The third way is the most efficient for live performance, it gives you fixed tempo speeds as
follow; 80,85,90,95,100,105,110,115,120,125,130,135,140,145, by the push of one button. To
enable this function, you press the TEMPO button next to ROTOR button, and you navigate
through the volume pads of DRUMS, BASS, CHORDS, ORCHESTRAL, LOWER1, LOWER2
and RIGHT. The first DRUM pad gives you a tempo speed at 80, the second drum pad gives
you a tempo speed at 85, the first BASS pad gives you a tempo speed at 90 etc… until the
second RIGHT pad it gives you a tempo speed at 145.
2. To access the Arabic/Oriental scales, directly in live performance, you can save 13 scales
and access them directly by the push of one button, using the pads volume for DRUMS,
BASS, CHORDS, ORCHESTRAL, LOWER1, LOWER2, RIGHT.
Enter the UTILITY page 2, press ARABIC, choose the desired scale, then press
SAVE/ENTER button. A list of 13 scale locations appear on the screen. Choose a location
then press SAVE. Location number 1 corresponds to the first DRUM pad, location number 2
corresponds to the second DRUM pad etc… the second RIGHT pad is used for scale reset.
To activate the ARABIC SET and access the 13 scales, press the ARABIC SET button next
the ROTOR SLOW/FAST button.
3. It is now possible to change the styles and patterns by the push of one button instead of
the classic selection based on composing two numbers. You can hold the first number that
composes any 10 numbers. For example patterns from 10 to 19 have a common number and
that is 1, instead of pressing 1 and 0 for 10, and 1 and 1 for 11, you can hold number 1 and
press only 0 for 10, and only 1 for 11.
To hold the numbers, press the SELECT X10 button, which corresponds also for
FACTORY/CUSTOM button, and while holding this button choose any number you want to
hold from 0 to 9.
4. The 3 DRUM, BASS, CHORDS, Volume lock pads, locks the general volume of its
corresponding in the patterns and styles. In another words, if you press the DRUM, BASS,
CHORDS and you adjust the volume of these parts using the VOLUME pads, these settings
affect all the styles and patterns until you remove the lock buttons.
The DRUM volume lock affects the drum part and the groove part of the style. The BASS
volume lock affects the bass part of the style. The CHORDS volume lock affects the chords
part of the style, including chords and orchestral.
5. Please remind that in the normal version of the KETRON X1 the 3 buttons for INTRO
where used also for endings. In the Oriental software we split the INTRO buttons from the
endings in a way that the three buttons indicated INTRO1, INTRO2, INTRO3 give access to
the introductions anytime they are pressed even if the style is running.
We switched the ENDING on a single button.
Since the KETRON X1 has 3 endings, and we only gave the ENDING one button, we made
the ending to act in this way.
If you are playing on ARRANGE A and you pressed the ENDING button the ending plays
ending 1, if you are on ARRANGE B the ending plays ending 2, for ARRANGE C and D, the
ending plays ending 3.
