Hi John,

I would like to ascertain whether or not my KN7000 belongs to the latter family of KN7000s or to the 1st week release family. Could you kindly explain the steps to take in order to ascertain this. It will be very useful for me to find out.

Sorry Buddy here I have no knowledge. But ----- you can send the drums and bass or just drums out a separate channel into a mixer. Then you can EQ as desired and reset the volumes.
It has been said that you can raise the volume of the drums so that they are out in front more. Yes and No! You can raise the drum volume or edit the individual drum sounds and make your own user drum kit and get nice results. But, yes one more but � Adjusting and editing the drums cannot change the personality of the drums. Their personality is given to them by Technics sound engine, the same sound engine that produces the fantastic trumpet sound; in fact the same sound engine that gives the keyboard its overall great sound.

I�m betting that if I could change the drums sounds on my Pa800 to have the same personality as my Kn7 I would have also changed many of the other instruments sounds on the Pa800.

Only my opinion, John C.