street priceKetron XD9 was released in 2005. This synthesizer is an improved version of XD3: it has a 61-key keyboard, modulation wheels and 2 large built-in speakers. XD9 instrument has a 64-note polyphony.
The front part of the device is divided into several sections: at the top there is a display with all the most important information about the selection of banks/effects and editing, the left part features adjustment of volume/transpose, effects, and the right one offers the selection of voices (piano, organ, guitar, and even synths/pads).
The first section is a digital panel for selecting patches, and the second section with buttons is intended for configuring presets and menu navigating. In a multitimbral mode, XD9 works with GM-banks (292 patches) which sound quite realistic.
In addition to GM-banks, you can find 290 preset patches, 110 user and 24 drum kits. The first 3 GM-banks include different voices. A separate 4th bank is derived from GM. Several buttons on the control panel are used to program the presets.
"Panel" voices can contain up to 3 layers, where each layer represents one sound from the GM bank. In some samples, the performance is composed in a similar manner. Besides, two effect processors can be used to make the sound complete: reverb, chorus, distortion and delay.
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| Usage Design/ Form Factor | |
|---|---|
| Without Keys, Desktop | |
| Archetype | |
| Digital (D) | |
| Polyphony | |
| Voices | 64 |
| Multi Timbral Capacity | 32 part(s) |
| Tone Generator / Sound Synthesis | |
| Technology of Sound Generation | PCM |
| Programs/ Voices/ Timbres | |
| Tones | 290 |
| User-defined Single Voice | 110 |
| Drum Kits Preset | 24 |
| Drum Kits User-defined | 24 |
| Effects | |
| Reverb | |
| Chorus | |
| Flanger | |
| Delay | |
| Distortion | |
| Wah/ AutoWah | |
| Effects overall | 60 |
| Arpegiator/ Portamento | |
| Portamento | |
| MIDI in/ out | |
| IN | |
| OUT | |
| THRU | |
| Keys | |
| Type | Synth Action |
| Velocity Sensitivity | |
| Number of Keys | 61 |
| Display | |
| Resolution: Horizontal | 240 |
| Resolution: Vertical | 128 |
| Built-in controllers | |
| Pitch Bend Wheel | |
| Modulation Wheel | |
| External controllers | |
| Sustain foot pedal | |
| Expression foot pedal | |
| Audio out | |
| Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm) | 2 |
| Audio in | |
| Analog 1/4" | 1 |
| Video Interface | |
| Video system | PAL |
| Video system | NTSC |
| Video system | S-VHS |
| Built-in speakers | |
| Stereo, 2 speakers | |
| Dimensions | |
| Height | 155 mm |
| Width | 1170 mm |
| Depth | 405 mm |
| Weight | 16.000 kg |
| Color | |
| White | |
| Production start | 2005 |
| Production end | 2008 |
| Production ended | |
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