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Thanks to all and very nice Mac! Did you do any doctoring (effects, etc) or is that the sound right out of the SD2?



No "doctoring" -- recorded straight out of the two Audio L & R jacks of the SD2 straight into the L & R Line Inputs of an M-Audio AP2496 soundcard. Using Realband or Powertracks (same exact engine in each for that. No effects, nothing but the Ketron itself, using the default Grand Piano 001 patch. (BTW I would never resort to such chicanery in a demo of this sort and if there WAS any "doctoring" I would have stated that right up front. What would be the use of such if the goal was to be able to hear what the device in question itself really sounds like? )

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Do I understand the way it would be used would be:

- Midi Out of computer (BIAB) to Midi In of KB (or would I use Midi Thru)
- Midi Out of KB to Midi In of Ketron
- Audio Out of Ketron to amp





Too complicated, a recipe for trouble here. For starting out, don't connect any Thru connects, instead connect MIDI Out of Computer to MIDI in of SD2 and MIDI Out of keyboard to MIDI in of computer. Keyboard will then act as a dumb keyboard controller.

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Two more questions please...

1. I would be playing using the Grand Piano sound 99% of the time. What is required to change to, for example, an electric piano? My KB supports GM and I have buttons for those sounds.



If your keyboard Sends those standard GM patches out of its MIDI Out when you push one of those buttons, the SD2 will receive the Bank Change and respond.

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. Would the volume sliders on my piano control the output once passed through the SD2? I have two sliders - one for the overall sound, the other for the internal sound. Currently, I use the Line Out from my KB to the amp.

Thanks,
R



One of the sliders on your keyboard is a MIDI Controller 7 -- MIDI volume. SD2 will respond to that when it is hooked up instead of the piano's internal synth.

There is a volume slider on the SD2 also, that corresponds to the "other" volume fader on your keyboard, only is for the SD2's sounds. I leave that one turned up all the way at all times as it is not a MIDI volume command but is a standard analog volume control.


--Mac

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