TABLE OF CONTENTS Number Topic Page Navigating the SD7 5 1 Playing in Full Keyboard mode 6 2 Sounds & Voices 8 2.A Playing and using Sounds 8 2.B Accessing and using more voices from Random Access Memory 9 2.C Playing 2 Lead Sounds / Voices at once (2nd Voice) 10 2.D How to change the 2nd voice 10 2.E Using / Layering more than 2 sounds / Voice Edit 12 2.F Playing up to 2 voices with the left hand 17 2.G Changing the Sounds / Voices played by your left hand 18 2.H Other parameters that control the Lower Voices 18 ...
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Audio Editor (Wave Files) 120 12 Digital Copy of User manual 121 13 Set up / Preferences 121 Backup (Export entire system, Playlist, My Folder) 124 14 Keyboard Controls & Settings 126 Output Assign (Assigning Drum, Bass or Chords to 127 separate output Aux / Headphone) 15 Footswitches & Assigning them 128 16 External Video Monitor Setup 130 17 1/4 Note Tuning ( Arabic Settings) 132 18 Registration / Song settings and Controls 134 3 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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– with incredible Audio Drums, authentic live bass and backing tracks suitable for almost any song, thanks to the vast library of professional sounds and rhythms. For simplicity, this tutorial will focus on the main areas of the SD7 such as SOUNDS & VOICES, ARRANGER/STYLES/BEATS, and Multi Media PLAYER. Most of the functions ...
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GETTING AROUND THE SD7 – NAVIGATION Getting around the SD7 is very easy and can be done in a number of ways using these key buttons:‐ 1. TOUCH SCREEN:‐ The bright touch screen allows you to touch icons directly on the screen. To access contents that are within folders, simply double touch (as you would double click on a mouse). 2. DATA/VALUE DIAL/WHEEL:‐ This wheel allows you to change the values of selected items. So, if you touch a numeric icon on the screen (for an example), you can turn this wheel to change its value quickly. 3. EXIT button:‐ This button is very useful to get out of sub menus or folders and get back to the main operating screen of the SD7 during operation 4. ENTER button:‐ This button is used to enter and display the content of folders in the screen or to confirm operations on the screen such as pop up messages. 5. SAVE button:‐ Depending on which screen is being displayed, this button is used to SAVE current settings, custom start up, User styles, Registrations etc. This will be explained in details within the manual below 5 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
1. PLAYING IN FULL KEYBOARD MODE (PIANIST) & SPLIT (ARRANGER) MODE When you turn on the SD7, it turns on in the SPLIT/ARRANGER MODE, the key bed has a SPLIT POINT where to the left of the split are the keys used to control the arranger or play separate LEFT voice(s), and the keys to the right side are used to play lead voice(s). The DEFAULT VOICE for the RIGHT side is the GRAND PIANO, while the default voice for the LEFT side is the ELECTRIC PIANO. To assign a new split point on the keyboard, press and hold down the SPLIT button on the panel (right side) 6 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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This button automatically removes the SPLIT point and the entire keyboard becomes one … (PIANIST MODE) ‐ with one voice/voices, governed by the RIGHT/Lead voice selection. In this mode (PIANIST), you can then select a voice or voices and play through the entire keyboard – just as you would do on a regular keyboard. In the PIANIST mode, a musician can also play the arranger as a regular piano and still have the automatic accompaniment follow along as they play (the keyboard follows you and not the other way around). This is discussed in more detail below in section 4.J ‐ PIANIST (page 59) 7 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
2. SOUNDS & VOICES Unlike any other keyboard you’ve come across, you will quickly realize that the SD7 produces some of the best natural sounds for a keyboard in this class. The Sax, trumpets, Piano and other natural instruments come to life and ‘breath’ in your hands as you play them on the SD7, proving once again, that KETRON has lived up to its “Best Natural Sounds” motto. 2.A ‐ PLAYING & USING SOUNDS (LEAD VOICES) The SD7 comes loaded with over 500 voices. There are over 350 preset voices (which are either individual sounds or layered voices as prepared by KETRON). Press the VOICE button on the SD7’s panel (right side) or touch the current voice in the top right box on the screen to display the voice groups (to the right of the screen) and the voices in the current voice group (to the left of the screen). The following screen will be displayed…. 8 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
As you can see, the left side of the screen shows the various voice groups or categories where all the voices in the keyboard reside in. The current voice group selected is highlighted in yellow (in the above case, PIANO), while the various voices in this group are shown on the left side of the screen (in this case the various pianos found in the PIANO group). To use a voice, simply touch it. If you cannot find a voice you want, press the voice group button once more (or press the ENTER/PAGE button below the wheel) to access the next page of voices in this same group. Once you find the voice you need, simply touch it on the left side of the screen and this becomes your new lead/right voice. 2.B ‐ ACCESSING AND USING MORE VOICES (RAM SOUNDS) If you need even more voices, there are over 40 professional high quality Tone wheel Organ and Orchestral voices on the built in Solid State Drive which you can instantly load into memory and use at the touch of a button. To access these RAM voices, press the RAM button on the panel (right side). The screen displayed is similar to this which shows you the first page of 8 of these superior voices. 9 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
If you select another voice, the previous voice loaded remains in memory (name changes to red) and you can select this voice again. This time there is no delay because the voice is still in memory and so it can be played instantly. Any voice you touch (which is in red) can be used instantly. If you touch another voice to us, the fir st one gets deleted from memory and the last 2 voices are always retained – until you turn off the SD7. 2.C ‐ PLAYING 2 LEAD SOUNDS/VOICES AT ONCE (2 VOICE) You can instantly layer an additional voice either with a Factory voice, RAM voice or USER VOICE (your edited/created voice) ‐ which we call 2 VOICE. From the factory, each lead voice already has an ...
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Voice box. A screen similar to this one below will be displayed. This screen shows the current 2 voice that is being used for this lead voice (left) and the voice group from which this voice was selected (right). You can now select your new 2 voice for this lead voice, simply select the voice group (to the right) where you think your 2 voice resides, then select that 2 voice (to the left of the screen). If you do not see the voice you are looking for – turn the data wheel or press the ENTER/PAGE button to display the next page of voices that exist in the current category/voice group. There are many pages of voices per voice group which you can access this way. When done, press the SAVE button (below the data wheel) to save your new USER VOICE and it’s corresponding 2 voice (remember, you cannot over write the factory voices so whenever a 11 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
EDITING/CUSTOMIZING Still not satisfied with only 2 voices to play/layer on the right hand and want to layer 3‐4 voices at once? Despite all the voices found on the SD7, many want to be able to customize voices, layer with 2 or 3 voices, make changes and save as their own customized voice (USER VOICE). This is very easily done on the SD7. Better, still, using this same tool/editor as described above for the 2 voice, you are quickly ...
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To start editing a voice, touch and hold down for 2 seconds a voice you want to edit or layer or that comes close to the voice you wish to create to open the VOICE EDITOR. Your screen should look something like this (in this case, the Lounge Tenor Sax was selected):‐ The voice editor in the SD7 is quit extensive but very intuitive and easy to use. Once this screen (Page 1/6) is displayed you will notice the following. 4 Rows of voices. ...
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Right here, you can create a very ‘intelligent’ voice which depending on what area of the keyboard you play you will hear element/voice 1. Depending on how hard you play, you will hear element/voice2, and so on. Page 3/6 gives you access to set certain parameters of this voice (Portamento, pitch … etc). 14 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Mod wheel up, you will hear voice 1 but as you move this mod wheel down, it now morphs until you will only hear Voice 2 once the wheel is completely down. You can also select the type of morph below the screen. o WHA‐WHA: – If checked, this element/voice will have the wha wha effect applied to it if a volume pedal is plugged into the SD7. This volume pedal can then be used to manually turn on/off the wha‐wha. o HARMONY: – Adds a harmony to whichever voice it is checked in here (whenever the HARMONY button on the panel is turned on – described in more details below in section ...
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Once you have created your new voice, simply press the SAVE button on the panel to display the following options:‐ SAVE:‐ Saves this new voice in the USER VOICE section with the same name as the factory voice. SAVE AS:‐ Allows you to name this new voice and save in the USER VOICE section when you press ENTER (after naming it). CANCEL:‐ Cancels all changes and reverts to the VOICE EDIT screen you just came from. If you press EXIT, all settings are restored and the keyboard returns to the voice selection screen. 16 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
You can also assign up to 2 separate voices and play them together or separately on the left side of the keyboard. These voices are usually determined by the style that is currently being used, but we will show you how irrespective of the style selected, you can call up and use voices to the left of the SPLIT point of the keyboard. First make sure your SD7 is displaying the default screen (screen it powers on with or similar. If not, simply press EXIT repeatedly until you get there). Your screen should look like this:‐ Press the VIEW button from this page to display the STYLE VIEW – all the ...
– just as you did for the first left voice. Press EXIT to return to the style view page. Play and make sure this is the voice you want to use in this particular scenario 2.H ‐ OTHER PARAMETERS THAT CONTROL THE LOWER VOICE(S) There are other parameters and functions that govern the Left/LOWER voices and other parts of the Arranger section (Drum, Bass, Chord, Drum Mixer, Lower and Pianist & Bassist), however in this section of this manual, we will only focus on the LOWER (since we are referring to the LEFT voices. These can be accessed by touching the LOWER button on the screen:‐ 18 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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The following screen is now displayed showing you the different parameters that control the LEFT/LOWER voices:‐ For each LEFT/LOWER voice, you can do the following from this screen:‐ Hold Start:‐ [Hold on Start]. When on, if a style is playing (and the HOLD button is on), this voice will be sustained (held) until the style is stopped. Hold Stop:‐ [Hold on Stop]. When on, if a style is not playing (stopped) or if you are just playing the keyboard normally and the HOLD button is on, this voice will be sustained (held). This is very useful especially if you have PAD/SYNTH or STRING voices on the LEFT side and you do not want a break between when you play/change chords on the left. In order to have a continuous voice, use this feature. To stop playing the voice, turn off the HOLD STOP on the appropriate LOWER voice or simply turn off the HOLD button. Hold Break:‐ The Lower voices are still heard when the style is quickly stopped using the Key Start/Key Stop feature. Sop Mute:‐ When on, the Left/LOWER voices are not heard during rapid breaks (when Key Start and Key stop are on and the left chord is played and release immediately or…. When only Key 19 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
One the arranger is played normally, the voices are heard again. Mute:‐ This mutes the LEFT/LOWER voice as needed. 2.I ‐ PLAYING LEFT HAND BASS ‐ MANUAL BASS You can also play left had BASS on the SD7, i.e. play bass lines manually on the left side with your left hand, while playing lead parts with a separate voice on the right side of the keyboard. To accomplish this quickly and easily, simply press the MANUAL button on the left side of the panel. Now when you play any notes to the left of the SPLIT point, you will hear the bass (Bass instrument is determined by whatever style has been selected prior to this). So, you can now play a manual bass solo with your left hand. To change the bass instrument currently being used – From the main page, touch VIEW to enter the STYLE VIEW mode once more. ...
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2I – Manual bass Page 20) or MANUAL (with you playing bass manually on the left side of the split point). Let’s exploit the other features associated with the MANUAL Bass (which to change, simply touch and turn the data wheel):‐ o LEVEL:‐ This is the volume of the manual bass. Adjust according to the right volume so as to get a good mix. o SUSTAIN ON (1‐63):‐ When you play a bass note, the note gets sustained. The higher the value, the longer the bass note gets sustained. This is great when playing tunes that have sustained or linked bass notes e.g. some old Pop tunes. OFF:‐ When you play a bass note, there is not sustain and the note dies off as soon as you release the key. This is great when playing tunes that have rapid or complex bass lines like Jazz or Latin (Merengue), where the individual bass notes must be heard but not split over into the next note! o ** VOICE LOCK:‐ Turn this on (yellow) to freeze the current bass. Usually when a band is performing, the bass player plays the same bass instrument for all songs. As such, use this feature to LOCK/FREEZE the bass instrument currently being used so that regardless of which style is later selected, the same bass instrument is retained throughout. o OCTAVE:‐ Select the OCTAVE of the bass instrument. ‐1 is the default but for some old Jazz tunes, you may want to set the OCTAVE at ‐2 (2 octaves lower). o POLY:‐ 21 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
This is discussed in depth below under 6 – Keyboard settings/Registrations Page 88, but we can give you a summary here. With the voices now all set up the way you want, press the REGIS button on the top right side of the panel to turn on REGISTRATION. Press the SAVE button The following screen will now be displayed:‐ Touch REGISTRATION (Registrations are Song / Keyboard Setups which you save and can instantly recall for live or studio performances) – and it should turn yellow. 22 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
Now that you have created many instant setups you can instantly recall (right hand, left hand, bass voices … etc), how do you recall them? Press the REGS (Registration) button found on the top left side of the panel to access the REGISTRATION screen which looks something like this:‐ As you can see from the screen above, you have 4 banks of registrations/set ups and each bank can hold 1024 single registrations or song set ups. BANK1 is the default where your registration will reside (unless you changed it), so if BANK 1 is not already on (yellow), touch it. The center of the screen will now display your registrations along with some that were already put here by the factory. Scroll down (using the data wheel) to highlight your registration you want to load and press ENTER or touch it twice (double click) to load it. Your settings will be loaded immediately (left hand, right hand, manual bass [if applicable], style … etc) and you can then play the song the setting was initially created for. 23 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
2.L ‐ INSTANTLY ADDING HARMONY TO YOUR SOUNDS/VOICES You can instantly add harmony to your voices by pressing the HARMONY button on the right panel of the SD7. Once you do this, play a chord with your left hand and then play sounds with your right. You will notice that as you play, the SD7 will generate harmony notes to supplement the notes you play, based on the chords played by your left hand The most efficient way to utilize this feature is to be in SPLIT/ARRANGER MODE (STYLE button should be ON, PIANIST button OFF). When you play lead voices to the RIGHT of the split point, harmonies are instantly added to these voices based on the chords to play to the LEFT of the split point of the ...
You can assign which harmony types are used automatically with your voices or if you choose to layer voices, which voices the automatic harmonies will be added to and which will be ignored, or further still … set which harmony type to apply to which of your layered voices once this voice is recalled (USER VOICE). This has already been described above in 1.E USER VOICE (Screen Page 4/6). Please note that these harmonies referred to above, are for the voices you play on the keyboard and not what you sing through the microphone (VOCAL HARMONIES ). VOCAL HARMONIES are covered below (5.B VOICETRON – Page 80). 2.N ‐ INSTANTLY DOUBLE A LEAD VOICE (DOUBLE) Ever play a brass instrument on a keyboard and notice how ‘thin’ it sounds compared to the real thing? To do so properly, you would have to play with both hands where one hand would play an octave higher than the other so as to create the same sound as a live band would. On an arranger keyboard (such as the SD7), this becomes a little tricky especially since your left hand will be focused on playing chords. To accomplish this, the DOUBLE button on the SD7 takes care of this drawback instantly. In order to illustrate this better, for this example, press the VOICE button and select the BRASS group. Now touch the BRASS SECTION voice on the screen. Play it with your right hand (single notes only). Great sounds but …. Now turn on the DOUBLE button by pressing it (it’s light will come on) and play again. No more ‘but …’! ...
Now use the volume sliders (Right, 2 , Micro & Vocal) shown above to control the LIVE EFFECTS in real time as applied to the voice selected (see ASSIGNING WHAT GETS AFFECTED BY THE LIVE EFX (EFFECTS) below). 3.A ‐ ASSIGNING WHAT GETS AFFECTED BY THE LIVE EFX (EFFECTS) In order for the LIVE EFX to be assigned to impact the lead/right voice (or drums, bass, chords or Wave/Mp3), you will have to go into the LIVE EFX editor and select which elements of the SD7 you want the LIVE EFX to be applied to when turned on. Press and hold down the LIVE EFX button on the right panel for about 2 seconds. A screen similar to this one shown below will be displayed:‐ 26 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
(PLAYER, RIGHT [Right/Lead voice], DRUM [Drum track of the Arranger], BASS [Bass track of the Arranger], CHORD1‐5 [Chord tracks of the Arranger]). Touch the part you want the LIVE EFX to impact (in the example above, RIGHT has been selected so when you turn on the LIVE EFX, only the right/lead voice of the SD7 will be affected by the LIVE EFX settings/values). If you touch all the 9 parts, then all parts will be affected by the values of the LIVE EFX when this button is turned on and the sliders moved. 3.B ‐ VOICE LIST You have gone through all these voices and found out that for certain scenarios, you only need between 10 to 20 voices or so. How can you quickly access just a few voices that you need and not be bothered with all the others? You can create a voice list (FAVORITE VOICE LIST) and store your favorite voices in this list such that when you press the VOICE LIST button, only your favorite voices will be displayed on the screen. This saves a lot of time during live performances and it gives you quick access to your best sounds or sounds you use often. 3.C ‐ HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN VOCIE LIST. Press the VOICE LIST button to display the first page of 10 favorite voices KETRON has recommended. You can select any of these voices as usual by simply touching the voice on the screen. 27 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Now let us select a voice we want to replace in the current VoiceList. In this example, let’s replace the voice MUSETTE with a voice of our own. Simply touch the voice ‐ MUSETTE on the screen for about 2 seconds (If you touch and release quickly, it will just be a voice selection meaning the musette voice will be selected and heard when you play!). The SD7 will quickly display the next screen which is the voice screen where the current voice resides (the voice groups are to the right and voices to the left as usual). The VOICE LIST button will now flash as you are in VOICE LIST EDIT mode … working on creating a new entry into the VOICE LIST. 28 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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– while the left of the screen displays the first page of accordions. o NB:‐ You can also use RAM voices (voices stored in the internal SSD that can be loaded into memory) in the voice list. Simply press the RAM button here. The screen will list the current voices in RAM. o Touch the voice you want to use and it will be loaded into the voice location in question. Remember more voices exist below so turn the data wheel to display them. Press EXIT once you have touched the appropriate voice. You will be returned to the VOICE LIST page and guess what? Where your MUSETTE was, you should now find your new voice in the same location. 29 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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– press EXIT to return to the VOICE LIST screen … etc. Remember the VOICE LIST is made up of 4 pages with each page being able to display 10 voices each – so you can fill the VOICE LIST up with up to 40 of your favorite voices (you don’t have to as just 10 voices in the fist page may be sufficient ... but at least you know you can). Once done, you will now need to SAVE your favorite voices (VOICE LIST) else when you turn off the SD7, they will be lost and you will have to do this all over again. To save your VOICE LIST, simply press the SAVE button while you are in the VOICE LIST page (VOICE LIST button should NOT be flashing in edit mode). The following “SAVE VOICE LIST” page should be displayed. ...
4. STYLES Some people call them beats. Others call them patterns. In the Arranger Musical world, they are called styles. At the heart of every arranger keyboard are styles. These are musical ‘phrases’ which can be altered in real time to produce music based on the chords played on the keyboard. The SD7 comes loaded with 260 styles (the AJAMSONIC version has over 600 styles) meaning you will barely lack a style to perform any kind of music. ...
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Do accomplish this, KETRON has implemented a system that shows you what the current status of the keyboard is (style and voice selected, tempo, … etc). Here is a general interpretation of the main screen while in STYLE mode (default screen of the SD7 as of OS 1.0) top left box of the screen shows :‐ o The group the current style resides in (Ballad), o The variation of the style curren tly selected [A]. o The over all volume of the style (63) o The name of the current style selected (8BEAT_A ) – in capital letters. o The individual volume levels of the D rums, Bass, Chords and Lower parts of the style (Dr 63, Bs 63, Ch 61 Lw 0) o You can touch this box to quickly access the Style selection page So the first 2 boxes on top of the screen are dedicated to the STYLE/ARRANGER section of the keyboard. ...
The top left corner of the screen shows the following information related to the Right/Lead voice being used on the keyboard:‐ o Group where the voice resides in (Piano). o Volume of the lead/right voice (52) o Name of the voice in Capital letters (CLASSIC GRAND) o Sustain and Wheel settings o You can touch this box to quickly access the voice selection page. 4.B ‐ EXPLANATION OF THE VARIOUS PARTS OF A STYLE Each style in the SD7 is broken down into the following sub elements:‐ 3 Intros/Endings, 4 Arranger/Variation parts of the style, 4 Fill ins, 4 Breaks and 1 To End (short ending). These style parts can be easily controlled with the following buttons below the screen:‐ ... and the following buttons on the bottom part of the screen (main page 2/3):‐ 33 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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<<Page 2/3 (Touch “2/3” to change pages!) Each style element is also made up of ‘your band’ which is made up of o Drums o Bass o Automatic Chords controlled by the style (1‐5) o Manual chords controlled by the player (Lower1 and Lower2) You can see all these parts by pressing the VIEW button on the main page (1/3) … … to display the STYLE VIEW as shown below – <<Page 1/3 (Touch “1/3” to change pages!) 34 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
PAN, REV, CHORUS, EFX levels of each instrument … etc. 4.C ‐ HOW TO SELECT A STYLE/BEAT FOR YOUR MUSICAL PERFORMANCE As mentioned earlier, the SD7 comes with many styles / beats to choose from. How do you select the right style for your performance? When you turn on your SD7, the default style selected is called 8BEAT_1 from the BALLAD style category as shown below. To select a style, touch the top left box that shows the current style selected – The following screen will be displayed showing you the various style groups to the right side of the ...
BALLAD styles (in groups of 10). Once you find the style you want, touch it. An hour glass is displayed temporally – why? The SD7 uses AUDIO styles and so whenever an Audio style is loaded, the corresponding audio drums of the style need to be loaded as well, hence the short delay. Once loaded, the top part of the screen will be updated showing you the ...
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Style only plays when chords are played on the keyboard. If the keys/chords are ON ON released at anytime, the style stops playing. o Now press any of the INTRODUCTION (INTRO) buttons (Intro 3 would be more musical and has lead parts as well) and the SD7 will play the INTRO#3 of this style after you play a chord to the left of the keyboard split point (or anywhere on the keyboard if PIANIST mode is on). o Press ARRANGER A (VARIATION A) to start your song. As you progress into a verse, now select ARRANGER B (VARIATION B) .. etc. C & D are more busy and better used for the endings of songs or as you climax into your song. o Press ENDING 3 (same button as Intro but works as such – if the style is not being played and you press it, it works as an INTRODUCTION. If the style is being played and you press it, it now works as an ENDING) o You can use the TEMPO (SPEED) buttons to slow down the style or speed it up. The ...
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The HOLD button allows you to play and release a chord and the SD7 will still maintain that chord … until a new chord is played. If the HOLD button is off, the chord is released as soon as you lift your fingers off the keyboard (chord section). o RESTART – allows you to restart the style at any given time. This is very useful especially if you have a vocalist that cannot keep to time and you have to follow him/her instead! Now let’s explain some of the SOFT style controls found on the bottom of the screen (the others will be explained in their relevant chapters below). The bottom right corner of the screen displays the current page you are on. Since there were too many controls to list below the ...
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Page 2/3 (Touch page “1/3” to move to the next page .. 2/3). Your screen should look something like this:‐ This screen gives you direct access to the 4 fill ins and 4 breaks of the Arranger. The panel only gives you access to a fill and a break – however, when this button is pressed, the FILL/BREAK you hear depends on the Arranger/Variation that is being played before the button was pressed. So, if you were playing Arranger A and you press the FILL in button, Fill 1 will be heard. If you were playing Arranger B and you pressed the BREAK button, BREAK2 will be heard. If you were playing Arranger C and you pressed the FILL in button, FILL 3 will be heard. This screen (Page2/3) allows you to instantly touch the FILL in or Break you want to hear regardless of what Arranger the SD7 is currently in. Page 3/3 (Programmable parameters). 39 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Repeat this for the others. When done, press SAVE – CUSTOM START UP (the SD7 will save this START UP setting so you no longer have to repeat this each time the keyboard is turned on. FACTORY START UP will revert to all FACTORY SETTINGS so leave this … unless you want to RESET the SD7 to ...
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Your next screen should look like this – Touch FOOTSWITCH to display the foot switch program page as show below … Now touch the switch you want to assign a function to (e.g. #10) and a drop down menu showing all relevant functions you can program into #10 are displayed. You can use the data wheel to scroll down the list to others not currently displayed on the page. 41 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
STYLE) You can assign voices to each of the style arrangements/variations such that as you play, you do not have to worry about manually changing the voices of the lead/right hand (One Touch Setting). As you switch from style variation to variation, the lead voices will change automatically so you just focus on playing. Regardless of which voice is selected, you can always manually override them by simply selecting another voice. 42 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
This page has 2 main functions which we will explain in detail – VOICE – VOICE TO ABCD (OneTouch Settings at the top row of the center screen) and VARIATION (muting/playing arranger parts so the style sounds less busy depending on your application at the 2 row of the center screen). 4.F ‐ VOICE TO VARIATIONS A, B, C & D (ONE TOUCH SETTINGS) As previously mentioned above, you can set up the SD7 such that certain voices are assigned to the arranger parts and the arranger changes these voices for you automatically as you perform. For this to happen, you must turn on the VOICE TO ABCD by touching it on this screen (it will turn yellow). From 43 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
MARK ‐ Assigned to Arranger/Variation B. When you play Arranger B, the lead/right voice automatically selected will be the Mark piano. PIANO&STRINGS ‐ Assigned to Arranger/Variation C. When you play Arranger C, the lead/right voice automatically selected will be the Piano & Strings. POP ORGAN ‐ Assigned to Arranger/Variation D. When you play Arranger D, the lead/right voice automatically selected will be the Pop Organ. USES:‐ This can be used for various functions – for an example, you can have these 4 voices as your main voices for this style. Now turn OFF the VOICE TO ABCD such that as you switch arrangers, the voice does NOT change automatically. In this mode, you can now play and touch any of these 4 voices at any time. Use them as your 4 favorite voices for this style. You can also have these 4 voices set up such that if you are playing with any backing track/Midifile, simply touch the voice you want and play along. 4.G ‐ CREATING YOUR OWN VOICE TO VARIATIONS (OTS) Remember that these are the voices that have been set by KETRON for all the 260 factory styles. You can always changes these and put your own voices to be associated with any style (factory or your s – USER STYLES. To do this:‐ First select the style whose lead voices you want to modify (Factory or User style) and go back to the VOICE & VARI screen as shown above by touching VOICE & VARI from the main style screen. Touch and hold for 2 seconds the voice you want to replace (e.g. the first voice ‐ Grand Piano). The SD7 will automatically display the VOICE selection page for you to select the new voice you want to put into the selected location. Select a voice as mentioned above in 1.A – ACCESSING AND USING VOICES). Press EXIT when done and your new voice will be in place of the GRAND PIANO. Repeat the above process for all the voices you want to replace. When done, press the SAVE button on the right panel to save the new style with your voices – remember you cannot overwrite a factory style so this style will now be saved as a USER Style in the same group as the previous factory style. 44 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
Touch‐ o SAVE – if you want to maintain the same factory name o SAVE AS – if you want to give this style a new name. Touch ENTER in the next screen after naming the style to save it. o CANCEL – To abort this operation To use this style with your Voices, from the STYLES page, touch USER, go to the group your style resided in and touch it. It will be loaded with your voices. 4.H ‐ STYLE VARIATIONS ‐ MAKING STYES LESS OR MORE BUSY The variation section of this page allows you to instantly mute style parts so that the style is less redundant or busy, especially if you bring these parts in and out of the style as you play. This is a very useful feature if you are a professional player and play a lot. In many cases, you will want certain style parts (e.g. STRINGS) not to play because you want to play a SOLO using … STRINGS and you do not want your STRINGS to clash with those being performed by the style. 45 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
In this case, simply touch any of the VARIATION parts to turn them on (red underline) or off. In the example above, they are all ON so all the style parts are heard. As you switch between Arranger/Variation, notice how the sounds related to the variation parts (chords) are also changed ‐ depending on the style. This feature allows professionals to express themselves without having the style get in the way ... while allowing musicians who are growing the capability to sound complete and live – with a little help from the SD7. NB:‐ The 3 VARIATION part (location currently occupied by “Strings Ens” in the above example) can be replaced with a variation for the DRUM/Groove instead. This is discussed in more details below under “2F –ARRAGNER CONROL – ‘Drum’ section”. ...
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In this example, let’s try and interpret the information displayed on this screen ‐ the SAMBA style is made up of:‐ A drummer playing a JAZZ drum kit as shown in the first box (center screen). A percussionist playing a SamBa1 groove as shown in the second box A bass player playing a Finger bass as show in the third box Left Voices/Instruments of the Manual chords parts which you play live with your left hand (Low1 and Low2) – LOWERS/LEFT VOICES 1 & 2. Next to them is the octave of each instrument 47 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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SINGLE so it toggles to GLOBAL (yellow) before making any adjustments. When GLOBAL is displayed, any changes you make will now impact all the ARRANGER/VARIATION parts together. SINGLE is useful if you only want to make changes to one of the variations/arrangements only. As mentioned before, the first STYLE VIEW page displays the VOLUME of the various style parts. How do you access the other parameters and change their values as you see fit? Simply by touching the parameters below the screen as shown below 48 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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PAN:‐ Touch this to display the screen where you can adjust how much of the parts you want coming out of the left or right speaker. L shows the value out the left speaker and R shows the value out of the right speaker. It helps to create a great surround environment when you partially pan the instruments left and right about +/‐ 40. REV (REVERB):‐ Touch this to adjust how much reverb you want applied to each part (0‐127). CHO (CHORUS):‐ Touch this to adjust how much CHORUS you want applied to each part (0‐127). EFX (EFFECTS):‐ Touch this to select which parts you want routed through the EFFECTS bus (EFX = ON. ‐‐ =OFF). The box below the LOW2 box will display the current effect type. Touch it to change the effect (remember you can use the data wheel to scroll through other effects below and touch the one you want – then press EXIT to return to the STYLE VIEW – EFFECTS page). Touch EFX again to exit from the effects mode (not yellow). 4.J ‐ ARRANGER INSTRUMENT FEATURES – DRUMS, BASS, CHORDS Now in this section (still from the STYLE VIEW page), we will discuss in more detail some of the amazing control and features the SD7 offers from KETRON. You will notice that some of these features are unique to the SD7 or KETRON instruments in general and can their settings can set you apart from others with the same keyboard. Despite a lot of automation available to you, you can still manually control many of the automatic elements thus putting a human feeling behind an electronic keyboard. 49 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Touch DRUM to access the following screen and functions associated with the DRUMS (DRUM turns yellow):‐ o Vari 3 To Groove:‐ As mentioned above in “2E –VOICE (ONE TOUCH) – ARRANGER VARIATION” section, the 3 variation can be programmed to be for Drums/Grooves and not a chord track of the style, meaning you will be able to turn on/off busy drum and percussion parts associated with the style. This happens when you turn on the Vari 3 To Grove on (Variation 3 on the main Voice & Variation screen gets replaced by the GROOVE). 50 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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o This way, you now have 2 musical VARIATIONS to use and 1 percussive/drum VARIATION. This is very useful especially for LATIN styles and beats that tend to have a lot of percussive parts. There comes a time when muting some of this at the touch of a button creates room for musicians to fully express themselves without competing with the SD7! Of course there are those who would prefer the keyboard played all the parts while they lay down a solid lead‐instrument line. o AUTO FILL:‐ If you turn on the AUTO FILL (yellow), then as you play the style and switch form Arranger to Arranger (Variation to Variation), the style automatically plays a Fill in between changes so that it sounds flawless and more professional. The other way to achieve this same result would be to press a FILL in and then while the fill in is still ...
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TEMPO RANGE (MIN/MAX):‐ Touch this to manually set the maximum and minimum BPM/TEMPO for the selected style. Since the SD7 uses Audio Drums, this feature is very handy when you want to limit the range of the style just before the audio component begins to distort (once the audio drum is stretched too far). Touch DRUM MIXER to access the following screen and functions associated with the Styles Midi DRUMS (DRUM MIXER turns yellow):‐ o From this screen, you can now Touch the individual instruments to mute them (yellow bar appears below their names) Touch the volume (VOL) column and use the data wheel to increase/decrease ...
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You can touch the individual drum instruments on the screen and play them live. To change the drum kit, simply touch the current drum set shown below the screen (in this case Standard_sd) and pick a new drum set from the pop up list displayed. You can also remap the current drum kit and make your own drum kit. To do this, simply touch the drum you want to change (e.g. Kick drum). Then touch the remap box and select a new kick drum to replace the current one from the pop up list shown. Touch BASS to access the following screen and functions associated with the BASS (BASS turns yellow):‐ 53 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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ALTERNATE:‐ This is a special mode for the alternate Bass that adapts it to the chord change according to the correct rule of musical harmony. For example, by not repeating the basic note or the fifth that you have played. This function works only in Styles where the alternate Bass is programmed with tonic and fifth intervals. o LIVE BASS:‐ This function synchronizes the Bass immediately regardless of when the chord is played within a measure. In other words the Bass plays immediately when you play the note without waiting for the “down beat” of the measure. When this is off, the bass not is only heard on the down beat of the style’s measure. o VOICE LOCK:‐ When on (yellow), this locks the bass sound so that regardless of which style you pick or keyboard setting/Registration you load, the bass instrument does not change. o BASS TO C0:‐ When on (yellow), this extends the arranger’s bass lines down to C0. This is very nice especially for 5 String Electric bass guitars. o TO ROOT:‐ When on (yellow), the arranger takes all the melodic notes of the automatic Bass and plays them as a basic note of the chord. When playing a song, you can turn this on and off at various parts of the song to emulate a live‐band feel. On the left side of the panel is a button called LOWEST. 54 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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When on (lights up), the SD7 assigns the lowest note of the chord to the Bass over and above the basic chord played. In this way the Bass will play in inversion. This again is a tool you can use to bring more life to your music – especially when used sparingly and alternating with TO ROOT above. As for the manual BASS feature, this was already described above in details under 2I – Manual bass Page 20 – PLAYING LEFT HAND BASS”. o This same BASS screen can also be accessed by pressing and holding down the MANUAL bass button on the left side of the panel ...
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HOLD STOP: When set to ON, the Lower1 or Lower 2 sounds will be held (sustained) even when the style is not playing (or has been stopped). Hold STOP is generally always disabled, but could be used in say a style where once the music ends, you still want the PADS to be sustained way after the ENDING has been completed. Very useful for Orchestral/Theatric music. HOLD BREAK: When off the LOWER voice is not heard (interrupted) when any of the BREAK buttons are pressed while a style is being played. This could be useful if say you used a 56 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Here you may use the Arranger in piano mode, PIANIST (ON) … in other words eliminating the split and extending the Upper section over the full keyboard (“Full Upper” mode). The chord will therefore not be recognized only on the Left section but over the full keyboard and whatever voice you select will be used through the entire keyboard. Also in this window, you may set the Arranger such that you can play bass with your left hand simply by touching BASSIST on the screen ‐ BASSIST(ON) . The two modes, Bassist/Pianist, may only be used one at a time. They will now be described in more detail: PIANIST Auto: In this mode, simply play 3 or more notes on the keyboard so that the chord is recognized and once this happens, you can then play the melody with one, or at the most two notes, without changing the chords of the Arranger. 57 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Standard: In this mode you freeze the chord recognized with the Sustain Pedal so as to play on the keyboard without altering the tone of the Arranger. This is the typical way a piano player plays anyway – pressing the sustain pedal when the notes being placed are in the current chord just played. Sustain Pedal: When this parameter is enabled (ON), the Sustain Pedal control on Pianist is enabled once plugged into the SD7. BASSIST The Bassist function allows you to play the Manual Bass on the left section of the keyboard while controlling the Arranger and song line at the same time on the right section. This function has 2 playing modes: EASY and EXPERT. ...
As an example, let’s replace the current ‘boring’ Nylon guitar lines used in Arranger/Variation A CHORD 2 with a new ARP Guitar from the built in KETRON library that has over 30 guitar arps. (NB:‐ You can touch any of the ARRANGERS A‐D on the panel and work with it’s chord 2 instead). Touch the CHORD 2 icon above the MODELING icon to display a page similar to this below – On the right side of the screen, touch GUITAR to access the Guitar Library of arpeggios and other orchestral guitar lines. The left side of the screen displays the arpeggios found in the GUITAR bank. You can turn the data wheel to reveal even more. Since they are named generically (Arp1, Arp2 …. Etc), it would be wise to press the red START button to start playing the style (play a chord so the full arranger is playing) and then 59 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Once you have found the one you want, press the next ARRANGER section (A‐D) on the panel and repeat the above. When you have competed modeling you style, you will need to save it as a USER STYLE, else all changes are lost once you select a new style or turn off the instrument. To save the new style as a USER style, simply press SAVE on the panel (right side) to display this screen below‐ 60 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
B. Creating a style from scratch (requires professional Midi software such as Cakewalk) KETRON has created a nice tool for the SD7 which allows you to alter the Drums, Bass, or any of the chord parts (1‐5) to create an entirely new style and since all these parts were carefully created by ...
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The following page will be displayed on the SD7 – You can see all the relevant parts that make up the style (apart from CHORD 5). These are the parts you can modify and replace with hundreds of other style‐templates that KETRON has provided for use in each section – so you have different templates for DRUM, Groove (percussion), Bass and Chords (1 – 5). At this point, it will be smart to press the red START button to start playing the style so you hear how the style is now (with no adjustment) and then adjust as suggested below. Let’s say we want to change the GROOVE of the style. Simply touch the GROOVE icon on the screen to display the following screen below – 62 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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DRUM – If the DRUM track is not being used for the DRUM track elsewhere in the style, this part will be selectable and you can touch it and select from the left of the screen different DRUM GROOVES to use in the style (just as you did the GROOVE). However, if this is grayed out (as above), this means the DRUM bank is already being used by the DRUM track of the style and so cannot be used here. If you select a DRUM track and try to press START to play the style immediately, the following message may appear while the SD7 loaded the appropriate Audio Drums that have just been selected – 63 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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NB:‐ When a drum track is selected during MODELING, the new selection automatically loads the various audio drums for all the other Arranger tracks ‐ so if you were in Arranger B and went into the STYLE MODELING and selected DRUM to choose a new DRUM arrangement for Arranger B, 3 new Audio Drums will also be loaded for Arranger A, C and D. You cannot load individual Audio Drums for individual Arranger parts! ORIGINAL – Use this to revert to the original style (ignore all changes). Once done with the GROOVE, press EXIT to return to the main MODELING screen. Now, lets MODEL the bass – similar procedure as above. Touch the BASS icon on the screen to access the BASS templates. NB:‐ An additional feature to BASS and CHORDS (1‐5) is that not only can do modify the Bass and Chord lines by making a selection from the data base on the left, but you can also change the actual instrument being played (bass instrument in this case) by touching the BASS icon on the right and selecting a new Bass Guitar from those displayed. (Don’t forget to turn the data wheel to display even more instruments and press EXIT when done). 64 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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PIANO was touched and so the left side of the screen displays 2 rows of 10 Piano Arrangements available for use in CHORD 1. Turn the data wheel to display even more and touch the one you want). If the style is playing, as you touch, you can sample/hear the arrangement in real time – then keep the one you like. Remember this arrangement selected only impacts the current ARRANGER/VARIATION. You can select different arrangements for CHORD 1 of Arranger B, Arranger C 65 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
Touch SAVE AS and name your new style in the next screen – then touch the ENTER button on the screen and save as a USER style. This style can now be used by you instantly by selecting it from the appropriate style category (USER STYLE on [yellow]) or in a REGISTRATION (Keyboard set up). 4.M ‐ CREATING YOUR OWN NEW STYLES FROM SCRATCH (STYLE CREATOR) It is possible to create a new style for the KETRON SD7 electronic keyboard (OS 1.0) by first creating a professional standard Midifile using an external PC sequencer (such as Cubase, Sonar, Logic … etc) and then importing this file into the instrument to be used as a style. This tutorial covers the phases, formats and procedures needed to create a new style for the SD7. KETRON STYLE FORMAT:‐ KETRON styles are composed of the following parts:‐ 4 Arrangements (A, B, C & D), 4 Fill ins, 4 Breaks, 3 Intros and 3 Endings. In order to create a style, you will need to implement in one Standard Midifile (format 0) all the parts mentioned above, separated by special markers. ...
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ARRD_SEV FILD_SEV BRKD_SEV The marker has to be positioned exactly at the beginning of the measure and precede every other event of that section. The control change (volume, pan, reverb, chorus and exchange programs) must be positioned exactly at the beginning of the measure and precede every other type of event notes and continuous control (modulation, Pitch Bend, etc.) 67 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
The first measure of the Midi file must have only one marker on the first tick. The marker must have the following name “Audya Style 1.0”. You can now start recording the events/notes of the style from the second measure. The sequence order of the Midi parts of each section and of the marker is at the discretion of the user. (Ex. ARRA_MAJ, INT3_MIN, FILLC_MAJ, etc.). There is no fixed order to arrange these parts, as they will automatically be assigned to the appropriate style parts in the SD7. All sections and related markers should be written back to back ‐ without leaving any empty measures or spaces within the midifile. STYLE PARTS AND RELATED MIDI CHANNELS:‐ In each section, it is possible to program the midi parts associated with each part. Here are the recommended style parts, midi channels and instruments to use:‐ Style Part Midi Ch. Instrument Note(s) DRUM1 C h 10 Drum Set ...
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Audio Drums, or using the Style Modeling tool, grants access to hundreds of professional style parts such as bass. Chords, grooves etc. CONVERTING THE MIDIFILE CREATED INTO SD7 STYLE FORMAT:‐ After saving the Midifile as type/format 0, simply rename the midifile with the new extension *.KST (example 70's POP.KST)[ – ...
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Connect the SD7 via USB to your computer and transfer the *KST file into any of the USER STYLE sub folders (Pop, Dance, Ballad … etc). For this example, we will copy the file into the POP sub‐folder. Disconnect the SD7 from your computer and go on the keyboard – press the STYLE button (on) and ...
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You can further enhance the style by going to style view (touch VIEW) from where you will have access to the individual style components (Drum, Bass, Chords .. etc) from which you can modify the volume, program change, effects, pan and other style parameters such as parallel/close chord modes, retrigger .. etc for each style part. Once complete with adjustments, press the SAVE button and save your finished style (as noted in the user manual). As mentioned earlier, it is also possible to further enhance or modify the style using the new Style Modeling feature to described above in 4.L‐ Assembling your own style Page 63. 71 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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5. MICROPHONE & VOCAL HARMONIZER (VOICETRON) The SD7 comes with studio quality professional built‐in Microphone and Vocal Harmonizer circuits. This allows you to sing into your microphone and instantly add background vocals to your songs as you either play live (as just a keyboard or using the styles and beats) or with Audio (Mp3 and Wave) and Midifiles (in which case the Midifiles control the vocal harmonies automatically). To take advantage of this and start singing right away while having great back up vocalists at your finger tips, all you need to do is simply – Make sure the Mic volume slider is all the way down on the front panel (this way there is no popping sound as you connect your mic to the unit). Plug in a good microphone into the MIC 1 input jack on the back of the unit Set the gain (initially at 1/2 way up [line should be straight ‐ up and down]). Press the MIC button on the panel (right side) to turn on the mic and adjust the Mic volume 1/2 way up for a start – then sing or talk into the mic for a sound check. If you hear any ...
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MICRO (left) –These settings address the effects on the microphone. The ON/OFF button turns the mic on or off (same effect as turning on/off the mic by pressing the MIC button on the panel). Touch either of the silver knobs and turn the data wheel to adjust the microphone’s Vol (Volume), Rev (Reverb level) and Echo. The values are displayed right next to each other. You can also change the value by touching the corresponding knob and moving/turning your finger on the screen. 5.A ‐ MICROPHONE PRESETS & SETTINGS IN DETAIL There are 10 Factory and 10 User settings for the microphone. By touching the settings box next to the On/Off button on the screen, a drop down menu displays all the 10 factory settings as shown in this screen below – 73 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Simply turn the wheel to highlight the one you want and touch it (or press ENTER on the panel – left side) to select it – and it will be displayed in the box. The user settings are below the factory settings. If you EDIT any of the factory settings, they get stored in one of the 10 USER locations. If you press EDIT, the SD7 will now display the various effects processes used to create the current Mic setting (Gate, Eq, Compressor .. etc) as shown in the screen below. The status of these processes (ON or OFF) is also shown above their icons. ...
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Touch the Noise Gate setting you want and press EXIT on the panel (right side) to return to the Mic Edit screen. To view or modify the current EQ settings, touch VIEW on the screen and modify as you see fit to your voice – by touching and turning your finger on the screen or the data wheel. If you want to make your own EQ setting and save for future use, touch the current EQ setting box below the EQ graph from the previous screen (Studio as shown in example above). Turn the data wheel and select any User Eq (1‐4) below. 75 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Moving on, if you want to make changes to the Compressor, simply touch the current selection (Comp‐ 15db) to display other options as shown below – Select the new compressor setting you wish to use by touching it on the screen – then touch EXIT to return to the edit screen. (NB‐ You can also touch an item twice (double click) to select it and return to the previous screen). This method of editing the microphone settings is true for all the other parameters shown on the screen. NB:‐ To avoid pressing EXIT each time a selection is made, simply double‐touch it (touch it and touch it again – like double clicking on a computer) 76 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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5.B ‐ VOCAL HARMONIZER (VOICETRON) SETTINGS IN DETAIL Once you plug in your mic and turn up the vocal harmonies, you may not hear any harmonies. No, your SD7 is not damaged. Why are there no harmonies? From the factory, your SD7 is programmed to respond to harmonies by playing notes to the right of the split point (Right hand) so if you want to hear harmonies (with everything else on), you will have to play a note to the right of the split. On the ...
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From the Edit Mico screen above, touch the current vocal harmonizer setting (HARMONY RIGHT in this case above) to display the following screen that gives you access to all the other current vocalizer preset settings in the SD7. Turn the data wheel to access even more below. Once you have found the appropriate setting, sing into the microphone and try it out. If you have made some customized adjustments, you can then press the SAVE button on the panel to save these as a USER setting for future recall/use – either SAVE the Microphone settings or SAVE the Vocalizer settings – 78 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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So in the example above, VOICETRON was selected from the previous screen and now you can save the current settings under the first user location‐ USER 01 (or turn the data wheel to select another User location). Touch SAVE AS and give USER 01 your own name in the next screen and touch ENTER to save it. NB:‐ In the vocalizer EDIT mode, there is a unique mode called VOICETRON TO ARRANGE (Vocalizer settings linked to the Arranger /Variation buttons A, B, C & D). What this does is … it allows you to program different Vocal Harmonies to the various Arranger buttons such that when you are playing with Arranger A, a vocal harmony is heard (or non). When you switch to Arranger B, a different harmony type is automatically selected, when you switch to Arranger C … 79 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Touch Off to turn this mode ON (yellow). (NB:‐ If this is left off, even if you proceed to set up the various modes, the modes will not change automatically as you switch between the various arranger modes). Touch VOICETRON TO ARRANGE to get into the next screen where you can assign which vocalizer harmonies get assigned to which Arranger buttons (A, B, D, C Start/Stop …etc). 80 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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When done, your screen should look something like this – In the example above, the vocalizer has been set up such that if you press – ARRANGER A:‐ You’ll hear UNISON (double voice but same notes). ARRANGER B:‐ You’ll hear TRIO DOWN (your voice plus harmonies below your voice). ARRANGER C:‐ You’ll hear DUET STANDARD (your voice plus another with standard harmony). ARRANGER D:‐ You’ll hear TRIO DOWN (your voice plus 2 others below your voice) STOP (when the arranger is off/not playing). OFF – no harmonies. 81 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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5.D ‐ GUITAR / MICROPHONE #2 INPUT You can connect either a 2 Microphone or a Guitar/Instrument into the INPUT jack at the back of the SD7 as shown – Make sure the INPUT volume slider is all the way down and the INPUT switch on the panel is OFF BEFORE making any connections to the instrument to prevent any possible damages to the internal ...
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Guitar Setup will be turned off if it was on). If a Guitar (or a musical instrument) is what has been connected to the MIC2 jack at back of the SD7, touch the ON button on the right side close to the Guitar Setup icon (the Micro Setup will be turned off if it was on). Adjusting the MICRO2 settings is identically to adjusting the MICRO1 settings already ...
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Each of the stomp boxes displayed above represents different guitar effects used by Guitar players. Once you have plugged in your guitar into the Line input on the back of the SD7, simply touch the effect box’s knob you wish to turn on or off. A red light denotes that the effect has been turned on (in the example above, the DELAY effect has been turned on). To change the amount of delay, touch e.g. the delay knob (it turns red showing it is in edit mode) and turn it with your finger or turn the data value wheel ...
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Creating your song set ups is easy. However, before you proceed, you want to make sure the REGISTRATIONS are set up to save the settings you want them to save and ignore the settings you want them to ignore. This is done because in some instances (e.g. Footswitches or Midi setups), you want the settings of such to remain unchanged no matter what REGISTRATION is recalled. 6.B ‐ DETERMINING WHAT A REGISGRATION SAVES AND IGNORES To set up the SD7 such that the Registration can ignore certain settings and change others, from the main screen, press the MENU button – 85 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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The following screen is displayed once you press the MENU button above – Touch the REGS.SETUP (Registration Set up) to enter the registration set up screen where you can select what settings registrations will load up and which will be ignored. The screen displayed will look similar to this – 86 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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(REGISTRATION button after the registration has been loaded, thus returning the keyboard to full live play on the display. If this icon is off (blue), then the REGIS (Registration) button stays ON each time you turn it on, until you manually turn it off again. Press MENU to turn off the menu and return to the default screen. Now, let’s get back to saving/creating a registration:‐ Play around and select the appropriate elements (voice, style, tempo, key, lyrics (text files). Mic settings, vocal harmonizer ... etc that you want for this particular song. Once the keyboard has been set up appropriately press the REGIS button to turn on the Registration feature. The REGIS button lights up and the screen displayed should look like this – 87 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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(e.g. “I will always love”) and touch ENTER on the next screen to save after naming the registration. NB:‐ Some may prefer to save a registration which in fact is a style setting that can be used to play multiple songs. So you may choose a style (BALLAD) and voice (SAX) and this set up maybe used to play 3 or 4 Ballads back to back. In this 88 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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recall this song setting to play most of your slow ballads back to back for an example. 6.C ‐ RECALLING YOUR SONG SET UP/ REGISTRATIONS AT THE SHOW The SD7 was designed predominantly with the live player in mind. Once you get to your performance, how do you now instantly recall all those settings you spent hours and hours creating at home? Press the REGS (Registration) button found on the top left side of the panel to access the REGISTRATION screen which looks something like this:‐ As you can see from the screen above, you have 4 banks of registrations/set ups and each bank can hold 1024 single registrations or song set ups. BANK1 is the default where your registration will reside (unless you changed it), so if BANK 1 is not already on (yellow), touch it. The center of the screen will now display your registrations along with some that were already put here by the factory. Scroll down (using the data wheel) to highlight your registration you ...
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‘Rock’, you would simply key in 3 or “0‐0‐3” and the ROCK song setting/Register will instantly be loaded and you can now play the song that was associated with this registration. GLOBAL SEARCH FOR REGISTRATIONS BY NAME (Keyboard entry) o Another method you can use to search for a registration (if you know it’s name) is to use the GLOBAL SEARCH feature. From the default screen (turn off the REGIS ]Registration button]), press the SEARCH button on the panel (left side) – o The following search window is displayed – 90 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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You can – Touch the Keyboard and start typing the name of the registration. The SD7 will display all files with that name. The registration will be the one that ends with the *.reg extension. Touch it twice (double click) to load it and use. Use the numeric keypad at the bottom of the screen to enter the letters into the box. Touch quickly twice (for the 2 letter) or thrice (for the 3 letter). 91 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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7. RECORDING (SONGS & PHRASES) You can record a song or phrase directly onto the SD7’s internal memory and transfer to a USB stick or your computer or keep in the SD7 for future use. There are 2 types of recordings that can be done on the SD7:‐ SONG (complete song) or PHRASE (up to 16 bar loop which can be played back as you play freely throughout the entire keyboard). 7.A ‐ SONG OR PHRASE RECORDING Recording a song is pretty easy on the SD7. You can record your song either as a Midifile (data which records your activity on the keyboard… etc) or Audio (wav ‐ which records the actual sounds as created on the keyboard). Since the audio recording captures the actual sounds as recorded, you can later use the audio recording anywhere else (studio, church) and it will still sound as it did on the SD7. However when you record with Midi, unless it is played back using another SD7, chances are it will sound ...
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Select the type of recording you want to do on the SD7 – MIDI:‐ This records the data played on the SD7. Use this option if you intend to play the recorded material through the SD7 so as to get exactly what was recorded. You may also use this if you intend to use the playback material in the studio and allow for re voicing, modifications …etc. When MIDI is selected, the tempo (speed) and metronome bar are also displayed on the screen and can be modified before you start recording. AUDIO:‐ This records the actual sounds as played on the SD7 as a wave file. Use this option if you want your recording to sound exactly the same when played back either on the SD7 or on another device. Recording is in stereo. When Audio is selected, the tempo and metronome bars are not displayed. SONG OR PHRASE? SONG is selected by default (SONG MODE), so you can now proceed to touch REC when you are ready to start recording. Recording actually starts as soon as you touch a key (in MIDI MODE) or immediately (in AUDIO mode). If you want to record a PHRASE, touch PHRASE on the screen BEFORE you touch REC. Touch BAR and set the number of bars before the phrase is looped. ...
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8. AUDIO, VIDEO & MIDI MULTI MEDIA PLAYER The SD7 is not only a keyboard player’s dream come true. It is also the Swiss knife for musicians offering you the capability to play back MP3, Mp4, Wave and Midifiles and mix and match them with styles too. You can also time stretch audio files (just as a DJ would today) plus add LIVE EFFECTS to your music in real time and cross fade from one to the other automatically or live during your break. There are 2 PLAYERS on the SD7 which you can control in real time. These can be accessed by pressing either of the Player buttons as shown below in the panel diagram – Their volumes can be controlled independently using the slider volume controls just below them ‐ Press the PLAYER 1 button on the panel to display the files and folders within the current selected drive (default is the internal drive). 94 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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(NB:‐ If you want to access or use contents found in a different storage drive such as your inserted USB stick, you will have to …) – Press the MEDIA button to display the following screen which shows all the devices connected to the SD7 at this time. From the example above, you can see that there are 3 more storage devices that have ...
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Touch the drive whose files you want to work with. From now one, you will be able to work with and access files within the selected drive. If you need to work with files in another drive, you will have to press MEDIA once more and touch the drive you want to work with. Turn the data wheel to highlight the file you want to play and touch it twice once displayed on the screen (or press ENTER) to start playing it immediately. If you highlighted a folder instead, it will open up to disclose the contents that are within it. As you begin playing files that are within the SD7 (or over 2000 Midifiles and Audio files that come with the AjamSonic upgrade kit for the SD7), there are some interesting features worth mentioning now that can be used to enhance your playing experience or in other cases, set you apart from other musicians and performers. Let us discus this in more details, so let’s take a closer look at the features found on the PLAYER screen. SYNC/NEXT:‐ This feature allows you to prepare another song that will start playing immediately once you want it to start as a song plays. In other words, you can synchronize the time it starts so it starts on say the down‐ beat of the previous song. To illustrate this better with an example, while in the Player screen as above ‐ Touch a song and start playing it. As it plays, touch the SYNC/NEXT icon on the Player screen. ...
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(go to the new song …)and the initial song playing will immediately stop, while the new song selected will start playing. 2. DRUM RESTYLE:‐ This tool is a blessing for those heavily involved with MIDIFILES. Although not an exclusive KETRON feature, the fact that you can replace the midi drums of your midifiles with LIVE AUDIO Drum used in the KETRON SD7 styles is revolutionary. Midifiles usually suffer from one thing – monotonous, repetitive and boring drums. This is because there I a lot more to drums than beating sticks and surfaces. Apart from ...
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Drums. The SD7 allows you to thus take out the Midi drums of any Midifile, and replace it with the Live drums used within the styles. Taking it a step further, you can use and control fill ins and breaks as well within the midifile … thus bringing life into your sequences or songs. This feature can only be used on MIDIFILES, so make sure you are in a folder that has Midifiles. Select the midifile whose drums you want to REMIX. Your screen should look like this – >>> Touch the DRUM RESTYLE icon on the screen. The SD7 will now take you to the STYLE SELECTION page from which you can choose a style (close enough to the midifile you are trying to play) whose drums you would like to incorporate in your midifile/sequence. Go ahead and select the style whose drums you want to use with your sequence/midifile. Once the hour glass disappears, press EXIT to return to the DRUM RESTYLE page. You are now ready to start playing your song with the new drums. Press the red START/STOP button on the panel to start playing the selected midifile. 98 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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You can set the DRUM RESTYLE feature so that the new Audio Drums automatically start and end between specific measures of the midifile, thus freeing you up to simply play. To do this, press the DRUM RESTYLE EDIT button (K.STOP). The following screen will be displayed. 99 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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The right side of the “Drum Restyle” screen shows the start and stop measure which you can set by touching the respective box, then turn the data wheel to put in the values corresponding to where in the song you want the new audio drums to start and stop. This is a very nice feature especially when you have a song that has a complicated introduction or ending and you want the audio drums to come in just for the body of the song, while maintaining the Midi drums for the complicated parts programmed to suit just that song. You can go back to the default value (no set point for the DRUM RESTYLE) by touching DEFAULT icon on the screen. 3. PLAY LIST:‐ The playlist allows you put your favorite songs in one place or create a playlist that the SD7 can play while you take a break during one of your performances. When you touch the PLAYLIST icon on the screen, a screen similar to this which shows you the first 10 Playlists is displayed – You can create up to 110 PlayLists (10 per page). You can use the icons to the side of the screen to move the page forward or backward to see other Playlists in the other pages too. From the factory, one 100 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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PLAYLIST 1 (factory Playlist) above, simply touch the PLAYLIST 1 icon on the screen to show the following – Now, you can touch any song twice (or press ENTER once highlighted) to start playing it. A. CREATING A PLAYLIST You can create your own playlist from scratch or edit an existing playlist to take old songs out, insert new songs or replace songs all together. To create a new playlist,‐ From the PLAYLIST screen above, Touch any of the EMPTY locations to create new playlist in that location (might be best to touch that below the PLAYLIST 1 so as to create PLAYLISTS in order). You should see a screen like this asking if you want to create a new playlist – 101 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Touch YES and the SD7 will take you to the drive you are currently working in (shown on the top right corner of the screen) and display all the folders and files within that drive. Your screen will look like this – Nb:‐ If you want to change to another drive installed on your SD7, simply touch to the right of the screen (in this example, only one drive is installed – AJAMSONIC) Scroll through and touch the folder where the files you want to add to your playlist exist. ...
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Now, highlight the song you want to include in your playlist and press INSERT ITEM (as shown above) to insert the selected song into the new playlist. A blue dot will be displayed next to the song showing that is has been selected … as shown – Repeat the above to select (INSERT ITEM) all songs you which to include in this new playlist… 103 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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In this case above, 2 songs have been inserted into the new playlist (24000 Baci.mid and A Che Serve Volare.mid) NB:‐ You can also press EXIT and go to other folders and INSERT songs into the playlist – the SD7 is adding all the songs you select into the new playlist which you will then name once done with the song selection. Once you have selected all the songs you want to create your new PLAYLIST, press the SAVE button on the panel to access the next screen below from which you can name your new song PLAYLIST – >>> When done, touch ENTER on the screen and you will see the new playlist created (as shown on the top right screen image above). B. ADDING SONGS TO OR REMOVING FROM A PLALIST ‐ EDITING A ...
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Touch the PLAYLIST displayed on the screen which you want to edit. The songs within that playlist will be displayed on the screen as before. Touch EDIT on the screen to display the edit controls (as shown below). You can now use these buttons to below to erase, insert, append, replace or remove songs within the current PLAYLIST. Simply touch any of these buttons, then touch the file you want the action to be carried out on and confirm in the next screen displayed (that you really want to do this). Once done for all the songs in question, simply press SAVE once more to save the new playlist. 105 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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… etc The creation and management of MY FOLDER is similar to PLAYLIST so need not be written all over. 5. FUNCTION:‐ There are a lot of functions that exist in this area which are used to control the general functioning of the keyboard. These are displayed in 3 columns on the following screen and we will describe each one briefly:‐ 106 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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MARKER:‐ These are pointers used to set certain points within a song such that while playing that song, that you can instantly or eventually jump to certain parts of the song (e.g. verses, choruses … etc) without having to wait until the song is finished. Midi Programs like Cubase or Cakewalk can be used to create/insert the markers within the song. When you touch MARKER, these marker points are then displayed for you to select where (within the song) you would like to go to. You can program the MARKER (by touching the box next to it and turning the data wheel ) such that as soon as you touch a marker, the SD7 will:‐ Immediate – Go to selected marker point in song at once End bar – Go to selected marker point in song after completing the current measure it is playing. End Section – Go to selected marker position in song after completing the current section (e.g. after completing verse). End Loop – Go to selected marker position in song after completing current loop. AUTO PLAY:‐ When this is turned on (yellow), when using either PLAYER 1 or PLAYER 2, all songs (midi or audio) within the current folder are played back to back. The silent time (in seconds) between each song is set by touching the Space box and turning the data wheel to set between 0 (no space between songs) to 30 (30 seconds between songs). This feature is great especially when you are performing and need to take a break between sets but have no DJ. Moive/Pdf To RGB:‐ When this is off (blue), if you play a movie file (mp4, avi … etc) on the Midjay Pro, the movie will be displayed on the Midjay Pro’s internal screen/display. If this is on (yellow), then the movie will not be displayed on the Midjay Pro – however, it will be ...
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(yellow), whenever you play the midifile, the corresponding lyrics will be displayed on the screen as well. However, if this function is off, then when you play the midifile, the text (or any other files associated with it) will not be loaded and seen as well. Use this function when you want to be able to say play midifiles but still have the screen display full controls for you to perform with. 108 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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MIDIFILE Songs will be displayed on the screen, while all the other file types will be ignored. By checking “All Files”, then all files are displayed. The SORT window (below the File View Filter window) allows you to determine how the files will be sorted out once displayed on the SD7, using the top part of the screen. Touch either box:‐ Alphabetical sort – Items will be displayed alphabetically. Numeric sort – Items will be sorted numerically. ...
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9. PLAY MODES Depending on what you want to use the SD7 for (sound source, keyboard, as an organist …), there are various play modes you can choose from to instantly set the keyboard up so that you simply play. Press the MENU button to display the following screen. Some of these have already been discussed in details above and so we will focus on those that have not yet been discussed. Touch PLAY MODE to access the following screen from which you can select which PLAY MODE suites your needs while using the SD7. 1. MASTER:‐ This sets up the SD7 to be controlled from an external controller such as another keyboard (e.g. KETRON GP1 with weighted keys), or Midi Guitar or Accordion. Use this mode if you want to access the sounds and styles of the SD7 by playing on another Midi device. From 111 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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2. ACCORD.STYLE:‐ This sets up the SD7 to be controlled from an external Midi Accordion such that the chords played on the accordion control the Automatic accompaniment (styles) of the SD7. It automatically configures the MIDI in channels for the right/lead (01), left/chords (02) and bass (03). These can of course be changed from the MIDI screen (see section 10 – Midi Mode Page 119 below for more on Midi setup). The following screen is displayed when you touch ...
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The Pop Up box "SAVE ACCORDION SETTING" appears on the display from which you may save the settings by pressing SAVE or escape by touching CANCEL . 3. ACCORD.CLASSIC:‐ This sets up the SD7 to be controlled from an external Midi Accordion such that the chords played on the accordion do NOT control the Automatic accompaniment (styles) of the SD7, however the user can manually play up to 3 of these chords (voices) manually. It automatically configures the MIDI in channels for the right/lead (01), left/chords (02) and bass (03). These can of course be changed from the MIDI screen (section 10 – Midi Mode Page 119 below for more on Midi setup). The following screen is displayed when you touch ...
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Bass and Chord tracks but not for the drums. When you select one of these functions, the value of the function selected (namely the value of the octave transposition of the Pan of the Reverb and Chorus of the sounds assigned to the Bass and Chord tracks) are displayed in the above box, which by default shows the volume. These values may be adjusted in the same way as the Volume, namely by touching the corresponding box and adjusting the value with the Dial. You can save the settings made on this page. Press SAVE on the panel to access the SAVE screen. The Pop Up box "SAVE ACCORDION SETTING" appears on the display on which you may save the settings by pressing SAVE or escape by selecting CANCEL. 114 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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4. ORGAN:‐ This sets up the SD7 to be played just as an Organist would. Let’s go through the various functions available for the Organist in this mode – ‐ LEFT DRUM: This function allows you to play the part DRUM using Bass pedals. The function is activated (On) or disabled (Off) by instantly touching the specific panel on the Touch Screen. Displayed to the right is a field where you can choose the sounds to be assigned to the two layers of Bass dedicated buttons plus layer 2 on Chord dedicated buttons. To choose the sound simply touch the specific panel, which will ...
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SUSTAIN: Select this function on the Touch Screen to adjust the Bass sustain value with the Dial. ‐ OCTAVE: Allows once selected by touch screen to adjust with the Dial sustain value of Bass section. You can save the settings made on this page. Press SAVE on the panel. The Pop Up box "SAVE ACCORDION SETTING" appears on the display on which you may save the settings by pressing SAVE or escape by selecting CANCEL. 116 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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MIDI (Musical Instruments Digital Interface) is a protocol by which musical instruments can communicate with one another, including the SD7 which has extensive Midi controls that can be configured from the MIDI menu. You can actually use the SD7 to control other Midi devices or have them control the SD7 ...
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‐ARRANGER KEYBOARD: Displays a screen that shows the corresponding Midi channels used during reception and transmission from the sound module built into the Arranger of the instrument. ‐ CLOCK IN: When this is enabled (yellow) the SD7 accepts the Midi Clock command from external Midi appliances and may be synchronized with an external Sequencer / Controller connected to the MIDI In jack. ‐ CLOCK OUT: When this is enabled (yellow), the SD7 transmits the Midi Clock to External Midi appliances (Sequencer/Controller) connected to the MIDI Out jack. ‐ USB MIDI: Turns the USB Device port on the back panel into a Midi port for transmission and reception too. In this mode the Midi connection to sequencer software may be made directly using a USB cable without using the Midi ports and traditional Midi cables. 118 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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‐ MIDI PORT: Pressing this key opens a window to route the Midi ports as shown ‐ The window displays 3 devices on the instrument and the respective connections to the Midi In and Midi Out ports. Midi In 2 port is addressed exclusively to the Keyboard (Global). NB:‐ When there is a MIDI signal on the MIDI IN port, the EXIT button will flash to denote that the SD7 is receiving a MIDI signal .You can use this as a test to make sure there is MIDI data coming in through the MIDI IN2 port. 119 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Press the red START button on the panel to play the file. A line moves progressively along the wave shape from left to right representing where you are in the song. ‐WAVE START: Takes the counter (line) to the beginning of the .wav file. You can use this to set which point you want the song to start playing from (with the data wheel once selected). (NB:‐ If you want to cut out a portion of the song, use this to set the start point of the song). ‐ WAVE STOP: Takes the counter (line) to the end of the .wav file. You can use this to set which point you want the song to stop playing at (with the data wheel once selected). (NB:‐ If you want to cut out a portion of the song, use this to set the end point of the song). ‐ CUT: This function cuts out the portion of the song before the starting point, i.e. before the section set by the WAVE START above. ‐ NORMALIZE: Levels the volume so that the highest peaks coincide with the highest level under the distortion (0 Db). ‐ VOLUME: Regulates the volume of the file in percentages. 120 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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12. MANUAL (Digital Copy) A copy of the factory manual of the SD7 resides inside the SD7 and can be accessed by pressing the MENU button and then touching the MANUAL icon shown on the screen. The manual contains links that enable quick navigation between sections as you browse through. Use this digital ...
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Mode # 1:‐ Whenever a voice group is selected, the first voice in that group is always selected. Mode #2:‐ Whenever a voice group is selected, the last voice that was used in that group is automatically the one that is selected. This mode is great when you want to program the SD7 such that whenever a voice group is selected, a specific voice in that group is used. This way, all you have to do is touch the icon for the voice group and the voice you want is already there ...
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SD 7 or on ALL mode where you will hear both the metronome and music through the headphones. TYPE : Allows you to assign 3 different tones to the metronome click. Here again simply touch the icon on the display (turns yellow) and set it’s value with the Dial. ‐ KINETICS MODE: This function allows you to scroll up and down the screen with your fingers (by touching the screen and sliding your fingers up and down just as on most touch screen phones today). To save this setting (so that you don’t repeat it next time the SD7 is turned on), press the SAVE button on the panel and then touch SAVE CUSTOM STARTUP. 123 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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‐ SHOW AUTO LYRIC: Automatically displays the associated lyrics with a song that is playing (if available). ‐ SYSTEM LANGUAGE: Allows you to set the language of your instrument. Touch the box to open a drop down menu from which you may select one of the following languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese. Select the SAVE/ RESTART on the display to save this setting. ‐ DATE/TIME: Allows you to access the following page to set the date and time on your SD7: The months on the calendar displayed at the centre may be moved forwards or backwards with the right and left arrows. To select the day simply touch the day of the month on the calendar or select the field CURRENT ...
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‐ DISPLAY SKIN: As many devices of today, the SD7 allows you to modify the background display (SKIN). Touch this button to access a selection page with different SKINS suggested by KETRON: Once you select your new preference the following screen will be displayed ‐ Touch “OK” to confirm and reboot the SD7. The SD7 will now power on with the new display as selected. 125 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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Let’s take a closer look at the functions available and how they can be applied to our daily usage. ‐ GLOBAL: Allows you to tune the SD7 and modify Modulation sensitivity. To modify the tone, simply touch the TUNE box or the corresponding virtual knob and change the numeric value by turning with your finger or with the data Dial. In the same way, to change modulation sensitivity, touch the MOD. ...
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‐ POLARITY: This allows you to select the polarity of the pedal switch to use (Normal Open / Normal Closed) based on what type of volume pedal you are using. This also means you can now use volume pedals from other manufactures too and customize the SD7 to accept them. ‐ THRESHOLD: This adjusts the opening threshold of the pedal controller to be used. ‐ VELOCITY CURVE: This sets the keyboard dynamic response of SD7 (Soft, Medium, Hard, Fixed). Based on how hard or soft you play, you can set the way the SD7 will respond to your ‘touch’. ‐ FIXED: This is used when you do not want any variation in volume or response from the keyboard ...
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Effects Footswitch, thus freeing up your hands to simply play. You can for an example assign the Start/Stop to Switch #1, Sustain to Switch #2, Vocalizer on/off to switch #3, voice change to switch #4 .. etc and in this way, you can activate all these functions by pressing the corresponding switches and not lifting your hands off the keyboard to touch on the panel. To access the FOOTSWITCH page, press the MENU button and then touch the FOOTSWITCH icon shown on the screen to display the following screen – o Now touch the switch you want to assign a function to (e.g. #10) and a drop down menu showing all relevant functions you can program into #10 are displayed. You can use the data wheel to scroll down the list to others not currently displayed on the page. 128 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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When you see a function you want, touch it and it is automatically assigned to that switch (displayed right below it). o Press EXIT to get back to the main footswitch page and repeat the above for the other switches you want to program. Please note that although the diagram shows the FS13, if programming the FS6, use just the first row of switches (1‐6) and ignore 7 – 13 at the bottom! o When done (while still in the FOOTSWITCH page, press the SAVE button and touch SAVE to save the footswitch set. You can save up to 4 footswitch settings (SET 1‐4) as shown below the screen. 129 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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16. EXTERNAL VIDEO MONITOR SETTINGS The SD7 is capable of displaying all the information displayed on the internal touch screen onto an external video monitor or TV (Mirror mode) or just lyrics/text and pictures – depending on which you prefer. To access the VIDEO page and change the settings to match your monitor, press the MENU button and then touch the VIDEO icon shown on the screen to display the following ...
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(as the cross is displayed). Once completed, the system will reboot automatically. NB:‐ You should calibrate the instrument as described above whenever you update your system or if the display no longer responds promptly when you touch it. ‐ LOAD IMAGE: Press this function to load a customized image on the instrument which you may use as a preset background of the display. This is also very useful for you to advertise your business (e.g. if you are playing in a night club and can connect your SD7 to a few monitors there for display of your group’s name, contact info, song set and lyrics … etc. ‐ FACTORY LOGO: This function sets the factory logo as background of the display. ...
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17. ¼ NOTE TUNNING & ARRABIC SETTINGS The SD7 can be tuned for quarter note performances (which is very common in Arabic music and others from that part of the world). With such a scale, the SD7 is not limited and can be used to perform all kinds of music from all kinds of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. To access the ARABIC page and change the settings to match your ethnic background music, press the MENU button and then touch the ARABIC icon shown on the screen to display the following screen – A virtual keyboard is displayed at the centre and can be used to modify the intonation of the single ...
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‐ KOMA ON / OFF: The Koma function is used to dynamically change the intonation of the scale while you are playing. This means that if the function is On, (yellow), when you press a note between C5 and B5 shown on the display, the note will be detuned by the default value of ‐ 50 cent, but you may also adjust this with the Dial. Press the same note again to remove the modification. ‐ RESET: Resets the original modes for the Arabic Set selected. ‐ ACTIVE/INACTIVE: Enables or disables the Arabic scale. To create an Arabic intonation you have set, follow these steps: select the note you wish to change on the display, change the tune value with the data dial. Use the virtual key RESET to restore the original conditions. After introducing your modifications, press SAVE on the panel and confirm again by touching SAVE on the display in the dialogue box. If you do not wish to save your modifications, select CANCEL on the dialogue box to cancel the modifications or RESTORE to restore the original conditions. 133 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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As discussed above, Registrations are snap shot or keyboard settings that can be stored into memory locations in the SD7. You can save settings from footswitches, midi channels, voices, transposition values, styles, text files … etc – but you can also set up registrations such that some settings are not ...
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Repeat this for the others (VOICE, PLAYMODE, DPS, MIDI, MICRO1/VOICETRON, MICRO2/GUITAR). TAB AUTOSW.OFF (Tab Auto switch off) – this function automatically turns off the REGIS (REGISTRATION button after the registration has been loaded, thus returning the keyboard to full live play on the display. If this icon is off (blue), then the REGIS (Registration) button stays ON each time you turn it on, until you manually turn it off again. Press MENU to turn off the menu button and screen and return to the default screen. 135 KETRON SD7 Manual & Tutorial ...
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