Hi bgober, and welcome to the forum!

I really like my Ketron SD2 with Band in a Box. You don't have to do anything more than turn the Ketron on and have it connected to computer and selected properly in BiaB to play back the "normal" GM sounds and using it with the Upper Banks is quite easy to do as well, for there is a Patch Map made for the SD2 posted over on the Support Pages here.

As to whether the sounds of *ANY* MIDI synth are "best" or not can be quite subjective. As MIDI sounds go, the samples included with the Ketron SD2 are, in my book, a cut above the norm.

The Ketron SD2 is also very user friendly and rather easy to use, is small in size but large in sound.

The following demo is several years old now, posted on the Ketron USA website, I put it together using the SD2 driven by PGMusic's Powertracks Pro Audio program, which is fundamentally the same in operation as the newer Realband program, only difference really being that Powertracks does not include the Band in a Box Autoaccompaniment engine. So this is just a strict MIDI sequence.

http://www.ketronusa.com/sounds.asp?mod=SD2


First selection at top of page.


After all this, I still heartily encourage anyone shopping for a MIDI synth to take their time and try to AUDITION the possible selections that interest them, for everybody has their own idea or two about what sounds great in the way of MIDI instrument imitations. It is indeed a subjective thing.


--Mac

Last edited by Mac; 03/02/13 08:24 AM.