KETRON SD40 | ARRANGER MODULE

The KETRON SD40 is a new, powerful Arranger and Player module especially designed for applications with Master keyboards, Digital Pianos and MIDI Accordions. As expander version of the acclaimed KETRON SD7, the SD40 provides the same musical and technical functionalities of the keyboard, offering  a new professional sound generation with a huge Audio Drum library, Styles on the best KETRON tradition with Style Modeling, an extra-versatile Player and modern Multimedia capabilities. Thanks to his extremely compact sizes, ther SD40 is also the most suitable arranger instrument for the professional musicians travelling around the world. 

Styles

The SD40 has an innovative, professional arranger section with 260 styles with an impressive library of more than 300 Latin Percussion Grooves and 200 Audio drums perfectly synchronized with the internal clock. The arranger is made up of 4 sections ABCD with 4 Fills, 4 Breaks, 3 Intros, 3 Ending, To End and other functions such as Reintro, Key Start_Key Stop, Restart, Pause, Count In and 5 User tabs for custom personalized functions. The accompaniment provides Audio Drum, Bass, 5 Chords and 3 orchestral VARIATIONS. 4 lead voices can automatically be assigned to the right (lead voice) and it is possible to  match them to the ABCD parts of each style. The forthcoming arranger system of the SD40 is very open and allows you to quickly modify the voices, volumes and effects of each style on fly, and to then save the changes as a USER STYLE without affecting the factory library. With MY LIST, the user can further consolidate and store 64 favourite styles in one location making it easy to instantly search for. The Style MODELING is a powerful tool available on the SD40 which allows the quick selection of hundreds of Audio Drums, Grooves, Bass lines, Piano, Guitar and Orchestral tracks accessed via the internal Modeling library. Creating a new custom arrangement simply by using Style Modeling is a really exciting experience. You can easily find assortments and combinations between different musical genres by interchanging sounds and patterns with a perfect rhythmic synchronization all the time.

Play modes

The SD40 has been designed to be configured for use in different ways. If you are a pianist, you can use the PIANIST mode to play with a normal piano technique while controlling the arranger. If you prefer to play the Manual bass then the BASSIST mode is available which permit you to control harmonies performed with both hands in real time. A new dedicated menu has been developed for the ACCORDION with two modes: CLASSIC: the accordionist can program  complete manual orchestrations with 2 voices allocated to the left/chord and 3 voices to the right. This set up can be stored in a Registration for instant recall on stage. STYLE: this mode utilizes the Arranger controlled by the Left Hand. With a new Bass To Chord function, the accordionist can also define chords which are normally not available in the normal accordion technique such as Minor 7th, Sevent Augmented, 4th and others, especially useful for light music and jazz.

Sounds

The SD40 Sound generation offers a big variety of Orchestral sounds with a Stereo Grand Piano, new Brass and Sax sections, new Guitars and Basses all multi- layered plus new Pads, Strings, Accordions, Synth, Electric Pianos and Special Effects. There’s also a rich selection of tone wheel Organ sounds with a true reproduction of the classic slow-fast rotary speaker effect. 49 DRUM KITS and more than 300 LATIN percussion GROOVES are also available. 368 Preset Voices divided on 12 families with an accurate Editing menu, 2nd Voice, 3 sound layering and User Voice capability. On the VOICE LIST section you can store your favourite 32 Voices.

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