Actually, Cassp, if you check, the Mark 5 had 32 note poly...we always had a couple in the store, along with the other two.

The Mark 5 had a very nice piano sound (for the day, and still holds up well) and I remember the Jazz and Rock organ sounds had a rotary effect that was controlled by one of the pedals.

The action was pretty good , too...I think it was Fatar.

We sold quite a few Mark 5's, mostly to churches.

Amen.

My Mark 5 started out as my very first church piano. Padre gave me a blank check, knowing I wouldn't go hog wild. I was visiting in Kalamazoo, MI and stopped into a music store - they had almost every digital piano on the market. When I sat down to the Kurzweil it was love at first touch.

A few years later we bought a new keyboard with a recorder and I was able to make a deal to keep the Kurzweil for myself. It's still a great favorite of mine.

If you have not played the latest PC3 from Kurz....you don't know how good it can be...

Awesome for sure...there is nothing in the big 3 that overshadows the Kurz.

It's in the sound!

If they ever build a TOTL arranger (yes they had a stage piano with basic arrrangr in it before)it would be one to reckon with for sure.
Very smart people work there.

Unfortuneatly past management (Owners, not internal Kurz) screwed things up for a while...but...they are back big time.

Lee S.

All I can say is V.A.S.T. I have had the K2661 for 2 years now and don't intend to part with it, ever!

Ian, tell us about it.

Trident...what I have heard is that Casio is going to release a new arranger/digital piano in the near future, possibly early in the new year.

The style engine has been expanded to four variations, and there is a new sound/tone generator, supposedly quite similar to Yamaha's SA/Mega and Korg's DNC.

Feature wise it is designed to fit in between Yamaha's S910 and Tyros3, but priced close to the former.

So far, that's what I've heard "around the water cooler", as they say....it may be a lot of bunk, and rumor, but it has been a persistent topic amongst those in the business, so time will tell.

One thing for sure, Casio does have the resources and the clout to pull it off.

I bought a K2600S brandnew in 1999 and never looked back, in fact this date marks the end of my usage of arrangers....
Mine is fully loaded.
Due to the weight I did not use the K much on stage, but my bandmembers/friends recently suggested we have to put some pinkfloyd on our lists,,, So will be used on stage a lot the coming year....
I agreed if the bandmembers will carry the board...

About the polyphony:
The only time I run out of polyphony is when I use a lot of different drum programs in one setup, which has to do with the way the drumpatches are programmed.
You can avoid or correct this by manual editing, but since we have a drummer there's no need for it on live performances.
So that's only an issue if you are composing full songs on the K.

The overall soundprograms are so good that you never need to layer sounds, so the poly48 of the K is no problem att all.

Now this board is built in 1999 and loads audio samples, akai samples etc... if you want. You can use the effects section to run a guitar through it etc...

If you don't mind a long learning curve it's still one of the best synth's on the market...

Fred