Kawai K5000W acoustic piano sounds

[UnderGroundGr]

 

Since last month I started to play with my K5000W and I realised that the piano sound is very good! I had a K5000S in the past and it had the addictive banks and not the sample based so the acoustic sounds were not as good as K5000W.

[ElmerJFudd]

Those were the days when Kawai was interested in making synths.  

[DJkeys]

Best synth keybed ever, TP/8S with textured sharps. I used my K5000S for a controller for years-

 

-dj

[UnderGroundGr]

15 minutes ago, DJKeys said:

Best synth keybed ever, TP/8S with textured sharps. I used my K5000S for a controller for years-

 

-dj

Yes, best synth keybed!

[ElmerJFudd]

Would love to see Kawai cut a deal with Kurzweil for use of actions.  PC4 and SP7 models with any of the RH, RM or GF actions.  Highly desirable. 
 

Kawai made great feeling semi weight synth actions too. All the way down to the K1.  

[David Emm]

I had a K1 and greatly enjoyed it, even if it was filterless and a bit shrill. I'm keeping track of this guy, hoping for an M1 Mac version. He created a very nice K1, so his K4 will almost surely tick all of the right boxes. That was a great synth with release velocity, but IIRC, its CPU was underpowered, so it struggled to keep with up rapid playing. I had a K5, but I missed out on the much better 5000 synths. I'm a Kawai fan who'd jump on a modern synth from them. So it goes. 

 

https://www.nilsschneider.de/wp/category/private-programming/kawaik1emulation/kawai-k4-emulation/

[Steve Nathan]

6 hours ago, UnderGroundH said:

K5000S

I had the one that was "additive".  I think it was K5000S.  Oddly, I can't remember what I did with it, though I remember enjoying programing it.

[UnderGroundGr]

20 minutes ago, David Emm said:

I had a K1 and greatly enjoyed it, even if it was filterless and a bit shrill. I'm keeping track of this guy, hoping for an M1 Mac version. He created a very nice K1, so his K4 will almost surely tick all of the right boxes. That was a great synth with release velocity, but IIRC, its CPU was underpowered, so it struggled to keep with up rapid playing. I had a K5, but I missed out on the much better 5000 synths. I'm a Kawai fan who'd jump on a modern synth from them. So it goes. 

 

https://www.nilsschneider.de/wp/category/private-programming/kawaik1emulation/kawai-k4-emulation/

I have both a K1 and the K1 plugin, which is very good sounding!

[AUSSIEKEYS]

5 hours ago, Steve Nathan said:

I had the one I think it was K5000S.  Oddly, I can't remember what I did with it

 

Think man... think

 

STRANGE MAN: I wonder where that K5000 has gone.

STRANGE WOMAN: You did love it so. You looked after it like a son.

STRANGE MAN: And it went wherever I did go.

STRANGE WOMAN: Is it in the cupboard?

AUDIENCE: Yes! Yes! No!...

STRANGE WOMAN: Wouldn't you like to know? It was a lovely little K5000

STRANGE MAN: And it went wherever I did go.

MAN IN AUDIENCE: It's behind the sofa!

STRANGE WOMAN: Where can that K5000 be?

MAN IN AUDIENCE: Have you thought of the drawers in the bureau?!

RANDOM: Shh!

STRANGE WOMAN: It is a most elusive K5000

STRANGE MAN: And it went wherever I did go.

STRANGE WOMAN: Ooooh, K5000y, K5000y, K5000y K5000

STRANGE MAN: A-aA-K5000-K5000, a-aa-K5000-K5000, ooooh.

STRANGE WOMAN: Ooooh, K5000, K5000, K5000 K5000

STRANGE MAN: That went wherever I did go.

MAN IN AUDIENCE: Look up his trunk!

MAN IN AUDIENCE: Yeah, it's hidden in his trousers!

 

 

AUSSIEKEYS : Ohhh K5000S, K5000W and K5000R Module I do still own. I treat them like a son.

 

Count them 3. Not 2 and definately not one.

 

Of all the bits that i not own is only the little nobby box.

 

To alter the module and its tone  would be the bobby sox.

 

 

[DJkeys]

17 hours ago, Steve Nathan said:

I had the one that was "additive".  I think it was K5000S.  Oddly, I can't remember what I did with it, though I remember enjoying programing it.

They were both additive synths, but the W had more PCM samples available-

 

-dj