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Published on 09/17/05 at 18:53
This is basically a K2600 with a 5 octave keyboard with no ballast and no ribbon. It retained the 8 faders, modulation wheel and pitch, the VLOC and monophonic aftertouch.
The polyphony is 48 tracks, it's not standard, but often enough. The sounds are acoustic as well as synthetic samples are available as well as real oscillators. ROM programs are among about 500.
The effects are those of renowned DJs KDFX embeds in the synth SERIES.
We have a squenceur 16 tracks + 16 tracks of arrangement (1 squence dclenchables 16 tracks in real time). The sampler optional adj proven in other instruments SERIES K: I have not used but it is relatively intuitive and efficient. The converters are trs enjoyable: both dynamic and gentle.
Rear facing, it has 2 outputs MIX, 4 outputs spares, the trio (MIDI switchable thru-out), I / O ADAT optical, 4 footswitch input, 2 inputs control / expression, accounts for a breath controller, between a tape (optional, so), the SETTING THE contrast and brightness for the screen, a SCSI, and a SmartMedia slot for the sampling option and e / s and analos numriques format S / PDIF and AES, switchable by software.
More subjectively, we note that the keyboard is a bit noisy and plastoc compared with 76 keys of agile K2500 I had before. Too bad also that the small ribbon is gone.
8 mdiocrit for the keyboard.
Edit: I spend 8 9 because I t STRID. The keyboard is really limited, but Manir gnrale is an excellent machine.
UTILIZATION
Novices will be pure dstabiliss the interface, but once the brand philosophy understood, everything flows. We can edit everything the screen by pressing a single button. The manual is standard, there are several amme, but again, when we understand the operation is relatively simple.
The strength of the K2661 (and the entire K SERIES, for that matter) is the synthse Obviously VAST. It has a standard MIDI modulation matrix. The implmentation that is more flexible. Any hard Controller (fader, aftertouch, pedals, wheels, switches, etc.) or soft (LFO, random, envelope, clock, constants, math functions and even matic between two controllers! etc.) can control any paramtre (pitch, cutoff, reverb time, delay feedback, amount of distortion, gain of a band of EQ, envelope depth, fr LFO frequency etc.). Some DSP modules are assembled as various filters, distortion, oscillator, and the matrix paramtre MIDI at all, this for each layer (up to 32 per program). Note: only MIDI control signals can be routs, no audio, it is not a true modular.
I correct myself: The fast mode of assignment of a hard Controller (enter + movement of said controller), dj Submitted on K2500, Submitted is here too. Barbenzinc thank you, I made a handling error.
In small inconvnients, I note that the signal does not prlev MIX when cable is connected a spare output (as on the K2500: c 'silent weird but practical ...) and also a little slow and LFOs imprcis in frquences high.
I use it for the time of Manir following squence of including a track clik spare output for the drummer, I play the same parts, and a combo rock / metal ct.
9 for small default, filled with the quality of the OS and MIDI implmantation any evidence. Nobody is perfect.
SOUNDS
The sounds are partly behind the prestige of the brand. This is not trivial. The orchestral imitations or more gnralement ralistes acoustic, synths and trs trs dynamic and expressive.
The algorithms are rev KDFX persuasive rverbration to the simple simulation models through the dynamic filters. The effects are really embellish the sounds, but they hide in any case a quality mdiocre
This synth sounds great: dynamic, warm, it sounds pro. The expressiveness trs is good, especially considering the matrix MIDI ... DLIR all are allowed. This can make it sound like you will, in many styles .. The VAST synthse has this charm that when you can not do directly what you want, a programming trick is always possible to get there. Programming sounds is fun. From the perspective of control in real time, even if it does not have an interface worthy of a vintage, we can assign custom settings to 8 faders ...
Note also the prsence KB3 Mode, trs modlisation pointed fawn B3 organ drawbars (dj Submitted on K2500), the liveMode (with sampling option) which allows for passing the signal input through the engine and KDFX synthse VAST (dj Submitted on K2500), and increasing the possibility tripleMode algorithms (excuse the s K26xx series).
Finally, the grain is as always subject to each got ...
9 because no one is perfect.
OVERALL OPINION
This machine is a workstation, no doubt: synth sampler, squenceur, interface control, everything is there and with a good quality overall trs. Certainly it is expensive, like all instruments of the brand.
I have been using some prs October 2004. I had before it a K2500 with which I took a lot of fun, except for transport each week. With the K2661, I dlest of 10-15 kg and I won a KDFX. I lost a good keyboard, against, but it dtail in light of the rest.
Anyway, I knew I wanted to keep the philosophy and the flexibility Kurzweil, so I have not tried other. I think that few machines can offer a vast freedom of programming (hardware, I mean the exit reaktor etc. I prfre hard on when I go out of my house). And that's why I do not intend at all to change instrument.
If c'tait again, I do it again because I think I would not find my happiness elsewhere.
9 for the price new, but the quality is paid.
The polyphony is 48 tracks, it's not standard, but often enough. The sounds are acoustic as well as synthetic samples are available as well as real oscillators. ROM programs are among about 500.
The effects are those of renowned DJs KDFX embeds in the synth SERIES.
We have a squenceur 16 tracks + 16 tracks of arrangement (1 squence dclenchables 16 tracks in real time). The sampler optional adj proven in other instruments SERIES K: I have not used but it is relatively intuitive and efficient. The converters are trs enjoyable: both dynamic and gentle.
Rear facing, it has 2 outputs MIX, 4 outputs spares, the trio (MIDI switchable thru-out), I / O ADAT optical, 4 footswitch input, 2 inputs control / expression, accounts for a breath controller, between a tape (optional, so), the SETTING THE contrast and brightness for the screen, a SCSI, and a SmartMedia slot for the sampling option and e / s and analos numriques format S / PDIF and AES, switchable by software.
More subjectively, we note that the keyboard is a bit noisy and plastoc compared with 76 keys of agile K2500 I had before. Too bad also that the small ribbon is gone.
8 mdiocrit for the keyboard.
Edit: I spend 8 9 because I t STRID. The keyboard is really limited, but Manir gnrale is an excellent machine.
UTILIZATION
Novices will be pure dstabiliss the interface, but once the brand philosophy understood, everything flows. We can edit everything the screen by pressing a single button. The manual is standard, there are several amme, but again, when we understand the operation is relatively simple.
The strength of the K2661 (and the entire K SERIES, for that matter) is the synthse Obviously VAST. It has a standard MIDI modulation matrix. The implmentation that is more flexible. Any hard Controller (fader, aftertouch, pedals, wheels, switches, etc.) or soft (LFO, random, envelope, clock, constants, math functions and even matic between two controllers! etc.) can control any paramtre (pitch, cutoff, reverb time, delay feedback, amount of distortion, gain of a band of EQ, envelope depth, fr LFO frequency etc.). Some DSP modules are assembled as various filters, distortion, oscillator, and the matrix paramtre MIDI at all, this for each layer (up to 32 per program). Note: only MIDI control signals can be routs, no audio, it is not a true modular.
I correct myself: The fast mode of assignment of a hard Controller (enter + movement of said controller), dj Submitted on K2500, Submitted is here too. Barbenzinc thank you, I made a handling error.
In small inconvnients, I note that the signal does not prlev MIX when cable is connected a spare output (as on the K2500: c 'silent weird but practical ...) and also a little slow and LFOs imprcis in frquences high.
I use it for the time of Manir following squence of including a track clik spare output for the drummer, I play the same parts, and a combo rock / metal ct.
9 for small default, filled with the quality of the OS and MIDI implmantation any evidence. Nobody is perfect.
SOUNDS
The sounds are partly behind the prestige of the brand. This is not trivial. The orchestral imitations or more gnralement ralistes acoustic, synths and trs trs dynamic and expressive.
The algorithms are rev KDFX persuasive rverbration to the simple simulation models through the dynamic filters. The effects are really embellish the sounds, but they hide in any case a quality mdiocre
This synth sounds great: dynamic, warm, it sounds pro. The expressiveness trs is good, especially considering the matrix MIDI ... DLIR all are allowed. This can make it sound like you will, in many styles .. The VAST synthse has this charm that when you can not do directly what you want, a programming trick is always possible to get there. Programming sounds is fun. From the perspective of control in real time, even if it does not have an interface worthy of a vintage, we can assign custom settings to 8 faders ...
Note also the prsence KB3 Mode, trs modlisation pointed fawn B3 organ drawbars (dj Submitted on K2500), the liveMode (with sampling option) which allows for passing the signal input through the engine and KDFX synthse VAST (dj Submitted on K2500), and increasing the possibility tripleMode algorithms (excuse the s K26xx series).
Finally, the grain is as always subject to each got ...
9 because no one is perfect.
OVERALL OPINION
This machine is a workstation, no doubt: synth sampler, squenceur, interface control, everything is there and with a good quality overall trs. Certainly it is expensive, like all instruments of the brand.
I have been using some prs October 2004. I had before it a K2500 with which I took a lot of fun, except for transport each week. With the K2661, I dlest of 10-15 kg and I won a KDFX. I lost a good keyboard, against, but it dtail in light of the rest.
Anyway, I knew I wanted to keep the philosophy and the flexibility Kurzweil, so I have not tried other. I think that few machines can offer a vast freedom of programming (hardware, I mean the exit reaktor etc. I prfre hard on when I go out of my house). And that's why I do not intend at all to change instrument.
If c'tait again, I do it again because I think I would not find my happiness elsewhere.
9 for the price new, but the quality is paid.