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Thanks again to all.

Yes, Dan ... I did see the posts on the version changes. I guess I'm just lazy or spoiled or both. I'm used to being able to see a single web page or document with all the chronology of the updates.

Dan, I appreciate from reading the list ... and Lionel's comments ... that you are very responsive to your customers and fans. I'm sure you will find someone to write a good English manual before long.

Now that I understand that vArranger2 does not yet out put recordable track by track midi data, I will be waiting and watching for that development. Hopefully by then there will be an English manual, I'll have my Ketron 4SD and I'll be ready to become a customer.

I know you promote yourself at Synthzone ... do you also have a presence at KVR? If you don't, I think you should. There would be great interest in a product like this once it also streams recordable track by track midi data.

Best wishes.

Prado

Thanks for your prompt reply, Dan. The picture is getting clearer.

So the left hand played chord triggers vArranger2 software's selected 'style' to output an arrangement in real time ... and there is a GM version.

Does it also throughput the midi so that the arrangments can be recorded in midi track by track for editing? (I can imagine how a recorded midi track could be set up to reliably 'trigger' vArranger2 for a song, but I am interested in studio production, not live accompaniement ... which is why I'd want to be able to record the midi track by track.)

I still wish the vArranger manuals and a version upgrade history document would be available for download for full review.

I don't like to be 'Anglocentric,' but I think you will be really limiting your market until you provide accessible documentation in English. I don't mean this to be disrespectful to your native French!

Prado

I am adding this, because I seemed to come upon a character limit in the above post ... to continue:

I would think a lot of other people would also be interested in this ... and it would help the marketing of this intriguing product.

I do have one other question: why must this product be 'hard wired' to the Ketron SD line? I would think that much of the basic program would provide a shell for creating a similar product for other sound modules.

I know my Roland XV 5080 and E-Mu Command Station would be interested in something like this ... or at least I think so, since I can't get enough information to clearly understand where the vArranger2 would fit in my workflow.

Thanks for any info and in any case, best of luck with this product.

Prado

I just joined this forum and went through the 6 pages of posts to try and understand this product. So, I know who Dan, Lionel and Bernie are!

I arrived here through my interest in the Ketron SD4 ... which I learned about through my interest in BIAB. I am always investigating and trying different midi software such as the Ntonyx, Jammer, etc.

As best I can understand, vArranger2 is a program dedicated to the Ketron sound module line, to permit using the modules similarly to the Ketron arranger keyboards ... and importing, at least as far as I can understand, the Yamaha *.pat arranger files. As such, it presents a different approach to S/W products like BIAB, Jammer, Onyx Arranger, etc.

Am I getting the picture?

Since I have read that due to past abuse, there are no demo programs, I wish at least there was a pdf manual and document of upgrade history in English so that I could really carefully investigate the program and see whether or not it is for me.

Since I have yet to buy the Ketron SD4 ... although I am all but certain I will be doing so in the very near future ... I am obviously not going to be a customer, should I decide upon vArranger2, for some time to come.

But, being able to do some homework with documentation would make it more likely that I would become a customer.