By using the DATA/VALUE wheel you can scroll various pages of demo songs1 Use the START/STOP button for start or stop the playback of the current song1 Press either the REGISTRATION or the PLAY LIST buttons to exit the DEMO mode1 KETRON • AUDYA...
Introduction Thank you for purchasing Ketron Audya Advanced Music Station. In this “User Manual/Quick Guide” you can find the descriptions of all the main functions to get started with the keyboard. Before using the unit, we strongly recommend you to read this manual thoroughly to ensure that you understand the operation of its many useful and convenient functions.
The same of USB 1. NOTE Along the keyboard, from C3 to E6, you can find letters and numbers for easy input of names, when saving files on the hard disk, and for a quick file search1 KETRON • AUDYA...
AMPLIFIED SPEAKERS Connecting 4 auxiliary outputs to a mixer and to a PA system. MAIN OUT L/R LINE INPUT 1, 2, 3 and 4 INPUT L INPUT R MIXER AUX OUT 1, 2, 3 and 4 AMPLIFIED SPEAKERS KETRON • AUDYA...
MIDI connection to an external interface connected to a computer. AUDIO/MIDI USB INTERFACE (or FIREWIRE) MIDI IN MIDI OUT MIDI IN MIDI OUT COMPUTER WITH A DAW APPLICATION (Cubase, Pro Tools, SONAR, Logic, Reaper, Live, Reason, Fruity Loops, Sequel, etc.) KETRON • AUDYA...
Connections VIDEO connection Connecting a VGA monitor. VGA MONITOR VIDEO PORT USB connection USB connection to a computer. COMPUTER CONNECTED VIA USB USB DEVICE KETRON • AUDYA...
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Connections USB connection procedure ▀ Connect the USB cable to the USB DEVICE port of Audya, and to the USB port of a computer. After a while, “USB connected” will appear on the display of Audya (Figure A). All the functions on the front panel are disabled.
Display and function buttons Display The heart of Audya is the display. The F1-F5 function buttons to the left, the F6-F10 function buttons to the right and the five User buttons below the display allow you to select the items displayed in the various screens.
Arranger will the selected style and the Arranger will automatically stop playing, except the drum part. start. If the Arranger is already playing, by pressing this button you will enable the same FILL. KETRON • AUDYA...
By turning the wheel clockwise/ counter-clockwise you can scroll the pages, just like the CURSOR Ó Á 1 Also, you can scroll the pages by pressing repeatedly the same VOICE family button (e1g1 PIANO, EL1PIANO and so on1) Figure 02 KETRON • AUDYA...
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The RAM INS indication next to the SUPERSOLO button means that the SUPERSOLO voices will be loaded into memory temporarily1 For this reason, when you power OFF, the SUPERSOLO voices will not be retained in memory1 Figure 06 KETRON • AUDYA...
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▀ Press the GM button on the third row in the VOICE section. The display will show a list of the GM voices (Figure 10). Follow the same procedure for voices selection described on page Figure 10 KETRON • AUDYA...
Also, you can scroll the pages by pressing repeatedly the same STYLE NOTE family button (e1g1 BALLAD, POP and Note that the styles which contain an audio part so on1) (AUDIO DRUM, GROOVES, LIVE GUITAR) have the symbol ^ before the style name1 KETRON • AUDYA...
(GUITAR, SYNTH, etc.) DRUM SET ▀ Selects one of the 53 built-in DRUM SETS to play directly from the keyboard (Figure 15). For more Figure 15 details on DRUM SET see on page KETRON • AUDYA...
. In the upper part at left, the Figure 18 STYLE MASTER volume is shown. In the upper part at right, the RIGHT and 2 volumes are shown. In the lower part at left, DRUM, BASS, Figure 18 CHORD and LOWER volumes are shown. KETRON • AUDYA...
0-9 numeric keypad in page you will go back by pressing the PREV STYLE section, that folder is recalled. To store (previous) button. the position of a folder (WAVE, DJ LOOP, MP3, etc.) hold a 0-9 button of the keypad KETRON • AUDYA...
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Press the START button (USER 5) or the ENTER button or the START button on the panel. The WAVE track starts playback and its LED flashes. Press the MP3 button. Select one MP3 file from the list. KETRON • AUDYA...
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CROSSFADE. When the CROSSFADE is finished, the LED of the WAVE track lights steadily while the LED of the MP3 track flashes. Note that you can apply the same procedure to any other tracks. Figure 26 KETRON • AUDYA...
29). Once the fade-out is over, the LED of the FADE button turns off. Note that the fade-out does not apply to the microphone output. In this way, you will be able to talk/sing during the fade-out. KETRON • AUDYA...
F1-F10 buttons. The muted parts appear with an asterisk ( Figure 33 Figure 33 NOTE The USER 5 button corresponds to SINGLE/GLOBAL function and allows to make changes to the single style or to all styles1 KETRON • AUDYA...
F1-F10 buttons and the DATA/VALUE wheel. To change track, press repeatedly on the F1-F4 buttons or F6-F9 buttons. The F5 and F10 buttons will MUTE and/or SOLO the selected part, respectively. Figure 37 KETRON • AUDYA...
VOLUME, REVERB, PAN POT, DRUM REMAP. By using the F1-F10 you can mute the single percussive parts of the drum if none of the percussive item is selected. To deselect an item, press the corresponding button ( Figure Figure 40 KETRON • AUDYA...
DRUM SET. The USER 1-5 buttons will show the corresponding edit pages: INTERNAL, USER, INS, FUNCTION, FULL RANGE Figure 44 INTERNAL ▀ By selecting INTERNAL (default selection), you can set the DRUM SET among the internal sets. KETRON • AUDYA...
F9 - CHORUS: chorus amount (0 - 63) • F10 - OVERDR.: overdrive amount (0 to 63). • The USER 5 button shows SAVE on the display, by which you can store the DRAWBARS setting in the same position of the current selected organ. KETRON • AUDYA...
While loading the SUPERSOLO voices, if there is not enough room in memory, a warning message will appear inviting to free one or more memory locations of SUPERSOLO voices, by using the F2 button (CLEAR SELECT) or the F6 button (CLEAR ALL)1 KETRON • AUDYA...
Press the EDIT button to exit edit mode. The VOICE LIST button will stop flashing. At this point, if you press the VOICE LIST button, you will display your custom list for each family of the VOICE section. Figure 54 KETRON • AUDYA...
Press the USER 5 button (SAVE), to store the KEY TUNE. Digit a name on the dialogue box by using the Figure 57 keys on the keyboard. The example shows “MY_TUNE”. Press SAVE again. At this point, the KEY TUNE file named KETRON • AUDYA...
When finished, press the USER 5 button (SAVE). Figure 60 Give a name to the PLAY LIST and press SAVE NOTE again. By pressing the A1PLAY ON/OFF button (USER 5) you can enable/disable the automatic playback of the songs currently in the Play List1 KETRON • AUDYA...
Program Program Audya allows to create/modify PROGRAMS for any voice in the VOICE section. Just select a VOICE and press the EDIT button. Creating a PROGRAM ▀ Select a voice from the VOICE section. For example, “GRAND PIANO”. Figure 61...
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F2/F7 - REVERB: adjusts the reverb send. • switch by using the Sustain pedal. F3/F8 - CHORUS: adjusts the chorus send. • F4/F9 - ECHO: adjusts the echo send. • F5/F10 - DISTORTION: adjusts the distortion • send. KETRON • AUDYA...
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F1/F10 - VOICES: you can assign up to three voices to the same VOICE. F2/F7 - AFTERT.: you can assign an Aftertouch control to each voice. F3/F8 - MOD/WHA: you can assign one Modulation Wheel control to each voice. KETRON • AUDYA...
CURSOR § ¶ or the To recall one SINGLE or REGISTRATION BLOCK you can DATA/VALUE wheel and by pressing the ENTER use also the numeric keypad, with the NUMERIC option button (Figure 73). set to ON (USER 3 button)1 KETRON • AUDYA...
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Do the same for any other F1-F10 button ( Figure 77). NOTE Press the SAVE button and give a name to the To store a Style directly in a REGISTRATION BLOCK, the REGISTRATION BLOCK. NUMERIC option must be set to OFF (USER 3 button)1 KETRON • AUDYA...
(F1-F5 NOTE buttons): PORTAMENTO, AFTERTOUCH, PITCH When you edit a GM VOICE, please note that also BEND, MODULATION and EXPRESSION. the Presets and Programs that use that voice will be modified1 KETRON • AUDYA...
F4 - DISTORTION: sets the distortion effect. F5 - ROTOR: sets the rotor effect (rotary speaker). F6 - DRAWBAR OVERDRIVE: sets the organ distortion effect. F7 - EQUALIZER: equalizer settings. F8 - WAVE EQUALIZER: equalizer settings for the wave file Player. Figure 85 KETRON • AUDYA...
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F3 - VOLUME: output volume. F4 - OUTPUT: headphones or AUX. F5 - TYPE: click noise type. F6 - TEMPO: sets the tempo. F7 - TIME SIG */.: sets the numerator. F8 - TIME SIG ./*: sets the denominator. KETRON • AUDYA...
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WAVE button in the Player section. Press the USER 5 button (START REC) or the ENTER button to start recording. Press the USER 4 button (STOP REC) to stop recording. A file in the WAVE folder of the disk will be created. KETRON • AUDYA...
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Press the USER 5 button (START REC) to start recording and the STOP button to stop. Repeat MIXDOWN procedure by adding new audio material from the keyboard and/or from the Figure 97 microphone, as you like. KETRON • AUDYA...
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Press the USER 4 button (STOP REC) to stop MIDI recording. A file in the MIDIFILE folder of the disk will be created. To browse and listen the recorded MIDI file, press the MIDI button in the Player section. KETRON • AUDYA...
MIDI Remix MIDI Remix Audya offers a MIDI REMIX function to replace the drum track in any MIDI file with the drum part of an internal Style of Audya, even one with AUDIO DRUM part. Making a MIDI Remix ▀...
Disk Disk Audya features a bunch of functions dedicated to the disk management. Menu Disk ▀ Press the DISK button to see the content of the internal disk (Figure 106). The disk contains a certain number of folders, that you can access by using the CURSOR §...
The same functions in the DISK MENU are available also for the files and folders of the USB Figure 110 drive. Search Audya features a useful SEARCH function in order to search files stored in the internal disk or in external USB devices. Search a file ▀...
MANUAL BASS mode. the high frequencies in the range of +/-12 dB. F7 - BASS TO PEDAL ON/OFF: enables/disables the pedal for the bass. F8 - PEDALBOARD: sets the dynamic value from KETRON • AUDYA...
LOWER and the BASS continue. HOLD STOP: when the Arranger stops, the LOWER stops accordingly to the HOLD OFF STOP settings. BAS+LOWER+HOLD STOP: when the Arranger stops, the LOWER and BASS stop accordingly to the HOLD/OFF STOP settings. KETRON • AUDYA...
F8 - PORTAMENTO TIME: sets the USER slider TEXT PAGE - adjust the portamento time. TEXT PAGE + USER slider F9 - CHORD 2 CUTOFF: sets the ARABIC 1... 10 adjust the cutoff frequency of the chord 2. RIGHT BOOST KETRON • AUDYA...
Audya features two style families: FACTORY STYLES and USER STYLES . The FACTORY STYLES are the built-in styles of Audya and can be accessed by using the keypad in the STYLE section and the ordinary selection of the style by using the F1-F10 buttons, as already described in the “Styles”...
MSP function Audya offers a complete Multi Sample Player editor. To access the MSP function, press the WAVE button, choose a file from the list in the WAVE folder and press the EDIT button. Creating an MSP ▀ Select a WAV format file from the WAVE folder...
▀ or a WAVE file Make the USB connection to access the hard disk of Audya. After connecting, open the WAVE folder and copy a text file (an ordinary TXT file) Figure 128 containing the lyric of a song. The name of the...
RNB12_63 SHUFFLE4_126 name, while “FX” stands for RNB13_81 SHUFFLE5_160 “effects” that is the original RNB14_80 SHUFFLE6_128 version with some effects RNB15_114 SHUFFLE7_126 applied, like compressor, RNB16_106 SLOW1_65 reverb, etc1 RNB17_100 SLOW2_80 RNB18_96 SLOW3_90 RNB19_110 SL_ROCK1FX_65 KETRON • AUDYA...
^MODERATO ^TRIBE&BASS_2 ^QUADRIGLIA ^VILLAGE_FÊTE ^SHUFFLE_FOX ^SLOW_FOX ^SLOW_WALZ ^SWING_FOX ^TANGO_ITALIANO ^TARANTELLA ^WALZ_ROMAGNOLO ^WIENER NOTE The symbol ^ before the name of SMOOTH_FOX the STYLE means that the style SOFT_POLKA has AUDIO DRUM, GROOVES or SOFT_WALZ LIVE GUITAR parts1 KETRON • AUDYA...
^RETRO_SLOW_R ^TECHNO_MERENGUE ^VINTAGE_SLOW_R ^TROPICAL ^HIP_SLOW_ROCK ^VILLERA ^SURF POP_60 BOOGIE OLD_JIVE POP_ROCK NOTE R&ROLL_1 The symbol ^ before the name of R&ROLL_2 the STYLE means that the style SLOW_ROCK has AUDIO DRUM, GROOVES or TWIST LIVE GUITAR parts1 KETRON • AUDYA...
^TREND_POP ^ON_THE_ROCK ^TRIPLET_POP ^POP_ROCK ^POWER_ROCK ^R&BLUES_1 ^R&BLUES_2 ^R&BLUES_3 ^R&BLUES_4 ^ROCK_SHUFFLE ^SHUFFLE_BLUES ^SOFT_BLUES ^STAGE_ROCK ^STREET_ROCK ^STUDIO_ROCK NOTE The symbol ^ before the name of the STYLE means that the style has AUDIO DRUM, GROOVES or LIVE GUITAR parts1 KETRON • AUDYA...
L x W x H = 114 cm x 43 cm x 15 cm (45” x 17” x 6”). WEIGHT 18.5 Kg (38 lbs). Due to continuing product improvement efforts, specifications and appearance are subject to change without notice. Please visit frequently our website www.ketron.it to check for software updates, user manuals, etc. KETRON • AUDYA...
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