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1. AE L _ wmopE 3 ep VOICE LIST DOUBLE 2nd VOICE DRUMS DSP RECORD To change the drum kit of the manual drum set you are playing on the keyboard e Press and hold down the DRUMS button for 2 seconds until the following drum set screen is displayed l MIXER Set T e You can touch the individual drum instruments on the screen and play them live To change the drum kit simply touch the current drum set shown below the screen in this case Standard_sd and pick a new drum set from the pop up list displayed e You can also remap the current drum kit and make your own drum kit To do this simply touch the drum you want to change e g Kick drum Then touch the remap box and select a new kick drum to replace the current one from the pop up list shown KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T s LS e Touch BASS to access the following screen and functions associated with the BASS BASS turns vellow Ballad A 63 4 4 OOII 110 Piano 63 8BEAT1 Oct 1 T Split c3 CONCERT GRAND Dr63 Bs 63 Ch 58 Lw 50 C Maj7 9 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul ARRANGE MANUAL IE 4 orum Mier i Aitana Level Sustain Mixer 55 OFF k Lower Live Bass Octave i 1 POLY Pianist amp Voice o Chord I Lock SS Ee i V TONE Off Baana BE 1 Bass to C1 To Root The left side of the screen now shows some very interesting BASS features un
2. Wheel Modul MY LIST As you can see from this example the current style selected is from the BALLAD style group shown on the right and the style s name is 8BEAT_1 selected on the left Notice that the top part of the screen remains the same showing you the style information and voice information at a glance KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial e To choose a style touch the style group you believe the style you want to use is for this example BALLAD was touched The first 10 styles in the BALLAD group are displayed to the left side of the screen By turning the data wheel or pressing the ENTER PAGE button you can access the next pages of BALLAD styles in groups of 10 Once you find the style you want touch it e Anhour glass is displayed temporally why The SD7 uses AUDIO styles and so whenever an Audio style is loaded the corresponding audio drums of the style need to be loaded as well hence the short delay Once loaded the top part of the screen will be updated showing you the new style selection The voice will also be updated if the VOICE TO ABCD is turned on style is automatically assigned voices that are called up as you change from variation A D This will be explained in details below under 4 F Voice to ABCD Page 46 e You can now press EXIT to return to the default screen once more Notice the updated page KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T xy LS 4 D THE RECOMMENDED WAY TO PLAY AN
3. E ANGO EDIT SL i As discussed above Registrations are snap shot or keyboard settings that can be stored into memory locations in the SD7 You can save settings from footswitches midi channels voices transposition values styles text files etc but you can also set up registrations such that some settings are not saved or ignored as you switch from one registration to another This is useful for an example when you want to maintain the footswitch settings or midi channel settings as you switch from registration to registration and so you would want to ignore these settings regardless of their values stored in other registrations What governs the functions that a registration saves or ignores is addressed in this section of the SD7 To access the REGISTRATION SETUP page and change the settings to match your play style press the MEDIA MENU MENU button to display the menu screen e Touch the REGS SETUP Registration Set up to enter the registration set up screen where you can select what settings registrations will load up and which will be ignored The screen displayed will look similar to this KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 138 T lt KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial REGISTRATION SETUP GUITAR E amp E DEFAULT SELECT ALL DESELECT ALL TAB AUTOSW OFF There are 2 columns displayed The left column displays the 8 major functions while the right section
4. FOOTSWITCH Use this to assign the Arabic scale to the footswitch In Note mode the footswitch controls the intonation of the note In Arabic Set mode the footswitch selects the Arabic set from 1 to 16 ARABIC SET This allows you to select an Arabic set from 1 to 16 KOMA ON OFF The Koma function is used to dynamically change the intonation of the scale while you are playing This means that if the function is On yellow when you press a note between C5 and B5 shown on the display the note will be detuned by the default value of 50 cent but you may also adjust this with the Dial Press the same note again to remove the modification RESET Resets the original modes for the Arabic Set selected ACTIVE INACTIVE Enables or disables the Arabic scale To create an Arabic intonation you have set follow these steps select the note you wish to change on the display change the tune value with the data dial Use the virtual key RESET to restore the original conditions After introducing your modifications press SAVE on the panel and confirm again by touching SAVE on the display in the dialogue box If you do not wish to save your modifications select CANCEL on the dialogue box to cancel the modifications or RESTORE to restore the original conditions KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 137 T lt r A o r Th re CONTROLS FoOTSWITCH VIDED 18 REGISTRATION SETTINGS AND CONTROLS A
5. CONTROLS GLOBAL AFTERTOUCH EXPR PEDAL Tune Sensitivity SE 3 0 127 can hS _ Pedal Curve _ a Mod Sensitivity Threshold NORMAL 1237 6 Polarity Threshold MAIN LEVEL 8 127 Mute Velocity Curve Fixed ary P 80 AUX HEADPHONE LeveL EDIUM ves AUX ASSIGN Let s take a closer look at the functions available and how they can be applied to our daily usage GLOBAL Allows you to tune the SD7 and modify Modulation sensitivity To modify the tone simply touch the TUNE box or the corresponding virtual knob and change the numeric value by turning with your finger or with the data Dial In the same way to change modulation sensitivity touch the MOD SENSITIVITY box or the corresponding virtual knob and change the numeric value with the Dial AFTERTOUCH This is a parameter that many keyboards have today and allows you to modify a sound by pressing a key on the keyboard a little harder even after pressing the note The effect applied to the Aftertouch may be a modulation opening of a filter increase in volume For example by assigning volume to Aftertouch you can simulate the sustained effect of a string or wind instrument which may increase the intensity of a note even after the attack is over On this page you may set the sensitivity of the Aftertouch response and the key pressure threshold below which t
6. Chord 3 Finger iis Humbuck 76 i wa Chord 4 Sot 32 80 HomPad 57 E o L Chard 5 ELPianol 12 80 Strings Ens n PAN REV CHO k f Notice again that the top part of the screen still shows the current condition of the keyboard styles used voices used tempo etc while the middle shows you the various parts of the style and corresponding elements volume in this case KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS In this example let s try and interpret the information displayed on this screen the SAMBA style is made up of e Adrummer playing a JAZZ drum kit as shown in the first box center screen e A percussionist playing a SamBa1 groove as shown in the second box e A bass player playing a Finger bass as show in the third box e Left Voices Instruments of the Manual chords parts which you play live with your left hand Low1 and Low2 LOWERS LEFT VOICES 1 amp 2 Next to them is the octave of each instrument which you can change by touching the value and turning the wheel and their corresponding volume which again can be changed by touching the value and turning the data wheel This was explained in greater detail under 1 F LOWER VOICE above e Musicians Chords 1 5 playing Rodes Chord1 Brazilian Guitar Chord2 Strings Chord5 This initial VIEW screen is the VOLUME screen where you can regulate the volumes for all the individual parts
7. Guitarist etc simply by pressing the MENU button on the right side of the panel on Touch PLAY MODE to display the following screen and select the play mode you re interested in KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt S PLAY MODE This is discussed in more depth below under the MENU section GETTING AROUND THE SD7 NAVIGATION Getting around the SD7 is very easy and can be done in a number of ways using these key buttons 1 TOUCH SCREEN The bright touch screen allows you to touch icons directly on the screen To access contents that are within folders simply double touch as you would double click on a mouse 2 DATA VALUE DIAL WHEEL This wheel allows you to change the values of selected items So if you touch a numeric icon on the screen for an example you can turn this wheel to change its value quickly 3 EXIT button This button very useful to get out of sub menus or folders and get back to the main operating screen of the SD7 during operation 4 ENTER button This button is used to enter and display the content of folders in the screen or to confirm operations on the screen such as pop up messages 5 SAVE button Depending on which screen is being displayed this button is used to SAVE current settings custom start up User styles Registrations etc This will be explained in details within the manual below KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS 3 MULTI M
8. as shown below the screen KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 133 T lt E eee SoS OS 16 EXTERNAL VIDEO MONITOR SETTINGS Sas te The SD7 is capable of displaying all the information displayed on the internal touch screen onto an external video monitor or TV Mirror mode or just lyrics text and pictures depending on which you prefer To access the VIDEO page and change the settings to match your monitor press the MENU MEDIA MENU button screen and then touch the VIDEO icon shown on the screen to display the following External Monitor Type replay VGA MONITOR Hania esd 8 5 i i isola bogo ie i i AA a C D 1280x1024p 60 D 10 F ar 1024x768p 60 Load Image Biia nage D 800x600p 60 as D 640x480p 60 EXTERNAL MONITOR TYPE The VGA MONITOR and DVI MONITOR icons at the top of the display allow you to select the type of monitor the instrument will be connected to If you change from VGA to DVI or vice versa please note that the system needs to reboot and load the relevant files needed for the changes A dialogue box will therefore appear at the centre of the display asking you if you wish to reboot the system NB any changes that have not been saved will be lost if proceed with rebooting the instrument at this time MONITOR RESOLUTION Further down on the display you will find a table where you may select the resolution of the external video The high
9. of the groves Still need to access more groves Turn the data wheel to access the next 10 and when you KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS see what you want touch it As the style plays you will immediately notice the new Groove playing once selected o GROOVE box As you make your GROOVE selection this box shows you the current GROOVE being used o Touch SOLO if you want to isolate the GROOVE so it stands out better o Touch 72 and turn the data wheel to adjust the VOLUME of the Groove NB You may want to make sure the SOLO is off not yellow This way you adjust the GROOVE S volume relative to the entire style mix and not just by itself o DRUM If the DRUM track is not being used for the DRUM track elsewhere in the style this part will be selectable and you can touch it and select from the left of the screen different DRUM GROOVES to use in the style just as you did the GROOVE However if this is grayed out as above this means the DRUM bank is already being used by the DRUM track of the style and so cannot be used here If you select a DRUM track and try to press START to play the style immediately the following message may appear while the SD7 loaded the appropriate Audio Drums that have just been selected mm SO 59 T Split F 2 MARK Sust Hold Wheel Modul MESSAGE LOADING AUDIO Wait Please 8 BEAT 4 Original t q q E q q DRUM OICE amp BASSIST TO END
10. recorded in the key of C major or C minor with no chord changes and no melody line s End2 Just 2 measures recorded in the key of C major or C minor with not chord changes and no melody line s Intro3 End 3 Written in the key of C major and Cminor but with free harmonic chord changes within and may include melody line s Each section within the Midifile has to be characterized by a marker which must have the following categorical names corresponding to the style part and chord format Maj Major MIN Minor SEV Seventh ARRA MAJ _ FILA_MAJ BRKA MAJ INT1_MAJ END1_ MAJ ARRB_ MAJ FILB_MAJ BRKB_ MAJ INT2_MAJ END2_MAJ ARRC_MAJ FILC MAJ BRKC_MAJ INT3_ MAJ END3_ MAJ ARRD_MAJ FILD_MAJ BRKD_ MAJ ARRA_ MIN _ FILA_MIN BRKA_MIN INT1_MIN END1_ MIN ARRB_MIN _ FILB_MIN BRKB_ MIN INT2_MIN END2_MIN ARRC_MIN _ FILC_MIN BRKC_MIN INT3_ MIN END3_MIN ARRD_MIN _ FILD_MIN BRKD_MIN ARRA_SEV FILA SEV BRKA_SEV INT1_SEV END1_SEV ARRB_SEV FILB_SEV BRKB_SEV INT2_SEV END2_SEV ARRC_SEV FILC_SEV BRKC_SEV INT3_SEV END3_ SEV ARRD_ SEV FILD_ SEV BRKD_ SEV The marker has to be positioned exactly at the beginning of the measure and precede every other event of that section The control change volume pan reverb chorus and exchange programs must be positioned exactly at the beginning of the measure and precede every other type of event notes and continuous control modulation Pitch Bend etc The first measure of the Mi
11. 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul m h BACHATA 1 BEGUINE_3 2nd Voice STRINGS ENS BOSSA 1 E g F ail DRUM BASSIST TO END REINTRE MODELING BOOST The following page will be displayed on the SD7 KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS Latin A 63 4 4 Lae Piano IBEGUINE 1 Oct T Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND D Sust Hold Wheel Modul DRUM Koce fa BOOST VARI You can see all the relevant parts that make up the style apart from CHORD 5 These are the parts you can modify and replace with hundreds of other style templates that KETRON has provided for use in each section so you have different templates for DRUM Groove percussion Bass and Chords 1 5 At this point it will be smart to press the red START button to start playing the style so you hear how the style is now with no adjustment and then adjust as suggested below Let s say we want to change the GROOVE of the style Simply touch the GROOVE icon on the screen to display the following screen below Latin A 6314 4 CLIT 474 Piano IBEGUINE 1 Oct T Splitc3 CLASSIC GRAND Or63 Bs63 Ch6l Lw D 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul m i GROOVE AFRO_A BACHATA_A oR AFRO B BACHATA_B fjara AFRO_C BACHATA_C AFRO D BACHATA D k AFRE BATUCADA_A bom ka The left side of the screen displays the first 10 grooves which you can select by simply touching any one
12. 80 Strings Ens 71 EFX MUTE SINGLE We will discuss this screen in more details below but at a glance this gives you access to the individual style parts instruments used volume of each instrument access to PAN REV CHORUS EFX levels of each instrument etc KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T s LS 4 C HOW TO SELECT A STYLE BEAT FOR YOUR MUSICAL PERFORMANCE As mentioned earlier the SD7 comes with many styles beats to choose from How do you select the right style for your performance When you turn on your SD7 the default style selected is called 8BEAT_1 from the BALLAD style category as shown below To select a style touch the top left box that shows the current style selected Ballad SBEAT 1 Dr63 6s 63 Chl LwO BBEAT 3 16BEAT 2 16BEAT_3 Oaa 7OBEAT 1 7OBEAT 2 BASSIST TO END REINTRO A 63 4 4 TTT 110 Piano Oct T C Maj Split C 3 Sust Hold 16BEAT 1 ic MODELING CLASSIC GRAND Wheel Modul The following screen will be displayed showing you the various style groups to the right side of the screen as highlighted below Ballad ISBEAT 1 r 63 6s 63 SBEAT 3 16BEAT 2 7OBEAT 1 ACOUSTIC FOLK A 6344 CIO 110 Piano Octi T C Maj Split 3 Ch 6l Lw Sust Hold 8BEAT 2 16BEAT 1 16BEAT 3 TOBEAT 2 BRITISH_TUNE re ROCKGROLL COUNTRY _ SWING CLASSIC GRAND
13. Allows you to set the language of your instrument Touch the box to open a drop down menu from which you may select one of the following languages English German French Italian Spanish or Portuguese Select the SAVE RESTART on the display to save this setting DATE TIME Allows you to access the following page to set the date and time on your SD7 KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 127 T lt Calendar Febbraio 2015 dom lun mar mer gio ven sab 15 16 17 18 19 20 2l EFFE 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 6 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 8 9 Date Thera Current Date 2 02 2015 tae talian italy ee a nia minute Current Ti 21 41 11 B 21 al i i gt The months on the calendar displayed at the centre may be moved forwards or backwards with the right and left arrows To select the day simply touch the day of the month on the calendar or select the field CURRENT DATE and change the value with the Dial To change the time touch the respective boxes at the bottom of the screen and adjust with the up increase and down decrease arrows next to each box Finally there is also a field called LOCALE on the screen on which you may select the language for the days of the week Use the UPDATE key to update the date of the instrument to date set by the user Select the SAVE RESTART on the display to save this setting SAVE RESTART Touch this icon to save the language and Date Time settings The SD7 will reboot onc
14. Filter window allows you to determine how the files will be sorted out once displayed on the SD7 using the top part of the screen Touch either box Alphabetical sort Items will be displayed alphabetically Numeric sort Items will be sorted numerically Dir On Top Folders will be displayed above and files below Dir On Bottom Folders will be displayed below and files above e Numbers In order to organize files or sort them numerically the SD7 assigns numbers to files as you load them into the keyboard When Numbers is turned on yellow numbers are displayed next to each file and folder thus enabling easy numerical search for something When turned off these numbers are removed e lIcons When turned on yellow icons such as those to denote folders audio files midifiles etc are displayed before the name of every folder or file This way you can quickly distinguish between files if present within a folder e Files Item This is the number of items ines displayed on each screen Touch this box and turn the data wheel to change the number of items displayed KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 112 T lt Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead 63 63 63 63 63 X J T i g SYNC NEXT RESTYLE f PLAYLIST MY FOLDER MARKER f FUNCTION o Display showing 5 lines items KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead api l Cpi GEL GE a USER VOICE WAVE E E E Drum E O p
15. LS 2 M ASSIGNING HARMONY TYPES TO YOUR VOICES You can assign which harmony types are used automatically with your voices or if you choose to layer voices which voices the automatic harmonies will be added to and which will be ignored or further still set which harmony type to apply to which of your layered voices once this voice is recalled USER VOICE This has already been described above in 1 E USER VOICE Screen Page 4 6 Please note that these harmonies referred to above are for the voices you play on the keyboard and not what you sing through the microphone VOCAL HARMONIES VOCAL HARMONIES are covered below 5 B VOICETRON Page 80 2 N INSTANTLY DOUBLE A LEAD VOICE DOUBLE Ever play a brass instrument on a keyboard and notice how thin it sounds compared to the real thing To do so properly you would have to play with both hands where one hand would play an octave higher than the other so as to create the same sound as a live band would On an arranger keyboard such as the SD7 this becomes a little tricky especially since your left hand will be focused on playing chords To accomplish this the DOUBLE button on the SD7 takes care of this drawback instantly e In order to illustrate this better for this example press the VOICE button and select the BRASS group Now touch the BRASS SECTION voice on the screen e Play it with your right hand single notes only Great sounds but e Now turn on the DOUBLE
16. NB You can touch any of the ARRANGERS A D on the panel and work with it s chord 2 instead e Touch the CHORD 2 icon above the MODELING icon to display a page similar to this below KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS Ballad A 634 4 eel 46 SBEAT 1 Oct T Split F 2 CLASSIC GRAND Dr 63 Bs 63 Ch 63 Lw 63 C Maj7 Sust Hold Wheel Modul eae CHORD 2 i281 gt a a A 13 62 ARPO3 o mu pe S j wr orenen ongim r END Py no ot VIEW torum Voice 1 3 BOOST VARI 3 gt e On the right side of the screen touch GUITAR to access the Guitar Library of arpeggios and other orchestral guitar lines e The left side of the screen displays the arpeggios found in the GUITAR bank You can turn the data wheel to reveal even more e Since they are named generically Arp1 Arp2 Etc it would be wise to press the red START button to start playing the style play a chord so the full arranger is playing and then as the style plays test each of these to see which one you want to use For clarity you can touch the SOLO button which will mute all the other arranger parts but CHORD 2 which you are now working with o You can also take this a step further and change the instrument used to create the ARP in this case the guitar You may want to replace the STEEL guitar with another guitar or another instrument from another category such as Brass or Piano To do
17. RAM Ballad A 62 4 4 m 110 oran amp SBEAT 1 ESSEET sta Ee ee Dr 0 Bs 63 Ch 6 ld Wheel Modul A WHITER ORG ACC MUSETTE ACOUSTIC FOLK ARCO STRINGS B3 JAZZ BRASS o Touch the voice you want to use and it will be loaded into the voice location in question Remember more voices exist below so turn the data wheel to display them e Press EXIT once you have touched the appropriate voice You will be returned to the VOICE LIST page and guess what Where your MUSETTE was you should now find your new voice in the same location KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS e Repeat the above action touch and hold a voice you want to get rid of replace go to the voice screen and make a new selection of the voice you want in that location instead press EXIT to return to the VOICE LIST screen etc e Remember the VOICE LIST is made up of 4 pages with each page being able to display 10 voices each so you can fill the VOICE LIST up with up to 40 of your favorite voices you don t have to as just 10 voices in the fist page may be sufficient but at least you know you can e Once done you will now need to SAVE your favorite voices VOICE LIST else when you turn off the SD7 they will be lost and you will have to do this all over again e To save your VOICE LIST simply press the SAVE button while you are in the VOICE LIST page VOICE LIST button should NOT be flashing in edit mode e
18. The following SAVE VOICE LIST page should be displayed Ballad Al 63l a4 OOO 110 Accordion 63 SBEAT_1 Oct T Splitc 3 FRENCH MUSETTE Or63 8s 63 Ch63 Lw6l B 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul CLASSIC GRA MESSAGE 70 CLASSIC SAVE VOICE LIST E DRUM BOOST e Touch SAVE to save your new VOICE LIST or EXIT to cancel and do more editing or abort the VOICE LIST all together by pressing the VOICE LIST button and turning it off From now on whenever you press the VOICE LIST button you will have access to your favorite voices NB You are not provided an option to name the Voice List as you can only create 1 voice list of up to 40 favorite voices and store in the SD7 KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt Ta LS 4 STYLES Some people call them beats Others call them patterns In the Arranger Musical world they are called styles At the heart of every arranger keyboard are styles These are musical phrases which can be altered in real time to produce music based on the chords played on the keyboard The SD7 comes loaded with 260 styles the AJAIMSONIC version has over 600 styles meaning you will barely lack a style to perform any kind of music TRANSP L mone VOICE LIST DOUBLE and VOrRCE DAUMS DSP KEY CTAL RAM RIGHT 2md ENTER souno PAGE ura Mii RESET Fh S SAVE KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS 4 A SELECTING STYLES BEATS MUSICAL ARRANG
19. You can also access other BASS parameters and functions by touching the BASS box on this screen above right side to display the following functions KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS Ballad A 63 4 4 CTT i110 Piano SBEAT1 loci T Split 3 CONCERT GRAND Dr 63_ Bs 63 Ch 58 Lw 50 C Maj 9 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul ARRANGE MANUAL ER E Level Sustain Drum Mixer Alternate J 55 OFF i z Lower Live Bass Octave L i p voice 5 otr e dba I pati w V TONE Bass to C1 Off Balanca 4l To Root The left side of the screen now shows some very interesting BASS features under 2 columns ARRANGE where you can use these features with the STYLE s bass auto bass described in more details above under 2I Manual bass Page 20 or MANUAL with you playing bass manually on the left side of the split point Let s exploit the other features associated with the MANUAL Bass which to change simply touch and turn the data wheel o LEVEL This is the volume of the manual bass Adjust according to the right volume so as to get a good mix o SUSTAIN ON 1 63 When you play a bass note the note gets sustained The higher the value the longer the bass note gets sustained This is great when playing tunes that have sustained or linked bass notes e g some old Pop tunes OFF When you play a bass note there is not sustain
20. a 0 2 3 4 5 13 14 26 ARRA MAJ q 3 6 7 g 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 PBjaucya Sye ARRA MIN JARRA_SEVIFILA_Mad il FLA_SEV BRIA_MAJIBR lt 4_MiIN mT ARRS MN J4RRB_SEVIFILB_M4J FIL MN FILB_S BRKB_MAJ ERKB_MIN JBRKB_SEY JOPRO_ Mad 3 5 7 E 9 C if 12 13 14 16 it 13 19 20 if E oo te 10 24 Screen showing example of the Midifile 70 s POP mid using Cubase Once you have completed recording the Midifile you can now transfer it into the SD7 for use as a style The SD7 also provides you with more tools to further enhance your new style giving you the possibility to add say Audio Drums or using the Style Modeling tool grants access to hundreds of professional style parts such as bass Chords grooves etc KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T un LS CONVERTING THE MIDIFILE CREATED INTO SD7 STYLE FORMAT After saving the Midifile as type format 0 simply rename the midifile with the new extension KST example 70 s POP KST where KST Ketron Style tutorialStyle fi Home Scrivania tutorialStyle Risorse p p Recenti fa Home 70 s POP KST 70 s POP mid fm scrivania D Documenti immagini dd Musica Connect the SD7 via USB to your computer and transfer the KST file into any of the USER STYLE sub folders Pop Dance Ballad etc For this example we will copy the file into the POP sub folder Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead 63 63 63 63 39 Risorse Recenti fi
21. and Wave and Midifiles in which case the Midifiles control the vocal harmonies automatically To take advantage of this and Start singing right away while having great back up vocalists at your finger tips all you need to do is simply e Make sure the Mic volume slider is all the way down on the front panel this way there is no popping sound as you connect your mic to the unit e Plug ina good microphone into the MIC 1 input jack on the back of the unit Plug in Mic here i USB vi SaNa Mio pies SUSTAIN VOLUME FOOTSWITCH THRU OUT IN kaye INT LEFT HEADPHONE OUT GAIN Il T Mane Mec Aaj xt MICRO i J ONOFF DCISV 4A ey amp PN A Set GAIN knob with line straight e Set the gain initially at 1 2 way up line should be straight up and down e Press the MIC button on the panel right side to turn on the mic and adjust the Mic volume 1 2 way up for a start then sing or talk into the mic for a sound check If you hear any feedback slightly turn down the gain at the back of the unit as this means the signal coming in may be too high hot KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS HARMONY TALK MICRO INPUT FADE i VOICETROM MICRO2 GUIT fast Seat gt gt gt Ele ae MICRO INPUT You can of course call up and set various microphone presets such as REVERB DELAY etc and customize them the way you see fit for your voice The Microphone and Vocalizer Harmoniser presets can be achi
22. and the note dies off as soon as you release the key This is great when playing tunes that have rapid or complex bass lines like Jazz or Latin Merengue where the individual bass notes must be heard but not split over into the next note o VOICE LOCK Turn this on yellow to freeze the current bass Usually when a band is performing the bass player plays the same bass instrument for all songs As such use this feature to LOCK FREEZE the bass instrument currently being used so that regardless of which style is later selected the same bass instrument is retained throughout o OCTAVE Select the OCTAVE of the bass instrument 1 is the default but for some old Jazz tunes you may want to set the OCTAVE at 2 2 octaves lower o POLY POLY allows you to play more than one bass note at a time MONO You can only play one note at a time If 2 or more notes are played only the first note is heard o V TONE This special feature adds ambience and more realism to the bass sound or any instrument when selected in VOICE EDIT KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS As for the manual BASS feature this was already described above in details under MANUAL BASS PLAYING LEFT HAND BASS 2 SAVING YOUR KEYBOARD SETTINGS REGISTRATIONS All voices are now set but how do you save this set up so you can instantly recall and use it in the future Your keyboard is all set up You have the LEFT voice s that you
23. as shown above to insert the selected song into the new playlist A blue dot will be displayed 6 60 Abbronzatissima mid MIDI next to the song showing that is has been selected as shown 1 total entry Pos 1 gt 60 24000 Baci mid 0 10 Ragazze mid 2 60 24000 Baci mid 3 60 29 Settembre mid MIDI 4 60 A Che Serve Volare mid a pas 5 60 A Chi mid MIDI 6 60 Abbronzatissima mid MIDI q E 3 J INSERT ERASE SELECT e Repeat the above to select INSERT ITEM all songs you which to include in this new playlist Empty 2 total entry Pos 2 gt 60 A Che Serve Volare 6 60 Abbronzatissima mid MIDI INSERT ERASE SESELECT x KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 106 T lt In this case above 2 songs have been inserted into the new playlist 24000 Baci mid and A Che Serve Volare mid o NB You can also press EXIT and go to other folders and INSERT songs into the playlist the SD7 is adding all the songs you select into the new playlist which you will then name once done with the song selection e Once you have selected all the songs you want to create your new PLAYLIST press the SAVE button on the panel to access the next screen below from which you can name your new song PLAYLIST Play List Name 1 NEW PLAYLIST 444 100 To Pontes codare lend Empty Empty mens pom dL m Empty NEW PLAYLIS
24. back panel into a Midi port for transmission and reception too In this mode the Midi connection to sequencer software may be made directly using a USB cable without using the Midi ports and traditional Midi cables MIDI PORT Pressing this key opens a window to route the Midi ports as shown MIDI Midi Play 1 The window displays 3 devices on the instrument and the respective connections to the Midi In and Midi Out ports Midi In 2 port is addressed exclusively to the Keyboard Global NB When there is a MIDI signal on the MIDI IN port the EXIT button will flash to denote that the SD7 is receiving a MIDI signal You can use this as a test to make sure there is MIDI data coming in through the MIDI IN2 port KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 122 T lt aga SOMTRORS vpo J _REGSSETVP 11 AUDIO EDITOR _ There is a built in Audio Editor that can be used to perform simple tasks on wave files such as creating loops normalizing adjusting the volume etc Prior to using the AUDIO EDITOR you will have to first select a wave file otherwise you will get a warning message to do just that After selecting the song you want to work with wave format simply press the MENU key again then touch AUDIO EDIT and an audio editing screen similar to this will be displayed ta Peas tReet hee Sie Pde Coe EG ei naar pamana io aka E EPE a ile or NORMALIZE VOLUME toor The wave shape of t
25. cave after naming the style to save it o CANCEL To abort this operation e To use this style with your Voices from the STYLES page touch USER go to the group your style resided in and touch it It will be loaded with your voices KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T x LS 4 H STYLE VARIATIONS MAKING STYES LESS OR MORE BUSY The variation section of this page allows you to instantly mute style parts so that the style is less redundant or busy especially if you bring these parts in and out of the style as you play This is a very useful feature if you are a professional player and play a lot In many cases you will want certain style parts e g STRINGS not to play because you want to play a SOLO using STRINGS and you do not want your STRINGS to clash with those being performed by the style Ballad A 63l4 4 COI 110 Piano ISBEAT 1 Oct T Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND Or63 Bs63 Cho Lwo G4 Sust Hold Wheel Modul E BASSIST TO END REINTRO MODELING VIEW E DRUM BOOST In this case simply touch any of the VARIATION parts to turn them on red underline or off In the example above they are all ON so all the style parts are heard As you switch between Arranger Variation notice how the sounds related to the variation parts chords are also changed depending on the style This feature allows professionals to express themselves without having the style get in the way wh
26. displays the individual features within which can be saved and recalled within a registration Yellow or that will be ignored blue In the example above in the GENERAL section we see that the Transposer and Slider values levels will be saved within the REGISTRATIONS however the footswitch Arabic and Control settings will be ignored NB Just for clarification if you program the footswitches and save them in the footswitch menu this means that even if you have different footswitch settings in different registrations those settings will be ignored This would be a good example for live use unless you do intentionally want to program different registrations with different footswitch settings for different usages In this case you would turn on touch Footswitch here so it is yellow Touch STYLE to display to the right the various style elements that can be ignored or recalled as you switch registrations Repeat this for the others VOICE PLAYMODE DPS MIDI MICRO1 VOICETRON MICRO2 GUITAR TAB AUTOSW OFF Tab Auto switch off this function automatically turns off the REGIS REGISTRATION button after the registration has been loaded thus returning the keyboard to full live play on the display If this icon is off blue then the REGIS Registration button stays ON each time you turn it on until you manually turn it off again Press MENU to turn off the menu button and screen and return to the default screen KETRON SD7 Manu
27. from this screen e Hold Start Hold on Start When on if a style is playing and the HOLD button is on this voice will be sustained held until the style is stopped e Hold Stop Hold on Stop When on if a style is not playing stopped or if you are just playing the keyboard normally and the HOLD button is on this voice will be sustained held This is very useful especially if you have PAD SYNTH or STRING voices on the LEFT side and you do not want a break between when you play change chords on the left In order to have a continuous voice use this feature To stop playing the voice turn off the HOLD STOP on the appropriate LOWER voice or simply turn off the HOLD button e Hold Break The Lower voices are still heard when the style is quickly stopped using the Key Start Key Stop feature e Sop Mute When on the Left LOWER voices are not heard during rapid breaks when Key Start and Key stop are on and the left chord is played and release immediately or When only Key stop is on and same action is carried out One the arranger is played normally the voices are heard again e Mute This mutes the LEFT LOWER voice as needed KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS 2 1 PLAYING LEFT HAND BASS MANUAL BASS You can also play left had BASS on the SD7 i e play bass lines manually on the left side with your left hand while playing lead parts with a separate voice on the right side of the keyboard To accomplish this qu
28. harmonies is controlled by moving the VOCAL volume slider on the front panel right side as shown 2nd MICRO VOCAL TERI HARMONY TALK MICRO INPUT Use the MICRO Lead clean voice and VOCAL Vocal Background harmonies volume sliders to adjust your mic volume to taste NB A better way to control the vocal harmonizer which frees you up to play is by connecting the optional Footswitch FS6 or FS130 and programming one of the switches to be the VOCAL On Off button This way you simply raise the volume of the harmonizer on the panel as shown above and leave it set When you want harmonies in your song press the assigned pedal to turn the harmonies on off Programming and using the optional Footswitches is described more below under section 15 Menu Footswitch Page 131 5 B VOCAL HARMONIZER VOICETRON SETTINGS IN DETAIL Once you plug in your mic and turn up the vocal harmonies you may not hear any harmonies No your SD7 is not damaged Why are there no harmonies From the factory your SD7 is programmed to respond to harmonies by playing notes to the right of the split point Right hand so if you want to hear harmonies with everything else on you will have to play a note to the right of the split On the AJAMSONIC SD7 units the harmony has been programmed to be triggered by chords played to the LEFT of the spit point left hand How do you program the harmonizer and set it up to respond to chords played on what section of the
29. it e As it plays touch the SYNC NEXT icon on the Player screen KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead coi od tH Ei pee ier 63 63 38 40 36 i 7 Tonewheel Band mp3 i 8 Acappella mp3 z Drum RESTYLE e You can now while the first song is playing select the next song you want to start playing It will next gt be displayed next to the stat icon on the bottom of the screen as shown in the top right screen e Whenever you want to start playing the new song simply slide the icon from left to right go to the new song and the initial song playing will immediately stop while the new song selected will start playing 2 DRUM RESTYLE This tool is a blessing for those heavily involved with MIDIFILES Although not an exclusive KETRON feature the fact that you can replace the midi drums of your midifiles with LIVE AUDIO Drum used in the KETRON SD7 styles is revolutionary Midifiles usually suffer from one thing monotonous repetitive and boring drums This is because there I a lot more to drums than beating sticks and surfaces Apart from KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 100 T lt the sound heard there is also the characteristic of the drummer which is hard to replicate using Midi Drums The SD7 allows you to thus take out the Midi drums of any Midifile and replace it with the Live drums used within the styles Taking it a step further you can use and
30. it s name is to use the GLOBAL SEARCH feature From the default screen turn off the REGIS Registration button press the SEARCH button on the panel left side ON PDF CTRL LEAD MUTE LYRIC SEARCH JUKEBOX XFADE GM LpicsgmoviE o The following search window is displayed KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial Quick Search O lea ai helene do NES ital nls hfs alt tilt aon ee oia jay You can e Touch the Keyboard and start typing the name of the registration The SD7 will display all files with that name The registration will be the one that ends with the reg extension Touch it twice double click to load it and use e Use the numeric keypad at the bottom of the screen to enter the letters into the box Touch quickly twice for the 2 letter or thrice for the 37 letter 7 RECORDING SONGS amp PHRASES You can record a song or phrase directly onto the SD7 s internal memory and transfer to a USB stick or your computer or keep in the SD7 for future use There are 2 types of recordings that can be done on the SD7 SONG complete song or PHRASE up to 16 bar loop which can be played back as you play freely throughout the entire keyboard 7 A SONG OR PHRASE RECORDING Recording a song is pretty easy on the SD7 You can record your song either as a Midifile data which records your activity on the keyboard etc or Aud
31. lt BASS TO CHORD When this function is set to Normal the Bass note is factored in the chord If for example you play a B Bass note and a chord in C major the accompaniment interprets a C7 with the basic C in the Bass If it is set on Lowest the lowest note remains in the Bass allowing you to play the chord in inversion The setting may be made directly on the Touch Screen MANUAL BASS This function allows you to play the Bass manually in two different modes Bass Only removes the bass from the automatic accompaniment allowing you to play it manually Bass Chord also removes the chords leaving only the drum allowing you to play a manual Bass solo accompanied only by the drum rhythm The setting may be made directly on the Touch Screen These two options may be used only if Manual Bass in the Style section is enabled OCTAVE LOWER1 and OCTAVE LOWER2 These are used to set the octave transposition of each of the two Lowers assigned to the chord button panel After selecting Lower 1 or Lower 2 on the Touch Screen set the transposition value with the Dial BASS ON STOP When this function is set to Bass Off it mutes the Bass when the Style stops when it is set to Bass On it keeps the manual Bass enabled even during Stop The setting may be made directly on the Touch Screen BASS SUSTAIN This function allows you to adjust the sustain of the Bass sound with the Dial BASS OCTAVE This function allows you to adjust the octave t
32. need You have the perfect RIGHT Lead voice that you need for a particular tune You don t have time to recreate this scene or setting at a show in front of your guests so what do you do How do you save this setup for a particular song so that you can instantly recall it at the touch of a button when you are ready to play This is discussed in depth below under 6 Keyboard settings Registrations Page 88 but we can give you a summary here With the voices now all set up the way you want press the REGIS button on the top right side of the panel to turn on REGISTRATION Press the SAVE button The following screen will now be displayed Ballad Al 63 4 4 COE J110 Sax Flute SBEAT1 Oct T Split c 3 LOUNGE TENOR Or63 Bs 61 Ch63 Lw63 C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul SAVE USER STYLE REGISTRATION USER STYLE Save current setting to registration r Cancel VARI Touch REGISTRATION Registrations are Song Keyboard Setups which you save and can instantly recall for live or studio performances and it should turn yellow Now touch SAVE AS to give your current setting a name and press ENTER on the next screen s keyboard to save your song keyboard set up You can now change the set up of the keyboard and create different settings and save them again the same way with different names to create a library of keyboard settings for different songs Note that even though you have created a s
33. of course be changed from the MIDI screen see section 10 Midi Mode Page 119 below for more on Midi setup The following screen is displayed when you touch ACCORD STYLE Accordion Play style STYLE ACCORDION MODE LEFT DRUM renner on et Kick2 0 RIGHT VELO BASS to CHORD MANUAL BASS Medium OFF Bass Chord or octave _ Kickl 60 LEFT VELO f LOWERI LOWER2 ee BASS Let s go through the various functions that are associated with the Accordion Style mode MODE Adjusts the general settings of the accordion depending on the accordion type international or Belgian system This may be set directly on the Touch Screen RIGHT VELOCITY This is a specific function for accordions with dynamic keyboards touch response built into the Midi that sets the velocity curve of the keyboard Soft Medium Hard and Fixed The setting may be made directly on the Touch Screen by selecting each of the 4 Curves from a Pop up that is displayed when you select the function If you select Fixed when the touch response is fixed or better still your Midi accordion has no dynamics a number that may be modified with the Dial will be displayed in the box this is the value of the fixed velocity set on the keyboard LEFT VELOCITY This function is exactly the same as the previous but is used for the bass and chords KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 115 T
34. one place MY FOLDER 108 Using MARKERS in Songs 109 Removing Lead Instrument Sounds from Songs Lead Mute 110 Adjusting Midi file Instrumentation with Volume Sliders on the ee 110 panel Midi Mix Output Assign Assigning Drum Bass or Chords to separate 131 output Aux Headphone Footswitches amp Assigning them 132 External Video Monitor Setup 134 1 4 Note Tuning Arabic Settings 136 Registration Song settings and Controls 138 Compiled and written by AJAM Inc USA In collaboration with KETRON Srl Italy KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 142 T lt
35. playback material in the studio and allow for re voicing modifications etc When MIDI is selected the tempo speed and metronome bar are also displayed on the screen and can be modified before you start recording e AUDIO This records the actual sounds as played on the SD7 as a wave file Use this option if you want your recording to sound exactly the same when played back either on the SD7 or on another device Recording is in stereo When Audio is selected the tempo and metronome bars are not displayed SONG OR PHRASE e SONG is selected by default SONG MODE so you can now proceed to touch REC when you are ready to start recording Recording actually starts as soon as you touch a key in MIDI MODE or immediately in AUDIO mode e Ifyou want to record a PHRASE touch PHRASE on the screen BEFORE you touch REC e Touch BAR and set the number of bars before the phrase is looped e Touch REC to start recording Touch it again to stop recording e Touch PLAY to play your new phrase and now you can play along with the keyboard while the phrase is looped You can also quantize your phrase mini sequence at this point to use with your song KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS 8 AUDIO VIDEO amp MIDI MULTI MEDIA PLAYER The SD7 is not only a keyboard player s dream come true It is also the Swiss knife for musicians offering you the capability to play back MP3 Mp4 Wave and Midifiles and mix and match them with
36. sample hear the arrangement in real time then keep the one you like Remember this arrangement selected only impacts the current ARRANGER VARIATION You can select different arrangements for CHORD 1 of Arranger B Arranger C and Arranger D a very flexible and intuitive design by KETRON Also note that the FILL ins Breaks and Intro Endings are not affected Once you have competed modeling you style you will need to save it as a USER STYLE or else all changes are lost once you select a new style or turn off the instrument To save the new style as a USER style simply press SAVE on the panel KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS latin A 63 44 COETT 114 Piano BEGUINE 1 Oct T Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND Or63 Bs 63 Ch6l LwO D 3 Sust Hald Wheel Modul SAVE USER STYLE REGISTRATION Save As Touch SAVE AS and name your new style in the next screen then touch the ENTER button on the screen and save as a USER style This style can now be used by you instantly by selecting it from the appropriate style category USER STYLE on yellow or in a REGISTRATION Keyboard set up 4 M CREATING YOUR OWN NEW STYLES FROM SCRATCH STYLE CREATOR It is possible to create a new style for the KETRON SD7 electronic keyboard OS 1 0 by first creating a professional standard Midifile using an external PC sequencer such as Cubase Sonar Logic etc and then importing this file into the instrument to be used a
37. song the setting was initially created for KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt an LS 2 L INSTANTLY ADDING HARMONY TO YOUR SOUNDS VOICES You can instantly add harmony to your voices by pressing the HARMONY button on the right panel of the SD7 AARMONY TALK MICRO INPUT FADE amp 2 VOICETRON MICRO2 GUIT Once you do this play a chord with your left hand and then play sounds with your right You will notice that as you play the SD7 will generate harmony notes to supplement the notes you play based on the chords played by your left hand The most efficient way to utilize this feature is to be in SPLIT ARRANGER MODE STYLE button should be ON PIANIST button OFF When you play lead voices to the RIGHT of the split point harmonies are instantly added to these voices based on the chords to play to the LEFT of the split point of the keyboard SELECTING HARMONY TYPES By pressing and holding down the HARMONY button the screen will display the various harmony types to choose from Ballad 0 a a a om SBEAT_1 anise SIC GRAND Dr 63 6s 63 Ch 6il 2 Hands old Wheel Modul Fulll 8BEAT 3 Full2 16BEAT_2 eye f Cntry Down ice l 70BEAT_1 IGS ENS Bluegr Up Touch the harmony type you want or turn the data wheel to reveal even more Now play a chord to the left and a lead voice to the right and listen to how the SD7 instantly adds harmony to your voice KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a
38. styles too You can also time stretch audio files just as a DJ would today plus add LIVE EFFECTS to your music in real time and cross fade from one to the other automatically or live during your break There are 2 PLAYERS on the SD7 which you can control in real time These can be accessed by pressing either of the Player buttons as shown below in the panel diagram PLAYER PIANIST LOWEST MANUAL SPLIT 1 Ln 2 Their volumes can be controlled independently using the slider volume controls just below them AUDIO MULTITRACK e Press the PLAYER 1 button on the panel to display the files and folders within the current selected drive default is the internal drive KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead Je 11 Dance Mixture mp3 J a 2 Strings Orchestra mp3 Ja 13 Nice Elo Piano mp3 PT he 94 Acoustic Bass mp3 E Ta PLAYLIS MY FOLDER MARKER FUNCTION e NB f you want to access or use contents found in a different storage drive such as x E Drum SYNCI NEX T RESTYLE your inserted USB stick you will have to e Press the MEDIA button to display the following screen which shows all the devices connected to the SD7 at this time Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead 111 10 63 63 63 63 63 Sik g AJAMSONIC 44 USB20FD 46 KETRON 25 E e q T T EJECT PC CONNECT DISK EDIT INFO REFRESH e From the example above you can see that there are 3 more storage
39. the audio component begins to distort once the audio drum is stretched too far e Touch DRUM MIXER to access the following screen and functions associated with the Styles Midi DRUMS DRUM MIXER turns yellow Latin sdTA Ss i3 4A CT J 120 Oran SAMBA Ti Split 3 JAZZ ORGAN Or63 Bs63 Ch 63 Lw 63 F 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul oe Be Bass tower Lower Eo Pianist amp Chord i Bassist Balance 45 eet o From this screen you can now Touch the individual instruments to mute them yellow bar appears below their names Touch the volume VOL column and use the data wheel to increase decrease the volume of individual drum parts e g increase the volume of just the snare reduce the volume of the high hat etc Touch the reverb REV column and use the data wheel to increase decrease the reverb level of the individual drum parts e g increase the reverb on the latin percussions reduce it on t he kick drum all together etc o SPEAKING OF DRUMS you can also play manual drum kits on the keybed These superior drum kits and sounds are arranged on the keyboard according to the GM GM2 protocol Simply press the DRUM button on the right side of the panel light comes on KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS and play the drums on the keyboard it s preferable if you do this from the main screen so you are not lost TRANSP OCTAVE
40. this same result would be to press a FILL in and then while the fill in is still playing press the next Arranger variation With AUTO FILL on this saves you one extra button to push which means you can focus more on playing and less on navigating the SD7 o After Fill The fill In is automatically activated if you press down hard on the keys This is the best as your fingers never have to leave the keybed With this turned on yellow simply play and press hard when you want to activate the fill in o USER TAB 1 5 Touch any of these to display 30 in groups of 6 functions you can assign to these buttons Turn the data wheel to display the next set of 6 functions and when you see a function you want to assign to any of these simply touch it and it will be assigned to that particular soft touch button Repeat this for the others When done press SAVE CUSTOM START UP the SD7 will save this START UP setting so you no longer have to repeat this each time the keyboard is turned on FACTORY START UP will revert to all FACTORY SETTINGS so leave this unless you want to RESET the SD7 to factory settings If you need to program and use more settings you can do so by programming functions you can control with your feet using the optional FS6 6 switches or FS13 13 switches effects pedal To do so e Press the MENU button KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial Your next screen should look like this AUDIO EDIT e Touch
41. volume sliders can be saved within a midifile This also depends on the setting of the Midi Mix icon on off status in the Function menu PFL TO PLAYER This function enables the use of the headphone jack to playback songs within the Player pre listen to a song before it goes through the outputs into your sound system If this function is KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 125 T lt selected when you use the two players of the instrument the virtual key PFL appears at the top on the right of the display for headphone playback When this function is disabled the PFL key is enabled only in DJ mode M TRACKS TO AUX With this function we can assign audio track 6 metronome or else used in the MULTITRACK mode out to a separate AUX which can be managed separately from the master volume This can be used for multiple functions such as Drummer Headphone Single Output Power Headphones split etc VOICE SELECT 1 2 This voice function affects the voice that is recalled each time a voice group is selected Mode 1 Whenever a voice group is selected the first voice in that group is always selected Mode 2 Whenever a voice group is selected the last voice that was used in that group is automatically the one that is selected This mode is great when you want to program the SD7 such that whenever a voice group is selected a specific voice in that group is used This way all you have to do is touch the icon for the vo
42. you want press the voice group button once more or press the ENTER PAGE button below the wheel to access the next page of voices in this same group Once you find the voice you need simply touch it on the left side of the screen and this becomes your new lead right voice KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T7 Ls 2 B ACCESSING AND USING MORE VOICES RAM SOUNDS If you need even more voices there are over 40 professional high quality Tone wheel Organ and Orchestral voices on the built in Solid State Drive which you can instantly load into memory and use at the touch of a button To access these RAM voices press the RAM button on the panel right side The screen displayed is similar to this which shows you the first page of 8 of these superior voices Ballad A SS CIIN 110 Organ BBEAT_1 Oct T Split c3 70 CLASSIC Dro Bs63 Ch63 LwO Ab 3 5 Sust Rotor Wheel Modul B A WHITER ORG ACOUSTIC FOLK ACC MUSETTE B3 JAZZ ee ee BRAZILIAN f Voce b VARI BASSIST KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial dal By turning the data wheel or pressing the ENTER PAGE button you can access the other pages of voices THE AJAMSONIC VERSION HAS 30 EXTRA VOICES IN THIS CATEGORY Touch the voice on the screen you want to load and use When the hour glass disappears the voice has been loaded and is ready for use If you select another voice the previous voice loaded remains in memory name chang
43. 7 Manual amp Tutorial Press the red START STOP button on the panel to start playing the selected midifile FILL BREAK KSTART K STOP PAUSE START HOLD TEMPO ED T DAUM ON RESTART STOP L poo S RESTYLE COUNT IN The song will start playing with the new AUDIO DRUMS You will notice that the DRUM RESTYLE button K STOP will now be on This means the drums heard are currently the new Audio Drums from the style that was just selected To turn of the DRUM RESTYLE mode and revert to the song s original Midi drums press the KEY STOP DRUM RESTYL ON OFF button once more as the midifile plays p FILL BREAK KSTART KSTOP PAUSE START HOLD TEMPO EDT 6 UM ON AEBTART STOP L poe RE YLE COUNT IN The drums heard will now be the original drums of the Midifile You can use this button to toggle between the original Midifile drums of the song and the new drums you ve mixed in thanks to the DRUM RESTYLE feature Press the FILL INS and BREAKS to make the song totally your own DRUM RESTYLE START AND END POINTS You can set the DRUM RESTYLE feature so that the new Audio Drums automatically start and end between specific measures of the midifile thus freeing you up to simply play To do this press the DRUM RESTYLE EDIT button K STOP D PILL BREAK ASTAR KSTOP PAUSE START HOLD TEMPO EDIT DA M ON RESTART ST P L wong RES LE COUNT IN The following screen will be displayed 1 Daniel ji Drum Bass Cho
44. CE S There are other parameters and functions that govern the Left LOWER voices and other parts of the Arranger section Drum Bass Chord Drum Mixer Lower and Pianist amp Bassist however in this section of this manual we will only focus on the LOWER since we are referring to the LEFT voices These can be accessed by touching the LOWER button on the screen Al 63 4 4 CTT j120 Organ z Oct T Splitc3 POWER SLOW 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul Drum m horde jazz 122 Rodes 66 Gronve es i SamBal 66 Brazilian flake Chard J EF Finger 118 Humbuck 76 Low Chard 4 Soft 12 80 Horn Pad af g Jaane ssim n Chord 5 71 i Low 2 i El Pianol 12 80 Strings Ens EFX MUTE SINGLE i PAN REV CHO KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS The following screen is now displayed showing you the different parameters that control the LEFT LOWER voices Balad A 63 4 4 CIII 110 Sax Flute 8BEAT1 Oct T Splitc 3 LOUNGE TENOR Dr 63 Bs 61 Ch63 Lw E i C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul LOWERI LOWER2 el bn Drine C Drum Mixer Hold Start On Orff Lower Bass 2 Hold St Off hit mm ei 4 ee o ae Voice Lock ee tomer Hold Break Off Off Pianist amp Chord Bassist Stop Mute Off Off rz i N Mute Off off Balance a1 Modeling For each LEFT LOWER voice you can do the following
45. D ENJOY STYLES To better explain the style functions and how and when to use what we have provided the image above of the SD7 s style control buttons hard buttons We have also relabeled some so that others who have use other manufacturer s arrangers are comfortable with the language used by KETRON e To play the style you just selected o Press the K START Key Start SYNC START button When this button is on the style will start playing with complete backing one you play a key to the left of the SPLIT point or any key if the PIANIST button is on full keyboard mode You can also simply press the red START button if you want to hear drums only until you play a chord to bring in the rest of the arrangement K STOP works this way STATUS MODE K START K STOP Nothing happens on chord section with Keys To start the style you will have to either manually press any of the Intro Fill Start button Style starts playing as soon as a Chord is played on the keyboard KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS Style starts playing as soon as a Chord is played on the keyboard however if a chord is played for less than 1 second and keys are released the style stops If a chord is played for longer than 1 second and then the keys are released the style continues playing Very useful when adding start stop effects or repeated manual breaks while playing a tune OFF ON Style only plays when cho
46. E SYNC NEXT RESTYLE PLAYLIST MY FOLDER f MARKER FUNCTION Display showing 12 lines items 9 PLAY MODES Depending on what you want to use the SD7 for sound source keyboard as an organist there are various play modes you can choose from to instantly set the keyboard up so that you simply play Press the MENU button a display the following screen Some of these have already been discussed in details above and so we will focus on those that have not yet been discussed Touch PLAY MODE to access the following screen from which you can select which PLAY MODE suites your needs while using the SD7 PLAY MODE KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 114 7 lt 1 MASTER This sets up the SD7 to be controlled from an external controller such as another keyboard e g KETRON GP1 with weighted keys or Midi Guitar or Accordion Use this mode if you want to access the sounds and styles of the SD7 by playing on another Midi device From the MIDI menu above you can access and set up the midi channels to match the device you are connecting the SD7 to see section 10 Midi Mode Page 119 below for more on Midi setup 2 ACCORD STYLE This sets up the SD7 to be controlled from an external Midi Accordion such that the chords played on the accordion control the Automatic accompaniment styles of the SD7 It automatically configures the MIDI in channels for the right lead 01 left chords 02 and bass 03 These can
47. ECTED BY THE LIVE EFX EFFECTS below KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt x LS 3 A ASSIGNING WHAT GETS AFFECTED BY THE LIVE EFX EFFECTS In order for the LIVE EFX to be assigned to impact the lead right voice or drums bass chords or Wave Mp3 you will have to go into the LIVE EFX editor and select which elements of the SD7 you want the LIVE EFX to be applied to when turned on Press and hold down the LIVE EFX button on the right panel for about 2 seconds A screen similar to this one shown below will be displayed Ballad TA Ss 63 4 4 CCITT 110 Piano ISBEATI Oct Ts Split 3 GRAND PIANO Or63 Bs 63 Ch 63 Lw 63 Bb 3 5 bd PLAYER are Wave Mp3 om DRUM Right 2nd Micro Vocal Sust Hold Wheel Modul BASS coron CHORD y z e i D R FC Q Low Hi CHORDS CHORD4 CHORDS Pinya eS PLAYER RIGHT STYLE F E E zj DRUM VOICE amp BASSIST TO END REINTRO MODELING iT BOOST The left side of the screen shows the various parts of the keyboard that can be affected by the LIVE EFX PLAYER RIGHT Right Lead voice DRUM Drum track of the Arranger BASS Bass track of the Arranger CHORD1 5 Chord tracks of the Arranger Touch the part you want the LIVE EFX to impact in the example above RIGHT has been selected so when you turn on the LIVE EFX only the right lead voice of the SD7 will be affected by the LIVE EFX settings values If you t
48. EDIA PLAYERS 1 VOICES KETRON ON POF cT LEAD MUTE LYRIC SEARCH JUKEBOX XFADE Lyso PIANIST LOWEST 2 ARRANGER BEATS When you turn on the SD7 it turns on in the SPLIT ARRANGER MODE the key bed has a SPLIT POINT where to the left of the split are the keys used to control the arranger or play separate LEFT voice s and the keys to the right side are used to play lead voice s The DEFAULT VOICE for the RIGHT side is the GRAND PIANO while the default voice for the LEFT side is the ELECTRIC PIANO KETRON ONP Cm LEAD MUTE LYRIC SEARCH JUKEBOX XFADE GM TRANSP L acswove j 5 Fa tAn med mam Ii KETRON PUNEST LOWEST MAMUL SPLIT OTP PIT es VOICELIST DOUBLE 2na VOICE DRUMS DSP RECORD ge sf fe F sa Fi a ORGAN Id BEY CTRL BASS CHORD LOWER oom x p RAM a p MICRO VOCAL MASTER EE L BABAK KSTART KSTOP PAUSE START HOLD NY ee KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial To assign a new split point on the keyboard press and hold down the SPLIT button on the panel right side The current split point will be displayed on the screen right side as shown below Ballad W 6344A O 110 Piano 52 SBEAT_1 Oct T Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr 63 Bs63 Ch6l Lw0 D 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul SPLIT POINT 8BEAT_3 16BEAT_1 7 Split C 3 16BEAT 2 16BEAT 3 7OBEAT 1 7OBEAT 2 E DRUM VOICE E BOOST VARI BASSIST TO END REINTRO
49. EMENTS FOR SOLO ENTERTAINMENT The SD7 powers on in the STYLE mode default page as shown below If you are in a different setting simply press the STYLE button on the right side of the panel shown above to get back to the STYLE HOME Mode Ballad fA 63 4 4 CCITT 110 Piano SBEAT 1 Oct T Splitc3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr63 Bs63 Chol LwO C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul A 8BEAT 2 8BEAT_3 i 16BEAT_2 7OBEAT 1 T0BeAT 2 E BASSIST TO END REINTRO MODELING In the style mode how do we interpret all this information displayed on the screen at once Remember that one of the strengths of the Operating System of the SD7 is to give the user the current status of the keyboard at any given time Do accomplish this KETRON has implemented a system that shows you what the current status of the keyboard is style and voice selected tempo etc Here is a general interpretation of the main screen while in STYLE mode default screen of the SD7 as of OS 1 0 e The top left box of the screen shows o The group the current style resides in Ballad The variation of the style currently selected A The over all volume of the style 63 The name of the current style selected 8BEAT_A in capital letters The individual volume levels of the Drums Bass Chords and Lower parts of the style Dr 63 Bs 63 Ch 61 Lw O o You can touch this box to quickly access the Style selection page O O
50. ER SEQUENCER mode above STYLE OUT ONLY This mode allows you to play the Arranger section of the SD7 using the sounds of an external module Use this mode for an example if you want to use different sounds from an external sound source to play the styles while playing the lead voices from the SD7 Such a combination offers more variety and combinations of sounds NB Results may vary depending on the voices used in the external module At the bottom of the screen you will find 6 virtual keys that provide access to new pages on which you may customize the Midi sections or enable specific functions as well GM PART Displays a screen that shows the 16 tracks called parts which correspond to the 16 Midi channels used during reception and transmission from the GM sound module built into the instrument ARRANGER KEYBOARD Displays a screen that shows the corresponding Midi channels used during reception and transmission from the sound module built into the Arranger of the instrument CLOCK IN When this is enabled yellow the SD7 accepts the Midi Clock command from external Midi appliances and may be synchronized with an external Sequencer Controller connected to the MIDI In jack CLOCK OUT When this is enabled yellow the SD7 transmits the Midi Clock to External Midi appliances Sequencer Controller connected to the MIDI Out jack KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 121 T lt USB MIDI Turns the USB Device port on the
51. FOOTSWITCH to display the foot switch program page as show below e Now touch the switch you want to assign a function to e g 10 anda drop down menu showing all relevant functions you can program into 10 are displayed You can use the data wheel to scroll down the list to others not currently displayed on the page KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial MENU FOOTS WITCH 10 ASSIGN Pdf Page Down Pdf Page Up Pdf Scroll Down Pdf Scroll Up Glide Down Lead Mute When you see a function you want touch it and it is automatically assigned to that switch displayed right below it Press EXIT to get back to the main footswitch page and repeat the above for the other switches you want to program Please note that although the diagram shows the FS13 if programming the FS6 use just the first row of switches 1 6 and ignore 7 13 at the bottom When done while still in the FOOTSWITCH page press the SAVE button and touch SAVE to save the footswitch set You can save up to 4 footswitch settings SET 1 4 as shown below the screen 4 E VOICE ONE TOUCH SETTINGS amp VARIATION TAMING YOUR STYLE You can assign voices to each of the style arrangements variations such that as you play you do not have to worry about manually changing the voices of the lead right hand One Touch Setting As you switch from style variation to variation the lead voices will change automatically so yo
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53. KETRON SD7 MANUAL TUTORIAL HINTS amp TIPS v1 0 KETRON KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a Ls KETRON CC MODE VOICE UST DOUBLE 2ndVOICE DRUMS KEY CTRL RIGHT 2nd ILL BREAK KSTART KSTOP PAUSE START HOLD STOP Congratulations on your purchase of the KETRON SD7 Arranger amp Player Electronic keyboard This multi media musical instrument is the first in this class of musical instruments to combine modern features such as a very intuitive touch screen multi player capabilities including the new Audio Multi Tracking feature Style Modeling and live Sounds into a very affordable package designed by musicians for musicians Right out of the box the SD7 is ready for any musician performer studio engineer or entertainer to use on stage at a place of worship or in the studio with incredible Audio Drums authentic live bass and backing tracks suitable for almost any song thanks to the vast library of professional sounds and rhythms For simplicity this tutorial will focus on the main areas of the SD7 such as SOUNDS amp VOICES ARRANGER STYLES BEATS and Multi Media PLAYER Most of the functions of this machine revolve around these and in some cases combine these features to offer you capabilities yet to be seen or heard of on any other keyboard in the market today Depending on your purpose of purchasing the KETRON SD7 you can set it up for various PLAY MODES based on your needs Pianist Organist Accordionist
54. M using Bass pedals The function is activated On or disabled Off by instantly touching the specific panel on the Touch Screen Displayed to the right is a field where you can choose the sounds to be assigned to the two layers of Bass dedicated buttons plus layer 2 on Chord dedicated buttons To choose the sound simply touch the specific panel which will open a dedicated pop up and from there touch the sound you want Next to the sound you will find another value that refers to the volume of the percussive sound To adjust the volume just touch the box and use the Dial to change it VELOCITY Touching this icon displays a pop up menu showing the various dynamics curves that can be selected KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 118 T lt SUSTAIN Select this function on the Touch Screen to adjust the Bass sustain value with the Dial OCTAVE Allows once selected by touch screen to adjust with the Dial sustain value of Bass section You can save the settings made on this page e Press SAVE on the panel e The Pop Up box SAVE ACCORDION SETTING appears on the display on which you may save the settings by pressing SAVE or escape by selecting CANCEL KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 119 T lt S tem 10 MIDI MODES amp SETTINGS MIDI Musical Instruments Digital Interface is a protocol by which musical instruments can communicate with one another including the SD7 which has extensive Midi controls that ca
55. MODELING You can then assign a new SPLIT point while holding down the SPLIT button by pressing the key on the keybed where you want the split point to be So if you want the split point to be at F 2 as you hold down the SPLIT button press the F 2 key and this will become the new split point and it will be displayed on the screen right section where the split value is currently being displayed Release the SPLIT button once set as needed If you don t want a SPLIT point while holding down the SPLIT button you can also press the first key to the left of the keyboard C and the entire keyboard will now be the lead right voice The proper way however to ignore the split point would be to press the PIANIST button left side of panel PIANIST LOWEST MANUAL This button automatically removes the SPLIT point and the entire keyboard becomes one PIANIST MODE with one voice voices governed by the RIGHT Lead voice selection In this mode PIANIST you can then select a voice or voices and play through the entire keyboard just as you would do on a regular keyboard In the PIANIST mode a musician can also play the arranger as a regular piano and still KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS have the automatic accompaniment follow along as they play the keyboard follows you and not the other way around This is discussed in more detail below in section 4 J PIANIST page 59 2 SOUNDS amp VOICES Unlike any other keyb
56. O KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS Ballad iA 63 4 4 Cit tJ J10 Piano SBEAT 1 Oct T Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr 63 Bs 63 Ch 61l Lw0 Sust Hold Wheel Modul soe 2 2 8BEAT 3 16BEAT 1 1L6BEAT 2 16BEAT 3 2nd Voice 63 7OBEAT 1 70BEAT 2 STRINGS ENS 7 Ubrum VoicE amp ee END o Wc BOOST VARI So the first 2 boxes on top of the screen are dedicated to the STYLE ARRANGER section of the keyboard e The top center box shows O O O O O O The time signature of the style 4 4 7755 The bar counter The tempo BPM 110 The Octave setting for the Right Lead voices Oct The Keyboard transposition value T The keyboard split point Split C3 The chords played on the keyboard D 3 l L 52 Split c 3 CLASSIC GRAND 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul 8BEAT_3 16BEAT_ 1 ma 2 16BEAT 3 Ss 2nd Voice 7OBEAT 1 7OBEAT 2 STRINGS ENS i t q E E i i DRUM OICE amp The top left corner of the screen shows the following information related to the Right Lead voice being used on the keyboard o Group where the voice resides in Piano KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial Volume of the lead right voice 52 Name of the voice in Capital letters CLASSIC GRAND Sustain and Wheel settings O O O You can touch this box to quickly access the voice selection page 4 B EXPLANATION OF THE VARIOUS PARTS OF A STYLE Each style in the SD7 is
57. REINTRO VIEW BOOST TAT 1 3 gt NB When a drum track is selected during MODELING the new selection automatically loads the various audio drums for all the other Arranger tracks so if you were in Arranger B and went into the STYLE MODELING and selected DRUM to choose a new DRUM arrangement for Arranger B 3 new Audio Drums will also be loaded for Arranger A C and D You cannot load individual Audio Drums for individual Arranger parts o ORIGINAL Use this to revert to the original style ignore all changes Once done with the GROOVE press EXIT to return to the main MODELING screen Now lets MODEL the bass similar procedure as above Touch the BASS icon on the screen to access the BASS templates KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt e LS Latin fA 63 4 44 COI 114 Piano IBEGUINE 1 Oct T Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr63 Bs 63 Ch6l Lw0 D 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul BACHATA01 p BACHATAOZ y _BACHATAO3 Vocea VARI NB An additional feature to BASS and CHORDS 1 5 is that not only can do modify the Bass and Chord lines by making a selection from the data base on the left but you can also change the actual instrument being played bass instrument in this case by touching the BASS icon on the right and selecting a new Bass Guitar from those displayed Don t forget to turn the data wheel to display even more instruments and press EXIT when done Let s MODEL one of the CHORD
58. RON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS Ballad A 6314 4 CLOI 110 Piano ISBEAT 1 Oct T Splitc3 CLASSIC GRAND Or63 Bs63 Ch6l LwoO D 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul 8BEAT 3 16BEAT 1 L6BEAT 2 16BEAT 3 7OBEAT 1 TOBEAT 2 E e E jE j BASSIST TO END REINTRO MODELING e Press the VIEW button from this page to display the STYLE VIEW all the elements musicians tracks that make up the style This will include the LOWER1 LOW1 and LOWER2 LOW2 2 left manual voices as shown in the next screen Latin A Blaa OOO 120 l Organ SAMBA Oct T Splitc3 POWER SLOW 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul Chord 1 Rodes 3 m i Chord 21 Brazilian 98 chord i Humbuck 76 Chand 4 Horn Pad a7 Pianist amp Bassist 71 i PAN Fev Ino ler mure smie In this example the first LOWER VOICE LOW1 is called SOFT and the 2 LOWER VOICE LOW2 is called EL PIANO1 This means that if the LOWER volume slider is up and you play any key to the left of the SPLIT point on the keyboard you will hear these 2 voices depending on how they are set up in the LOWER mode see section 2H page 19 below In this screen all the parts tracks that make up the style beat are displayed and next to each one is the VOLUME of that part The LOWER voices have an extra column OCTAVE This value determines the octave of the voice which you can change by touching th
59. S CHORD 1 Touch the CHORD 1 icon from the MODELING main screen to display a page similar to this below tatin fA 6314 4 CLL 174 Piano IBEGUINE 1 Oct T Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr 63 Bs 63 Ch61 Lwo D 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul 60POP04 5 402 60POP05 60POPO1 6 SBLUESO1 _ _ _ _ _ X X _ _ __ EeEEEEEey 60POPO2 6_8BLUES502 _60POPO3 6 8TERZINATOO1 Orchestral Original Se e forum Voices A a a i LU ER i hs ai BOOST VARI Now with the CHORDS you can actually select from 3 different banks which kind of arrangement you want to use for CHORD 1 or any chord you have selected by touching any of the banks PIANO GUITAR or ORCHESTRAL For this example the PIANO bank has been selected KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS eatin fA 63 4 4 CCCI 114 Piano IBEGUINE 1 Oct T Splitc3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr63 Bs63 Chol Lw0 D 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul 5 402 60POPO1 BOPOPO2 6OPOPO3 E i r t E I UICE amp BASSIST TO END REINTRO IDE VARI Based on your selection the left side of the screen will display the relevant arrangements available in this case PIANO was touched and so the left side of the screen displays 2 rows of 10 Piano Arrangements available for use in CHORD 1 Turn the data wheel to display even more and touch the one you want If the style is playing as you touch you can
60. T Empty l Empty l Empty E PlayBar Ce iC jC Drum shift j cae Canc is RESTYLE oe be Brae e When done touch ENTER on the screen and you will see the new playlist created as shown on the top right screen image above B ADDING SONGS TO OR REMOVING FROM A PLALIST EDITING A PLAYLIST You can also edit an existing playlist insert a new song or delete old songs so as to prevent you from creating a new one all together simply to take out or insert one song To do this e Touch the PLAYLIST displayed on the screen which you want to edit The songs within that playlist will be displayed on the screen as before SYNC NEXT RESTYLE pususr p MY FOLDER MARKER FUNCTION e Touch EDIT on the screen to display the edit controls as shown below KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 107 T lt Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead 1 PLAYLIST 1 63 63 63 63 63 Dance Mixture mp3 media back J 2 Strings Orchestra media back J 4 Acoustic Bass MP3 media back Ji 5 Big Band mp3 MP3 media back m E 1G ge ERASE INSERT APPEND REPLACE PLAYLIST ITEM ITEM e You can now use these buttons to below to erase insert append replace or remove songs within the current PLAYLIST Simply touch any of these buttons then touch the file you want the action to be carried out on and confirm in the next screen displayed that you really want to do this Once done for all the songs in question simpl
61. TRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 116 T lt below for more on Midi setup The following screen is displayed when you touch ACCORD CLASSIC Accordion does not Play style Drum Bass Cherd bow Right 63 63 28 41 40 RIGHT PRESET CHORD Mal Grand Piano Fimgerpick 76 j l BASS Wol CLASSIC Solidbody Bless Fusion ils l J RIGHT VELO i i Strings Ens 45 Medium a LEE LEFT VELO Vol Vol 90 l Kickl 20 Kick 750 O SUSTAIN i nn 24 Kick Sos Kick z9 LEFT DRUM i T i Off gg OCTAVE PAN REVERB f CHORUS Once more let s go through the functions available in this play mode Note that these functions RIGHT VELO LEFT VELO and LEFT DRUM are identical to the functions described above in ACCORD STYLE Mode SUSTAIN Select this function on the Touch Screen to adjust the Bass sustain value with the Dial RIGHT PRESET This function allows you to select the sound to assign to the accordion keyboard To do this simply touch the box to open the Voice selection page Voice Select Then press Exit to return to the Classic Accordion screen BASS This function allows you to assign 2 sounds to the Bass for the Bass and Chord 1 section of the Style Here again when you touch the box a window which is very similar to the Voice Select window is displayed on which you may select the instrument and category of instruments press Exit to return to the Clas
62. according to the notes you play e Touch LOWER to access the following screen Ballad A 63 4 4 COT J110 Sax Flute SBEAT1 Oct Ti Split 3 LOUNGE TENOR Dr63 Bs61 Ch63 Lw 63 C Mai Sust Hold Wheel Modul LOWER LOWER2 j Drum m 1 Drum Mixer Hold Start On Off Lower Bass A E Hold Stop Off Off pice Lock aas tower Hold Break Off Off a Pianist amp Pianist amp Chord Lo LS Stop Mute Off Off Mute fF Off Balance 41 Modeling There are 2 columns associated with both the LOWER1 and LOWER2 voices which are the two sounds that can be assigned left of the split point of the keyboard Left Hand Voice Let s describe each function in full and how it can be of use to you KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS e HOLD START When set to ON the Lower1 or Lower 2 sounds will be held sustained as you play a style The setting is enabled for all the Styles This is great when sustained sounds like PADS or STRINGS are assigned to the left hand This is what keyboard players would be playing in a live band when a vocalists is singing say a verse soft e HOLD STOP When set to ON the Lower1 or Lower 2 sounds will be held sustained even when the style is not playing or has been stopped Hold STOP is generally always disabled but could be used in say a style where once the music ends you still want the PADS to be sustained way after the ENDING has been completed Very
63. again to exit from the effects mode not yellow KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS 4 ARRANGER INSTRUMENT FEATURES DRUMS BASS CHORDS Now in this section still from the STYLE VIEW page we will discuss in more detail some of the amazing control and features the SD7 offers from KETRON You will notice that some of these features are unique to the SD7 or KETRON instruments in general and can their settings can set you apart from others with the same keyboard Despite a lot of automation available to you you can still manually control many of the automatic elements thus putting a human feeling behind an electronic keyboard Latin TA 63l4 4 120 Oraan SAMBA Oct T Splitc3 POWER SLOW Dr63 68s 63 Ch63 Lw 63 F EPID Sust Hold Wheel Modul jazz Balance 45 Arranger Controls e Touch DRUM to access the following screen and functions associated with the DRUMS DRUM turns yellow Ballad 3l4yA CLI 110 Piano SBEATI Oct 1 T Split c 3 CONCERT GRAND Or63 Bs 63 Ch 58 Sust Hold Wheel Modul To Groove Pianist amp KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS o Vari 3 To Groove As mentioned above in 2E VOICE ONE TOUCH ARRANGER VARIATION section the 3 variation can be programmed to be for Drums Grooves and not a chord track of the style meaning you will be able to turn on off busy drum and percussion parts associate
64. al amp Tutorial TABLE OF CONTENTS NO gJ Accessing and using more voices from Random Access Memory Playing 2 Lead Sounds Voices at once 2nd Voice How to change the 2nd voice Instantly double a lead voice Adding Professional Effects to your voice as you play Live Effects Assigning what gets affected by the Live Effects List of favorite voices Voice List How to create your own Voice List STYLES J E A KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial Selecting styles beats amp Arrangements _ 4 Voice to Arranger Variations Creating your own One Touch Settings Modifying Styles STYLE VIEW Unique Arranger Features i 7 Adding amp Syncing Arpeggios to Styles Style Variations More or Less busy Assembling your own style Modeling 32 34 36 38 5 52 61 75 6 85 4 A 4 C 4 E 4 F 4 G 4 H 4 J 4 K 4 4 M 5 A 5 B 5 C Vocalizer Tips and Tricks 5 Using a Guitar and on board Stomp Boxes Microphone 2 Input 85 Saving and Recalling Keyboard Settings Song Settings 99 Registrations 6 A Creating a Song Setup Registration 88 Determining what a Song Setting Registration saves recalls and ignores OY Recalling your Song Set up Registrations at the show gig 7 Audio and Midi RECORDING 7A Song and Phrase 95 N 7 rs 8 Audio Video and Multi Media Player 97 EE Using Audio Drums amp Arranger with Midifiles Drum Restyle 100 Playlist 103 Placing my best tunes in
65. ance 41 Modeling Le es gt SUS KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T s LS o Here you may use the Arranger in piano mode PIANIST ON in other words eliminating the split and extending the Upper section over the full keyboard Full Upper mode The chord will therefore not be recognized only on the Left section but over the full keyboard and whatever voice you select will be used through the entire keyboard o Also in this window you may set the Arranger such that you can play bass with your left hand simply by touching BASSIST on the screen BASSIST ON o The two modes Bassist Pianist may only be used one at a time They will now be described in more detail PIANIST o Auto In this mode simply play 3 or more notes on the keyboard so that the chord is recognized and once this happens you can then play the melody with one or at the most two notes without changing the chords of the Arranger o Standard In this mode you freeze the chord recognized with the Sustain Pedal so as to play on the keyboard without altering the tone of the Arranger This is the typical way a piano player plays anyway pressing the sustain pedal when the notes being placed are in the current chord just played o Sustain Pedal When this parameter is enabled ON the Sustain Pedal control on Pianist is enabled once plugged into the SD7 BASSIST o The Bassist function allows you to play the Manual Bass on the left section of the keyboar
66. and by touching any of the volumes associated with the instrument you can adjust each instrument s volume accordingly 7 OA eja COT 4120 Oran Oct T Splittc3 POWER SLOW 3 5 Sust Hold Drum _ thors 122 TME Drum jazz Rodes Drum Mixer Grove Chord z SS SamBal 66 Brazilian 98 Gace Lower Harg 118 Cherd J 16 i Finger Md Humbuck l Low I miia Bassist Soft 12 80 Horn Pad 57 a Low 2 Chard 5 Balance 45 El Pianol 12 80 Strings Ens 71 Eo SINGLE GLOBAL OPAN REY CHO EFX MUTE since The adjustments being made to any of the style parts can be made to impact just the current Arranger NVariation A in this case since the top box displays A and on the panel Arranger Variation A is lit up so Arranger A is being modified if SINGLE is selected on the screen below the CHORD 5 s volume box If you want to make these adjustment such that these changes are also carried out in ARRANGER VARIATION B C and D such that you do not have to manually go into these separately and adjust all over again then touch SINGLE so it toggles to GLOBAL yellow before making any adjustments When GLOBAL is displayed any changes you make will now impact all the ARRANGER VARIATION parts together SINGLE is useful if you only want to make changes to one of the variations arrangements only KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS As men
67. at have been assigned to the various arranger variation parts of this 8BEAT1 style are as follows e GRAND PIANO Assigned to Arranger Variation A When you play Arranger A the lead right voice automatically selected will be the Grand Piano e MARK Assigned to Arranger Variation B When you play Arranger B the lead right voice automatically selected will be the Mark piano e PIANO amp STRINGS Assigned to Arranger Variation C When you play Arranger C the lead right voice automatically selected will be the Piano amp Strings e POP ORGAN Assigned to Arranger Variation D When you play Arranger D the lead right voice automatically selected will be the Pop Organ USES This can be used for various functions for an example you can have these 4 voices as your main voices for this style Now turn OFF the VOICE TO ABCD such that as you switch arrangers the voice does NOT change automatically In this mode you can now play and touch any of these 4 voices at any time Use them as your 4 favorite voices for this style You can also have these 4 voices set up such that if you are playing with any backing track Midifile simply touch the voice you want and play along 4 G CREATING YOUR OWN VOICE TO VARIATIONS OTS Remember that these are the voices that have been set by KETRON for all the 260 factory styles You can always changes these and put your own voices to be associated with any style factory or your s USER STYLES To do thi
68. ated text lyrics file called Love you txt when this function is on yellow whenever you play the midifile the corresponding lyrics will be displayed on the screen as well However if this function is off then when you play the midifile the text or any other files associated with it will not be loaded and seen as well Use this function when you want to be able to say play midifiles but still have the screen display full controls for you to perform with File View When you touch this icon the following screen will be displayed which allows you to select which files you want to be able to see once in any folder and to sort files in a particular way Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead of o2 40 63 MP3 Alphabetic sort Dir On Top Files ms y Numeric Sort y Dir On Bottom PLAYLIST f MY FOLDER MARKER FP roncro o This function is very useful especially when you have mixed files e g wave Midi Mp3 Mp4 etc within a folder and you want to display say only the midifiles within the folder mid For this example you would touch the MID box check mark will appear inside Whenever you press the PLAYER buttons or MEDIA to display the content of that media or folders within that media only MIDIFILE Songs will be displayed on the screen while all the other file types will be ignored By checking All Files then all files are displayed x Drum SYNC NEXT f RESTYLE o The SORT window below the File View
69. broken down into the following sub elements 3 Intros Endings 4 Arranger Variation parts of the style 4 Fill ins 4 Breaks and 1 To End short ending These style parts can be easily controlled with the following buttons below the screen D FILL BREAK KSTART KSTOP PAUSE START HOLD TEMP ENT DRUM ON RESTART STOP L wong RESTYLE COUNTIN Ballad A 63 4 4 COOC 110 Piano SBEAT1 Oct T Splitc3 GRAND PIANO Dr6z 8s63 Chz Sust Hold Wheel Modul Piano amp String VARIATION lt lt Page 2 3 Touch 2 3 to change pages Each style element is also made up of your band which is made up of Drums Bass Automatic Chords controlled by the style 1 5 Manual chords controlled by the player Lower1 and Lower2 O O O You can see all these parts by pressing the VIEW button on the main page 1 3 KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS Ballad A 63 4 4 CLII 4110 Piano SBEAT 1 Octi T Splitc3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr63 Bs63 Ch61twoO0 D 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul 8BEAT 3 16BEAT 2 f TOBEAT_1 DRUM i BOOST Latin 63 4 4 CLII 120 Organ SAMBA t T Split c 3 POWER SLOW Dr 63 Bs 63 Ch663 Lw 63 F Sust Hold Wheel Modul Chord 2 _ 118 76 Finger Humbuck Pianist amp Chord Bassist Low 2 _ EE Chord 5 E Pianol 12
70. button by pressing it it s light will come on and play again No more but e Remember though that this DOUBLE button can be programmed to create notes an octave higher an octave lower etc by simply pressing and holding it down for 2 seconds to display the KEYBOARD CONTROL screen From this screen you can touch DOUBLE DOWN default Notes will be played an octave below the notes you play o DOUBLE UP Notes will be played an octave above the notes you play o PORTAMENTO Notes will slide up and down depending on the last note played o AFTERTOUCH Turns on off the aftertouch what happens when you press down a little harder ona key KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS 3 INSTANTLY ADD PROFESSIONAL EFFECTS TO YOUR VOICE AS YOU PLAY LIVE EFFECTS You can instantly add Live EFX Effects e g altering Filter Dampler and Resonance parameters to your lead voice and other parts of the keyboard to like Drums Chords Bass etc but let us focus on the lead voice for now To do so simply press the LIVE EFX button found on the top right side of the panel ee aE i i ee ee 2nd MICRO VOCAL MASTER The LIVE EFX light on the button will turn on which means the LIVE EFX is now being applied to whatever part they were assigned to Now use the volume sliders Right 2 Micro amp Vocal shown above to control the LIVE EFFECTS in real time as applied to the voice selected see ASSIGNING WHAT GETS AFF
71. can play this tune in the key of C but sound as if you re playing it in the key of A and then Oh my how do you save this set up so that when you go to perform before your audience friends you can recall this exact set up for this song REGISTRATIONS TRANSP OCTAVE LIVE EFX i o L_ wopE gpm SS VOICE LIST DOUBLE 2nd VOICE DRUMS DSP RECORD i Registrations are just snap shots or setups of your keyboard at any given time You can set up your keyboard just the way you want it to be to perform a particular song and save the entire set up including lyrics of the song such that when you are on stage and it is time to perform you simply press the REGIS button and touch your song setting and instantly the SD7 loads all parameters that were saved in association with this song 6 A CREATING YOUR SONG SET UP REGISTRATIONS AT HOME IN THE STUDIO Creating your song set ups is easy However before you proceed you want to make sure the REGISTRATIONS are set up to save the settings you want them to save and ignore the settings you want them to ignore This is done because in some instances e g Footswitches or Midi setups you want the settings of such to remain unchanged no matter what REGISTRATION is recalled KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS 6 B DETERMINING WHAT A REGISGRATION SAVES AND IGNORES To set up the SD7 such that the Registration can ignore certain settings and change others from th
72. connect your instrument to an external Software Sequencer or Computer via the Midi In Select this mode when you are playing a Midi file or sequences from a computer This mode is very usefully for studios where the SD7 will work as an external sound module ACCORDION STYLE amp VOICE This is a variation of Accordion Manual mode which uses the same Midi channel optimized for use with a Midi accordion and also allows the Arranger to be controlled via the accordion connected to the Midi In of the instrument KEYBOARD STYLE amp VOICE This is yet another variation of standard mode which is optimized for Arranger control via an external keyboard connected to the Midi In jack of the instrument PLAYER 1 OUT ONLY This configuration is very useful when you want to play a Midifile using Player 1 on the SD7 but through an external sound module connected to the Midi Out of your SD7 In this case all the voices and sounds heard will be coming from your external module even though the actual midifile will be played on the SD7 This is the reverse of the COMPUTER SEQUENCER mode above PLAYER 2 OUT ONLY This configuration is very useful when you want to play a Midifile using Player 2 on the SD7 but through an external sound module connected to the Midi Out of your SD7 In this case all the voices and sounds heard will be coming from your external module even though the actual midifile will be played on the SD7 This is the reverse of the COMPUT
73. control fill ins and breaks as well within the midifile thus bringing life into your sequences or songs e This feature can only be used on MIDIFILES so make sure you are in a folder that has Midifiles Select the midifile whose drums you want to REMIX Your screen should look like this did Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead mmm fi 2 Dance _all_days MID f 31 Dance Mixture mp3 f 2sting 0 hestra mp3 if 3 Dancing _queen MID het TEENE 7 F 7 SYNC NEXT RESTYLE PLAYLIST JMYFOLDER MARKER FUNCTION SYNC NEXT PLAYLIST FMY FOLDER MARKER gt gt gt h e Touch the DRUM RESTYLE icon on the screen The SD7 will now take you to the STYLE SELECTION page from which you can choose a style close enough to the midifile you are trying to play whose drums you would like to incorporate in your midifile sequence Ballad A 63 4 4 CITO 110 Piano 52 SBEAT_1 lOct T Split 3 CLASSIC GRAND Or63 Bs 63 Ch 6 l LwO C Maj7 Sust Hold Wheel Modul S j 8BEAT 2 amp BEAT_3 16BEAT_1 16BEAT 2 16BEAT 3 J ______i eo __ _ a TOBEAT 1 TOBEAT 2 ACOUSTIC_FOLK BRITISH_TUNE usc OT e Go ahead and select the style whose drums you want to use with your sequence midifile Once the hour glass disappears press EXIT to return to the DRUM RESTYLE page You are now ready to start playing your song with the new drums KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 101 T lt KETRON SD
74. d modes retrigger etc for each style part 2nd Voice 41 Dance u alo co GiGi EE 4100 Piano 63 70 s POP Oct T Split C3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr61 Bs51 Ch 62 Lw63 Bbmin7 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul Drum j Chord 1 D e eee Mixer Groove Chord 2 Pop 86 Grand Piano 60 sae ats Bass Lower Finger ee 3 eae ele Pianist amp Lowi Chord 4 Chord Bassist Ss eames Low 2 i Chord 5 alance 6 El Piano2 12 0 Folk 70 PAN REV CHO EFX MUTE SINGLE Once complete with adjustments press the SAVE button and save your finished style as noted in the user manual Dance Cg 63 COMPILATION Oct T Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr61 Bs51 Ch62 Lw 63 Bbmin7 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul SAVE USER STYLE REGISTRATION Drum Mixer Lower Pianist amp SAVING STYLE TO USER Bassist ba E PAN REV S EFX As mentioned earlier it is also possible to further enhance or modify the style using the new Style Modeling feature to described above in 4 L Assembling your own style Page 63 KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T n LS 5 MICROPHONE amp VOCAL HARMONIZER VOICETRON The SD7 comes with studio quality professional built in Microphone and Vocal Harmonizer circuits This allows you to sing into your microphone and instantly add background vocals to your songs as you either play live as just a keyboard or using the styles and beats or with Audio Wp3
75. d to this output is automatically excluded from the internal speakers LIVE DRUM SET This function creates dynamism and realism in the drum tracks by modifying a number of variables of the percussion instruments during performance such as snare rim hi hat etc just as a Live Drummer would SPLIT LOCK This function allows you to lock the Split point in Player Mode DRY ON STOP This function eliminates any effects reverb chorus etc on the microphone once the TALK SD7 is not being played stopped similar to pressing the TALK button on the panel This function is great when you want the effects to be on when you perform sing but not on when you speak or try to address your audience MAIN LEVEL This is the main volume of the instrument that may be set in this menu either by using the relevant box or the corresponding virtual knob and using the data dial The main output may also be muted AUX HEADPHONE LEVEL From this icon you may adjust the volume of the headphones or Mute them following the same steps described for the Main Level above KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 131 T lt eee WP BOE So a 15 FOOTSWITCH CONTROL amp SETTINGS These are certain controls you can program such that you control them with the optional FS6 or FS13 Effects Footswitch thus freeing up your hands to simply play You can for an example assign the Start Stop to Switch 1 Sustain to Switch 2 Voca
76. d while controlling the Arranger and song line at the same time on the right section o This function has 2 playing modes EASY and EXPERT EASY This is the default mode of BASSIST When you press BASSIST the Manual Bass is automatically selected for the left hand while chords are recognized by interpreting the note played by both the left Bass and the notes played with the right hand Simply play a chord of at least 3 notes on the right section for the instrument to create an accompaniment which the SD7 will play along with the selected style In this mode you may also play a song line of no more than 2 notes played together since 3 notes are automatically recognized as a new chord This interactive style of play allows a Piano player to play freely without loosing their original playing skills while playing the bass manually with the left hand o EXPERT Expert mode is very similar to Easy mode but facilitated with the SUSTAIN PEDAL Play 3 notes to create a chord then press the SUSTAIN PEDAL to freeze that chord Any other notes played 2 or 3 or 4 or do not alter the chord of the arranger until the SUSTAIN PEDAL is released Once the pedal is released the next chord played on the keyboard is immediately recognized and played This is the most professional method that allows a Piano player to freely express themselves without having to learn a new standard way of playing the Arranger keyboard The Expert Mode takes a little bit o
77. d with the style This happens when you turn on the Vari 3 To Grove on Variation 3 on the main Voice amp Variation screen gets replaced by the GROOVE Balad A eala COCO 410 Piano E baled A 63 44 CITT 110 Piano SBEATI Oct T SplitC3 GRAND PIANO Oct T Split F 21 CLASSIC GRAND Dr 62 Bs63 Ch2 Lw56 C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul Dr62 Bs 63 Ch63 Lw 51 C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul re 7 un Se FILL FILL2 BREAK BREAK BREAK3 BREAKS 3 3 gt BASSIST TO END REINTRO MODELING VIEW 50057 1 3 gt sl S al gt O This way you now have 2 musical VARIATIONS to use and 1 percussive drum VARIATION This is very useful especially for LATIN styles and beats that tend to have a lot of percussive parts There comes a time when muting some of this at the touch of a button creates room for musicians to fully express themselves without competing with the SD7 Of course there are those who would prefer the keyboard played all the parts while they lay down a solid lead instrument line o AUTO FILL If you turn on the AUTO FILL yellow then as you play the style and switch form Arranger to Arranger Variation to Variation the style automatically plays a Fill in between changes so that it sounds flawless and more professional The other way to achieve this same result would be to press a FILL in and then while the fill in is still playing press the next Arranger variation With AUTO FILL on this saves y
78. der 2 columns ARRANGE where you can use these features with the STYLE s bass auto bass or MANUAL with you playing bass manually on the left side of the split point Let s exploit the ARRANGE ARRANGER STYLE bass features O KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial ALTERNATE This is a special mode for the alternate Bass that adapts it to the chord change according to the correct rule of musical harmony For example by not repeating the basic note or the fifth that you have played This function works only in Styles where the alternate Bass is programmed with tonic and fifth intervals LIVE BASS This function synchronizes the Bass immediately regardless of when the chord is played within a measure In other words the Bass plays immediately when you play the note without waiting for the down beat of the measure When this is off the bass not is only heard on the down beat of the style s measure VOICE LOCK When on yellow this locks the bass sound so that regardless of which style you pick or keyboard setting Registration you load the bass instrument does not change BASS TO C0 When on yellow this extends the arranger s bass lines down to CO This is very nice especially for 5 String Electric bass guitars TO ROOT When on yellow the arranger takes all the melodic notes of the automatic Bass and plays them as a basic note of the chord When playing a song you can turn this on and off at various parts of the song
79. devices that have been connected to the USB slots on the front panel of the SD7 KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS PO EEE EE e Touch the drive whose files you want to work with From now one you will be able to work with and access files within the selected drive If you need to work with files in another drive you will have to press MEDIA once more and touch the drive you want to work with e Turn the data wheel to highlight the file you want to play and touch it twice once displayed on the screen or press ENTER to start playing it immediately If you highlighted a folder instead it will open up to disclose the contents that are within it As you begin playing files that are within the SD7 or over 2000 Midifiles and Audio files that come with the AjamSonic upgrade kit for the SD7 there are some interesting features worth mentioning now that can be used to enhance your playing experience or in other cases set you apart from other musicians and performers Let us discus this in more details so let s take a closer look at the features found on the PLAYER screen SYNC NEXT This feature allows you to prepare another song that will start playing immediately once you want it to Start as a song plays In other words you can synchronize the time it starts so it starts on say the down beat of the previous song To illustrate this better with an example while in the Player screen as above e Touch a song and start playing
80. di file must have only one marker on the first tick The marker must have the following name Audya Style 1 0 You can now start recording the events notes of the style from the second measure KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial The sequence order of the Midi parts of each section and of the marker is at the discretion of the user Ex ARRA_MAJ INT3_ MIN FILLC_MAJ etc There is no fixed order to arrange these parts as they will automatically be assigned to the appropriate style parts in the SD7 All sections and related markers should be written back to back without leaving any empty measures or spaces within the midifile STYLE PARTS AND RELATED MIDI CHANNELS In each section it is possible to program the midi parts associated with each part Here are the recommended style parts midi channels and instruments to use Style Part Midi Ch Instrument Note s DRUM1Ch 10 Drum Set DRUM2 Ch9 Groove BASS Ch5 Bass CHORD1 Ch 6 El Piano Ac Piano suggested CHORD2 Ch 7 Ac Gtr El Gtr suggested CHORD3 Ch 8 Strings Pad suggested CHORD4 Ch 11 Synth suggested CHORDS Ch 12 Lead suggested To get you up to speed quickly we have attached to this tutorial a sample midifile 70 s POP mid which you Can use as a template to start This is a template of an existing style in the SD7 so you can see how we programmed it By loading and opening this file in your sequencer you will be able to immediately realize the struct
81. e main screen press the MENU button PAGE m MIDI RESET _ gt U SAVE MEDIA MENU The following screen is displayed once you press the MENU button above e Touch the REGS SETUP Registration Set up to enter the registration set up screen where you can select what settings registrations will load up and which will be ignored The screen displayed will look similar to this KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS REGISTRATION SETUP a DEFAULT SELECT ALL DESELECT ALL TAB AUTOSW OFF There are 2 columns displayed The left column displays the 8 major functions while the right section displays the individual features within which can be saved and recalled within a registration Yellow or that will be ignored blue In the example above in the GENERAL section we see that the Transposer and Slider values levels will be saved within the REGISTRATIONS however the footswitch Arabic and Control settings will be ignored NB Just for clarification if you program the footswitches and save them in the footswitch menu this means that even if you have different footswitch settings in different registrations those settings will be ignored This would be a good example for live use unless you do intentionally want to program different registrations with different footswitch settings for different usages In this case you would turn on touch Footswitch here s
82. e this is completed UPDATE BACKUP This tab opens page for the various functions such Import Export data Playlist System My Folder backup and the possibility by SYSTEM UPDATE tab to update the internal Operating System with future Oses DISPLAY SKIN As many devices of today the SD7 allows you to modify the background display SKIN Touch this button to access a selection page with different SKINS suggested by KETRON KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 128 T lt DISPLAY SKIN aa amar Ls Bii Hie a e m nj a S DEFAULT RELAX CONFIRM Once you select your new preference the following screen will be displayed PREFERENCES Rel 1 0 0 02 02 2015 Firm V3 02 Serial E3AA00000 T 45 37 V 3 03 __ SYSTEM LANGUAGE WAR MEAG New Display Skin will be available on new system reboot Press Save Restart Button to reboot now Save Restart Touch OK to confirm and reboot the SD7 The SD7 will now power on with the new display as selected KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial eg Sa ie 14 KEYBOARD CONTROLS amp SETTINGS E to DA sm ie ID ootia Here is where you will find access to many parameters and settings that control the overall keyboard MEDIA MENU controls and settings To access the CONTROLS page press the MENU button and then touch the CONTROLS icon shown on the screen to display the following screen
83. e number and changing it by turning the data wheel 12 The column next to the OCTAVE values is the VOLUME column Each LOWER Left voice has a value which you can change by touching it and adjusting using the data value wheel The LOWER volume slider on the left front panel controls the general volume for both LOWER voices KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T v LS 2 G CHANGING THE SOUNDS VOICES PLAYED WITH YOUR LEFT HAND You can change the voice s played on the left of the keyboard as follows e Touch the voice inside the LOW1 box to change the first left voice The following screen will be displayed showing you the voice groups on the right and the voices on the left where the current LOWER voice is from e Touch the voice group where you believe the voice you want to assign to the left hand resides The left side of the screen will show the voices in this group You can turn the data wheel or press the ENTER PAGE button to access more voices in this current group e Touch the voice you want to play with your left hand e Press EXIT to return to the STYLE VIEW PAGE e If you want an additional LEFT Voice LOWER2 touch the voice in the LOW2 box and pick a different voice for it in the next screen just as you did for the first left voice Press EXIT to return to the style view page e Play and make sure this is the voice you want to use in this particular scenario 2 H OTHER PARAMETERS THAT CONTROL THE LOWER VOI
84. effects processes used to create the current Mic setting Gate Eg Compressor etc as shown in the screen below The status of these processes ON or OFF is also shown above their icons EDIT MICRO le nite Shin Talk Room Stage Oe ees o You can then make changes to these parameters and save as a USER MIC setting So for an example if you want to make changes to the Noise Gate touch the current selection Soft below the Noise Gate icon to display a list of selectable Noise Gate settings KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS EDIT MICRO MOISE GATE PRESET Soft Mediuml Medium Hard Touch the Noise Gate setting you want and press EXIT on the panel right side to return to the Mic Edit screen o To view or modify the current EQ settings touch VIEW on the screen and modify as you see fit to your voice by touching and turning your finger on the screen or the data wheel If you want to make your own EQ setting and save for future use touch the current EQ setting box below the EQ graph from the previous screen Studio as shown in example above Turn the data wheel and select any User Eq 1 4 below KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T n LS EDIT MICRO EQUALIZER FRESE Standard Flat HI FI Studio User Eq 1 User Eq 2 Only a USER EQ setting can be saved for future use NB If you select a factory setting y
85. elow will be displayed that shows all the elements individual voices that make up this voice the voices used to create this lead voice you have selected will be turned ON as shown on the left On OFF column Lounge Tenor ON OFF VOICE VOL SHIFT TUNE PAN REV CHORUS INSERT 9 Lounge Tenor 120 64 gt 70 0 DEE 2nd voice oVERDRWE change TO PEDAL EQ ENHANCER rite SPLIT_ l RESTORE ale 1 6 lt lt gt e To select a new 2 voice for this lead voice touch the current voice in the 2 Voice box A screen similar to this one below will be displayed This screen shows the current 2 voice that is being used for this lead voice left and the voice group from which this voice was selected right KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS GM VOICE SELECT and Piar El Piano2 Spano CHROM STRINGS Dark Grand l Mark GUITAR CHOIR SS SS Honky tonk Clavi BRASS FUTE Msk if Rock Piano Do SYNTH Sa SS El Pianol Octapiano ETHNIC sfFX e You can now select your new 2 voice for this lead voice simply select the voice group to the right where you think your 2 voice resides then select that 2 voice to the left of the screen If you do not see the voice you are looking for turn the data wheel or press the ENTER PAGE button to display the next page of voices that exist in the current category voice group There are many pages of voices per voice group
86. er the resolution the clearer and sharper the image however please check with the manufacturer of the monitor to make sure it can handle high resolution data DISPLAY On the right side of the screen you can turn on the MIRROR function that projects whatever is being shown on the SD7 s display onto the external screen or disable it in order to display the entire screen content however display only the song text pdf and pictures if you do not want your audience to see you navigating through screens but focus on the lyrics to tunes CALIBRATE Opens a KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 134 T lt system window in which you may calibrate the Touch Screen display Once more the SD7 will reboot once calibration has been completed If you select Yes a cross will appear in the upper left hand corner of the display Touch it to confirm that this is the top left corner Repeat for all the other corners and center of the screen as the cross is displayed Once completed the system will reboot automatically NB You should calibrate the instrument as described above whenever you update your system or if the display no longer responds promptly when you touch it LOAD IMAGE Press this function to load a customized image on the instrument which you may use as a preset background of the display This is also very useful for you to advertise your business e g if you are playing in a night club and can connect your SD7 to a few monit
87. es to red and you can select this voice again This time there is no delay because the voice is still in memory and so it can be played instantly Any voice you touch which is in red can be used instantly If you touch another voice to us the first one gets deleted from memory and the last 2 voices are always retained until you turn off the SD7 2 C PLAYING 2 LEAD SOUNDS VOICES AT ONCE 2 VOICE You can instantly layer an additional voice either with a Factory voice RAM voice or USER VOICE your edited created voice which we call 2 VOICE From the factory each lead voice already has an additional voice assigned to it which you can turn on off by simply pressing the 2 voice button on the panel or touching the 2 VOICE on the screen and it turns yellow and raising the corresponding 2 Voice volume slider below it Together with the RIGHT volume slider for the lead main voice you can adjust how you want both voices to sound relative to one another KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS 2 D HOW TO CHANGE THE 2 VOICE OF ANY LEAD VOICE Assuming you re not satisfied with the factory s 2 voices that have been assigned to the lead voice how do you now change the 2 voice of any lead voice and make it your own To do this you would have to go into the VOICE EDITOR e From the voice selection screen touch and hold the lead main voice whose 2 voice you want to edit for 2 seconds A screen similar to this one b
88. etting for a song as you perform you the KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS user can always overwrite this setting instantly as you change voices tempo styles on the fly The settings will still be in memory unless you save and overwrite them 2 K HOW DO YOU QUICKLY RECALL YOUR SETTINGS REGISTRATIONS Now that you have created many instant setups you can instantly recall right hand left hand bass voices etc how do you recall them e Press the REGS Registration button found on the top left side of the panel to access the REGISTRATION screen which looks something like this Ballad Al 63 4 4 COO 110 Piano SBEAT1 Oct Ti Split 3 GRAND PIANO Dr 63 Bs 52 Ch 52 Lw 40 B 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul paum Myorces BOOST VARI e As you can see from the screen above you have 4 banks of registrations set ups and each bank can hold 1024 single registrations or song set ups BANK1 is the default where your registration will reside unless you changed it so if BANK 1 is not already on yellow touch it e The center of the screen will now display your registrations along with some that were already put here by the factory Scroll down using the data wheel to highlight your registration you want to load and press ENTER or touch it twice double click to load it Your settings will be loaded immediately left hand right hand manual bass if applicable style etc and you can then play the
89. eved by pressing the MIC button on the panel for about 2 seconds The screen should look like this VOICETRON This microphone EDIT page is made up of 2 columns e MICRO left These settings address the effects on the microphone The ON OFF button turns the mic on or off same effect as turning on off the mic by pressing the MIC button on the panel Touch either of the silver knobs and turn the data wheel to adjust the microphone s Vol Volume Rev Reverb level and Echo The values are displayed right next to each other You can also change the value by touching the corresponding knob and moving turning your finger on the screen 5 A MICROPHONE PRESETS amp SETTINGS IN DETAIL o There are 10 Factory and 10 User settings for the microphone By touching the settings box next to the On Off button on the screen a drop down menu displays all the 10 factory settings as shown in this screen below KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T x LS VOICETROWN MACRO PRESET Standard Mellow Small Large Standard Gated Live o Simply turn the wheel to highlight the one you want and touch it or press ENTER on the panel left side to select it and it will be displayed in the box The user settings are below the factory settings If you EDIT any of the factory settings they get stored in one of the 10 USER locations o If you press EDIT the SD7 will now display the various
90. f practice in order for you to know just when to press that SUSTAIN PEDAL so as to lock the chord however it is well worth it since it allows you great freedom to express yourself musically when playing the Song just as a Pianist would KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS o SUSTAIN PEDAL For both Pianist and Bassist modes the Sustain Pedal option allows you to enable disable Sustain on the lead Right hand voices when you press the pedal 4 K ADDING ARPEGGIOS ARPS TO YOUR STYLES amp MUSIC This is a new feature covered in more depth below under STYLE MODELING however yes you can add arps to your existing factory or user styles This function can morph any current style into a modern dance or techno style or add fresh guitar strums horn lines etc toa rather boring style This modification is easily accomplished through the style MODELING To do so from the default screen e Select the style that you want to modify and add arps to e Touch the MODELING icon on the screen to display the following screen below Latin A 63 l44 CIII 114 Piano IBEGUINE_1 Oct T Splitc3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr 63 Bs63 Ch6llwd0 D 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul Groove b E E Eorum Woceg l BASSIST TO END REINTRO BOOST VARI e As an example let s replace the current boring Nylon guitar lines used in Arranger Variation A CHORD 2 with a new ARP Guitar from the built in KETRON library that has over 30 guitar arps
91. he Aftertouch effect will not respond Here again the modifications are done by touching the SENSITIVITY and THRESHOLD boxes or the corresponding virtual knobs and modifying their values with the data dial wheel KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 130 T lt EXPR PEDAL This enables the Expression pedal to be used for controlling the volume of the Left and Style section and the PLAYERS The response curve of the volume pedal may be set by touching the PEDAL CURVE box and using the Dial to change it s value POLARITY This allows you to select the polarity of the pedal switch to use Normal Open Normal Closed based on what type of volume pedal you are using This also means you can now use volume pedals from other manufactures too and customize the SD7 to accept them THRESHOLD This adjusts the opening threshold of the pedal controller to be used VELOCITY CURVE This sets the keyboard dynamic response of SD7 Soft Medium Hard Fixed Based on how hard or soft you play you can set the way the SD7 will respond to your touch FIXED This is used when you do not want any variation in volume or response from the keyboard when you play you simply want a fixed volume no expression This turns on a fixed dynamic level which you can set using the data wheel AUX ASSIGN Allows you to assign to the HEADPHONE SEPARATE OUT one of the following sections of the SD 7 RIGHT LEAD voice DRUM or BASS Whatever is assigne
92. he file will be displayed at the centre of the screen You can zoom in to get a closer look at the sample or out with the functions ZOOM and ZOOM on the display WAVE STOP WAVE START Zoom Zoom i _ Press the red START button on the panel to play the file A line moves progressively along the wave shape from left to right representing where you are in the song WAVE START Takes the counter line to the beginning of the wav file You can use this to set which point you want the song to start playing from with the data wheel once selected NB If you want to cut out a portion of the song use this to set the start point of the song WAVE STOP Takes the counter line to the end of the wav file You can use this to set which point you want the song to stop playing at with the data wheel once selected NB If you want to cut out a portion of the song use this to set the end point of the song CUT This function cuts out the portion of the song before the starting point i e before the section set by the WAVE START above NORMALIZE Levels the volume so that the highest peaks coincide with the highest level under the distortion 0 Db KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 123 T lt VOLUME Regulates the volume of the file in percentages LOOP Allows you to assign Metadata Loop points on audio file so that when you press START the song will play from the point set by WAVE START t
93. he harmonizer is no longer an effect you bring in to enhance your song Bring it in and out of your tune let your audience miss it rather than get board of it 5 D GUITAR MICROPHONE 2 INPUT You can connect either a 2 Microphone or a Guitar Instrument into the INPUT jack at the back of the SD7 as shown Mic 2 Guitar input il USB Dvi net SUSTAIN VOLUME FOOTSWITCH THAU OUT IN2 ies INTIGN tt MICRO RIGHT LEFT HEADPHONE OUT GAIN IN NPUT SPEAKER Mono Momo Aux ON OFF DCISV 4A cy g p Make sure the INPUT volume slider is all the way down and the INPUT switch on the panel is OFF BEFORE making any connections to the instrument to prevent any possible damages to the internal amp speakers Once connected to the back of the SD7 press the INPUT button on the SD7 s front panel right side to turn on or off this signal and adjust it s volume to appropriate levels using the INPUT volume slider directly above the INPUT button HARMONY TALK MICRO wrur FADE 3 VOICETRON MICRO2 GUIT Reece asec gt gt gt EDU ie ae eR Uo The default setting set up for this input to be used is for a microphone and so the gain is internally set high by the settings If using a Guitar or any other musical instrument you will have to let the SD7 know that the signal coming in is not from a microphone but KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS rather a LINE musical instrument To do this plea
94. ht denotes that the effect has been turned on in the example above the DELAY effect has been turned on To change the amount of delay touch e g the delay knob it turns red showing it is in edit mode and turn it with your finger or turn the data value wheel as shown in the screen shot above The current effect in this case Delay effect is displayed in the box below the knob To select a different Delay effect as an example touch the box with the current effect displayed to display a list with many other effects to select from EFX1 EDIT EFX1 EDIT INSERT PRESET Delay 1 Delay 2 Delay 3 EHHIS m wy EE Delay 4 Amp Simulator l Amp Simulator my f Delay 5 E Fi Delay 6 BYPASS Ems gt gt gt Touch the new effect you want to now use NB This process of increasing and decreasing the amount of effect used and changing the effect all together is the same for all the effects pedals stomp boxes show in this window The only one which functions you can only turn on or off are the Amp Simulator KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS 6 KEYBOARD SETTINGS SAVING AND RECALLING EVERYTHING REGISTRATIONS You are at point where you ve picked the proper voice for your right hand lead selected the best layered 2 voice picked the greatest style and slowed it down just right for your next song I will always love you for an example transposed the keyboard so you
95. ice group and the voice you want is already there ready to be used METRONOME This function displays the metronome page with it s various options When you select this function the following window is displayed with the metronome settings that will now be described METRONOME pa W TIME SIGNATURE d ENABLE Or TIME SIGNATURE 4 BPM 120 LINK RUN MODE NONE OUT ALL TYPE Clicki e VOL This is the virtual Volume knob of the metronome Select this knob on the display and turn to adjust the metronome Volume or use the Dial e TIME SIGNATURE numerator and TIME SIGNATURE denominator The corresponding boxes to these are for setting the time signature e g 4 4 3 4 etc Simply touch each box and modify the value with the Dial KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 126 T lt e LINK RUN MODE This box may be set in one of four different modes in the same way Touch the icon and once selected yellow turn the data wheel to select the option needed o NONE mode disables the metronome o FREE RUN mode enables the metronome and it is independent of the midifiles or Styles just like an external metronome o Miidifile mode links the metronome to the Midifile you are playing In other words it synchronizes the metronome tempo with that of the Midifile o STYLE mode links the metronome to Style synchronizing it with the tempo of the Style e ENABLE Enables or disables the metronome s
96. ickly and easily simply press the MANUAL button on the left side of the panel PIANIST LOWEST MANUAL Now when you play any notes to the left of the SPLIT point you will hear the bass Bass instrument is determined by whatever style has been selected prior to this So you can now play a manual bass solo with your left hand To change the bass instrument currently being used e From the main page touch VIEW to enter the STYLE VIEW mode once more Latin A 63 4 4 CLOI 120 Oraan A ISAMBA Oct T Splitc3 POWER SLOW Dr 63 Bs 63 Ch63 Lw63 F 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul astra Chord 1 jazz 122 Rodes 66 Drur hee ee Be Tje a sen Brazilian Bass Lower Chord J C E 118 Humbuck 76 SamBal dial Pianist amp ca J 1 Co o Choda Soft le 80 Horn Pad BU El Pianol 80 Strings Ens REV CHO EFX mute SINGLE PAN e Your screen should look similar to this one above The bass box shows the current bass instrument being used heard e Touch the current bass instrument in the example above Finger to display all the other bass sounds within the BASS voice group Remember you can turn the data wheel or press the ENTER PAGE button to change the page and display other bass instruments Once you find a bass sound you like touch it to insert it into the bass box e Press EXIT to return to the style view page and your new bass should be in the bass box e
97. ile allowing musicians who are growing the capability to sound complete and live with a little help from the SD7 NB The 3 VARIATION part location currently occupied by Strings Ens in the above example can be replaced with a variation for the DRUM Groove instead This is discussed in more details below under 2F ARRAGNER CONROL Drum section KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS 4 1 MODIFYING STYLES TO MAKE THEM YOUR OWN STYLE VIEW Of course you are not stuck with the styles the way they were balanced and EQed from the factory You can make slight modifications as such and save them as a USER STYLE for future recall as well Just remember that although you are making modifications to a FACTORY style when you go to Save it the SD7 will save the style as a USER style so you will always have you factory styles the way they were from the factory and you can always go back to them at a future date Ballad A 63 4 4 ae 110 Piano B8BEAT 1 ict Ti Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr 63 Bs63 Ch6 lLwo 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul 8BEAT 3 16BEAT 2 7OBEAT 1 From the main style page touch STYLE VIEW to display the various style elements compositions as shown below feu A 63 4 4 Clr 120 Organ ISAMBA Oct T Split c3 POWER SLOW Dr63 Bs 63 Ch 63 Lw 63 F 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul Jazz 122 Rodes Groove chord 2 SamBal 66 Brazilian i fines
98. io wav which records the actual sounds as created on the keyboard Since the audio recording captures the actual sounds as recorded you can later use the audio recording anywhere else studio church and it will still sound as it did on the SD7 However when you record with Midi unless it is played back using another SD7 chances are it will sound different when used on another machine because the sounds of that machine are not exactly the same as those of the SD7 remember the midi recording is data and not the actual music audio To start recording a song on the SD7 e Set up the keyboard for the song you want to record select the voice styles etc e Press the red RECORD button on the panel top right side as shown below TRANSP OCTAVE Ea O EDIT VOICE LIST DOUBLE 2nd VOICE DRUMS DSP RECORD e The following screen below will be displayed on the SD7 KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS Ctr 410 Piano T Split c3 GRAND PIANO Dr 63 6s 52 Ch 52 Lw 40 LB May 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul 2nd Voice STRINGS ENS 3 forum voice BASSIST TO END REINTRO MODELING nat BOOST WARI e Select the type of recording you want to do on the SD7 e MIIDI This records the data played on the SD7 Use this option if you intend to play the recorded material through the SD7 so as to get exactly what was recorded You may also use this if you intend to use the
99. keyboard How do you select different vocal harmony types KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS VOICETRON e From the Edit Mico screen above touch the current vocal harmonizer setting HARMONY RIGHT in this case above to display the following screen that gives you access to all the other current vocalizer preset settings in the SD7 VYOICETRON VOICETROH PRESET HARMONY RIGHT HARMONY LEFT UNISON MIDI MODE USER 01 USER 02 e Turn the data wheel to access even more below e Once you have found the appropriate setting sing into the microphone and try it out If you have made some customized adjustments you can then press the SAVE button on the panel to save these as a USER setting for future recall use either SAVE the Microphone settings or SAVE the Vocalizer settings KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS MICRO VOICETRON SAVE MICRO VOICETRON USER SETUP e Touch MICO if you want to save the Microphone settings or touch VOICETRON if you want to save the vocalizer settings depending on what was adjusted You ll then be asked to save the settings and replace a USER setting VOICETRON SHWE WORETROM USER SETUP VOICETRON ance e Sointhe example above VOICETRON was selected from the previous screen and now you can save the current settings under the first user location USER 01 or turn the data wheel to select another User
100. line of your song is not on channel 4 In this case Leave the LEAD MUTE on Come to this Function screen and start changing the LEAD CHAN value When you hear the lead melody of your song go off you have found the channel on which the lead melody line was created for this midifile e MIDI MIX This function allows you to quickly adjust the volumes of the individual Midifile parts tracks using the volume sliders Drums Bass Chords Orch and lead when on yellow KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 110 T lt KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial If this function is off then the midifile will play with the original volume initially programmed within it thus ignoring the volume slider positions Use this function when you want to quickly adjust say the drums or bass sounds while playing a midifile rather than going into the GM mix and trying to figure out where the bass or drums are and then lowering the volume in there or when you want to play many midifiles but want the volume to be consistent as you go from one to the other regardless of how the volumes were programmed within the midifile since the volume of the individual parts will be determined by the setting levels of the volume sliders above Skip File Link This function when on yellow enables files that have the same name to be loaded together that is files that are linked by association If you have a midifile called Love you mid and you have it s associ
101. lizer on off to switch 3 voice change to switch 4 etc and in this way you can activate all these functions by pressing the corresponding switches and not lifting your hands off the keyboard to touch on the panel To access the FOOTSWITCH page press the MENU button FOOTSWITCH icon shown on the screen to display the following screen and then touch the FOOTSWITCH AT j l Erih 9 10 il 12 na i intro End1 intro End2 o Now touch the switch you want to assign a function to e g 10 and a drop down menu showing all relevant functions you can program into 10 are displayed You can use the data wheel to scroll down the list to others not currently displayed on the page KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 132 T lt MENU FOOTS WITCH 10 ASSIGN Pdf Page Down Pdf Page Up Pdf Scroll Down Pdf Scroll Up Glide Down Lead Mute o When you see a function you want touch it and it is automatically assigned to that switch displayed right below it o Press EXIT to get back to the main footswitch page and repeat the above for the other switches you want to program Please note that although the diagram shows the FS13 if programming the FS6 use just the first row of switches 1 6 and ignore 7 13 at the bottom o When done while still in the FOOTSWITCH page press the SAVE button and touch SAVE to save the footswitch set You can save up to 4 footswitch settings SET 1 4
102. location Touch SAVE AS and give USER 01 your own name in the next screen and touch ENTER to save it e NB In the vocalizer EDIT mode there is a unique mode called VOICETRON TO ARRANGE Vocalizer settings linked to the Arranger Variation buttons A B C amp D What this does is it allows you to program different Vocal Harmonies to the various Arranger buttons such that when you are playing with Arranger A a vocal harmony is heard or non When you switch to Arranger B a different harmony type is automatically selected when you switch to Arranger C etc This frees you up from having to manually select and switch harmony types as you play and best of all you focus on playing and not pushing buttons KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS To access this press EDIT under the VOICETRON column as shown below VOICETRON The following screen will now be displayed below EDIT VOICETRON Mode Harmony Right Setup Equalizer HARMONY RIGHT Standard I VOICETRON TO ARRANGE Touch Off to turn this mode ON yellow NB If this is left off even if you proceed to set up the various modes the modes will not change automatically as you switch between the various arranger modes Touch VOICETRON TO ARRANGE to get into the next screen where you can assign which vocalizer harmonies get assigned to which Arranger buttons A B D C Start Stop etc KETRON SD7 Ma
103. lt 4 4 Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead mmm 100 TO 63 63 63 63 63 n PLAYLIST 1 Empty EDIT gt Drum lt s s gt SYNC NEXT RESTYLE MY FOLDER MARKER FUNCTION e Touch YES and the SD7 will take you to the drive you are currently working in shown on the top right corner of the screen and display all the folders and files within that drive Your screen will look like this Empty iad SRECYCLE BIN y MULTI TRACKS g PDF ey REGISTRATION E SELECT e Nb If you want to change to another drive installed on your SD7 simply touch to the right of the screen in this example only one drive is installed AJAMSONIC e Scroll through and touch the folder where the files you want to add to your playlist exist Touch twice to open or press ENTER once highlighted In the example below we will access the files in the MIDIFILES folder as we want to add some midifiles to our new playlist Your screen should now display the files in the relevant folder as such INSERT ITEM KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 105 T lt Empty E Empty AJAMSONIC 4 3 60 29 Settembre mid i 2 460 A Che Serve Volare mid 5 60 A Chi mid 5 60 A Chi mid MIO MIDI 6 60 Abbronzatissima mid i q t E INSERT SELECT gt gt e Now highlight the song you want to include in your playlist and press INSERT ITEM
104. n be configured from the MIDI menu You can actually use the SD7 to control other Midi devices or have them control the SD7 Press the MENU button to access the MENU screen an Then touch the MIDI icon to access the following page KEYBOARD zi RGN VOICE 1 PLAYERI OUT ONLY GM Part Arrange maan aie ellie Keyboard E c USB Midi Midi Port The 9 preset Midi settings programmed by KETRON are displayed at the centre of the screen and are programmed as such STANDARD If this mode is selected the SD7 acts as a slave and may be controlled from an external Midi controller via the Midi In jack such as keyboard controller midi guitar etc to play the on board Styles and Voices of the Arranger sound module ACCORDION MANUAL This mode should be used if you connect your SD7 to a Midi Accordion Accordion Mode automatically sets specific Midi channel for the following sections Right Ch 01 Left Ch 02 Bass Ch 03 It allows you to play the accordion manually namely without an automatic accompaniment Select this mode if you have a Midi accordion and want to simply play voices abd bass with your left hand and voices with your right hand KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 120 T lt KEYBOARD RIGHT VOICE This is an optimized mode that allows you to control the Lead voice via the external keyboard It is actually a variation of the Standard mode above COMPUTER SEQUENCER This mode allows you to
105. nal screen display If this is on yellow then the movie will not be displayed on the Midjay Pro however it will be displayed on an external tv monitor that has been connected to the unit at the back e CDG Jump This function allows you to skip the initial data found on CDG files and it s cancellation value can be set by touching the value next to it and changing with the data wheel e Crossfade This sets how quickly Fast1 Fast2 or slowly Slow1 Slow2 or Normal the SD7 will lower the volume of one song while transitioning into the next song like a DJ So while one song is playing if you select another the volume of the first song decreases its speed being determined by this setting while the volume of the 2 song increases speed also determined by this setting e Lead Chan Most Midifiles have a channel purposely set for the lead melody track For most GM files this channel is set to track 4 However it can be changed here by touching this icon and turning the data wheel to change it 1 16 This value is tied to the LEAD MUTE button on the panel LEAD MUTE LYRIC SEARGH JUKEBOX XFADE GM l_picsamovie o When the LEAD MUTE button is pressed while a MIDIFILE is playing the lead melody line is instantly turned off This feature is great if you want to play along with a midifile yet be the one to play the lead song lines o NB If this does not initially work for your Midifile it means that the lead melody
106. new style in the next screen then touch the ENTER button on the screen and save as a USER style This style can now be used by you instantly by selecting it from the appropriate style category USER STYLE on yellow or in a REGISTRATION Keyboard set up KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS 4 L ASSEMBLING YOUR OWN STYLES STYLE MODELING Up until this point we have been discussing making adjustments to factory styles and saving them as USER STYLES for future use Apart from making changes to existing style parts you can change them all together or customize them in one of two ways A Assemble a style of your own using existing style parts STYLE MODELING B Creating a style from scratch requires professional Midi software such as Cakewalk KETRON has created a nice tool for the SD7 which allows you to alter the Drums Bass or any of the chord parts 1 5 to create an entirely new style and since all these parts were carefully created by professionals in studios from all over the world it means your work is drastically reduced when it come to creating a style because most of it has already been done for you Let s take a closer look at STYLE MODELLING First of all select a style that comes close to the style you have in mind to create Then from the main styles page touch MODELING below the screen tatin TA esat COII 414 Piano IBEGUINE_1 Oct T Split tc3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr 63 Bs63 Ch6l Lw0 J D
107. ntil you will only hear Voice 2 once the wheel is completely down You can also select the type of morph below the screen KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T u LS o WHA WHA If checked this element voice will have the wha wha effect applied to it if a volume pedal is plugged into the SD7 This volume pedal can then be used to manually turn on off the wha wha o HARMONY Adds a harmony to whichever voice it is checked in here whenever the HARMONY button on the panel is turned on described in more details below in section 2L HARMONY on Page 23 This has brought about great harmonies for single or layered voices depending on which of the 3 voices in this screen you want harmonized o Voice Mode Touch this and turn the data wheel to select which voice mode is appropriate for your new voice e g Stee where if 2 notes are played and you bend the pitch wheel only the lowest note bends Duet and Trio harmony modes with 2 or 3 voices harmonically added to the lead voice etc Lounge Tenor ON OFF VOICE ATTACK DECAY RELEASE RESO CUTOFF OFFSET Y TONE lo unge Tenor v 64 esa Mega O er sea eet flees Pose FACTORY SPLIT i gt OCTAVE 5 6 e Page 5 6 gives you access to set the attack decay etc These parameters impact the actual voice sample you are editing and can be used to actually create a new voice all together if edited properly e V TONE Adds natural cha
108. nual amp Tutorial gt a LS VOICETRON TO ARRANGE START Ara Arr B Arr D DEFAULT DEFAULT DEFAULT DEFAULT STOP Now below each Arranger button is the box displaying the current vocalizer setting that will be heard when that Arranger button is on Touch each box and select from the drop down menu which harmonizer setting you want each arranger button to use when active When done your screen should look something like this VOICETRON TO ARRANGE START Arr A Arr B Arr C Arr D TRIO DOWN DUET STANDARD TRIO DOWN STOP Inthe example above the vocalizer has been set up such that if you press KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial ARRANGER A You ll hear UNISON double voice but same notes ARRANGER B You ll hear TRIO DOWN your voice plus harmonies below your voice ARRANGER C You ll hear DUET STANDARD your voice plus another with standard harmony ARRANGER D You ll hear TRIO DOWN your voice plus 2 others below your voice STOP when the arranger is off not playing OFF no harmonies 5 C TIPS ON USING THE VOCALIZER HARMONIZER Although exciting and very sweet sounding in most cases it is wise to use the vocal harmonizer just as you would harmonize in actual tunes sparingly here and there maybe reserve it for chorus etc If harmonies are used throughout the entire tune there is the tendency for ear fatigue to set in and as such t
109. o it is yellow Touch STYLE to display to the right the various style elements that can be ignored or recalled as you switch registrations Repeat this for the others VOICE PLAYMODE DPS MIDI MICRO1 VOICETRON MICRO2 GUITAR TAB AUTOSW OFF Tab Auto switch off this function automatically turns off the REGIS REGISTRATION button after the registration has been loaded thus returning the keyboard to full live play on the display If this icon is off blue then the REGIS Registration button stays ON each time you turn it on until you manually turn it off again Press MENU to turn off the menu and return to the default screen Now let s get back to saving creating a registration e Play around and select the appropriate elements voice style tempo key lyrics text files Mic settings vocal harmonizer etc that you want for this particular song e Once the keyboard has been set up appropriately press the REGIS button to turn on the Registration feature The REGIS button lights up and the screen displayed should look like this KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS Ballad A 6344 CIII 110 Piano ISBEAT1 Oct T Splitc3 GRAND PIANO Dr63 Bs 52 Ch 52 Lw 40 B 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul al a ve oe a en ee a3 ACOUSTIC_POP e The center of the screen displays the current registrations factory ones if you have not added any to this list found in REGISTRATION BANK 1 the yellow ic
110. o the point set by WAVE STOP and loop all over automatically 12 MANUAL Digital Co A copy of the factory manual of the SD7 resides inside the SD7 and can be accessed by pressing the MEDIA MENU MENU button and then touching the MANUAL icon shown on the screen The manual contains links that enable quick navigation between sections as you browse through Use this digital manual in conjunction with the one you re reading now KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 124 T lt Preferences such as language used date and time display skin voice mode selection etc can be set up on your SD7 so as to personalize it for your needs To access the preferences press the MENU button MEDIA MENU and then touch the PREFERENCES icon shown on the screen to display the following screen MIDIFILE MIDIFILE _ SAVE MIX Let s go through the various functions that can be accessed and set from this screen in more details The top of the screen shows the current software plus date it was released and firmware versions and the serial number of the unit Midifile FAST PLAY This function starts the playback of Midifiles quicker than usual by reading the opening measures which generally contain the data of the Controllers and other data rapidly This is a very useful function for immediate Start Mixing or Cross fading between midi songs Midifile SAVE MIX With this feature the volume settings of the live
111. oard you ve come across you will quickly realize that the SD7 produces some of the best natural sounds for a keyboard in this class The Sax trumpets Piano and other natural instruments come to life and breath in your hands as you play them on the SD7 proving once again that KETRON has lived up to its Best Natural Sounds motto 2 A PLAYING amp USING SOUNDS LEAD VOICES The SD7 comes loaded with over 500 voices There are over 350 preset voices which are either individual sounds or layered voices as prepared by KETRON Press the VOICE button on the SD7 s panel right side or touch the current voice in the top right box on the screen to display the voice groups to the right of the screen and the voices in the current voice group to the left of the screen MiO RESET a EXIT SAVE KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial Ts LS The following screen will be displayed Ballad A 6314 4 COII 110 Piano SBEAT 1 Oct T 2 S itc CLASSIC GRAND Dr63 Bs63 Ch6l LwO C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul As you can see the left side of the screen shows the various voice groups or categories where all the voices in the keyboard reside in The current voice group selected is highlighted in yellow in the above case PIANO while the various voices in this group are shown on the left side of the screen in this case the various pianos found in the PIANO group To use a voice simply touch it If you cannot find a voice
112. ome of the SOFT style controls found on the bottom of the screen the others will be explained in their relevant chapters below The bottom right corner of the screen displays the current page you are on Since there were too many controls to list below the screen they were broken down into 3 pages as shown Page 1 3 Default page Ballad A 63 4 4 CTI 110 Piano SBEAT 1 Oct Ti Split c3 CLASSIC GRAND Dr63 Bs63 Chol Lw C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul 0 8BEAT 3 16BEAT 1 16BEAT 2 16BEAT 3 a bnd Voice 7OBEAT 1 70BEAT 2 STRINGS ENS T Ma n r DRUM CE amp f BASSIST TO END REINTRO MODELING ma BOOST o TOEND Touch this when you want to end a style within a measure or 2 max This is used in place of the regular ENDINGS 1 3 when a sudden but clean ending is needed e g your host comes on to the microphone while you are playing and you have not quit gotten to the end of the song or a comfortable spot to press that ENDING1 which by the way would still end in about 3 measures o REINTRO KETRON have added this feature demanded by many over the years As the style is playing you may want to play the INTRO line once more and so by pressing REINTRO on if yellow if you press any of the INTRO buttons the INTRO and not the ending as usual will be played once more Once the INTRO is played the style will return to the variation it was playing jus
113. on associated with registration files and icons associated with other file types can be turned on off from the home Player screen under FUNCTION described below under ICONS Page 112 There are 4 banks 1 4 You can create up to 1024 Song settings REGISTRATIONS in each of the 4 banks Bank 1 Bank 2 Bank 3 and Bank 4 Let s keep ours in BANK 1 for now e Press the SAVE button on the panel to access the SAVE REGISTRATION screen which should look like this Ballad A 63 4 4 CTT j110 Sax Flute Oct T Split c 3 LOUNGE TENOR 3 Lw 63 C Maj SUSE Hold Wheel Modul SAVE USER STYLE REGISTRATION USER STYLE Save current setting to registration E Gave As Cancel e REGISTRAITION should be highlighted denoting you re about to save your own new Registration If not touch the Registration icon it should be yellow e Now touch SAVE AS and give your registration a name preferably after the song whose setting you ve set this keyboard for this time e g I will always love and touch ENTER on the next screen to save after naming the registration NB Some may prefer to save a registration which in fact is a style setting that can be used to play multiple songs So you may choose a style BALLAD and voice SAX and this set up maybe used to play 3 or 4 Ballads back to back In this KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS case you may want to save the registration with a name such as SLOW BALLAD so
114. oo From the factory one playlist has been created and named PLAYLIST 1 To display the songs that make up a playlist simply touch the playlist whose songs you want displayed so for an example if you want to display the songs that are in the PLAYLIST 1 factory Playlist above simply touch the PLAYLIST 1 icon on the screen to show the following 4 4 Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead 1 PLAYLIST 1 crrr 100 7 0 63 63 63 63 63 5 EDIT J 2 Strings Orchestra mp3 MP3 media back Nice Elo Piano mp3 media back Acoustic Bass mp3 media back J 5 Big Band mp3 MP3 media back E E Drum E E E SYNC NEXT RESTYLE MY FOLDER MARKER FUNCTION Now you can touch any song twice or press ENTER once highlighted to start playing it layBar ar A CREATING A PLAYLIST You can create your own playlist from scratch or edit an existing playlist to take old songs out insert new songs or replace songs all together To create a new playlist Empty Empty Empty Empty l gt SYNC NEXT RESTYLE pususr MY FOLDER From the PLAYLIST screen above e Touch any of the EMPTY locations to create new playlist in that location might be best to touch that below the PLAYLIST 1 so as to create PLAYLISTS in order You should see a screen like this asking if you want to create a new playlist KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 104 T
115. ors there for display of your group s name contact info song set and lyrics etc FACTORY LOGO This function sets the factory logo as background of the display KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 135 T lt The SD7 can be tuned for quarter note performances which is very common in Arabic music and others from that part of the world With such a scale the SD7 is not limited and can be used to perform all kinds of music from all kinds of cultural and ethnic backgrounds To access the ARABIC page and change the settings to match your ethnic background music press the MEDIA MENU MENU button following screen and then touch the ARABIC icon shown on the screen to display the ARABIC MODE Arr Right Arabic Set parahi 5 Setl RESET ee o E KOMA ACTII Off INACTIVE A virtual keyboard is displayed at the centre and can be used to modify the intonation of the single notes Let s shed some more light on some of the functions offered in this menu MODE This defines the area of the keyboard to which the Arabic scale can be applied By selecting this function you can use data dial wheel to select the Lowers Right mode in order to apply the Arabic scale to the Lowers and right section Arr Right to apply it to the accompaniment and to the right section or Right to apply the Arabic scale only to the right section KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 136 T lt
116. oruses etc without having to wait until the song is finished Midi Programs like Cubase or Cakewalk can be used to create insert the markers within the song When you touch MARKER these marker points are then displayed for you to select where within the song you would like to go to You can program the MARKER by touching the box next to it and turning the data wheel such that as soon as you touch a marker the SD7 will o Immediate Go to selected marker point in song at once o End bar Go to selected marker point in song after completing the current measure it is playing o End Section Go to selected marker position in song after completing the current section e g after completing verse o End Loop Go to selected marker position in song after completing current loop e AUTO PLAY When this is turned on yellow when using either PLAYER 1 or PLAYER 2 all songs midi or audio within the current folder are played back to back The silent time in seconds between each song is set by touching the Space box and turning the data wheel to set between 0 no space between songs to 30 30 seconds between songs This feature is great especially when you are performing and need to take a break between sets but have no DJ KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 109 T lt e Moive Pdf To RGB When this is off blue if you play a movie file mp4 avi etc on the Midjay Pro the movie will be displayed on the Midjay Pro s inter
117. ou can modify it for your current performance but you cannot save the modifications made for future use o Moving on if you want to make changes to the Compressor simply touch the current selection Comp 15db to display other options as shown below EDIT MICRO COMPRESSOR PRESET Compr 15dB Compr 18dB Compr 21dB Compr 24dB Limiter 6dB Na Efx Limiter 18dB Select the new compressor setting you wish to use by touching it on the screen then touch EXIT to return to the edit screen NB You can also touch an item twice double click to select it and return to the previous screen o This method of editing the microphone settings is true for all the other parameters shown on the screen o NB To avoid pressing EXIT each time a selection is made simply double touch it touch it and touch it again like double clicking on a computer KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS e VOICETRON These settings address the vocal processor that adds harmonies to your voice as you sing into the mic The ON OFF button turns the harmonies on or off Touch either of the knobs red line denote it is active and turn the data wheel to adjust the microphone s Vol Volume Rev Reverb level The values are displayed right next to each other You can also change the value by touching the corresponding knob and moving turning your finger on the screen or turning the data wheel The volume of the
118. ou one extra button to push which means you can focus more on playing and less on navigating the SD7 o FILL TO ARRANGE As the name implies as you play a style if you press the FILL IN BREAK button the Arranger Variation automatically jumps to the next one once the fill is over Once it gets to Arranger D it cycles back to Arranger A o Aftertouch Fill The fill In is automatically activated if you press down hard on the keys This is the best as your fingers never have to leave the keybed With this turned on yellow simply play and press hard when you want to activate the fill in o INTRO AUTO CRASH When on Yellow whenever an INTRO is played a crash is heard at the end of the INTRO and just before any of the Arranger Variations are heard KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS You can touch the KEY box to change the instrument that is heard CRASH RIDE by turning the wheel once selected o FILL AUTO CRASH When on Yellow whenever an FILL IN BREAK is played a crash is heard at the end of the FILL BREAK and just before any of the Arranger Variations are heard You can touch the KEY box to change the instrument that is heard CRASH RIDE by turning the wheel once selected o TEMPO RANGE MIN MAX Touch this to manually set the maximum and minimum BPM TEMPO for the selected style Since the SD7 uses Audio Drums this feature is very handy when you want to limit the range of the style just before
119. ouch all the 9 parts then all parts will be affected by the values of the LIVE EFX when this button is turned on and the sliders moved 3 B VOICE LIST You have gone through all these voices and found out that for certain scenarios you only need between 10 to 20 voices or so How can you quickly access just a few voices that you need and not be bothered with all the others You can create a voice list FAVORITE VOICE LIST and store your favorite voices in this list such that when you press the VOICE LIST button only your favorite voices will be displayed on the screen This saves a lot of time during live performances and it gives you quick access to your best sounds or sounds you use often KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial Ta LS 3 C HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN VOCIE LIST e Press the VOICE LIST button to display the first page of 10 favorite voices KETRON has recommended You can select any of these voices as usual by simply touching the voice on the screen Ballad LIL 110 Piano SBEAT_1 Oct T Splitc 3 MUSETTE Dr 63 amp s 63 Ch63 Lw61 B 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul r 70 CLASSIC NYLON ai FULL STRINGS DRUM ICE amp BASSIST TO END REINTRO MODELING VIEW ces ey BOOST VARI e If you turn the data wheel or press the ENTER PAGE button you can access the next 3 pages of 10 voices each e Now let us select a voice we want to replace in the current VoiceList In this example le
120. ound audio and therefore has an ON and OFF mode which may be selected on the display When set to OFF the metronome will not be heard e BPM You may use the BPM to set the metronome speed with the Dial e OUT Sets the output mode of the metronome After selecting this function with the Dial you may set it on SOLO mode that plays only the metronome through the headphones without music or other sounds generated by the SD 7 or on ALL mode where you will hear both the metronome and music through the headphones e TYPE Allows you to assign 3 different tones to the metronome click Here again simply touch the icon on the display turns yellow and set it s value with the Dial KINETICS MODE This function allows you to scroll up and down the screen with your fingers by touching the screen and sliding your fingers up and down just as on most touch screen phones today To save this setting so that you don t repeat it next time the SD7 is turned on press the SAVE button on the panel and then touch SAVE CUSTOM STARTUP BUZZER When this function is ON you will hear a beep when you touch the display This confirms that you have touched a valid part of the touch screen When this function is Off the beep is disabled To save this setting press the SAVE button on the panel and then touch SAVE CUSTOM STARTUP SHOW AUTO LYRIC Automatically displays the associated lyrics with a song that is playing if available SYSTEM LANGUAGE
121. racteristics and embellishments to the Sound e Page 6 6 below is a continuation from page 5 6 above KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS Lounge Tenor ON OFF VOICE VIBR RATE VIBR DEPTH VIBR DELAY LFO RATE LFOTVF LFOTVA O Lounge Teror v 64 64 64 Gre Om Le Le 0 0 0 RESTORE eave 6 6 gt gt Once you have created your new voice simply press the SAVE button on the panel to display the following options e SAVE Saves this new voice in the USER VOICE section with the same name as the factory voice e SAVE AS Allows you to name this new voice and save in the USER VOICE section when you press ENTER after naming it e CANCEL Cancels all changes and reverts to the VOICE EDIT screen you just came from If you press EXIT all settings are restored and the keyboard returns to the voice selection screen 2 F PLAYING UP TO 2 VOICES WITH THE LEFT HAND LOWER VOICES You can also assign up to 2 separate voices and play them together or separately on the left side of the keyboard These voices are usually determined by the style that is currently being used but we will show you how irrespective of the style selected you can call up and use voices to the left of the SPLIT point of the keyboard e First make sure your SD7 is displaying the default screen screen it powers on with or similar If not simply press EXIT repeatedly until you get there Your screen should look like this KET
122. ransposition of the Bass with the Dial LEFT DRUM This function allows you to the play the drum manually using the bass buttons To enable On or disable Off this function touch the corresponding box on the Touch Screen a field is displayed on the right on which you may select the sounds to assign to the 2 layers of the bass buttons and the 2 layers of the chord buttons To select the sound simply touch the corresponding box and then touch the sound you wish to select on the Pop up window that opens up The value of the percussion volume is displayed next to the box To adjust the volume simply touch the box and select the value with Dial You can now save the settings made on this page such that the next time you turn on the SD7 you won t have to repeat this set up process to use your Midi Accordion o Press SAVE on the panel o The Pop Up box SAVE ACCORDION SETTING appears on the display from which you may save the settings by pressing SAVE or escape by touching CANCEL 3 ACCORD CLASSIC This sets up the SD7 to be controlled from an external Midi Accordion such that the chords played on the accordion do NOT control the Automatic accompaniment styles of the SD7 however the user can manually play up to 3 of these chords voices manually It automatically configures the MIDI in channels for the right lead 01 left chords 02 and bass 03 These can of course be changed from the MIDI screen section 10 Midi Mode Page 119 KE
123. rd Orch Lead 126 IO 63 52 52 40 63 Red MEASURE START END 1 2 E DEFAULT jE E E E PLAYLIST f MY FOLDER MARKER FUNCTION The right side of the Drum Restyle screen shows the start and stop measure which you can set by touching the respective box then turn the data wheel to put in the values corresponding to where in the song you want the new audio drums to start and stop This is a very nice feature especially when you have a song that has a complicated introduction or ending and you want the audio drums to come in just for the body of the song while maintaining the Midi drums for the complicated parts programmed to suit just that song You can go back to the default value no set point for the DRUM RESTYLE by touching DEFAULT icon on the screen 3 PLAY LIST The playlist allows you put your favorite songs in one place or create a playlist that the SD7 can play while you take a break during one of your performances When you touch the PLAYLIST icon on the screen a screen similar to this which shows you the first 10 Playlists is displayed Empty Empty Jl Empty Empty Empty n Pa Empty E SYNC NEXT Drum RESTYLE KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 103 T lt lt lt You can create up to 110 PlayLists 10 per page You can use the icons to the side of the screen to move the page forward or backward to see other Playlists in the other pages t
124. rds are played on the keyboard If the keys chords are released at anytime the style stops playing o Now press any of the INTRODUCTION INTRO buttons Intro 3 would be more musical and has lead parts as well and the SD7 will play the INTRO 3 of this style after you play a chord to the left of the keyboard split point or anywhere on the keyboard if PIANIST mode is on o Press ARRANGER A VARIATION A to start your song As you progress into a verse now select ARRANGER B VARIATION B etc C amp D are more busy and better used for the endings of songs or as you climax into your song o Press ENDING 3 same button as Intro but works as such if the style is not being played and you press it it works as an INTRODUCTION If the style is being played and you press it it now works as an ENDING o You can use the TEMPO SPEED buttons to slow down the style or speed it up The audio drums are right there behind you with no change in pitch o The HOLD button allows you to play and release a chord and the SD7 will still maintain that chord until a new chord is played If the HOLD button is off the chord is released as soon as you lift your fingers off the keyboard chord section o RESTART allows you to restart the style at any given time This is very useful especially if you have a vocalist that cannot keep to time and you have to follow him her instead KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS Now let s explain s
125. s e First select the style whose lead voices you want to modify Factory or User style and go back to the VOICE amp VARI screen as shown above by touching VOICE amp VARI from the main style screen e Touch and hold for 2 seconds the voice you want to replace e g the first voice Grand Piano e The SD7 will automatically display the VOICE selection page for you to select the new voice you want to put into the selected location Select a voice as mentioned above in 1 A ACCESSING AND USING VOICES e Press EXIT when done and your new voice will be in place of the GRAND PIANO KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS e Repeat the above process for all the voices you want to replace e When done press the SAVE button on the right panel to save the new style with your voices remember you cannot overwrite a factory style so this style will now be saved as a USER Style in the same group as the previous factory style Latin A TIC S m G E IBEGUINE_1 Oct T Split c 3 CLASSIC GRAND Or63 Bs 63 Ch6 l Lwo0 D 3 Sust Hold Wheel Modul SAVE USER STYLE REGISTRATION REGISTRATION Pianist amp SAVING STYLE TO USER Save As e Make sure USER STYLE is highlighted in yellow and NOT REGISTRATION If not touch it so it is highlighted e Touch o SAVE if you want to maintain the same factory name o SAVE AS if you want to give this style a new name Touch ENTER in the next screen
126. s a style This tutorial covers the phases formats and procedures needed to create a new style for the SD7 KETRON STYLE FORMAT KETRON styles are composed of the following parts 4 Arrangements A B C amp D 4 Fill ins 4 Breaks 3 Intros and 3 Endings In order to create a style you will need to implement in one Standard Midifile format 0 all the parts mentioned above separated by special markers Here are the rules that govern each of the style s parts 4 Arrangers A B C amp D This can vary between 2 16 measures max however the standard length is usually 8 measures long 4 Fill ins A B C amp D Each fill in is associated with it s respective Arranger part so Fill A is associated with Arranger A etc and is a maximum of 1 measure long 4 Breaks A B C amp D Each break is associated with it s respective Arranger part so Break A is associated with Arranger A etc and is a maximum of 1 measure long Intro Ending The length of the 3 Intros and 3 Endings varies depending on the style and is at the discretion of the user In each of these however if you want to maintain the format used by the factory style please proceed as follows Intro1 The shortest intro phrase usually just 1 measure long End 1 Immediate ending in general of about 2 3 measures long depending KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To LS on the style and BPM of music Intro2 Usually just 2 measures long
127. screen it comes on yellow When you touch any of the voice group buttons from here on the voices displayed to the left of the screen will be the USER VOICES not factory voices To play the factory voices once more this USER button must be off not yellow KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T u LS o Touch the group to the right of the screen where your new voice resides PIANO GUITAR Hint It will be the same group from which you started with above when you wanted to create a new 2 voice for your lead voice All the user voices in that group will now be displayed to the left of the screen Touch your new voice to the left of the screen and play To turn on the 2 voice just as you did for the factory voices simply press the 2 voice button on the right side of the panel Adjust its volume using the volume slider below it o You can always go back and forth between the FACTORY VOICES USER Voice button off not yellow and the USER Voices user voice button on yellow by touching the USER voice button then selecting which voice you want to use for your performance 2 E USING MORE THAN 2 LEAD SOUNDS VOICES amp EDITING CUSTOMIZING Still not satisfied with only 2 voices to play layer on the right hand and want to layer 3 4 voices at once Despite all the voices found on the SD7 many want to be able to customize voices layer with 2 or 3 voices make changes and save as their own customized voice USER VOICE This is
128. se press and hold down the MICRO2 GUITAR INPUT button for about 2 seconds to display the following page MICRO2 GUITAR Guitar Setup CLEAN __Insert EFX1 EQ ENHANCER EDIT The screen displayed above shows 2 columns the left side is that of the microphone and the right side is that of the Guitar Only one of these can be used at a time for the MIC2 LINE IN jack fa microphone is what has been connected into the MIC2 jack at the back of the SD7 touch the ON button on the left side close to the Micro Setup icon the Guitar Setup will be turned off if it was on If a Guitar or a musical instrument is what has been connected to the MIC2 jack at back of the SD7 touch the ON button on the right side close to the Guitar Setup icon the Micro Setup will be turned off if it was on e Adjusting the MICRO2 settings is identically to adjusting the MICRO1 settings already discussed above under section 5 4 Microphone Page 76 so lets focus on the GUITAR setup Touch EDIT to access the Guitar stomp boxes effects units which will be displayed as such KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt To we LS EFX1 EDIT a Amp Simulator TER gt eal oe tS e Each of the stomp boxes displayed above represents different guitar effects used by Guitar players Once you have plugged in your guitar into the Line input on the back of the SD7 simply touch the effect box s knob you wish to turn on or off A red lig
129. sic Accordion screen CHORD This function allows you to assign 3 different sounds to the Chord tracks 3 4 5 following the same steps described for the Bass The Volume is displayed next to each of the 2 Bass sounds the 2 sounds assignable to the Chord tracks and the 4 Left Drum sounds Touch the box and change the volume value with the Data dial The functions OCTAVE PAN REVERB and CHORUS are displayed at the bottom of the screen These are enabled only for the Bass and Chord tracks but not for the drums When you select one of these functions the value of the function selected namely the value of the octave transposition of the Pan of the Reverb and Chorus of the sounds assigned to the Bass and Chord tracks are displayed in the above box which by default shows the volume These values may be adjusted in the same way as the Volume namely by touching the corresponding box and adjusting the value with the Dial You can save the settings made on this page KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 117 T lt e Press SAVE on the panel to access the SAVE screen e The Pop Up box SAVE ACCORDION SETTING appears on the display on which you may save the settings by pressing SAVE or escape by selecting CANCEL 4 ORGAN This sets up the SD7 to be played just as an Organist would Let s go through the various functions available for the Organist in this mode LEFT DRUM This function allows you to play the part DRU
130. t s replace the voice MUSETTE with a voice of our own e Simply touch the voice MUSETTE on the screen for about 2 seconds If you touch and release quickly it will just be a voice selection meaning the musette voice will be selected and heard when you play Ballad fA 6344 CIOCI 110 Piano SBEAT_1 Oct T Split 3 MUSETTE Dr63 Bs 63 Ch 63 Lw 61 B 3 5 Sust Hold r CLASSIC GRAND Wheel Modul 70 CLASSIC NYLON iin oe FULL STRINGS KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS e The SD7 will quickly display the next screen which is the voice screen where the current voice resides the voice groups are to the right and voices to the left as usual The VOICE LIST button will now flash as you are in VOICE LIST EDIT mode working on creating a new entry into the VOICE LIST Ballad A 6314 4 CON 110 Accordion 63 SBEAT_1 Oct T Splitc 3 MUSETTE Or63 Bs 63 Ch63 Lw61 B 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul e Select the voice group to the right you believe your voice resides in and touch the voice you want to replace the MUSETTE with In this case we have touched the voice group ACCORDION and so it is highlighted in yellow while the left of the screen displays the first page of accordions o NB You can also use RAM voices voices stored in the internal SSD that can be loaded into memory in the voice list Simply press the RAM button here The screen will list the current voices in
131. t tune etc associated with each voice turns black showing that this selected voice is now active so you can change as you see needed NB Even when inactive white you can still edit parameters of a voice touch the parameter and turn the wheel to change its value however the effects of these changes will only be heard if you turn this voice ON by touching the On Off icon to the left of the screen o The 4 row is the 2 voice tied to this lead main voice This is where you can change the 2 voice of each lead instrument and then later save as a USER VOICE of your own e To the RIGHT of this screen you can also turn on off effects that you want associated with the individual voices The effect type is selected at the bottom You can also assign effects that will be activated by the volume pedal e g OVERDRIVE TO PEDAL as shown above e SPLIT OCTIAVE When this button is ON yellow if the PIANIST button is ON in full keyboard mode the octave of the entire keyboard is shifted up 1 to compensate for the lack of the extra keys If this button is OFF then turning on the PIANIST button will have no effect on this sound Lounge Tenor ON OFF VOICE RANGE VELOCITY FIXED Fa t j i iy SUSTAIN EXPR Lounge Tenor a 1 127 Off i A F F x i n H 2nd Voice SISA ANIA E i 3 Ba F A rane 216 e Page 2 6 gives you access to the RANGE split points these elements which make up this
132. t before the INTO was pressed unless as the INTRO is being played you press a different variation button o DRUM BOOST Instantly boost the level of the DRUMS by touching this volume during your performance This is very useful when say you have a drum fill or you are doing a drum solo manual drums and you want the drums to stand out of the rest of the mix If turned on don t forget to turn this off else your drums will remain loud for all other styles selected Page 2 3 Touch page 1 3 to move to the next page 2 3 Your screen should look something like this KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS Ballad A 63 4 4 Trt 110 Piano SBEAT1 Oct T Splitc 3 GRAND PIANO Dr 62 Bs63 Ch2 Lw56 C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul Piano amp Strings VARIATION BREAKA 2 3 gt This screen gives you direct access to the 4 fill ins and 4 breaks of the Arranger The panel only gives you access to a fill and a break however when this button is pressed the FILL BREAK you hear depends on the Arranger Variation that is being played before the button was pressed So if you were playing Arranger A and you press the FILL in button Fill 1 will be heard If you were playing Arranger B and you pressed the BREAK button BREAK2 will be heard If you were playing Arranger C and you pressed the FILL in button FILL 3 will be heard This screen Page2 3 allows you to instantly touch the FILL in or Break you
133. the song the setting was initially created for o QUICK INSTANT RECALL USING NUMBERS Num Pad if you only have a few registrations then scrolling up and down using the data wheel is easy but if you have about 100 registrations it could take you a while to locate the one you want As you can see from the screen above as you create the registrations they are numbered automatically by the SD7 This way if you have a song list all you have to do is scribble next to it the number assigned to the registration If you know the number designated KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS to your registration even if it is at the bottom of the list you can instantly recall it by punching in the number associated with it o Touch Num Pad on the REGISTRATION screen to display a screen like this 63 EO BRASS C Maj Wheel Modul 6 5 1 8BEAT 2 ACOUSTIC_POP 3 ROCK ij f prum Voices f BOOST VARI 1 3 gt o You can now key in the numeric value associated with the registration you want to recall so using the screen shown above let s say you wanted to recall the song setting registration Rock you would simply key in 3 or 0 0 3 and the ROCK song setting Register will instantly be loaded and you can now play the song that was associated with this registration GLOBAL SEARCH FOR REGISTRATIONS BY NAME Keyboard entry o Another method you can use to search for a registration if you know
134. this simply touch the CHORD 2 GUITAR icon to display the current instrument and it s source GM VOICE SELECT PIANO CHROM J STRINGS CHOIR SAX FLUTE Strato Jazz Vintage Clean BRASS Overdrive Classic Funk Strat Ac Stereo KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS o The part circled in red eft of the screen shows you the various voice groups You can pick any of these where you believe the instrument you want to replace the guitar resides in For this example we kept the guitar group and selected a new guitar SOLIDBODY to the right in the part circled in green which displays all the instruments within the currently selected group Press EXIT when done to return to the previous screen e Once you have found the one you want press the next ARRANGER section A D on the panel and repeat the above e When you have competed modeling you style you will need to save it as a USER STYLE else all changes are lost once you select a new style or turn off the instrument To save the new style as a USER style simply press SAVE on the panel right side to display this screen below Latin Te COII 114 Piano IBEGUINE 1 Oct T Split c 3 CLASSIC GRAND Or63 amp s63 Ch6llwo D 3 J Sust Hold Wheel Modul SAVE USER STYLE REGISTRATION REGISTRATION SAVING STYLE TO USER E E E ER Cain a 7 Save Save As Cancel Bost aiak e Touch SAVE AS and name your
135. tioned before the first STYLE VIEW page displays the VOLUME of the various style parts How do you access the other parameters and change their values as you see fit Simply by touching the parameters below the screen as shown below A 63 44 CT TT 1120 Oraan Oct T Splitc3 POWER SLOW Dr63 Bs63 Ch 63 Lw 63 F 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul Drum Chord 1 jazz 122 Rodes 66 Ss a SamBal 66 Brazilian 96 ETT Chord 1 Finger 118 Humbuck 76 Low I Chard aj Soft 2 80 HomPad 57 s tow 2 ElPianol 12 80 PAN Touch this to display the screen where you can adjust how much of the parts you want coming out of the left or right speaker L shows the value out the left speaker and R shows the value out of the right speaker It helps to create a great surround environment when you partially pan the instruments left and right about 40 REV REVERB Touch this to adjust how much reverb you want applied to each part 0 127 CHO CHORUS Touch this to adjust how much CHORUS you want applied to each part 0 127 EFX EFFECTS Touch this to select which parts you want routed through the EFFECTS bus EFX ON OFF The box below the LOW2 box will display the current effect type Touch it to change the effect remember you can use the data wheel to scroll through other effects below and touch the one you want then press EXIT to return to the STYLE VIEW EFFECTS page Touch EFX
136. to emulate a live band feel On the left side of the panel is a button called LOWEST PIANIST LOWEST MANUAL SPLIT When on lights up the SD7 assigns the lowest note of the chord to the Bass over and above the basic chord played In this way the Bass will play in inversion This again is a tool you can use to bring more life to your music especially when used sparingly and alternating with TO ROOT above As for the manual BASS feature this was already described above in details under 2 Manual bass Page 20 PLAYING LEFT HAND BASS o This same BASS screen can also be accessed by pressing and holding down the MANUAL bass button on the left side of the panel e Touch CHORD to access the following screen Latin A 63 4 4 COIN 120 Organ SAMBA Oct T Split c 3 POWER SLOW Or63 Bs 63 Ch 63 Lw 63 F 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul Chord Normal Close E Chord Normal Folk Chord3 Retrigger jazz ee Chord4 Retrigger Close DS Intro To Chords Retrigger Close Arra WE Variation V TONE Mode Easy to InjEnd Off The first column on the left provides access to the chord settings You may select either NORMAL or RETRIGGER modes The second column gives you access to the chord types namely CLOSED PARALLEL JAZZ FOLK BLUES These chord settings and modes only affect the Arranger Accompaniment controlled chords Chord1 Chord2 Chord3 Chord4 and Chord5 e In Normal mode a chord plays during the basic meas
137. u just focus on playing Regardless of which voice is selected you can always manually override them by simply selecting another voice Ballad Al 6314 4 COCOT 110 Piano SBEAT 1 Oct Ti Ssplit c3 CLASSIC GRAND Or63 Bs63 Ch6l Lwo C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul 8BEAT 3 16BEAT_2 2nd Voice TOBEAT 1 STRINGS ENS E F DRUM VOICE amp x BOOST VARI From the main STYLE VIEW page above touch the VOICE amp VARI Variation button on the bottom of the screen to display the following page Ballad LA 63 4 4 CIII 110 Piano SBEAT1 Oct T Splitc3 GRAND PIANO Dr Bs63 Ch2 Lw 56 C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul E 1 f F HE FILLI FILL 3 BREAKS 7 3 gt KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T LS This page has 2 main functions which we will explain in detail VOICE VOICE TO ABCD OneTouch Settings at the top row of the center screen and VARIATION muting playing arranger parts so the style sounds less busy depending on your application at the 2 row of the center screen 4 F VOICE TO VARIATIONS A B C amp D ONE TOUCH SETTINGS As previously mentioned above you can set up the SD7 such that certain voices are assigned to the arranger parts and the arranger changes these voices for you automatically as you perform For this to happen you must turn on the VOICE TO ABCD by touching it on this screen it will turn yellow From this screen the voices th
138. ure and different sections used to create this Ketron style You can then replace the parts and notes of this template with yours utilizing your sequencer It is very important that you also comply with the following rules 1 The Arrangement parts A D Fill ins and Breaks must be programmed in C Major With built in Chord algorithms the SD7 can then automatically generate all other chords played on the arranger so long as this structure is correct KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T an LS 2 The following Midi events and controls can be used within the Midifile Note On Off Bend Modulation Sustain Expression Pan Pot Rev Chorus Wha Wha On CC 86 value 127 Off CC 86 value 0 Chorus CC 85 0 to 127 Portamento On Off On CC 65 value 127 Off CC 85 value 0 Portamento Time CC 5 valule O to 127 Tempo Track BPM 3 The Midifile must be saved in Midi format 0 zero plus contain sub division markers and must have a resolution of 480 TPQ 4 Never program double notes within the midifile at the same time on the same track 5 All midi events within a section and marker should not over ride overlay the next marker 6 Do not write control change or pitch bend events on the same note neither during note on or off bas2 5 Progetto 70s POP C O J lt Fie Ecit Procetto Aucio MIDI Partizure Media Trasporto Periferiche Finestra 1 Aiuto _ ipo o gt eBoy ea xm Ace onat gt un Dggetto Selszo Se
139. ure as programmed e In Retrigger mode the chord is heard every time it is played i e the individual chord notes are played regardless of where you are as you play the style KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 7 LS e In Close mode the chords adapt the intervals to the next notes following the rules of conventional harmony e In Parallel mode the notes of the chords programmed are transposed in parallel without changing the intervals e The SD 7 Arranger also includes three new mode for Chord harmonic variations and these complex mores are best suited for Jazz Folk and Blues Each of these modes feature accompaniment and harmonies typical of the musical styles A sophisticated musical algorithm controls Chord progression and change intervals arrangement depending on Chord rules in terms of Tonic root subdominant 4th or dominant 5th for this kind of music e Reset of Root recognition Tonic is done by pressing Chord notes fast with maximum dynamic e Atthe centre of the display you will find the MODE function that may be set on EASY or FINGER modes e On Easy mode the instrument plays in standard mode recognizing the chord Some tones may also be obtained by not playing the full chord For example you may play a major chord by playing only the tonic part With the tonic plus the minor third you play a minor chord with the tonic plus the seventh you play a seventh chord e On Fingered mode the chord is recognized and played only
140. useful for Orchestral Theatric music e HOLD BREAK When off the LOWER voice is not heard interrupted when any of the BREAK buttons are pressed while a style is being played This could be useful if say you used a BRASS instrument as one of the lower voices and want to use a break and want the horns to come to an abrupt stop end especially with DANCE music e STOP MUTE When this is set to ON the LOWER voice is not heard when the style is not running e MUTE Instantly mutes the Lower voice selected regardless of whether the style is on playing or not e LOWER BASS This functions only when the style is not running STOP and allows you to play the manual Bass for the chord you are playing together with the two Lower voices This is very useful when the musician wishes to play a solo introduction before starting the automatic accompaniment Once the Style starts however the Bass will be controlled automatically by the Style according to the chords played e VOICE LOCK Locks freezes the voices selected on the Lower Left section so that regardless of which Registration Setting or Style you select the LOWER voices will always remain the same e Touch PIANIST amp BASSIST to access the following screen Ballad A 63 4 4 CITT J 110 ran SBEATI Ea T Splitc3 LOUNGE TENOR Dr63 Bs61 Ch63 Lw 63 C Maj7 Sust Hold Wheel Modul BASSIST Off Drum Bass Lower pan Bal
141. very easily done on the SD7 Better still using this same tool editor as described above for the 2 voice you are quickly able to layer 2 or 3 voices and create one USER VOICE made up of your 2 3 voices or 4 if you include the 2 Voice too This way at the touch of the screen you can install recall your layered edited voice and use them as you wish To start editing a voice touch and hold down for 2 seconds a voice you want to edit or layer or that comes close to the voice you wish to create to open the VOICE EDITOR Your screen should look something like this in this case the Lounge Tenor Sax was selected Lounge Tenor ON OFF VOICE VOL SHIFT TUNE PAN REW CHORUS INSERT Z Lounge Tenor 127 a2 64 64 0 0 Off Te a a OVERDRIVE neart ypa EQ DRUM FX TO PEDAL othe ue lt lt KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt a LS The voice editor in the SD7 is quit extensive but very intuitive and easy to use Once this screen Page 1 6 is displayed you will notice the following e 4 Rows of voices o The first 3 rows shown with the red arrows above are the voices that can be layered to create a new voice In this case only 1 voice was used Lounge Tenor to create the LOUNGE TENOR voice By touching the ON OFF icon to the left and next to each voice you can turn on off individual voices you want to use layer together As you turn the voices ON the parameter values voice volume shif
142. voice will be heard over VELOCITY how hard soft a key is pressed before this element of this sound is heard FIXED if on then regardless of how soft hard a key is pressed the sound will be heard at the same volume tone SUSTAN the sustain pedal will have an effect on this voice if checked EXP the volume pedal will have an effect on this voice if checked KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T an LS e Right here you can create a very intelligent voice which depending on what area of the keyboard you play you will hear element voice 1 Depending on how hard you play you will hear element voice2 and so on Lounge Tenor PORTAMENTO MODUL PITCH AFTERT SLIDE 32 LFO Pitch sotira off Range 2 Threshold 100 NE 3 6 lt e Page 3 6 gives you access to set certain parameters of this voice Portamento pitch etc Lounge Tenor ON OFF VOICE MORPH ROTOR WHA WHA HARMONY LEGATO Pal F 5 Lounge Tenor First v ere t Gi o CTA i CTA WV l n VOICE MODE TYPE Pn io MODE Normal E Off Modul Whee Wheel Pedal Pedal 2 Hands rol ai6 lt lt gt gt e Page 4 6 is a powerful page in this editor It allows one to set if say you are using all 3 voices to create this huge custom voice o MORPH ROTOR If you set Voice 1 as First and Voice2 as Second when you turn the Mod wheel up you will hear voice 1 but as you move this mod wheel down it now morphs u
143. want to hear regardless of what Arranger the SD7 is currently in Page 3 3 Programmable parameters When you press the page button 2 3 page 3 will be displayed and looks like this Ballad A 63 4 4 OOI 110 Piano SBEATI Oct T Splitc3 GRAND PIANO Or6 2 Bs63 Ch2 Lw56 C Maj Sust Hold Wheel Modul VARIATION E LISER USERA TAB KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T a LS The first 3 soft touch buttons at the bottom of the screen are also accessible as described below under 4 J Arranger Instruments Page 52 however by having them here right at your finger tips it means you have direct access to these functions without digging into menus and pages to find them The beauty of the SD7 is that this same page offers you 5 Programmable soft touch buttons USER TAB 1 5 which you can assign to any of the functions within their menu Let s explain each of these buttons and their functions o FILL TO ARRANGE As the name implies as you play a style if you press the FILL IN BREAK button the Arranger Variation automatically jumps to the next one once the fill is over Once it gets to Arranger D it cycles back to Arranger A o AUTO FILL If you turn on the AUTO FILL yellow then as you play the style and switch form Arranger to Arranger Variation to Variation the style automatically plays a Fill in between changes so that it sounds flawless and more professional The other way to achieve
144. which you can access this way e When done press the SAVE button below the data wheel to save your new USER VOICE and it s corresponding 2 voice remember you cannot over write the factory voices so whenever a modification is made to a factory voice and you want to save it it is saved as a USER VOICE This therefore means that if you go back and select this factory voice the original 2 voice that was assigned to it by KETRON will still be there and not yours o SAVE This saves your new user voice in the USER VOICE location but with the same factory name o SAVE AS Opens a keyboard where you can name your new voice and save it by touching the ENTER button on the screen Your new voice will now be saved together with your matching 2 voice as a USER VOICE o CANCEL Nothing is saved and you will be returned to the previous GM VOICE SELECT screen You can press EXIT to get back to the Voice EDITOR screen and press EXIT again to get back to the voice selection screen The EXIT button usually steps you out of functions the same way you came in meaning as you go in deeper and deeper into functions or menus you can use the EXIT button to step out in steps as well very useful if you want to make a minor correction in a previous step but do not want to start all over e To play this voice with your new 2 voice assigned to it o Press the VOICE button once more to access the voices o Touch USER on the bottom right side of the
145. y press SAVE once more to save the new playlist 4 MY FOLDER Aja Drum Bass Chord Orch Lead Crit 125 TO 63 5s 562 40 63 Empty Empty Empty Empty s d l Empty ad FUNCTION SYNC NEXT E E RESTYLE PLAYLIST MARKER INC MY FOLDER works very similar to PLAYLIST above however instead of having individual songs you can now use entire folders instead and create favorite folders e g WEDDINGS where you store all your wedding songs BIRTHDAYS where you store all songs and pictures which you play at birthday parties etc The creation and management of MY FOLDER is similar to PLAYLIST so need not be written all over KETRON SD7 Manual amp Tutorial gt T 108 T lt 5 FUNCTION There are a lot of functions that exist in this area which are used to control the general functioning of the keyboard These are displayed in 3 columns on the following screen and we will describe each one briefly Selected Files Marker immediate Crossfade File View Normal Space Lead Chan Movie Pdf Half Screen To RGB Icons l S Skip Files Items GREAR File Link 10 z Drum a T E SYNC NEXT i PLAYLIST f MY FOLDERE MARKER ICTION e MARKER These are pointers used to set certain points within a song such that while playing that song that you can instantly or eventually jump to certain parts of the song e g verses ch
146. you know to recall this song setting to play most of your slow ballads back to back for an example 6 C RECALLING YOUR SONG SET UP REGISTRATIONS AT THE SHOW The SD7 was designed predominantly with the live player in mind Once you get to your performance how do you now instantly recall all those settings you spent hours and hours creating at home e Press the REGS Registration button found on the top left side of the panel to access the REGISTRATION screen which looks something like this Ballad A 63 4 44 CCITT 110 Piano ISBEAT1 lOct T Split c3 GRAND PIANO Dr 63 Bs 52 Ch 52 Lw 40 B 3 5 Sust Hold Wheel Modul 1 8BEAT f 52 POP BALLAD 3 ACOUSTIC POP 4 COOL POP t r b z Ubrum Voces BASSIST TO END REINTRO MODELING VIEW pee i BOOST Ve e As you can see from the screen above you have 4 banks of registrations set ups and each bank can hold 1024 single registrations or song set ups BANK1 is the default where your registration will reside unless you changed it so if BANK 1 is not already on yellow touch it e The center of the screen will now display your registrations along with some that were already put here by the factory Scroll down using the data wheel to highlight your registration you want to load and press ENTER or touch it twice double click to load it Your settings will be loaded immediately left hand right hand manual bass if applicable style etc and you can then play

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