I am not sure I believe what I am reading. The new Kurzweil K2600 includes an "interactive sequencer / arranger". Elsewhere, it says the K2600 includes arranger functions and a pattern sequencer. If so, the implications are V.A.S.T. (Would the the K2600R be the first rackmount arranger?)
Clif

Clif, The first rack mounted arranger was Solton TS4, Many are still in use today, .It was released 12 years ago...Fran

Hi Clif, the K2500 keyboard has one of the best internal sequencers Ive seen. It beats the hell out of alot of other workstations sequencers produced by other manufacturures in my opinion. It has a 32 track sequencer, 16 regular tracks and 16 arranger or multitrack. Its editing power is unsurpassed. It also has an internal mixer, miscellanious pages for quantizing, editing page and other possible upgrades such as a powerful multieffects processor(KDFX upgrade)program editing page, program ram upgrades etc,. To find out more, visit the Kurzweil Zone, Mike Martins K2500 Zone, and SoniK. Hope this helps!

Probably the K2600 is not an arranger as I use the term. To me, an arranger is something that responds to chordal input with harmonically appropriate patterns. I am sure that the K2500 does not do this. The K2600 has added some of what Young Chang calls "arranger functions". I do not really understand what these are. Oh, well, there are a lot of things I do not understand.

Hello Chris and Cliff,
In that case have a look at WK 8 megastation
of the for some people inferior brand GEM
Fred


[This message has been edited by freddynl (edited 12-01-1999).]

Does Kurzweil make really good boards?

I just bought a Kurzweil 2500 off of Ebay. I returned it after two days!!! Out of the box, the Piano samples sound like crap. The Orchestral patches were lean and fake sounding. I understand you can get rom blocks to upgrade the board, but at $450 for the Orchestral and another $300 for the Stereo Piano's, that's a lot of money for sounds which should be included in the base unit. The unit which I had also had very non-reactive buttons for selecting patches and O/S parameters. To me, it was unusable during live performance. I hope all of this was attributed to the unit I purchased and not all Kurz's?

Al

Al,
I have not been that impressed by Kurzweil either especially for the price. I looked at those and I bought the Motif instead.
Terry



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I've not been impressed with the Kurzweil 2xxx's either. If you are looking for quality sounds, esp. piano then their PC2x with it's triple-strike piano is one of the best digital piano sounds on the market IMHO. Also some of the best strings/brass I've ever heard on any board. I use one in the studio a lot and on stage when I feel like toting something that heavy (not often). Reportedly, the new KM3-61 features the same sounds from the PC2 so that could be a killer little 61-note board and it's going for like $699 - but I haven't actually played one yet so that would be the clinch.

inferior???

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