Kurzweil K2000

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.

under 100$?

helluva machine

its a beast

back lights usually are beat

cheap repair

sweet. :)

was the best sounding rompler of its time but a doorstop today, a mate actually gave his battered one away

  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..

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.

  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

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!!

kurzweil k2000 is fucking awesome

meh just got outbid. It'll be in the 200s easy by the time it's done. :( oh well.