KETRON SD9 Manual & Tutorial
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4. STYLES, BEATS & ACCOMPANIMENTS
Some people call them beats. Others call them patterns. In the Arranger Musical world, they are called styles. Styles
are the heart of every arranger keyboard. These are musical ‘
phrases’
which can be altered in real time to produce
music based on the chords or notes played on the keyboard. The SD9 PRO comes loaded with 260 styles (
the
AJAM
SONIC
version has an additional 400 styles
) meaning you will rarely lack a style to perform any kind of
music in your repertoire.
Fig. 41. Style Selection Fig. 42. Styles
One of the unique features of the SD9 Pro’s styles are its inclusion of Audio elements (
Live Audio Drums, Bass and
Guitars
) used within the styles and controlled by the user. This means that when you play an Audio style (
those with
Live Audio drums and Guitars are denoted by the word “Live” next to the style’s name
), you will hear live guitars
and drums and even if you change the tempo of the style, these audio element’s pitch remain in the key in which you
are performing. 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. The complex algorithms with
manipulating audio are seamlessly handled by the SD9 Pro. Simply play a chord and listen to how all the audio parts
of the style follow flawlessly and although they are audio, you still have control over the tempo, pitch and tonality
… all in real time, meaning for once, the instrument follows the musician and not the other way around as has
usually been the case when using audio files in music. This technology is even further exploited granting the user
even more controls with the new LaunchPad feature covered in more details below in section
5 LaunchPad
on page
96
.
