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Just to give you an idea of what the Ketron can really do, our local resident expert Mac did some recordings with the SD2 a while ago. Here is one of his posts to another forum member. Make sure you check out the link of 'Peg', it'll astonish you.

Quote:

...you can also purchase the Ketron SD2 Orchestral Wizard right here on this website from PGMusic. Their standard 30-day no questions asked policy applies, too.

http://www.pgmusic.com/ketronsd2.htm


Works a treat together with the Audiophile 2496 card. Automatic Rendering is out, as it would be with any nonDXi hardware MIDI synth, including soundfonts on a Creative card. You simply record the MIDI output from start to finish to "render" to a digital audio file if you need to do so.

Here are some BIAB demo songs done on the SD2. NO changes made to any settings other than selecting the hardware MIDI output inside BIAB rather than a software synth. This is what it sounds like at playback (YOu can search and locate the same demo songs on your BIAB setup and listen to those and compare the differences if you like):

HipHopRockSwDemo_REALDRUMS.WMA

HipHopRockSwDemo_MIDIDRUMS.WMA

Peg_Mac_KetronSD2.mp3 (NOT BIAB. Powertracks Sequence)

TruckinDemoRealDrumsSD2.mp3

TruckinDemoMIDIDrumsSD2.mp3

BigSurDemoRealDrumsSD2.mp3

BigSurDemoMIDIDrumsSD2.mp3

Straightahead_SD2_upperbanks_136BPM.mp3 (NOT BIAB. Powertracks Sequence)


--Mac



Gary

Last edited by Gary Curran; 01/16/10 10:20 PM.
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