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KETRON SD9/SD60/SD90 PRO MANUAL, HINTS & TIPS
(V 1.5)
Written by AJAM Inc. USA
KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial
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  • Page 1 KETRON SD9/SD60/SD90 PRO MANUAL, HINTS & TIPS (V 1.5) Written by AJAM Inc. USA 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 STYLES KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 3 Exporting Style components (Arranger A, B, C, D) to LaunchPads Scenes MICROPHONE AND VOCAL HARMONIZER Vocal Harmonizer - Voicetron Vocalizer Tips and Tricks Guitar and Microphone input Using a Guitar and on board Stomp Boxes / Microphone 2 Input KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 4 DJ Effects modes (Tap tempo, Cross fade, Prefader listen) … Play Modes Accordion Play modes Organ Play modes MIDI Modes and Settings 10.B Midi Setup Examples 10.C Controlling from an external Midi Controller with SysExc KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 5 Guitar’s Corner (Setting up Midi Guitar and how to control) Congratulations on your purchase of the KETRON SD9 (76 keys, Modulation and Pitch wheels), SD60 (61 keys with 4 powerful built-in speakers and joy stick) or SD90 (Module version) PRO Arranger & Player Electronic keyboard or module.
  • Page 6 Depending on your purpose of purchasing the KETRON SD9 PRO, you can set it up for various PLAY MODES based on your needs (as a Pianist, Organist, Accordionist, Guitarist …etc) simply by pressing the MENU button on...
  • Page 7 • SUSTAIN:- Connect the optional KETRON sustain pedal to this jack. The Sustain pedal can be used to play the piano or other Sounds (as on a standard piano), but can also be programmed to be used as a Rotor switch to switch the rotor Leslie organ speed between fast or slow when using Organ sounds, or to prevent the arranger from recognizing and changing chords when playing as a solo pianist (PIANIST MODE –...
  • 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:- KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 9 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 KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 10 Right/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 & SOFT PADS. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 11 The proper way however to ignore the split point would be to press the PIANIST button (left side of panel) and turn it on, or press the HOME/STYLE button to turn it off (HOME mode). 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”. The AjamSonic version adds an additional 140 new professional voices.
  • Page 13 The SD9 PRO comes loaded with more than 600 voices. There are more than 350 preset voices (which are either individual or layered sounds as prepared by KETRON). Press the VOICE button on the SD9 PRO’s panel (right side) or touch the current voice displayed in the top right box on the screen.
  • Page 14 - however, once you turn off the keyboard, this setting will be lost. To permanently edit the 2 voice and associate with any lead voice, you will have to go into the VOICE EDITOR. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 15 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 16 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 – Fig. 12. 2 Voice Parameters KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 17 4 Rows of voices (with access to each one’s volume, reverb level, shift, tune, pan and chorus parameters). You can also insert effects into either of the first 3 (lead voices) and select which effect type is used per voice selection. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 18 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, element/voice 2, depending on how hard you play, you will hear element/voice2, or element/voice 3 … and so on. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 19 KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 20 ‘new’ voice all together if edited properly. • V-TONE:- Adds natural characteristics and embellishments to the Sound. • Page 6/6 below is a continuation from page 5/6 above. Fig. 18. Voice Editor page 6/6 KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 21 With the keyboard in SPLIT mode, you can also assign up to 2 separate voices and play them together or separately on the left side of the keyboard as well. These voices are usually determined by the style that is currently being used, KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 22 Touch the voice inside the LOW1 box (to change the first left voice). The following screen will be displayed showing you the voice groups on the right and the voices on the left where the current LOWER1 voice is from. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 23 Don’t forget to save this under the CUSTOM START UP (when you press SAVE from the main screen) such that you don’t have to repeat this process each time the unit is turned off and back on. 2.G - OTHER PARAMETERS THAT CONTROL THE LOWER VOICE(S) KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 24 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 25 Press EXIT to return to the style view page and your new bass should be in the bass box. • You can also access other BASS parameters and functions by touching the BASS box on this screen above (right side) to display the following functions:- KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 26 MONO:– You can only play one note at a time. If 2 or more notes are played, only the first note is heard.  V-TONE – This special feature adds “ambience” and more realism to the bass sound (or any instrument when selected in VOICE EDIT). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 27 Now touch SAVE AS to give your current setting a name using the next screen’s QUERTY keybed … Fig. 29. Naming Registrations / Song set up and touch ENTER to save your song/keyboard set up with the new name. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 28 [if applicable], style … etc) and you can then play the song the setting was initially created for. 2.K - INSTANTLY ADDING HARMONY TO YOUR SOUNDS/VOICES You can instantly add harmony to your voices by pressing the HARMONY button on the bottom right panel of the SD9 PRO. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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. To accomplish this, the DOUBLE KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 30 To access the effects screen, press the KEYB. CONTROL button on the right side of the panel to display the following screen (as initially shown above) – Fig. 33. Adding Effects just to lead voice(s) 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 Once done, you will now need to SAVE your favorite voices (VOICE LIST) or else when you turn off the SD9 PRO, they will be lost and you will have to do this all over again. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 This feature (being able to change the tempo and maintain the pitch, or change pitch and maintain the tempo of audio) has been available to DJs for years but is now being made available by KETRON in musical instruments of this price point, borrowed from the AUDYA flagship series.
  • Page 38 Operating System of the SD9 PRO is to give the user the current status of the keyboard at any given time. To accomplish this, KETRON has implemented a system that shows you what the current status of the keyboard is (style and voice selected, tempo, …...
  • Page 39 4 Breaks • 1 To End (short ending). These style parts can be easily controlled with the following buttons below the screen as shown in Fig. 45 below - Fig. 45. Style Control buttons on panel KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 16BALLAD1 from the BALLAD style category as shown below (may vary in your instrument). To select a style, touch the top left box that shows the current style selected – Fig. 49. Selecting a Style KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 42 A-D. This will be explained in details below under 4.F Voice assigned to Variations ABCD – Page 50). • You can now press EXIT to return to the default screen once more. Notice the updated page! KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 43 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’ used by KETRON. •...
  • Page 44 [A-2] can be accessed. For most styles, the part with the most prominent variation applied to it is the Live Audio drum, where the 2 variation includes subtle drum fill ins and some sliding bass notes! KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 45 AUTO FILL & BREAK – This is a new and innovative feature introduced by KETRON in the SD9 Pro. By pressing and holding down the FILL or BREAK button on the panel, the style randomly selects and plays fill ins and breaks while you are playing.
  • 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 Repeat this for the others. When done, press SAVE – CUSTOM START UP (the SD9 PRO will save this START UP setting so you KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 48 FS6 (6 switches) or FS13 (13 switches) effects pedal. To do so • Press the MENU button on the panel - Your next screen should look like this – Fig. 55. Main Menu KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 50 8BEAT1 style are as follows:- • GRAND PIANO - Assigned to Arranger/Variation A. When you play Arranger A, the lead/right voice automatically selected will be the Grand Piano. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 So, you’ve found a style that you like, however you wish to change some of the sounds used in the style or volume, panning or effects used in some of the parts or use the provided KETRON library of Live Audio Drums or Live Audio guitars within a style.
  • 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 This initial VIEW screen is the VOLUME screen (where you can regulate the volumes for all the individual parts) and by touching any of the volumes associated with the instrument, you can adjust each instrument’s volume accordingly. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 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 Live Drum to be used with the style. Touch the relevant following boxes and turn the data wheel to change the Volume and Reverb amount of the Drums. • LIVE DRUM – Used to select preset Equalizer curves. Touch this box to display preset EQ curves. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 62 (once the audio drum is stretched too far). • Touch DRUM MIXER to access the following screen and functions associated with the Style’s Midi DRUMS (DRUM MIXER turns yellow):- Fig. 87. Drum Mixer and Edit KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 63 Standard_sd) and pick a new drum set from the pop up list displayed by touching it on the displayed list. You can turn the data wheel to display even more drum kits if the one you’re looking for is not initially displayed. Fig. 89. Drum Set select KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 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 in the screen above. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 ‘read’ the notes you are playing. Release the pedal and strike a chord to have the arranger play a new chord. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 69 To do so, from the default screen – • Select the style to which you want to modify and add arps. • Touch the MODELING icon on the screen to display the following screen below - KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 70 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).
  • Page 71 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 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 Drum track so technically, the SD9 Pro has 2 Drum tracks. By touching the Drum icon below the volume (72 in this example), you can once more select an Audio Drum groove or Live Audio Drum for the style. The details of this section are discussed here - KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 74 Once done with the GROOVE, press EXIT to return to the main MODELING screen. Now, let us MODEL the bass – similar procedure as above. Touch the BASS icon on the screen to access the BASS templates. Fig. 104. Style Modeling - Bass KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 75 ARRANGER/VARIATION. You can select different arrangements for CHORD 1 of Arranger B, Arranger C and Arranger D – a very flexible and intuitive design by KETRON. NB:- The Fill ins, Breaks and Intro/Endings are not affected by Modeling! Once you have competed modeling your style, you will need to save it as a USER STYLE, or else all changes are lost once you select a new style or turn off the instrument.
  • 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 Press the EDIT icon from the style view page (Fig. 110 above) to get into the STYLE EDITOR (Fig. 111 below). Fig. 111. Current Status of SD9 Pro in top section of screen Fig. 112. Style Editor KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 78 Arranger 8 can be 8 measures long while Arranger B (of the same style) can be 16 measures long. The maximum length is 128! NB:- With the capability to record up to 128 measures in each section, this means that you could technically use the STYLE EDITOR as a KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 79 However, if creating a new style from scratch, these values should be set before you actually start recording. The parameters shown will be the parameters of the selected style part – so if Arr A was selected, the parameter values shown are those of Arranger A. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 Fig. 132 above. You will then be asked to name your new style so type it in on the next screen using the QWERTY keybed displayed as shown in Fig. 133 above. You will now be taken back to the STYLE EDITOR main page. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 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. You can then replace the parts and notes of this template with yours utilizing your sequencer.
  • Page 90 CONVERTING THE MIDIFILE CREATED INTO SD9 PRO STYLE FORMAT:- After saving the Midifile as type/format 0, simply rename the midifile with the new extension *.KST (example 70's POP.KST)[ – where KST = Ketron Style]. Fig. 136. Software Style Editor Computer Connect the SD9 PRO via USB to KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 91 (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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 92 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 KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 93 INT1.wav = For Intro 1 INT2.wav = For Intro 2 INT3.wav = For Intro 3 END1.wav = For End 1 END2.wav = For End 2 END3.wav = For End 3 Fig. 140c. User Audio Drums - Layout KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 94 Fig. 140e. User Audio Drums - Display You can now go further to adjust the volume, effects and other related parameters from the Arranger VIEW page (in the Live Drum box) which displays the source/folder from which the audio drums reside. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 REAL TIME & IN SYNC! Using high quality professional sounds, complex Midi phrases, Live Audio Drums, Live Audio Guitars and other audio files, KETRON has been able to manufacture a real live sounding keyboard which is only limited by your imagination! Raising the bar to an even higher level, the slight limitations of the style engine (harmonic conflicts and being forced into a ‘structured’...
  • 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 Touch SCENE 3 to play it’s contents … and so on and so forth! Let’s get back to explaining in detail how to assign and use a pad. From this explanation, you can quickly set up other pads for use. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 Pad you are editing and what selection you are about to make from the title of the drop down list “PAD 3 FAMILY CHOOSE” shown above the drop down menu. Your screen should look similar to Fig. 146 below KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 … usually for complex RIFF or melody lines like those in Jazz. In this mode, the next icon automatically switches to ‘Trnsp’ to allow you be able to transpose the melody in any key you want. If you touch the KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 Audio file!  Use the RECORD MODE controls above on page to set the length of the recording and quantize values. Once you touch REC PHRASE, the following screen is displayed- KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 108 This means that as you perform, you may decide to record in real time certain phrases. The other pads start playing as soon as the count in measures are done and recording is about to start, thus playing and recording at the same time! KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 109 FIRST ROW – TIME SIGNATURE & SONG MODE Time Sign (Time Signature). This sets the time signature of the Chord Sequencer Recording (discussed in details in this chapter below under REC CHORD). In other words, before you KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 110 Chord Sequencer changes. Bar:- You can also set the length of the chord recording (Bar) by touching it and turning the data wheel. When you start recording your chord progression, the bar will count until the maximum KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 111 Fig. 156a. LaunchPad – Scene COPY TO Fig. 156b. LaunchPad – Scene COPY SELECTION  Scene 4 will now have all the Pads and scene controls (chord sequences, progressions, song modes … etc) found in scene 1. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 112  STYLE IMPORT:- This is used to import style elements into your pads. You will quickly realize that KETRON may already have a sequence for you either in their massive MODELING library (as already mentioned above) or within their professional styles and beats from which you can ‘borrow’...
  • Page 113 When you touch the Sidechain icon (available only when the VOL icon is on), you can then select which Pads should have the SIDECHAIN effects applied to them by touching and turning them on. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 The Live Effects can also be used with the LaunchPad and you can assign which Pads will respond to the effect in real time. • Press the FILTER button on the panel to turn on the Live Effects (while LaunchPad is still on). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 The Microphone and Vocalizer/Harmoniser presets can be achieved by pressing the MIC button on the panel for about 2 seconds. The screen should look like this – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 118 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. The status of these processes (ON or OFF) is also shown above their icons. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 LEFT of the spit point (left hand). How do you program the harmonizer and set it up to respond to chords played on what section of the keyboard? How do you select different vocal harmony types? Fig. 167. VOCALIZER – Settings KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 122 Touch MICRO if you want to save the Microphone settings or touch VOICETRON if you want to save the vocalizer settings … depending on what was adjusted. You’ll then be asked to save the settings and replace a USER setting – Fig. 170. VOCALIZER – Save Settings KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 SD9 PRO know that the signal coming in is not from a microphone but rather a LINE musical instrument. To do this, please press and hold down the MICRO2/GUITAR (INPUT) button for about 2 seconds to display the following page- KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 126 To change the amount of delay, touch e.g. the delay knob (it turns showing it is in edit mode) and turn it with your finger or turn the data value wheel as shown in the screen shot above. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 127 Now one by one, gently pluck the strings on your guitar and use the tuner to tune it. Once you’re in tune, the tuning bar will display “Tuning ok” along with a green bar below the tuner. If the SD9 Pro doesn’t ‘hear’ a signal, it will display the message “No Audio KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 129 7.B - DETERMINING WHAT A REGISTRATION SAVES AND IGNORES To set up the SD9 PRO such that the Registration can ignore certain settings and change others, from the main screen, press the MENU button – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 130 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 • Press the REGS (Registration) button found on the top left side of the panel to access the REGISTRATION screen which looks something like this:- Fig. 184. REGISTRATION SET UP STYLE KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 133 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) – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 134 *.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). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 135 MIDI:- This records the data played on the SD9 PRO. Use this option if you intend to play the recorded material through the SD9 PRO so as to get exactly what was recorded. You may also use KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 136 Touch PLAY to play your new phrase … and now you can play along with the keyboard while the phrase is looped. You can also quantize your phrase (mini sequence) at this point to use with your song. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 137 (default is the internal drive). Fig. 189. PLAYER MAIN SCREEN 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 … – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 138 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 To turn of the DRUM RESTYLE mode and revert to the song’s original Midi drums, press the KEY STOP/DRUM RESTYL ON/OFF button once more as the midifile plays – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 141 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 – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 144 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 – KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 145 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 – Fig. 197g. PLAYER – CREATRE PLAY LIST KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 146 Touch the same song again and keep your finger on the screen – a red line will appear (as shown above in Fig. 198bII) and you can now ‘drag’ this song up and down the screen and ‘drop’ it at the location you want it (shown by the red line between existing songs). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 (to any value between 1 and 16). This value is tied to the LEAD MUTE button on the panel. This means you can e.g. assign it to channel 5 and when you press the LEAD MUTE button, the bass will be muted (if this is what you wanted). KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 Files Item:- This is the number of items (lines) displayed on each screen. Touch this box and turn the data wheel to change the number of items displayed Fig. 200c. PLAYER - FUNCTIONS Display showing 4 lines/items Display showing 12 lines/items KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 151 You can also touch the Fader on the screen (shown below in Fig. 200g) to manually crossfade between songs. Please note that you cannot crossfade between (or from) videos! KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 MASTER:- This sets up the SD9 PRO 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 SD9 PRO by playing on another Midi device. From the MIDI menu above, you can access and set up the midi channels to match the device you are connecting the SD9 PRO to (see section 10 –...
  • 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 MIDI screen (section 10 – Midi Mode Page 119 below for more on Midi setup). The following screen is displayed when you touch ACCORD.CLASSIC (Accordion does not Play style) – Fig. 201d. PLAYMODE –ACCORDION STYLE KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 Then touch the MIDI icon to access the following page – Fig. 203a1. MIDI - STANDARD The 9 preset Midi settings (programmed by KETRON) are displayed at the centre of the screen in large icons (STANDARD, ACCORDION MANUAL, KEYBOARD RIGHT VOICE … etc). Touch any of these presets to automatically conFig.ure the midi reception (RX) and transmission (TX) channels for your purpose.
  • Page 161 Midi sections or enable specific functions as well when using the Arranger section of the keyboard. - GM PART: Displays a screen that shows the 16 tracks called parts which correspond to the 16 Midi channels used during reception and transmission from the GM sound module built into the instrument. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 Midi connection to sequencer software may be made directly using a USB cable without using the Midi ports and traditional Midi cables. - MIDI PORT: Pressing this key opens a window to route the Midi ports as shown - KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 164 Sounds and/or Styles of the KETRON SD9 (or any of the KETRON arranger Modules like the Audya 4, SD40 or Midjay Pro) Connect the MIDI OUT jack of your keyboard (controller) to the MIDI IN2 jack of the SD9 Pro (or KETRON arranger Module you have).
  • Page 165 CONTROLLER USING SYS-EXCLUSIVE MESSAGES In this scenario (especially if you have a KETRON module attached to your midi controller), you may want to control the module (or SD9 Pro) entirely from the controller. Please make sure your controller is capable of transmitting Sys Exclusive messages (codes that activate/deactivate panel buttons and functions on the SD9 Pro or other KETRON modules) such that you can program the controls (knobs, volume sliders …...
  • Page 166 ZOOM+ and ZOOM- on the display. 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 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 manual in conjunction with this one. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 169 Drummer Headphone, Single Output, Power Headphones, split, etc). - VOICE SELECT 1/2 : This voice function affects the voice that is recalled each time a voice group is selected. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 171 Oses. - DISPLAY SKIN: As many devices of today, the SD9 PRO also lets you modify the background display (SKIN). Touch this icon to access a selection page with different SKINS suggested by KETRON: KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 173 This also means you can now use volume pedals from other manufactures too and customize the SD9 PRO to accept them. * Threshold: This adjusts the opening threshold of the pedal controller to be used. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 174 The main output may also be muted. - AUX / HEADPHONE LEVEL: From this icon, you may adjust the volume of the headphones or Mute them, following the same steps described for the Main Level above. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 SD9 PRO 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 178 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. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 Fig. 211. REGISTRATION SET UP There are 2 columns displayed. The left column displays the 8 major functions while the right section displays the individual features within which can be saved and recalled within a registration (Yellow) or KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 (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, … etc). If the USB stick was formatted and labeled with a name, the SD9 Pro will display this as the name of the device (e.g.
  • Page 183 When you are done, disconnect the USB cable that connects your SD9 Pro to your computer. Then touch the PC-CONNECT icon once more. The SD9 Pro will pop up a message reminding you to first disconnect the cable from the instrument before you proceed as shown in Fig. 213c below. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 184  Touch COPY and you will be asked to select the destination (where you want to copy the selected files to). Once you touch “OK” on that message, select the storage device and KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • 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 As a musician, an artist, a performer, a student or even a hobbyist, the SD9 Pro offers something that will make you want to play music all over again. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 187 Guitar players in various ways. You can choose to use your feet to change the chords (using bass pedals such as the KETRON K8 Pedal board) or simply set up the machine to recognize the chords you play (PIANIST AND GUITARIST mode described above on page 68) which allows you to simply play and focus on your performance –...
  • Page 188 KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 189 GUITAR SET UP 1:- PLAYING WITH BASS PEDALS (K8 Midi Pedal board): When using the optional KETRON midi Bass pedals, you can use your feet to change the chords of the arranger while playing your Guitar as you normally do now. With this set up, you can use either an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar.
  • Page 190 5 … channel 16), you can also program the midi pedal board to transmit on a channel other than the default of channel 2 when powered on – just make sure the numbers match!]. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 191 Solo is limited to 2 or 1 string since 3 will trigger the unit to change chords and try and keep up with your ‘noisy solo’!]. KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 192 Midi Guitar is transmitting on (most default to channel 1). Assuming the Midi Guitar is set up correctly and transmitting ALL STRINGS on Midi channel 1, proceed as follows to set up the KETRON module to receive on channel 1: ...
  • Page 193 Piano or sax coming through your system. If only a few strings work, this means you have to go back to your Midi Guitar setup, tune and set the sensitivity once more on the strings that are not heard as they are NOT transmitting to the KETRON arranger!]. ...
  • Page 194 In order to avoid repeating all this whenever the unit is turned off, then back on, you need to save these settings as Custom Start up (press PLAYER 1 button [PLAYER for SD40], press the SAVE button and touch CUSTOM START UP! KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial...
  • Page 195 Again as a reminder … this applies to all current KETRON Modules and Keyboards … including … Enjoy your KETRON SD9/SD60/SD90 Pro keyboard and a special thank you from the folks at KETRON USA for your continuous support of KETRON products.

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