Kurzweil K2600

Successor to the K2500, the team of R & D is left of the zero-level of the internal design, which gives us a much more reliable than the Previous versions, with a more clean and output sym sorts.

The big news is the multi-purpose KDFX Intgr. There's also the Live Mode, which uses sampling from (and ADAT) to process in real time through an external engine synthse (not just around the KDFX).

In terms of hard-synthse is available a new mode called Triple Modular Processing, which allows a CRER sounds by chanage complex DSP. The VAST synthse multiplied by 3. The possibilities are endless.

An accumulation of organs (available on the K2500 via update) is now Intgr srigraphies with the faade, the faders to the indents, the KDFX to smear the sound ...

Now all the days of midi channels may Programs with up to 32 layers.

A Steinway piano is now Intgr in ROM, which it has not changed much since the K2000. Optionally available is the Contemporary ROM, Orchestral, Vintage Electric Piano, Piano, and a bank-like General Midi.

Compatible with all samplers on the market (Akai, Roland, Ensoniq, Wav, Aif ...). 128 MB of Ram possible.

UTILIZATION

Flexibility is what the caractrise. One can for example edit mode squenceur in a program, then the keymap, then the sample without the machine does not blink.
Ditions of all pages are constructed in identical form, it cohrent trs. There are shortcuts, research tools handy for getting together. All parameters are expressed as values ​​natural resources (Herz, dB), not on a scale of 1 to 100 as Korg and Yamaha ... Using live is a rgal.
The squenceur is intuitive, powerful, with good use of the mode setting, a kind of large arpgiateur used in setups. We can use Live Tracks to record the entries via sampling.
This is an excellent keyboard matre, trs full in the management of external midi peripherals. While the Controller can be assigned.
And to live, he proposes (and well before the Roland Fantom G) a seamless transition of sound.
The management record is remarkable (with macros, Boot Loader, disk management tools, many peripherals compatibility tense), he can load the Programs of dpendants squence, setups.

SOUNDS

Prt nest is not to reach the end of synthse VAST. Since 1991, and with all the sounds available on the Internet, we can see the evolution of sound designer in the matrise Kurzweil machines.

It may be a reader and end trsraliste samples (of 32 layers!), Can provide sound purely analog (192 oscillators!) Thanks some algorithms and some DSP (pr cursor of VA synths), the synthse additive, FM, granular, vector, wavetable and even, albeit with some limitations. Mathmatiques functions are available to make things worse, envelopes, LFOs, filters, warm, and an own identity due inhrent an aliasing, but not dplaisant.
And we push even further with the Triple Mode. It yammer banks available on the net offering trs sound close to what you can get the physical modlisation.
I have dj about the power of KDFX? And the vocoder?

With maps instal, the sampling option and CDRoms, we never tire of the quality and quantity of sounds. Kurzweil CDRom worth the particulirement dtour thanks exemplary programming not found anywhere else.

OVERALL OPINION

APRS bought the K2000VP I import all I RALIS. What a luxury! Kurzweil is a bit of the Steinway synthtiseurs. Too bad the importation into France is so difficult.
C'tait expensive, but we come now to find opportunities around 1500. This is a REFERENCE, used by leading.

Of course it has 10 and so I do not liken the current synth. But for the time it is perfect!

UTILIZATION

Not really easy to program, too bad ... But hey just work and study hard, it's not like a Triton or Motif or hands on right away but with less quality.

SOUNDS

The original sounds are very focused classical instruments and organs. Very realistic since sampled. For sounds "synthetic" he's doing very well also, a lot of beautiful effects, but this is not a typical grain Nordlead analog modeling (of course) ... I would say very very good but not perfect because not enough variety.

OVERALL OPINION

I use for a very short time and thus for a full review will look below ... I'd say it's solid, great sound quality, reliable. It changes a lot of workstations manufactured plastoc made in China today. Complex but