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KETRON SD9 PRO MANUAL, HINTS & TIPS
(V 1.0)
Written by AJAM Inc. USA
In collaboration with KETRON Srl Italy
KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial
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  • Page 1 KETRON SD9 PRO MANUAL, HINTS & TIPS (V 1.0) Written by AJAM Inc. USA In collaboration with KETRON Srl Italy KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 2 Instantly double a lead voice Adding Professional Effects to your voice as you play (Live Effects) Assigning what gets affected by the Live Effects List of favorite voices - Voice List How to create your own Voice List KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 3 Using a Guitar and on board Stomp Boxes / Microphone 2 Input Saving and Recalling Keyboard Settings / Song Settings / Registrations Creating a Song Setup / Registration Determining what a Song Setting/Registration saves/recalls and ignores KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 4 Keyboard Controls & Settings Output Assign (Assigning Drum, Bass or Chords to separate output Aux / Headphone) Footswitches & Assigning them External Video Monitor Setup 1/4 Note Tuning ( Arabic Settings) Registration / Song settings and Controls KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 5 …. all of this built into a very affordable package, and one that was designed by musicians and for musicians. Right out of the box, the SD9 PRO is ready for any artist, performer, studio engineer or entertainer to use on stage, at a place of worship, or in the studio –...
  • Page 6 1. GETTING AROUND THE SD9 PRO QUICKLY – NAVIGATION Before we get started, let’s see how to set up the SD9 PRO by taking a look at the connections on the back (as shown in Fig. A. below). This will enable us to better understand how the SD9 PRO interacts with the outside world.
  • Page 7 FOOTSWITCH:- Connect the optional KETRON FS6 or FS13 Effects pedals to this multi-pin connector. These pedals can be use to control many functions that exist in the SD9 Pro such as Start/Stop, Fill ins, Pdf Page change, voice change, vocalizer on/off, mic on/off, chord tonalities … etc. A complete list of these functions and how to program the effects pedals are under MENU –...
  • Page 8 (more under INPUT – MICRO2/GUITAR on page 125). Navigating the SD9 PRO is very easy and can be done in a number of ways using these useful key buttons:- TOUCH SCREEN:- The bright touch screen allows you to touch icons directly on the screen.
  • Page 9 KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 10 PLAYING THE SD9 PRO - FULL KEYBOARD (PIANIST) & SPLIT (ARRANGER) MODES When you turn on the SD9 PRO, it initially turns on in the SPLIT/ARRANGER MODE, where the key bed has a SPLIT POINT. To the left of the split point are the keys used to control the arranger or play separate LOWER voice(s), and the keys to the right side are used to play Right/Lead voice(s).
  • Page 11 (the keyboard follows you and not the other way around). This is discussed in more detail below in section 4.J - PIANIST (page 68) KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 12 The new Stereo Grand Piano, new live violin, trumpets, and other natural instruments come to life and ‘breath’ in your hands as you play them on the SD9 PRO, proving once again, that KETRON has lived up to its motto of “Best Natural Sounds”.
  • Page 13 Together with the RIGHT volume slider (for the lead/main voice) you can adjust how you want both voices to sound relative to one another as each voice’s volume is independent of the other for the SD9 PRO.
  • Page 14 USER VOICE. This therefore means that if you go back and select this factory voice, the original 2 voice that was assigned to it by KETRON will still be there, and not yours).
  • Page 15 2 voice (independent of the lead voice). To access these parameters, touch the 2 voice icon on the screen for about 2 seconds to display the following screen – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 16 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 SD9 PRO, many want to be able to customize voices, layer with 2 or 3 voices, have 3 different voices with 3 different split points on the keyboard, have 3 voices with each voice playing only when the keys are played soft, medium or hard, make changes and save as their own customized voice (USER VOICE) …...
  • Page 17 Fig. 13. Voice Editor Page 1/6 The voice editor in the SD9 PRO is quit extensive but very intuitive and easy to use. Once this screen (first page of 6) is displayed you will notice the following:- • 4 Rows of voices (with access to each one’s volume, reverb level, shift, tune, pan and chorus parameters).
  • Page 18 3 … and so on. Fig. 15. Voice Editor page 3/6 • Page 3/6 gives you access to set certain parameters of this voice (Portamento, modulation, pitch … etc) which you can turn on/off by touching the related icon. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 19 WHA-WHA: – If checked, this element/voice will have the wha wha effect applied to it if a volume pedal is plugged into the SD9 PRO. This volume pedal can then be used to manually turn on/off the wha-wha – great when editing guitar sounds and trying to emulate the wah wah effect of an electric guitar! ...
  • Page 20 Page 6/6 below is a continuation from page 5/6 above. Fig. 18. Voice Editor page 6/6 Once you have created your new voice, simply press the SAVE button on the panel to display the following options:- Fig. 19a. Saving User Voice KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 21 • First make sure your SD9 PRO 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:- Fig. 20. Style selection screen Fig.
  • Page 22 You can turn the data wheel or press the ENTER/PAGE button to access more voices in this current group. • Touch the voice you want to play with your left hand. • Press EXIT to return to the STYLE VIEW PAGE. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 23 LOWER (since we are referring to the LEFT voices). These can be accessed by touching the LOWER button on the screen as was done above:- Fig. 24. Accessing Lower Voice features & Controls KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 24 2.H - PLAYING LEFT HAND BASS - MANUAL BASS You can also play left had BASS on the SD9 PRO, 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.
  • Page 25 Let’s exploit the other features associated with the MANUAL Bass (which to change, simply touch and turn the data wheel):-  LEVEL:- This is the volume of the manual bass. Adjust according to the right volume so as to get a good mix. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 26 With the voices now all set up the way you want, press the REGS button on the top right side of the panel close to the data wheel to go to the REGISTRATION screen (current Bank 1). • Press the SAVE button • The following screen will now be displayed:- KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 27 • Press the REGS (Registration) button found on the top right side of the panel to access the REGISTRATION screen which looks something like this:- KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 28 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 SD9 PRO will generate harmony notes to supplement the notes you play, based on the chords played by your left hand.
  • Page 29 On an arranger keyboard (such as the SD9 PRO), this becomes a little tricky especially since your left hand is usually focused on playing chords.
  • Page 30 (Distortion) to the last effect stomp box (Delay). By touching each of the boxes, preset effect types dedicated to that box will be displayed on a list at the center of the screen and you can choose which KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 31 (by touching the silver switch on the box itself …. Red virtual light on the switch comes on). Now for those who are not experts on applying effects to various voices, KETRON have spent hours developing a huge library of various effects combinations and storing them into master PRESETS. These presets automatically combine the various effects offered by all 4 effects stomp boxes to give you the best combination of each for the sound you want.
  • Page 32 Select the user location by touching it (in this case, touching “FUZZ LEAD”). Choose from the following drop down menu which user location you want to use to save your new Insert Effects settings at – Fig. 38. Saving User Effect type into location KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 33 FS6 of FS13 effects pedals (using VOICE UP and VOICE DOWN in the FOOTSWITCH MENU [MENU – Footswitch] ), thus freeing up your hands to play. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 34 3.B - CREATIG YOUR OWN VOICE LIST. • Press the VOICE LIST button to display the first page of 10 favorite voices KETRON has recommended (shown in Fig. 35 below). You can select and use any of these voices as usual by simply touching the voice on the screen.
  • Page 35 • The SD9 PRO 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.
  • Page 36 1 as Voice up and switch 2 as voice down. Now as you perform, simply step on switch 1 to move up your voice list (Piano-> Sax -> Guitar -> Strings … etc). Now, you can step on switch 2 to go backwards (Strings -> Guitar -> Sax -> Piano). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 37 Fig. 42. Styles One of the unique features of the SD9 Pro’s styles are its inclusion of Audio elements (Live Audio Drums, Bass and Guitars) used within the styles and controlled by the user. This means that when you play an Audio style (those with Live Audio drums and Guitars are denoted by the word “Live”...
  • Page 38 4.A - SELECTING STYLES/BEATS FOR ONE MAN BAND PERFORMANCES The SD9 PRO powers on in the STYLE mode (default page with a split point on the keyboard) as shown below in Fig. 43. If you are in a different setting, simply press the STYLE/HOME button on the right side of the panel to get back to the STYLE Mode/Page (STYLE button turns on).
  • Page 39 You can touch this box to quickly access the voice selection page or press the VOICE button on the instrument’s panel. 4.B - BETTER EXPLANATION OF THE VARIOUS PARTS/TRACKS OF A STYLE Styles in the SD9 PRO are broken down into the following sections:- • 3 Intros/Endings •...
  • Page 40 You can see all these parts by pressing the VIEW button from the main page (1/3), or touching and holding down the style for 2 seconds as shown in Fig. 47 below … … <<Page 1/3 (Touch “1/3” to change pages!) Fig. 47. Style View KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 41 4.C - HOW TO SELECT A STYLE/BEAT FOR YOUR MUSICAL PERFORMANCE As mentioned earlier, the SD9 PRO comes with many styles / beats to choose from. How do you select the right style or beat for your performance? When you turn on your SD9 PRO, the default style selected is called 16BALLAD1 from the BALLAD style category as shown below (may vary in your instrument).
  • Page 42 Once you find the style you want, touch its corresponding icon on the screen.  Please note that an hour glass maybe displayed temporarily – why? The SD9 PRO uses AUDIO styles (which have live audio drums and guitars) and so whenever an Audio style is loaded, the corresponding audio drums and guitars of the style need to be loaded as well, hence the extremely short delay.
  • Page 43 4.D - THE RECOMMENDED WAY TO PLAY AND FULLY ENJOY THE STYLES (AUTO TRACKS) To better explain the style functions and how and when to use what, we have provided the image above of the SD9 PRO’s style control buttons (hard buttons). We have also relabeled some so that others who have used other manufacturer’s arrangers are comfortable with the ‘terminology’...
  • Page 44 SD9 PRO 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).
  • Page 45  The HOLD button allows you to play and release a chord and the SD9 PRO 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).
  • Page 46 3 measures).  REINTRO:- KETRON have added this feature (demanded by many over the years). As the style is playing, you may want to play the INTRO line once more and so by pressing REINTRO:- (on when yellow), if you press any of the INTRO buttons, the INTRO (and not the ending as usual) will be played once more.
  • Page 47 STYLE VIEW – DRUM on Page 60). By having them here right at your finger tips, it means you have direct access to these functions without digging into menus and pages to find them. The beauty of the SD9 PRO is that this same page offers you 5 Programmable soft touch icons (USER TAB 1-5) which you can assign to any of the functions within their menu.
  • Page 48 FACTORY START UP will revert to all FACTORY SETTINGS so leave this … unless you want to RESET the SD9 PRO to factory settings).  If you need to program and use more settings, you can do so by programming functions you can control with your feet, using the optional FS6 (6 switches) or FS13 (13 switches) effects pedal.
  • Page 49 SAVE to save the footswitch settings so you don’t have to repeat this process each time the SD9 Pro is turned off and back on. You can save up to 4 footswitch settings (SET 1-4) as shown below the screen.
  • Page 50 4.F - VOICES ASSIGNED TO VARIATIONS A, B, C & D (SINGLE TOUCH SETTINGS) As previously mentioned above, you can set up the SD9 PRO 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).
  • Page 51 4.G - CREATING YOUR OWN VOICES FOR EACH VARIATION (Single Touch Setting) Remember that these are the voices that have been set by KETRON for all the factory styles. You can always change these and use your own voices to be associated with any style (factory or yours – USER). To do this:- •...
  • Page 52 B, D and D, notice how the sounds related to the variation parts (chords) and Live audio Guitar also changed respectively - depending on the style. This feature allows professionals to mute excessive musical phrases in order to KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 53 Remember that although you could be making modifications to a FACTORY style, when you go to save it, the SD9 PRO will save the style as a USER style so you will always have you factory styles the way they were from the factory and you can always go back to them at a future date.
  • Page 54 Grooves and touch the one you want to us. Press EXIT to return to the style view screen and the new groove will be shown in the Groove box. Fig. 67. Style View – Groove Fig. 68. Groove Selection KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 55 Turn the data wheel to display even more sounds and touch the one you want – then press EXIT to return to the style view screen. Fig. 71. Style View – Lower 1 & Lower 2 Fig. 72. Lower 1 and Lower 2 Voice Selection KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 56 Live Guitars to select from in Fig. 78. Then select the new Live Guitar you want to use instead and press EXIT to return to the style view page. Note that since these are Live Audio Guitars, when KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 57 Different Flamenca guitar strum types. • Names ending with (ST) (e.g. FOLK_BALL_1(ST) – Stereo Guitar (best appreciated with the SD9 Pro plugged into a stereo sound system so you hear the individual parts coming out of both L and R speakers). A mono/single connection will make it harder to notice such Live Guitars)! •...
  • Page 58 It helps to create a great surround environment when you partially pan the instruments left and right about +/- 40. (REVERB):- Touch this to adjust how much reverb you want applied to each part (0-127). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 59 In the example above, Chord 1 has been muted (“M” in volume box). Touching the volume box once more will turn the track back on and return it’s volume to what it was before it was turned off (Muted). Touch the MUTE icon KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 60 Now in this section (still from the STYLE VIEW page), we will discuss in more detail some of the amazing control and features the SD9 PRO offers from KETRON. You will notice that some of these features are unique to the SD9 PRO or KETRON instruments in general and the way you set up their settings can set you apart from others with the same keyboard.
  • Page 61 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 SD9 PRO! Of course there are those who would prefer the keyboard played all the parts while they lay down a solid lead-instrument line.
  • Page 62 TEMPO RANGE (MIN/MAX):- Touch this to manually set the maximum and minimum BPM/TEMPO for the selected style. Since the SD9 PRO 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).
  • Page 63 SPEAKING OF DRUMS … you can also play manual drum kits on the screen of the SD9 Pro. Simply press the DRUM button on the right side of the panel (light comes on) and play the drums on the screen (it’s preferable if you do this from the main screen so you are not lost).
  • Page 64 Touch the remap box and select a new kick drum to replace the current one from the pop up list shown (or whatever drum instrument you selected on the screen). • Touch BASS to access the following screen and functions associated with the BASS (BASS turns yellow):- KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 65 When on (lights up), the SD9 PRO 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 –...
  • Page 66 For example, you may play a major chord by playing only the tonic part. With the tonic plus the minor third you play a minor chord, with the tonic plus the seventh you play a seventh chord. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 67 STOP MUTE: When this is set to ON, the LOWER voice is not heard when the style is not running. • MUTE: Instantly mutes the Lower voice selected regardless of whether the style is on (playing) or stopped. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 68 Sustain Pedal: When this parameter is enabled (ON), the Sustain Pedal control on Pianist is enabled once plugged into the SD9 PRO. 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.
  • Page 69 Simply play a chord of at least 3 notes on the right section for the instrument to create an accompaniment which the SD9 PRO will play along with the selected style. In this mode, you may also play a song line of no more than 2 notes played together since 3 notes are automatically recognized as a new chord.
  • Page 70 Chord 2 track with. • On the right side of the screen, touch GUITAR to access the Guitar Library of arpeggios and other orchestral guitar lines. Your display will look like this :- Fig. 96b. Guitar Group Selection KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 71 – SOLIDBODY to the left (in the part circled in green – which displays all the instruments within the currently selected group). Press EXIT when done to return to the previous screen. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 72 Midi software such as Cakewalk on a computer). KETRON has created a nice tool for the SD9 PRO 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 professionals in studios from all over the world, it means your work is drastically reduced when it come to creating a style because most of it has already been done for you.
  • Page 73 LD) for 2 seconds allows you to change the content of the track with the new modeling information! 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 Live Drum, Audio Drum, Groove (percussion), Bass, Piano, Orchestral, Guitar and Live Guitar which are shown on the right side of the screen.
  • Page 74 Again, the right side of the screen displays the name of what you’re about to edit (GROOVE) while below that you can now touch the GROOVE icon to display the groups of available grooves you can choose from as shown below. Fig. 103. Modeling – Groove Drum Selection KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 75 As the style plays, you will immediately notice the new Groove playing once selected. This track can also be used as a Drum track so technically, the SD9 Pro has 2 Drum tracks. From the style view screen, touch the Drum icon to display the following screen from which you can further...
  • Page 76 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). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 77 [1]. CREATING STYLES DIRECLTY ON THE SD9 PRO (New) The new STYLE EDITOR in the SD9 Pro allows you to totally rearrange existing styles, re-record different tracks of existing styles or create styles from scratch. The editor can be accessed from the style view page. If you want to edit an existing style, select that style now (as previously mentioned above).
  • Page 78 The top portion of this screen (section 1) highlighted in Fig. 111 (as is the case with most displays of the SD9 Pro) is dedicated to showing the current style and voice information in real time, so you are always aware of where you are within the SD9 Pro.
  • Page 79 (RIFF mode), then you can record chord progressions and key changes within the recorded material knowing that you will NOT use the arranger to change chords in real time. This opens up new doors to using the SD9 Pro as a professional workstation. [MAJ/MIN/7th]:- This is used to display and determine what tonality or harmonic mode you want to respond to the notes you are about to record.
  • Page 80 Fig. 117 provides access to the chord settings. You may select either NORMAL or RETRIGGER mode. • In Normal mode a chord plays during the basic measure as programmed. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 81 – bearing in mind that when the style is complete, you will be able to play in any key/chord and the arranger will play the chord appropriately. Once you have recorded this track, you can test it by pressing the KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 82 SOURCE:- This denotes the source of the style you want to copy parts from. Touch the SOURCE box and select where the style whose parts you want to copy from reside (Factory, User or Modeling). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 83 Fig. 125. Style Editor – COPY Family Selected Fig. 124. Style Editor – COPY Style KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 84 Unless you’re a musical genius, chances are you will make some mistakes along the way as you record. No problem! You’ve now have 2 ways out. The first way out is using the CLEAR icon as shown in Fig. 128 below. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 85 4/4 time signature. Now when you initially record the track, sometimes the kick drum beat may not fall exactly on the down beat of the current measure and may be off as such …. Fig. 130. Style Editor – QUANTIZE KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 86 ALL the notes, or simply touch the note on the SD9 Pro that you think is too loud or too low, then adjust the velocity accordingly. You can also touch the OCTAVE value and adjust accordingly (touching the keyboard once more will switch on the Single icon, meaning the change will impact just the single note that was touched).
  • Page 87 [2] CREATE STYLES USING AN EXTERNAL PC & MIDI SOFTWARE It is possible to create a new style for the KETRON SD9 PRO 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.
  • Page 88 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 KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 89 To get you up to speed quickly, we have attached to this tutorial a sample midifile (70’s POP.mid) which you can use as a template to start. This is a template of an existing style in the SD9 PRO so you can see how we programmed By loading and opening this file in your sequencer, you will be able to immediately realize the structure and different sections used to create this Ketron style.
  • Page 90 Screen showing example of the Midifile "70's POP.mid" using Cubase Once you have completed recording the Midifile, you can now transfer it into the SD9 PRO for use as a style. The SD9 PRO also provides you with more tools to further enhance your new style, giving you the possibility to add say Audio Drums, or using the Style Modeling tool, grants access to hundreds of professional style parts such as bass.
  • Page 91 Fig. 138. Software Style Editor – Computer connect The SD9 PRO will now load the style (*KST) and automatically assign all the style parts, relative effects ... etc as needed by the style to the relative style buttons (Intro, Arranger A-D, Fill Ins ..
  • Page 92 4.L- Assembling your own style Page 72. 4.N USING YOUR OWN AUDIO DRUMS IN STYLES The SD9 Pro allows you to utilize your User Audio Drums with the Modeling feature found on the main page. Fig. 140b. User Audio Drums - MODELING...
  • Page 93 User Audio Drums which were already created for the AUDYA series keyboards. Whatever the origin of these files is, the SD9 Pro can "locate" and manage them through the DRUM part of the Modeling feature. In order to be properly recognized and utilized, these audio files must have the following name structure and assigned as such:- ARRA.wav = For Variation A...
  • Page 94 Fig. 140d. User Audio Drums – Folder display Once you copy over these files into this folder, the SD9 Pro must be restarted so that the files and related parameters are "recognized" by the instrument. So turn Off the SD9 Pro and turn it back on again, then, proceed to select the new folder under the Modeling Audio Drum feature.
  • Page 95 This is the only way to ensure a smooth transition as you switch between arranger parts and performances. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 96 In a nut shell, the LaunchPad is made up of audio and Midi musical sequences and loops whose tonalities you can either control in real time together or follow - and in sync! The SD9 PRO can manage up to 12 pads simultaneously within a scene and can load up to 6 scenes at once! This provides a plethora of music data which can be recalled and used at any given time.
  • Page 97 Note that the tools discussed below can be applied to all 12 pads and only vary slightly based on the content of the pad you’re about to edit (audio or midi data). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 98 Page 109. For now, before we walk through an example with just 1 single pad, let’s load up an example (there are 30 demo LaunchPad projects in the SD9 Pro). •...
  • Page 99 The right side of the screen shows you the different categories (Sources) from which you can grab an element to assign to your pad. These categories also form part of the MODELING tool as these are the categories in which KETRON has placed an extensive large library of progressions and loops to select from as follows - AUDIO DRUM:- Complete audio Wave drum loops recorded by professional musicians.
  • Page 100 Fig. 145. LaunchPad - EDIT Bass Family Select • As shown in Fig. 145 above, the SD9 Pro now displays a list of various Bass Family groups and each of these groups are loaded with various bass lines pertaining to the family group. Depending, on the music you are preparing this scene for, touch the family where you believe a bass line close to your composition resides.
  • Page 101 3 … etc, then work on each scene as you see fit. • To save your LaunchPad project for future instant recall, press the SAVE button on the panel to display the following screen – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 102 • Touch and hold the pad you want to edit for 2 seconds. It should be highlighted in red (as shown in Fig. 147 above). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 103 Once it gets to the end, it will automatically start over. • 1 Shot:- Pad plays through only one time when engaged. Once it gets to the end, it stops playing, unless you touch the pad once more. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 104 Use this option when the recording in the pad was performed in a single key (e.g. C) and you want to use the SD9 Pro to control the chord changes as you perform live .. usually for simple straight forward arrangements.
  • Page 105 Voice Change icon. This will now pop up a screen from which you can select the new voice’s category (on the right side) and voice (to the left) to use. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 106 When you touch open, this allows you to select a new LaunchPad project (which consists of 6 scenes, each with 12 pads each). The list of the available LaunchPad projects will be displayed on the screen as shown below in Fig. 150. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 107 From this screen, you can simply scroll through and touch the LaunchPad project you want to use. When you create a new LaunchPad, it also get’s stored in this list (which can be found in the LAUCH_PAD folder of the internal SSD drive of the SD9 Pro).  NEW:- Touch this if you want to create a new LaunchPad.
  • Page 108 Once you have made the selection above, you will be returned to the previous screen. Press the START/STOP button on the panel to start recording. The SD9 Pro will count in 4 measures after which your recording will start, so start recording only after the 4 ‘tick’.
  • Page 109 (e.g. Different Chord progression, pad on/off controls, volume and effects levels …etc) for each scene such that while you perform, you simply switch between scenes and let the SD9 Pro take over while you focus on your performance and your audience! Let’s take a closer look at these controls using the following example of the LaunchPad project loaded above in Fig.
  • Page 110 (which all the relative Pads within this particular scene whose Chord mode has been set to Harmon [Harmony]as shown above in – EDITING PADS - Page 104, you will need to tell the SD9 Pro the time signature (3/4, 4/4 .. etc). ...
  • Page 111 After that, the SD9 Pro immediately starts to play the chord sequence with any Pad that is one (whose chord mode has been set to Harmony). • - THIRD ROW – SCENE (COPY, CLEAR & STYLE IMPORT) In this sub menu, you can copy elements of the current SCENE onto another scene.
  • Page 112 Drums, Bass lines, horn lines, piano riffs, guitar strums …etc which are rather difficult to program outside of a professional Midi sequencer software. Let the SD9 Pro handle this for you. You can thus import Drums, Grooves, Bass and Chord parts of the current style into your current LaunchPad scene.
  • Page 113 Sidechain:- This creates an ‘auto pan effect’ between left and right speakers (great for synth and modern dance effects) and so will be more noticeable if the SD9 Pro is plugged into a set of stereo speakers (using both left and right outputs as initially recommended at the beginning of this manual).
  • Page 114 PHASER 2 Effects in Scene 1 and CHORUS 3 effect in Scene 3 – again giving you total control over your performance! KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 115 • Set up your pads and scenes as described above. • Touch the BAR icon and set how long (in measures) you want the SD9 Pro to record your sequence. • Press the REC PHRASE icon on the screen. It will turn bright red.
  • Page 116 To do so, simply select the style whose arrangements you want to use, and while the style is playing, press the LAUNCHPAD button. The style parts will now be imported into the LaunchPad as shown below in Fig 160d. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 117 6. MICROPHONE & VOCAL HARMONIZER (VOICETRON) The SD9 PRO 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).
  • Page 118 If you EDIT any of the factory settings, they get stored in one of the 10 USER locations. If you touch EDIT, the SD9 PRO will now display the various effects processes used to create the current Mic setting (Gate, EQ, Compressor .. etc) as shown in the screen below.
  • Page 119 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 120 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 quickly touch it again – like double clicking on a computer) KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 121 6.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 SD9 PRO is not damaged. Why are there no harmonies? From the factory, your SD9 PRO 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.
  • Page 122 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 SD9 PRO. Fig. 168. VOCALIZER – Presets •...
  • Page 123  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). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 124 ‘ear fatigue’ to set in and as such, the harmonizer is no longer an ‘effect’ you bring in to enhance your song. Bring it in and out of your tune – let your audience miss it rather than get bored of it! KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 125 PA system!! Once connected to the back of the SD9 PRO, press the INPUT button on the SD9 PRO’s front panel (right side) to turn on or off this signal and adjust it’s volume to appropriate levels using the INPUT volume slider directly above the INPUT button.
  • Page 126 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 SD9 PRO, 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).
  • Page 127 • BUILT IN GUITAR TUNER:-  The SD9 Pro also has a built in Guitar tuner believe it or not. This can be used to quickly tune your band member’s guitar or similar instrument on stage.  Touch the “GUITAR TUNER” icon or tuner image on the screen as shown in Fig. 177 below.
  • Page 128 Guitar and the SD9 Pro Mic 2/Line input. You can also simply touch the relevant notes on the virtual guitar so your guitar player can hear and tune his guitar right there using the SD9 Pro.

  • Page 129: Keyboard Settings

    REGIS button as shown in Fig. 178 above and touch your song setting and instantly, the SD9 PRO loads all parameters that were saved in association with this song.
  • Page 130 In this case, you would turn on (touch) Footswitch here so it is yellow. This setting would be great if you say play your SD9 Pro and in some cases maybe use a Midi Guitar to control is and thus have different settings for the optional 4 switch tonality pedal which maybe different than those of the optional FS6 or FS13 pedals you usually use with the keyboard by itself.
  • Page 131 FUNCTION described below under ICONS – Page 150) . There are 4 banks (1-4). You can create up to 1024 Song KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 132 7.C - RECALLING YOUR SONG SET UP/ REGISTRATIONS AT THE SHOW The SD9 PRO was designed predominantly with the live player in mind. Once you get to your show, how do you now instantly recall all those settings you spent hours and hours creating at home? •...
  • Page 133 SD9 PRO. This way, if you have a song list, all you have to do is scribble next to it the number assigned to the registration. If you know the number...
  • Page 134 To begin searching for a specific Registration, you can – • Touch the Keyboard and start typing the name of the registration. The SD9 PRO will display all files with that name. The registration will be the one that ends with the *.reg extension.
  • Page 135 You can record a song or phrase directly onto the SD9 PRO’s internal memory and transfer to a USB stick or your computer or keep in the SD9 PRO for future use. There are 2 types of recordings that can be done on the SD9 PRO:- SONG (complete song) or PHRASE (up to 16 bar loop which can be played back as you play freely throughout the entire keyboard).
  • Page 136 • AUDIO:- This records the actual sounds as played on the SD9 PRO as a wave file. Use this option if you want your recording to sound exactly the same when played back either on the SD9 PRO or on another device.
  • Page 137 9.A – PLAYER 1 and PLAYER 2 The SD9 PRO 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.
  • Page 138 (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 SD9 PRO (or over 2000 Midifiles and Audio files that come with the AjamSonic upgrade kit for the SD9 PRO), 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.
  • Page 139 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 SD9 PRO 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.
  • Page 140 Fig. 192. PLAYER –DRUM RESTYLE • Touch the DRUM RESTYLE icon on the screen. The SD9 PRO 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.
  • Page 141 C. PLAY LIST:- The playlist allows you put your favorite songs in one place or create a playlist that the SD9 PRO 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 –...
  • Page 142 Playlist) above, simply touch the PLAYLIST 1 icon on the screen to show the following – Fig. 196. PLAYER – PLAY LIST DISPLAY Now, you can touch any song twice (or press ENTER once highlighted) to start playing it. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 143 • Touch YES and the SD9 PRO 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 –...
  • Page 144 Fig. 197c. PLAYER – CREATE PLAY LIST • NB:- If you want to change to another drive installed on your SD9 PRO, simply touch to the right of the screen (in this example, only one drive is installed – AJAMSONIC) •...
  • Page 145 NB:- You can also press EXIT and go to other folders and INSERT songs into the playlist – the SD9 PRO is adding all the songs you select into the new playlist which you will then name once done with the song selection.
  • Page 146 – Touch the song you want to move once (SD9 PRO will beep and song will be highlighted) Touch the same song again and keep your finger on the screen – a red line will appear (as shown above in Fig.
  • Page 147 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:- KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 148 • Moive/Pdf To RGB:- When this is off (blue), if you play a movie file (mp4, avi … etc) on the SD9 Pro, the movie will be displayed on the SD9 Pro’s internal screen/display. If this is on (yellow), then the movie will not be displayed on the SD9 Pro –...
  • Page 149 File View:- When you touch this icon, the following screen will be displayed which allows you to select which files you want to be able to see once in any folder and to sort files in a particular way. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 150 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 SD9 PRO, using the top part of the screen. Touch either box:- ...
  • Page 151 9.B DJ PLAYER MODE The SD9 PRO is also offers a ‘DJ’ mode – which allow you to play songs using a DJ’s interface. To access this, press both PLAYER 1 and PLAYER 2 buttons together on the panel. Fig. 200d. PLAYER CONTROLS – DJ Mode This will open up the following window –...
  • Page 152 SYNC/NEXT:- Queue up the next song for performance selected from the current song folder Fig. 200i. FUNCTION – SYNC • You can then touch ‘next’ once you’re ready to start playing the cued up song. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 153 Lower, you can adjusts these parameters in real time as you perform with any audio or midi file. …Using … • RESET:- Resets all parameters of the EFFECTS box irrespective of the slider positions. • BRAKE:- Stops the current song with a ‘car break’ effects as DJs do at parties. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 154 9. PLAY MODES Depending on what you want to use the SD9 PRO 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.
  • Page 155 C major chord plus a A bass note, we will get a C6 chord. This method allows one to achieve chords which are normally not available with traditional accordion play-style such as Minor, 7 Seventh Augmented. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 156 Bass solo accompanied only by the drum rhythm. The setting may be made directly on the Touch Screen. These two options may be used only if Manual Bass in the Style section is enabled. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 157 To adjust the volume simply touch the box and select the value with Dial. You can now save the settings made on this page such that the next time you turn on the SD9 PRO, you won’t have to repeat this set up process to use your Midi Accordion.
  • Page 158 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. ORGAN:- This sets up the SD9 PRO to be played just as an Organist would. Fig. 202a. PLAYMODE – ORGAN...
  • Page 159 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 160 SD9 PRO which has extensive Midi controls that can be configured from the MIDI menu. You can actually use the SD9 PRO to control other Midi devices or have them control the SD9 PRO.
  • Page 161 For now, these presets are programmed as such - - STANDARD: If this mode is selected, the SD9 PRO can act as a ‘slave’ and may be controlled from an external Midi controller (via the Midi In jack such as keyboard controller, midi guitar etc) to play the on board Styles and Voices of the Arranger sound module (if you set your midi controller’s Global channel to 1) or as a master to control...
  • Page 162 *** STATUS:- This allows you to determine each midi channels status of each of the GM parts. When status is touched, the status of all the 16 channels is displayed as shown on the screen below - KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 163 - Internal, MIDI out:- This part uses the internal Sound generator of the SD9 Pro. This signal is also routed directly to the MIDI OUT port of the SD9 Pro. This means that if the player (or an external tone generator transmitting on this same channel) is used, the voice heard will be that of the SD9 Pro and that of the external midi device connected to the SD9 Pro’s Midi out.
  • Page 164 Clock In:- Touch to turn on if you want the SD9 Pro’s internal midi clock to be the master (when connected to another midi device). Clock Out:- Touch to turn on if you want the SD9 Pro to send it’s midi clock out to control the tempo of another midi device connected to it USB Midi:- Touch to turn on (yellow) if you want to connect the SD9 Pro to a computer software and transfer midi data between your computer and the SD9 Pro’s internal sound card using the Midi connector at the back of the unit.
  • Page 165 KETRON modules) such that you can program the controls (knobs, volume sliders … etc) on your midi controller to control functions on the SD9 Pro (such as start/stop, tempo +/-, Fill in, Break, Arranger A-D, Voice KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 166 …etc). Please refer to the manual of your Midi controller to set it up and the SD9 Pro Tables provided separately to get the Sys Exec codes needed for such functionality. In this case, one you power on the SD9 Pro, you won’t need to touch it any more –...
  • Page 167 - LOOP: Allows you to assign Metadata Loop points on audio file so that when you press START, the song will play from the point set by WAVE START to the point set by WAVE STOP and loop all over automatically. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 168 12. MANUAL (Digital Copy) A copy of the factory manual of the SD9 PRO resides inside the SD9 PRO 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.
  • Page 169 Preferences such as language used, date and time, display skin, voice mode selection … etc can be set up on your SD9 PRO so as to personalize it for your needs. To access the preferences, press the MENU button and then touch the PREFERENCES icon shown on the screen to display the following screen –...
  • Page 170 To save this setting (so that you don’t repeat it next time the SD9 PRO is turned on), press the SAVE button on the panel and then touch SAVE CUSTOM STARTUP.
  • Page 171 UPDATE key to update the date of the instrument to date set by the user. Select the SAVE/ RESTART on the display to save this setting. SAVE/ RESTART: Touch this icon to save the language and Date / Time settings. The SD9 PRO will reboot once this is completed.
  • Page 172 Once you select your new preference the following screen will be displayed - Fig. 205e. PREFERENCES – Display Mode Touch “OK” to confirm and reboot the SD9 PRO. The SD9 PRO will now power on with the new display as selected.
  • Page 173 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 SD9 PRO 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.
  • Page 174 - VELOCITY CURVE: This sets the keyboard dynamic response of SD9 PRO (Soft, Medium, Hard, fixed). Based on how hard or soft you play, you can set the way the SD9 PRO will respond to your ‘touch’. - Fine: This is used when you do not want any variation in volume or response from the keyboard when you play –...
  • Page 175 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! KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 176 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 177 - DISPLAY: On the right side of the screen, you can turn on the MIRROR function (that projects whatever is being shown on the SD9 PRO’s display onto the external screen), or disable it in order to display the entire screen content, however display only the song text/pdf and pictures (if you do not want your audience to see you navigating through screens but focus on the lyrics to tunes).
  • Page 178 The SD9 PRO 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 SD9 PRO is not limited and can be used to perform all kinds of music from all kinds of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
  • Page 179 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 180 What governs the functions that a registration saves or ignores is addressed in this section of the SD9 PRO To access the REGISTRATION SETUP page and change the settings to match your play style, press the MENU button to display the menu screen –...
  • Page 181 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 182 • USB 1, 2 and 3:- These are the optional USB sticks attached to the SD9 Pro as shown in Fig. 121a above. Simply touch each USB drive’s image or the internal storage to access the contents of the drive. The % displayed is the amount of storage available (free) for you to use within the drive (so, in the example above, the internal storage has 41% of free space, the KETRON USB stick has 100% free space, …...
  • Page 183 PC CONNECT:- This is used to connect the SD9 pro to a computer to be used either as a MIDI in and out cable together with an external sequencer software on the computer (such as Cubase or Cakewalk), or as a data cable to transfer data between your computer and the SD9 Pro’s internal storage device or devices...
  • Page 184 … so if you want to COPY files form a USB stick plugged into the SD9 Pro, first touch that USB stick’s corresponding icon on the MEDIA main page;...
  • Page 185 You can then touch ASSIGN NUMBER to assign numbers to all the files, or REMOVE NUMBERS to remove numbers that were previously assigned by this feature. • INFO:- Touch this icon to display information within the current drive (such as amount of files, space used, format option … etc). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 186 We hope this manual and tutorial has taken through all the advanced features offered by the SD9 Pro. By listening to you our customers, we believe we have designed and built a keyboard that not only satisfies your needs today, but also inspires you to fulfill the desires of tomorrow.

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