Hi ... I bought Medeli AKX10 out of curiosity and tested it. Personal opinion ... good keyboard, similar to Yamaha SX (700-900), maybe a little better, Sound: the sound is better then I espected.
Rich, powerfull and bright but not thin, Style Creator ... here it is on the ground (toy from the 80's) .. but I sent an email to Medeli, and, surprise very receptive to customer requests .. in 2 days I received an answer: Dear Sir,
Thank you for contacting Medeli !
Your demand is well received. We know about the Style Edit of AKX10 has some limitations and restrictions, we understand now it is not easy to edit styles on AKX10. So started from a couple of month ago, we planned a major upgrade to the Style Edit function, and we are doing it right now.
Here are some the upgrades of Style Edit that I can share with you:
- We will remove the restriction of the channel mapping. In the current version, the original channel 1 and 9 is constantly mapped to Drum track, channel 2 and 10 to Percussion, channel 3 and 11 to Bass, and so on. It will be able to freely map the channels to any tracks.
- We will remove the restriction of channel using of different sections. Now only Intros and Endings can use channel 1~8, Mains and Fill Ins only uses channel 9~16. We will allow all sections use all 16 channels.
- We will remove the limitations of chord rules. Now only Major/Minor/All can be selected for tracks to decide which chord types they will play. We will open all Root mute, Chord mute and other chord response settings.
- We will remove the restriction of C Major 7-notes-only.
- Most of the parameters and sound settings can be changed when the style is playing in Style Edit.
- The event list actually can display program changes, controller changes, not only notes. But we will upgrade the display and operation of some events like the sound selections.
Above is a part of the upgrades we are developing right now. This firmware upgrade will be released with some other new features, upgrades and bug fixes. It is now planned to be released around next March.
We know the planned upgrades in the new firmware probably will not solve all issues you have listed. We will keep the maintenance and upgrade for your AKX10. But please understand that AKX10 is not a top grade work station, some very detailed editing might better be done with desktop DAW.
Thank you for your feedback. Happy new year, best wishes to you and your family!
Best regards,
So, from March, keep an eye on Medeli AKX10 ... big changes in OS are announced . Happy new year to everyone !