KaffiMusic

I know what you mean. The guy seemed to see some kind of problem that I did not understand. But he insisted. Isn´t it nice to have backwards compatibility when you want the "old" sounds, too? I even think it´s a nice twist when they sound as "bad" as they were back then. There are people who pay lots of money today for old gear, just to get that flavour. The Kurz delivers that so to say "free of charge". But judging an instrument by that and "forgetting" about the new stuff that is added and trying to make a point out of that is a bit strange. Kann man machen, muss man aber nicht. Like we say in German.

Regarding "talking to the outside world" like a computer, I´d like to get some insight, too. I have a PC4 (a K2 and two PC3, too) and the software editor for both is useless. I am quite familiar with that, tried it in the early years with my PC3, now with the PC4, it´s the same. It crashed several times after I tried it to show me the list of programs I had uploaded via USB. Do not get me started with editing anything. Experienced Kurzweil-users are aware of that and do not even consider this software useful in any way. BTW, you can exchange soundsets etc. via USB-stick, as well as using a Computer as some kind of external hard-disk, that is treated like a USB-stick - same like in the PC3, but I did not try that on the PC4. I do not know about the K27, since I do not have one. But they are very close brothers/sisters, I suppose it´s most likely the same. You can do pretty much everything in the machine itself, but having at least a bank-manager would be a nice-to-have and nothing less but up to date. Same goes for exchanging samples. We do not have a program to do keymaps, exept the decades-old Kurzfiler - which was a project from a guy that did this in his free time. The Nord-software for their Stage-line is a nice example for how to bring the K- (and PC-) series to this decade. With that we would not need sophisticated sample editing in the machine - on a computer-screen it´d be way more comfortable. Right now we have to use 3rd party software and then use Kurzfiler to build keymaps and then transfer them to the machine via Stick or USB connection. They way how they feel is something you can experience just then, when they have been uploaded. I´d love to see some "Kurzweil-solution" where the steps of looping, setting zones + velocitylayers and transfer to the instrument come together. All this much sample memory needs some proper tools. I might want to add the comment, that I´d prefer this software should be made by someone else but ST. I like the Kurzweil-stuff, but this is ridiculous.