ryancolecreate Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Just saw one for dumb cheap on ebay. Sounds really nice. Is there some little known reason that it would be under $100?? Hard to edit or something? The pads sound really nice from it in a lot of the vids I've seen. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide ryancolecreate's signature Hide all signatures ------ dailyambient.com ------ New Ambient Music Every Day. New ambient album "Sun and Clouds" now out. Use the discount code watmmer for 50% off the $4 album.Check it out. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 under 100$? helluva machine Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1761266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yikes Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 its a beast back lights usually are beat cheap repair Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1761273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryancolecreate Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 sweet. :) Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide ryancolecreate's signature Hide all signatures ------ dailyambient.com ------ New Ambient Music Every Day. New ambient album "Sun and Clouds" now out. Use the discount code watmmer for 50% off the $4 album.Check it out. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1761276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundwave Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 was the best sounding rompler of its time but a doorstop today, a mate actually gave his battered one away Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1761311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) On 2/23/2012 at 3:20 PM, soundwave said: was the best sounding rompler of its time but a doorstop today, a mate actually gave his battered one away hogwash! it's a very solidly built machine with great keys, for starters. would be an excellent controller, if nothing else. but then there's the kurzweil V.A.S.T. synthesis engine. this thing has a bunch of filters, waveshapers, PWM, all kinds of shit. not a ROMpler in the least. are we even talking about the same machine?! but if it's under 100$ then there's probably something seriously wrong with it.. Edited February 23, 2012 by iep Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1761317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest igloos unlmtd Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 I had the K2VX (the k2000 w/ the extra rom options) & used it quite a bit. I spent $800 on it back in 2000. VAST is kind of a pain to program on that tiny LCD. But it allows for extreme routing options. Highlights of the machine include : built-in FX unit has a reverse reverb microtonal keyboard setups (allows you to play in wendy carlos scales, & some others) excellent filters (designed by Bob Moog) ability to lfo wobble any sound/patch easily Don't be so afraid of the word ROM. It has some decent ROMs in it but its also a full blown sampler. So you can manipulate those ROMs to your content. For $100 its an extremely useful piece of gear. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1761345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundwave Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) On 2/23/2012 at 3:27 PM, iep said: On 2/23/2012 at 3:20 PM, soundwave said: was the best sounding rompler of its time but a doorstop today, a mate actually gave his battered one away hogwash! it's a very solidly built machine with great keys, for starters. would be an excellent controller, if nothing else. but then there's the kurzweil V.A.S.T. synthesis engine. this thing has a bunch of filters, waveshapers, PWM, all kinds of shit. not a ROMpler in the least. are we even talking about the same machine?! but if it's under 100$ then there's probably something seriously wrong with it.. the VAST synthesis was just various reshuffles of the same ole subtractive with a few waveshapers thrown in that although a notch above the akai's at the time, was essentially overcomplex ways of pretty straight forward stuff that few ever went near the K2000 did stand above sound quality wise because, the filters were quite good (tho not VA standard) there was no corner cutting multisampling or flat normalised samples which meant things sounded very lifelike i.e. it was a rompler done right but put against a quality modern vst sample/rompler its just a obsolete 90's workstation with a limited amounts of samples and an overcomplex dated letterbox interface. however if you find one cheap and need a keyboard for good real sounds then its a steal Edited February 23, 2012 by soundwave Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1761413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Promo Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 I think its the problem with a lot of these Romplers is the fact that they're just a bitch to program and use compared to the options of today. I'll be honest I've hardly touched my JV 1080 recently although it does have some very very nice presets. Of course back in the day romplers offered a relatively cheapish way of getting a lot of varied sounds for production compared to buying analogue or more hands on synths. I'm just stumped as how to program/edit the damn thing. Half of me wants to sell it off and half of me wants to keep it lol. For me the fun of using old romplers is actually just making a whole tune on them for the challenge of it!! Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1761573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 kurzweil k2000 is fucking awesome Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide BCM's signature Hide all signatures Bandcamp | Spotify | SoundCloud | Amazon | Apple Music | YouTube | YouTube Music | Deezer | Google Play Music Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1761599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryancolecreate Posted February 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 meh just got outbid. It'll be in the 200s easy by the time it's done. :( oh well. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide ryancolecreate's signature Hide all signatures ------ dailyambient.com ------ New Ambient Music Every Day. New ambient album "Sun and Clouds" now out. Use the discount code watmmer for 50% off the $4 album.Check it out. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/71986-kurzweil-k2000/#findComment-1762425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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