The new state-of-the-art modern arranger keyboard. Real LIVE Arranger AUDYA 5 bring a unique and powerful Ar- ranger Section with over 560 Styles and 370 Audio Drum sequences plus Percussions (Live Drums).
World wide acclaimed Drummers and Per- cussionists get to contribute to this project to optimize the best Rhythmic and Arranger section out there today. These Audio se- quences are perfectly synchronized with the Midi clock in order to allows tempo changes without sacrifcing sound quality!
Furthermore, AUDYA 5 allows one to syn- chronize New Audio drums imported by a user (User Audio Drums) alongside future implementations from KETRON giving a new exciting way to create their own Audio Live Drums from scratch.
But that’s is not all! Beside Percussion fea- tures, AUDYA 5 includes 159 Live Guitar Pat- terns suited for typical famous musical styles which now offers lots of authentic nuance never before available with the standard midi programming offered by other manufacturers. It’s also possible load into the AUDYA 5’s Ram New Live Guitars (GTR) provided by KETRON and also associable with new or current styles.
An innovative system called AUDIO STYLE MODELING allows one to replace original Style parts with new ones taken from an internal huge library of : Drum Bank, Bass Bank, Grooves, Guitar BANK 1 & 2, Arp&Lick and Live Guitars.
Why re-invent the wheel when KETRON has already provided you with tons of style parts which users can also use to create their own arrangements within the PATTERN section? If creativity from scratch is required, you may also use your own sequences too.
New Pianist and Bassist functions bring about sophisticated control with complete harmoni- zation and Manual Bass leads played.

Professional Multiplayer

Backed by the experience from the fagship - Audya, KETRON raised the performance of AUDYA 5’s multiplayer to new levels of ex- cellence. AUDYA 5 can play up to six tracks simultaneously; dual WAV, dual MP3 and dual MIDI fles with DJ features such as PFL (Pre Fader Listen) - the possibility of listening to songs frst within headphones before play- ing through the system, Playlists, Crossfades, Zoom, Song Medley and Txt synchronization to Audio and midi songs alike.
With the new exciting Midi Remix feature, the user can assign and sync Midi fles with a Style’s Audio Drums plus… get this - all Live Guitars available!! The fnal result of this mix (including Midi, Audio Drums and Live Gui- tars), can be saved by a KETRON proprietary format called KMX (KETRON Midi Remix). This fle can then be exported to other Audya Instruments with fully compatibility.
AUDYA 5 records to an internal Hard disk (80 G) any performance played as Wave, Mp3 or MRS (Macro Recording Song) format - this latest KETRON proprietary form allow one to store all instrument events performed (includ- ing voice or style changes, tempo, transposi- tions… etc).
The tempo and transpose controls for MIDI also work with WAV and MP3 fles, in real time, without loss in quality. AUDYA 5 can also record and store the entire musical per- formance onto the Internal hard disk, either as a WAV or MP3 format, with CD quality (16 bit at 44,1 KHz). A 4-band equalizer and the possibility to rip audio tracks from an audio CD (connected to it via USB) completes this outstanding multiplayer. Furthermore KET- RON supplied AUDYA 5 with a rich variety of DJ loops, ambience sounds and special effects, all of professional quality ready to be used out of the box.

New Sound Generation

Following KETRON’s tradition of the Best Natural Sounds, AUDYA 5 includes a new sound engine of very high quality. 430 new Orchestral Presets with stereo and multilayer controls such as Key Off, Morphing, Cou- pling, Rotor to Pedal, Aftertouch and Sustain Switch. Besides all of these new features, a user can store within a Voice their own Har- mony mode in order to achieve the best set- ting (OTM - One Touch Melody).
A Preset Selection can be modified and saved as new Program by using the Edit menu available in AUDYA 5. The user can also carefully adjust their timbre, dynamic, ef- fects and over all the new articulation features as well. 16 Voice List with 300 Programmable Sounds plus the new UVL feature (User Voice List) allows one to automatically recall a Voice list which can also include a Style, Midi fle, Mp3 or Wav fle.
In addition to the built in 64 MBs of RAM for more personalised sounds that can quickly be loaded from disk, we listened to our users’ re- quest for more memory and now, one can also upgrade this memory with a new expansion up to 256 MB to add to the internal wavetable a complete new Sound Bank. AUDYA 5 also has a renewed DSP section, with new Rotor, Distortion, Phaser, Flanger, Tremolo, Chorus, Reverb effects and much more. With the newest SAMPLER Section, the user can now sample their own sounds and man- age in great detail - thanks the ultimate multi- sample editor, MSP.

Voicetron – KETRON’s New Vocalizer

AUDYA 5 has a new Vocalizer which incorpo- rates fve voices that performs with the best standards on the market today. The Vocalizer is easy to use thanks to the extended preset library, but it can also be edited by the musi- cian with controls over the harmonic content of the voice, equalization and effects. The Vo- calizer works in real time on one of the two microphone inputs of AUDYA 5. It has dedi- cated reverb and delay functions and can be controlled manually with the keyboard or automatically, via the Arranger or MIDI fles. An innovative linking method of the chords means that Voicetron is able to interpret mu- sical passages according to the rules of tradi- tional harmony.

User interface / Audio Connections

AUDYA 5 has a new keybed of 61 semi- weighted keys, with aftertouch and porta- mento. The control panel is designed to help the musician, especially in live situations. Seventeen sliders, (one assignable), offer an effcient control of volumes and effects in real time. The instrument’s current status is clearly shown by the various LEDs built into the keys and by the graphics that appear on the inte- grated colour display (LCD TFT technology with a resolution of 320x240). The user inter- face is similar to that of modern computers, so it is pretty easy to use. In addition to the 10 User tabs currently on the panel and the traditional Pedal foot controls (Footswitch), AUDYA 5 includes a new section of assign- able Tabs 1-16. These buttons come with a default KETRON factory setting plus a free programmable user section (User Tabs), which allows direct management over other more important AUDYA 5 features.

A new revolutionary Registration structure means that you can save and instantly recall not only the general status of the instrument (Sounds, Styles, Volumes, Micro etc.) but also any links to an audio source required for the performance, for example a Wave, an Mp3, a Midi fle and even a Playlist. There is also a Language menu for the customised viewing of the most important functions of the instru- ment in several languages.
Via its video port, AUDYA 5 can display colour images with lyrics synchronised with the music onto a larger TV screen (PAL or NTSC) or on a VGA monitor. As an alternative, it can show an exact copy of the LCD display (Mirror).
AUDYA 5 offers an absolutely complete set of inputs and outputs, both analogue and digital. Together with the typical pair of stereo audio outputs, there are four separate outputs that can be confgured as auxiliary stereo audio outputs or as mono audio outputs (with or without DSP effects).
AUDYA 5 also has two stereo input lines, an output for headphones, 4 Midi ports, two Combo inputs (XLR + 1/4”) for the micro- phone and a dedicated output for the met- ronome click (for recording or use with a live drummer… etc).

USB Ports

AUDYA 5 and it’s internal Hard Disk can easily be connected via USB to a computer to edit the musical contents of the instrument and to back-up fles. Furthermore, two USB host ports accept many mass storage devices, such as the very popular USB sticks, external USB hard drives, CD and DVD read- ers, to be able to exchange data externally with absolute ease.
On KETRON’s web site (www.ketron.it) some interesting free software tools are already available for all users such the Style Compiler (for creating styles on a computer) and DJ Loop Compiler (for creating your own Styles or Dj loops easily).
With it’s tough integration and control of Audio in real time, plus ease of use due to a clearly well defned layout, the KETRON AUDYA 5 is the new reference point for professional live players or studio artist.