Hi Ray,

Thank you... not exactly my generosity but more the hard work and research by the eminent and prolific Mr Dawson who has spent many late nights getting things right for everyone.

We really need some KN6000 and KN6500 owners who own boards to give us a helping hand to enable extra new sounds for other owners.

Regarding the sounds you've gathered from SZ contributors etc I know that many of them were created by those contributors. Some might be from expansion cards and there have also been many commercial disks available with new sounds over the years.

You can also store new sounds that you will find on the many commercial disks. Some of those disks are of course dedicated to new sounds or panel memories but many of the song disks have sounds specifically created for them.

Interesting too, to create some of your own sounds. HarryG made a great post recently with an accordion sound for you to copy. There's also a tutorial by George Basnett on Gunnar's site to explain how to make the late, great Acker Bilk's clarinet.

What I find astonishing, having made one or two sounds myself, is the immense amount of work that goes into creating sounds that many people are willing to share with fellow KN owners. That is true generosity.

It appears that the expansion cards actually use the wave forms that are already embedded in the keyboards. Well, we're not 100% certain but it seems that way. So, the cards are able to store all of the info for hundreds of sounds and an interface for them to be used easily but the Memory sound group is able to hold 40 of them anyway.

I think that an interesting way to use this is to load sounds one by one into your own Sound File (TM file). So, for example I know you like organ sounds and so do I, you could have a TM file with 40 organ sounds in it ready to use, gathered up from various places. And another file with 40 different string sounds etc. They only take a few seconds to load. You can load a single sound into any of the 40 memory slots on the third page of the LOAD screen in the KN7000.

I had the pleasure of meeting Peter in Swansea a few nights ago and the sounds load into the KN2600 memory slots just the same as KN7000, so the expansion card sounds can be used by KN2600 owners too (and I'm sure KN2400).

Anyway, I too have had my interest redirected to the Memory button recently so I know exactly what you mean! It's like having a whole new keyboard (or several) to play with!

What you can also try is.... load up some sounds you enjoy and use them in your existing Rhythms using the Sound Arranger. Hours of fun!

Best wishes,
Mike