Owner’s Manual DG100
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Ketron DG100: a new wonderful musical adventure
is about to begin!
Congratulations for having purchased the new Ketron DG100 Digital Grand. It has taken us two years of painstaking research and programming
to offer you improved and more natural timbres, modern and musical arrangements and new reproduction functions for MIDI files, samples, text
files and General MIDI files.
If you are already familiar with Ketron SD1 then you will have no problem in using the DG100. If you are new to the world of Ketron and elec-
tronic keyboards then we advise you to read the “Having fun with the DG100!” section.
Then again if you are experienced musicians and programmers and you’re interested in the real nitty-gritty then the specific sections for each
operational environment is what you’re looking for!
Finally whatever category of skill you belong to we recommend that you read the first few pages of this manual. They provide a description of
the operational control panel, the connections and the navigation principles among the parameters that are valid for all parts of this manual.
We hope you have lots of fun with the Ketron DG100!
THE NEW FEATURES OF THE DG100
Whereas many electronic keyboards are becoming real workstations, with ever-complicated functions and often not within everyone’s reach,
our DG100 keyboard has been designed as an instrument capable of enhancing the musician’s skill at the centre of the show. Our desire has
been that of offering the DG100 as an instrument deceptively simple to operate that below the surface hides amazing potential with virtually
endless possibilities for the musician who loves playing, entertaining and interacting with his musical instrument. You can of course use the
DG100 just to reproduce files but you would be missing out on much of the fruits of our research carried out worldwide!
Some aspects of the DG100 are similar to many other professional electronic keyboards:
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Polyphony of 64 notes.
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Hundreds of styles.
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Hundreds of timbres.
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A sophisticated arranger.
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Reproduction of Midi files.
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Display of the words of a Midi file also on the monitor.
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A timbre editor.
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General MIDI and Standard MIDI File compatibility.
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A sequencer with sixteen tracks.
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A style editor.
Other aspects on the other hand are more unique and often offered as optional extras on other brand instruments but provided as standard on
the DG100:
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A Vocalizer for harmonizing the voice.
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A hard disk of six Gigabytes.
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Two MIDI inputs.
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Two audio mic inputs for microphones.
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A sampler with 16Mb RAM and wave form editing.
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A semi-weighted keyboard with 76 keys.
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Four audio outputs.
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Compatibility with audio .WAV files.
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RAM for loading new samples.
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The use of Styles directly from the disk.
Last but not least the DG100 has some capabilities and features that you have never seen or heard of on other electronic keyboards as they are
exclusive to Ketron DG100:
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The use of audio .WAV files in real time with a Midi file in sync with the transposition and change of the tempo thanks to a proprietary algo-
rithm that does not alter the timbre for compatible intervals.
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The sampled grooves, processed and entered in the Styles to provide that certain musical realism that is impossible to achieve with ordi-
nary programming using drum sounds.
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The muting of the individual instruments within a sampled groove.
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Two drum tracks for each style.
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The possibility to display a text file (.TXT) while using the Arranger to do away with awkward piles of song sheets and booklets.
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The complete automation of all loading procedures via the Registrations that can load for example the words, the audio files and the Midi
file of a song all in one go.
