BlueARP DM + Ketron SD1000 Performance "Japanese Dream"

video upload by graywolf2004ru

"Live performance, created and sequenced entirely on BlueARP DM, all sounds come from Ketron SD1000 using only its internal FX. Kurzweil is used just as a midi keyboard here.
What is BlueARP DM - you can check it here:
https://omg-instruments.com/wp/?page_...
The coolest thing is that BlueARP DM stores all the program selects, volume levels and effect parameters as various CC/sysEx messages on the AUTOMATION page, which it sends to the synth on project load.
I need just to turn on SD1000, connect it to BlueARP DM, load the project - and it is ready. This is a perfect compact setup I wanted to test for a long time.
While making this performance, I found some bugs in BlueARP DM midi implementation, it sometimes swallows notes in a dense note flow, especially those coming as THRU. Here it showed up because all 8 instances generate notes on the same MIDI channel. I'm fixing it in the next firmware 2.8.3b (it will be BlueARP DM only update), hopefully Dec 2025.

PS. Opening sequence is the patch called 'Shamisen', it is a Japanese stringed instrument, which gave the name to the performance )"