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- From: alexand@lt7.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Alexander Forth)
- Subject: Re: K2000 - midi'able filters?
- Keywords: sampler k2000 filter
- References: <81723@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- Organization: Royal Holloway, University of London
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:25:38 GMT
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- In article <81723@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt5627c@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew
- Seamus Pease) writes:
- ..
- |>Can't the filters on a K2000 be programmed much in the same way as
- |>this new EMU Vintage Keys box? In fact, wouldn't a K2000,
- |>with its digitally contolled filters combined with the
- |>raw samples of an EMU vintage Keys box be the same as the Vintage
- |>Keys box? With the exception of the EMU box having 32 voices, it seems
- |>that if one was going to go with getting say a peavey sp/sx & an EMU
- |>vintage keys, it would make much more sense to get a K2000 with sampling
- |>extension.
-
- I agree. From what has been said about the EMU box in this group so far,
- it seems to be a bit of a lemon (ie. can't truely imitate analog gear).
- Kurzweil got it right in the design stage, and the K2000 sports some of
- the best real-time sound mangling features currently availble. What
- separates the K2000 from the crowd is it's ability to animate the sound
- while playing it. Current opinion seems to be that the K2000 is the closest
- a digital keyboard has presently come to immitating the sounds of an analog
- keyboard.
-
- |>Hopefully, Kurzweil will catch on to this analog craze and simply offer
- |>samples of popular analog synths.
-
- I doubt if they need to. Last weekend I checked out the K2000 FTP site,
- and they already have an extensive selection of analog style patches (not
- samples). There are times when I could swear that my K2000 sounded just
- like an ARP 2600 or a Super Jupiter, and all these sounds were being created
- from raw sawtooth, sine or triangle wave samples that are found in the
- standard 8 megs of ROM. Not to mention great filter sweeps that you
- could control from the mod wheel (or any other midi control source).
- The K2000 sampling option is (going to be) far more powerful than the
- Peavey.
-
- |>Matt Pease
- |>gt5627c@prism.gatech.edu
-
- The K2000 + sample board is a seriously powerful combination, I'd go with
- it if I were you, or wait (for quite a long time) for other manufacturers
- to come out with their own DSP Keyboards. (Is it worth the wait?)
-
- Alex.
- alexand@cs.rhbnc.ac.uk
-