. Having been a sax player for 20 years long ago I do appreciate the after-touch, the new possibilities with the Genos pitch bender and the 3 buttons. They do make saxes more realistic, but what I heard on your SD40 demo ( 4 times !)
could only be a
real sax or an
expert manipulation on a PC by the creator just as on the Yamaha intros and endings.
I also loved the base. These are the moments you realize that in spite of all the great improvement in keyboards over the years it is still easy to realize, what you are hearing is just a keyboard being played, not the real thing.
Like you I feel there were things on the Technics 6000 that would have been worth copying like the "call up function" you could buy from a Swiss creator. You only had to write "In the.." and the midi file "In the mood" was there. I also loved the easy midi file tweaking and style creation. Genos has this nice loop function, but now that the delete function in case you made a mistake has been removed (was there in 1.10) I have had difficulties. I do the prolonging on Midifile Optimizer, but that does not give you the option of using the loop or not which Genos gives you. But maybe there is a way to get the points correctly easily ans I just have not understood that.
On Yamaha models the Intros and Endings have become so well done that you may for a moment be fooled. But then when you hear a style that is only 2 bars long you know what you are hearing.
As I know absolutely nothing about to-day's hip hop and heavy metal it might be that in that department it makes no difference, but in Jazz, be it combo or big band 2 bars are an insult to my old ears. Fortunately there are quite a few 4 bar long styles but already on the 5700 I still have there were 8 bar long styles. I believe there is a way to create such styles on the Genos from existing styles but so far I have not been able to do it. Am waiting for a thread in that direction. Or maybe better make a thread.
Cheers
Kaarlo