1) Overview 0:00 ● New Medeli 88 note hammer weighted keyboard action with aftertouch (instead of the Italian Fatar action with Kurzweil Forte) ● 4.3” colour LCD widescreen display, 9 faders, 9 knobs & 9 switches, pitch bend & modulation wheels, Variation button etc. ● 256 voices polyphony (Kurzweil Forte has 128 voice polyphony) ● KT effects with 32 effects unit ● The same Variable Architecture Synthesis Technology (V.A.S.T.) engine as with the flag ship Kurzweil Forte ● 2 GB internal sound flash memory (Kurzweil Forte has 16 GB internal sound flash memory) ● 2 GB flash memory for users to load their own sounds (Kurzweil Forte has 3,3 GB flash memory for own sounds) ● More than 1.000 presets ● 12 Quick Acces Banks ● Tone wheel organ modeling KB3 ToneReal Organs Mode ● 16 arpeggiators ● 16-Track MIDI Sequencer ● 6-Operator FM Engine (Frequency modulation synthesis = FM synthesis as with the Yamaha DX7 & TX7) ● Import of WAV and AIF samples (16 bit / max. 96kHz) and Kurzweil formats (.P3K, .KRZ, .K25, .K26) ● 4 x Audio Out: 6.3 mm TRS ● Stereo headphones out: 6.3 mm TRS ● 2 x Audio in: 6.3 mm TRS ● 1 x Audio In: 3.5 mm TRS ● MIDI in / out ● Ribbon controller input ● 4 Inputs for pedals and foot switches: 6.3 mm TS ● 2 x USB port ● 127 cm x 37,46 cm x 1651 cm, 13 kg, 1.845 € 2) Program/Patch/Sound demos ● Electric piano demo No 1 2:41 ● Electric piano demo No 2 3:40 ● Electric piano demo No 3 4:02 ● Electric piano demo No 3 4:27 ● Electric piano demo No 4 4:54 ● Electric piano demo No 5 5:27 ● Clavinet demo No 1 :5:40 ● Clavinet demo No 2 6:01 ● Clavinet demo No 3 6:13 ● Clavinet demo No 4 6:24 ● Electric piano demo No 6 6:37 ● Electric piano demo No 7 7:18 ● Electric piano demo No 8 7:32 ● Electric piano demo No 9 7:54 ● Electric piano demo No 10 8:08 ● Electric piano demo No 11 8:18 ● Electric piano demo No 12 9:14 ● Electric piano demo No 13 9:32 ● Electric piano demo No 14 9:47 ● Electric piano demo No 15 10:03 ● Electric piano demo No 16 10:18 ● Electric piano demo No 17 10:25 ● Electric piano demo No 18 10:49 ● Electric piano demo No 19 11:19 ● Electric piano demo No 20 11:47 ● Electric piano demo No 21 12:00 ● Electric piano demo No 22 12:15 ● Electric piano demo No 23 12:26 ● Electric piano demo No 24 12:43 ● Electric piano demo No 25 13:03 ● Electric piano demo No 26 13:21 ● Electric piano demo No 27 13:38 ● Electric piano demo No 28 13:44 ● Electric piano demo No 29 13:49 ● Electric piano demo No 30 14:03 ● Electric piano demo No 31 14:09 ● Electric piano demo No 32 14:21 ● Piano demo No 1 14:32 ● Piano demo No 2 15:10 ● Piano demo No 3 15:28 ● Piano demo No 4 15:57 ● Piano demo No 5 16:05 ● Piano demo No 6 16:08 ● Piano demo No 7 16:33 ● Piano demo No 8 16:59 ● Piano demo No 9 17:15 ● Piano demo No 10 17:26 ● Piano demo No 11 17:30 ● Piano demo No 12 17:38 ● Piano demo No 13 18:00 ● Piano demo No 14 18:21 ● Piano demo No 15 18:30 ● Piano demo No 16 18:41 ● Piano demo No 17 18:54 ● Piano demo No 18 19:14 ● Piano demo No 19 19:34 ● Piano demo No 20 19:43 ● Piano demo No 21 20:11 ● Piano demo No 22 20:34 ● Piano demo No 23 20:51 ● Piano demo No 24 21:33 ● Piano demo No 25 21:43 ● Piano demo No 26 22:02 ● Piano demo No 27 22:30 ● Piano demo No 28 22:39 ● Piano demo No 29 22:57 ● Piano + electric piano demo No 1 23:13 ● Piano + electric piano + strings demo No 1 23:47 1) Grand Piano & Electric Piano sounds ruclips.net/video/p_Iwt2EjdQ8/видео.html 2) Hybrid sounds ruclips.net/video/cZB-yaIWths/видео.html 3) Orchestral sounds ruclips.net/video/TeLGnBql4Pc/видео.html 3) Drum Kits/Sets ruclips.net/video/aJSVSxbmYNI/видео.html
Really thanks Radec for presenting the new Kurzweil. Sounds wonderfull, better than anything else i know. Recommend strongly your channel because you really know what is important to hear sitting at home and listening to demos on RUclips. Keep up that good work. Hope there will be more Specs and price known soon! Would love to here the KB3 Organ specially the Rotor Effect, because this was a weakness all the years. Think about selling my Artis and get a PC4 76 keys!
It's really unfortunate that the stock Leslie effect is so poor, actually worse than later versions they put out on the PC3. I just don't understand. 3rd Party programmers are putting out better Leslie FX chains than Kurzweil here, and even those are still not quite as good as other things on the market. I now use a second tier with MainStage for my B3 stuff, but it would really be great to have a good sounding B3/Leslie right on the Forte/PC4.
@@EvilDragon666 thank god that in the meantime it is really possible to get solutions for a hammondsound whether it is HX3, VB3, B4, etc. etc. you name it and take whatever you like but I can´t understand this massive difference between the big ones and a lot of small companies who made it. Kurzweil, Roland, Korg and Yamaha to name a few...... can still not build a Hammond clone, their biggest problem.... the Rotor! First class in pianos, some good in EPs most of them bad in Organs. Hey some cheap androids on phones seem to understand more about the thing.
Nice playing! So many keyboard sounds... Which makes sense being a keyboard! However, since this is a workstation and thanks kurzweil for keeping the sequencer!! I'd like to hear other sounds as well, and hopefully not ones from the K2000.
I'd like to see a major update on sound engine instead of a simple refreshed FORTE with the PC4 label... I'm not convinced at all. Also the design looks old, the PC3 line (x, k, a) was thinner and portable...
@@ivanbulanov5754 Not really a PRO from my point of view. I'd rather prefer a heavier keyboard it if sounds a whole lot better. But this seems not the case, so far....
well, the forte was awesome!! And now Kurzweil have added a very capable FM engine, 6 operator, using any sample as either carrier or modulator, that is rare! AND the FM engine is just one black in the VAST engine.
too bad the housing is huge... (and high, e.g. the strip under the keybed is very high 10cm i guess) I wish they would reintroduce the K2k+ (2500, 2600 etc) series, those where the real beasts. Top notch sounds, and top notch edit options and a very good housing.
Good video but should have led off with the acoustic pianos and went from there. Also, does the PC4 have great sounds to go along with these EPs and pianos?
My friend! If you have ocasion, try piano sound on Sequential Prophet XL!!! It's Outstanding! It's the best piano sound!!!! I wanted to by Nord. But in last moment I buy Prophet, and I am very happy!!!
Sounds pretty nice. Wish I could test one out, but Kurzweil dealers seem to be rare in Minnesota. I've got my Motif and Krome so I'm good for now, but I've always wanted to try either a Forte, Artis, or PC3K/4. Sounds pretty good to me, though I know the rom is not necessarily new. Sound is so subjective. I like Kurzweil's sounds generally, but again I've never heard them except over the internet, and an old PC2x playing piano at a concert once. I'm curious how good the build quality is when compared to the MOXF/MODX/Krome/Juno DS. The visual look is very nice IMO.
@@jumpingman8160 Depends on what type of choirs you like. I don't think they're the most natural choirs, my Yamaha boards are better, but if you're looking for a rock/metal/not 100% realistic etc type of choir, then it's fine. There are a large number of choir sounds.
@@MaxThompsonMusic im looking for something with realistic male, female oohs and aahs. The ability to type speech would be nice. Anything you recomend that fits that bill in a keyboard format that doesnt cost a kidney?
@@jumpingman8160 By typing speech you mean where you can tell it what to say and it will say it? Software would be the only thing I can think of that can do that. Otherwise, Yamaha Motif/MOXF/Montage/MODX choirs are pretty good overall, and I've heard that some of the third party sound libraries can add a lot to. But if you're looking for a ton of flexibility with ultimate realism, then I do not know of a keyboard that can do that currently. You might consider asking over at the Musicplayer Forums Keyboard Corner. Lots of people over there who know more than I do. forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/forums/18/1/The_Keyboard_Corner
Hello. Why can I load only 16 bit samples into the instrument? All samples on the market are currently 24 bit. I have to convert hundreds of multisamples to 16 bit or is there another way?
@@jadigistudios Unfortunately it's the truth. But generally these instruments have stopped in development in the previous century so the samples are also 16 bit 🙂 the most important that they have "new" FMPianos ... Who in general uses these really? Should I play songs of whitney houston on it? Such sounds are useful at the polish wedding party at the most. Maybe the company will eventually wake up in the 21st century and propose an instrument where the musicians decide what they want to have inside. By the way, I'm a fan of kurzweil, but after k2600 somehow I do not see an instrument on which I could spend $ 4000. Software is too good. if there was an instrument to which I am loading, for example, 5 gb of multisamples (in my case pipe organ from Hauptwerk) and I can play them in a few seconds after turning on the instrument ...and laptop stays at home. Regards 🙂
@@krzysztofhotlos6462 what does this have that the Forte doesn't have or won't probably have overtime Kurzweil have a weird way of presenting their keyboards they tend to change over time....
@@krzysztofhotlos6462 Hey I've always loved Kurzweil, some times I think of going to Yamaha or the Kronos, but then I'm all ways just waiting for Kurzweil to do something great...... What I don't like about them is when they put a product out give it why not give the product all its Capabilities from the start!, I completely over look the Forte because it didn't have a sequencer, then they put it in later, that's crazy to me.... This new board PC4 is probably going to get something later in a year or so,..... I can't determine the difference between the forte in the PC for Completely
The sounds are nice, but not really new. The FM Synthese is interesting. But from my opinion, Kurzweil is still hanging in the 90th and not coming over to the 21th century.
I disagree. You can make almost any sound from vintage to modern. Especially modern synth sounds because of the VAST. There are also third party sounds for various genres edm, dubstep...you name it. Maybe it has a looks of old digital synths but it certainly is not limited to 90s just because it was popular in those years. That would be like saying a piano or hammond sounds are outdated today because they were popular in the past.
Looking at this video ruclips.net/video/rWlovdS7w9Q/видео.html it seems that Kurzweil is also hanging in 1983. The FM in this 4.00 looks like DX7. I mean seriously? And the same goes for Yamaha. The FM in Montage and MODX is just half of what was in FS1R. With Yamaha it seems that they just forgot or ignore what they had in SY77/99 (multiple feedbacks). I just wish that Bret Victor could have a chance to finish Alesis Fusion. You can do stuff with Fusion FM from 2005 that you can not do with Montage, MODX and (as it seems) Kurzweil also. I am sad :( My view is: after FM7/FM8, Alesis Fusion, why complicate with algorithms? Algorithms are thing of the past.
To be honest, the only downside of the PC3 series was that the software is not user friendly. You really need to get used to it. Had also some hardware problems, but I think that I got a bad version (factory error). Now it's ok. So I think this one will be really the beast (especially with 2GB user sample memory). I'm just waiting for PC461 or PC4K61 (88 keys are too much for me). Demo is not that good, but it's just a video from the exhibition. We will see the real demo after they release it.
They offer an editor. I think that's really the best way to go. Touch screens and stuff are nice but once they are damaged your synth is pretty much bricked. I personally can't gel with them. I got put off from my Kronos because of it. Same with the Montage and Quantum. The screen on the Kurz allows you to see what you are doing and get the sounds you want...but for deeper editing you can use your computer (Which is larger than most screens onboard synths anyway). This is how I go into deep edits for my Prophet synths and Moogs so there's no reason I can't do the same with the Kurzweil.
Any screen can go kaput. The Idea of having a big screen is to show you as maximum of information as possible while making it easy to work. Using an external editor defeats the purpuse of a wokstation. @@EverettDudgeon138
a very serious mistake committed by Kurzweil was to put the wheels on top ... like 4-wire keypads. I will not buy it for this very reason. I hate wheels upstairs! They are very uncomfortable.
![Kurzweil PC4 demo - drum sets [Musikmesse 2019]](/img/1.gif)
1) Overview 0:00
● New Medeli 88 note hammer weighted keyboard action with aftertouch (instead of the Italian Fatar action with Kurzweil Forte)
● 4.3” colour LCD widescreen display, 9 faders, 9 knobs & 9 switches, pitch bend & modulation wheels, Variation button etc.
● 256 voices polyphony (Kurzweil Forte has 128 voice polyphony)
● KT effects with 32 effects unit
● The same Variable Architecture Synthesis Technology (V.A.S.T.) engine as with the flag ship Kurzweil Forte
● 2 GB internal sound flash memory (Kurzweil Forte has 16 GB internal sound flash memory)
● 2 GB flash memory for users to load their own sounds (Kurzweil Forte has 3,3 GB flash memory for own sounds)
● More than 1.000 presets
● 12 Quick Acces Banks
● Tone wheel organ modeling KB3 ToneReal Organs Mode
● 16 arpeggiators
● 16-Track MIDI Sequencer
● 6-Operator FM Engine (Frequency modulation synthesis = FM synthesis as with the Yamaha DX7 & TX7)
● Import of WAV and AIF samples (16 bit / max. 96kHz) and Kurzweil formats (.P3K, .KRZ, .K25, .K26)
● 4 x Audio Out: 6.3 mm TRS
● Stereo headphones out: 6.3 mm TRS
● 2 x Audio in: 6.3 mm TRS
● 1 x Audio In: 3.5 mm TRS
● MIDI in / out
● Ribbon controller input
● 4 Inputs for pedals and foot switches: 6.3 mm TS
● 2 x USB port
● 127 cm x 37,46 cm x 1651 cm, 13 kg, 1.845 €
2) Program/Patch/Sound demos
● Electric piano demo No 1 2:41
● Electric piano demo No 2 3:40
● Electric piano demo No 3 4:02
● Electric piano demo No 3 4:27
● Electric piano demo No 4 4:54
● Electric piano demo No 5 5:27
● Clavinet demo No 1 :5:40
● Clavinet demo No 2 6:01
● Clavinet demo No 3 6:13
● Clavinet demo No 4 6:24
● Electric piano demo No 6 6:37
● Electric piano demo No 7 7:18
● Electric piano demo No 8 7:32
● Electric piano demo No 9 7:54
● Electric piano demo No 10 8:08
● Electric piano demo No 11 8:18
● Electric piano demo No 12 9:14
● Electric piano demo No 13 9:32
● Electric piano demo No 14 9:47
● Electric piano demo No 15 10:03
● Electric piano demo No 16 10:18
● Electric piano demo No 17 10:25
● Electric piano demo No 18 10:49
● Electric piano demo No 19 11:19
● Electric piano demo No 20 11:47
● Electric piano demo No 21 12:00
● Electric piano demo No 22 12:15
● Electric piano demo No 23 12:26
● Electric piano demo No 24 12:43
● Electric piano demo No 25 13:03
● Electric piano demo No 26 13:21
● Electric piano demo No 27 13:38
● Electric piano demo No 28 13:44
● Electric piano demo No 29 13:49
● Electric piano demo No 30 14:03
● Electric piano demo No 31 14:09
● Electric piano demo No 32 14:21
● Piano demo No 1 14:32
● Piano demo No 2 15:10
● Piano demo No 3 15:28
● Piano demo No 4 15:57
● Piano demo No 5 16:05
● Piano demo No 6 16:08
● Piano demo No 7 16:33
● Piano demo No 8 16:59
● Piano demo No 9 17:15
● Piano demo No 10 17:26
● Piano demo No 11 17:30
● Piano demo No 12 17:38
● Piano demo No 13 18:00
● Piano demo No 14 18:21
● Piano demo No 15 18:30
● Piano demo No 16 18:41
● Piano demo No 17 18:54
● Piano demo No 18 19:14
● Piano demo No 19 19:34
● Piano demo No 20 19:43
● Piano demo No 21 20:11
● Piano demo No 22 20:34
● Piano demo No 23 20:51
● Piano demo No 24 21:33
● Piano demo No 25 21:43
● Piano demo No 26 22:02
● Piano demo No 27 22:30
● Piano demo No 28 22:39
● Piano demo No 29 22:57
● Piano + electric piano demo No 1 23:13
● Piano + electric piano + strings demo No 1 23:47
1) Grand Piano & Electric Piano sounds ruclips.net/video/p_Iwt2EjdQ8/видео.html
2) Hybrid sounds ruclips.net/video/cZB-yaIWths/видео.html
3) Orchestral sounds ruclips.net/video/TeLGnBql4Pc/видео.html
3) Drum Kits/Sets ruclips.net/video/aJSVSxbmYNI/видео.html
Now you can play, awesome job showcasing this amazing instrument
Nice playing there. Will need to check this PC4 out. Love Kurzweil.
Solid sounds but it’s so competitive and the over all bar has been raised. So everything sound good.
If this has seamless sound transition which the Forte does not then this maybe worth checking out. Other then that seems really good!
All Kurzweils do, I think. My PC3x does, and you can see the player change patches while the sound continues.
I'm sold on this. Love the illuminated buttons. Really helpful.
Really thanks Radec for presenting the new Kurzweil. Sounds wonderfull, better than anything else i know. Recommend strongly your channel because you really know what is important to hear sitting at home and listening to demos on RUclips. Keep up that good work. Hope there will be more Specs and price known soon! Would love to here the KB3 Organ specially the Rotor Effect, because this was a weakness all the years. Think about selling my Artis and get a PC4 76 keys!
You can bet that KB3 and Leslie sound exactly the same as in Forte, no advancements there.
It's really unfortunate that the stock Leslie effect is so poor, actually worse than later versions they put out on the PC3. I just don't understand. 3rd Party programmers are putting out better Leslie FX chains than Kurzweil here, and even those are still not quite as good as other things on the market. I now use a second tier with MainStage for my B3 stuff, but it would really be great to have a good sounding B3/Leslie right on the Forte/PC4.
@@alextirrellRI I would say if you need a good Leslie, better get a Ventilator.
Or altogether get a better Hammond emulator, like HX3.
@@EvilDragon666 thank god that in the meantime it is really possible to get solutions for a hammondsound whether it is HX3, VB3, B4, etc. etc. you name it and take whatever you like but I can´t understand this massive difference between the big ones and a lot of small companies who made it. Kurzweil, Roland, Korg and Yamaha to name a few...... can still not build a Hammond clone, their biggest problem.... the Rotor! First class in pianos, some good in EPs most of them bad in Organs. Hey some cheap androids on phones seem to understand more about the thing.
@@EvilDragon666 jos cu se drzati pc3k :) kolega imam jedno pitanje :) jesi probao german d prosirenje u pc3? i dal se isplati dati lovu za to ?
Nice playing! So many keyboard sounds... Which makes sense being a keyboard! However, since this is a workstation and thanks kurzweil for keeping the sequencer!! I'd like to hear other sounds as well, and hopefully not ones from the K2000.
I'd like to see a major update on sound engine instead of a simple refreshed FORTE with the PC4 label... I'm not convinced at all.
Also the design looks old, the PC3 line (x, k, a) was thinner and portable...
This one is twice lighter than PC3.
@@ivanbulanov5754 Not really a PRO from my point of view. I'd rather prefer a heavier keyboard it if sounds a whole lot better. But this seems not the case, so far....
well, the forte was awesome!! And now Kurzweil have added a very capable FM engine, 6 operator, using any sample as either carrier or modulator, that is rare! AND the FM engine is just one black in the VAST engine.
This or the modx8?
too bad the housing is huge... (and high, e.g. the strip under the keybed is very high 10cm i guess)
I wish they would reintroduce the K2k+ (2500, 2600 etc) series, those where the real beasts. Top notch sounds, and top notch edit options and a very good housing.
Good video but should have led off with the acoustic pianos and went from there. Also, does the PC4 have great sounds to go along with these EPs and pianos?
My friend! If you have ocasion, try piano sound on Sequential Prophet XL!!! It's Outstanding! It's the best piano sound!!!! I wanted to by Nord. But in last moment I buy Prophet, and I am very happy!!!
piano sound great
01:20 Kurzweil z wymykiem, serio?
Sounds pretty nice. Wish I could test one out, but Kurzweil dealers seem to be rare in Minnesota. I've got my Motif and Krome so I'm good for now, but I've always wanted to try either a Forte, Artis, or PC3K/4. Sounds pretty good to me, though I know the rom is not necessarily new. Sound is so subjective. I like Kurzweil's sounds generally, but again I've never heard them except over the internet, and an old PC2x playing piano at a concert once. I'm curious how good the build quality is when compared to the MOXF/MODX/Krome/Juno DS. The visual look is very nice IMO.
Does the Krome have a good assortment of choir sounds?
@@jumpingman8160 Depends on what type of choirs you like. I don't think they're the most natural choirs, my Yamaha boards are better, but if you're looking for a rock/metal/not 100% realistic etc type of choir, then it's fine. There are a large number of choir sounds.
@@MaxThompsonMusic im looking for something with realistic male, female oohs and aahs. The ability to type speech would be nice. Anything you recomend that fits that bill in a keyboard format that doesnt cost a kidney?
@@jumpingman8160 By typing speech you mean where you can tell it what to say and it will say it? Software would be the only thing I can think of that can do that. Otherwise, Yamaha Motif/MOXF/Montage/MODX choirs are pretty good overall, and I've heard that some of the third party sound libraries can add a lot to. But if you're looking for a ton of flexibility with ultimate realism, then I do not know of a keyboard that can do that currently. You might consider asking over at the Musicplayer Forums Keyboard Corner. Lots of people over there who know more than I do. forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/forums/18/1/The_Keyboard_Corner
@@MaxThompsonMusic thanks my friend
Hello. Why can I load only 16 bit samples into the instrument? All samples on the market are currently 24 bit. I have to convert hundreds of multisamples to 16 bit or is there another way?
is it really only 16bit, you know for sure?
@@jadigistudios Unfortunately it's the truth. But generally these instruments have stopped in development in the previous century so the samples are also 16 bit 🙂 the most important that they have "new" FMPianos ... Who in general uses these really? Should I play songs of whitney houston on it? Such sounds are useful at the polish wedding party at the most. Maybe the company will eventually wake up in the 21st century and propose an instrument where the musicians decide what they want to have inside. By the way, I'm a fan of kurzweil, but after k2600 somehow I do not see an instrument on which I could spend $ 4000.
Software is too good. if there was an instrument to which I am loading, for example, 5 gb of multisamples (in my case pipe organ from Hauptwerk) and I can play them in a few seconds after turning on the instrument ...and laptop stays at home. Regards 🙂
@@krzysztofhotlos6462 Lol... Whitney
@@krzysztofhotlos6462 what does this have that the Forte doesn't have or won't probably have overtime Kurzweil have a weird way of presenting their keyboards they tend to change over time....
@@krzysztofhotlos6462 Hey I've always loved Kurzweil, some times I think of going to Yamaha or the Kronos, but then I'm all ways just waiting for Kurzweil to do something great...... What I don't like about them is when they put a product out give it why not give the product all its Capabilities from the start!, I completely over look the Forte because it didn't have a sequencer, then they put it in later, that's crazy to me.... This new board PC4 is probably going to get something later in a year or so,..... I can't determine the difference between the forte in the PC for Completely
The sounds are nice, but not really new. The FM Synthese is interesting. But from my opinion, Kurzweil is still hanging in the 90th and not coming over to the 21th century.
I disagree. You can make almost any sound from vintage to modern. Especially modern synth sounds because of the VAST. There are also third party sounds for various genres edm, dubstep...you name it. Maybe it has a looks of old digital synths but it certainly is not limited to 90s just because it was popular in those years. That would be like saying a piano or hammond sounds are outdated today because they were popular in the past.
Looking at this video ruclips.net/video/rWlovdS7w9Q/видео.html
it seems that Kurzweil is also hanging in 1983. The FM in this 4.00 looks like DX7. I mean seriously? And the same goes for Yamaha. The FM in Montage and MODX is just half of what was in FS1R. With Yamaha it seems that they just forgot or ignore what they had in SY77/99 (multiple feedbacks).
I just wish that Bret Victor could have a chance to finish Alesis Fusion. You can do stuff with Fusion FM from 2005 that you can not do with Montage, MODX and (as it seems) Kurzweil also. I am sad :(
My view is: after FM7/FM8, Alesis Fusion, why complicate with algorithms? Algorithms are thing of the past.
Ingo Fritzsch
To be honest, the only downside of the PC3 series was that the software is not user friendly. You really need to get used to it. Had also some hardware problems, but I think that I got a bad version (factory error). Now it's ok. So I think this one will be really the beast (especially with 2GB user sample memory). I'm just waiting for PC461 or PC4K61 (88 keys are too much for me).
Demo is not that good, but it's just a video from the exhibition. We will see the real demo after they release it.
Pricing?
Still using those tiny screens? Come on Kurz... It's 2019.
They offer an editor. I think that's really the best way to go. Touch screens and stuff are nice but once they are damaged your synth is pretty much bricked. I personally can't gel with them. I got put off from my Kronos because of it. Same with the Montage and Quantum. The screen on the Kurz allows you to see what you are doing and get the sounds you want...but for deeper editing you can use your computer (Which is larger than most screens onboard synths anyway). This is how I go into deep edits for my Prophet synths and Moogs so there's no reason I can't do the same with the Kurzweil.
It's a bigger and nicer screen than what was in PC3/K :)
Any screen can go kaput. The Idea of having a big screen is to show you as maximum of information as possible while making it easy to work. Using an external editor defeats the purpuse of a wokstation. @@EverettDudgeon138
Nord or moog screens are not televisions also but no one complains
@@zorranism they aren't workstations either... So what's your point?
What is the price of it?? Thanks in advance
around $2,000. USD
Its a beautifull keyboard but i dont like the electric pianos....
Ionian mode
They all sound the same to me
Kurzweil DX7))))))
lol
I hope for the PC461
👍👍👍
a very serious mistake committed by Kurzweil was to put the wheels on top ... like 4-wire keypads. I will not buy it for this very reason. I hate wheels upstairs! They are very uncomfortable.
that's the cost for saving some side space, i think at least 10cm.
Daleko mu do mojej starej DX7