Kawai K5 ROM upgrades available again.

Hello everyone,

After last year's batch, I'm ready to burn ROM chips for the Kawai K5/K5m/K4/K4r again. (The ROMs are on 28-pin socketed chips)

Here are the newest ROM versions:
Kawai K5 version 1.3
Kawai K5m version 1.2
Kawai K4 version 1.4
Kawai K4r version 1.4

To check the ROM version on the K5/K5m, it's simply displayed on the boot screen. On the K4/K4r, you need to hold the SYSTEM button while you turn the unit on.

The K5 and K5m ROMs make the synth a lot more stable than V1.0, which sometimes starts to act erratically after a lot of SysEx transfers, and needs to be manually reset. 

The K4 and K4r ROMs remove a lot, if not all the lag when playing many notes simultaneously. 

To simplify the whole process on my side, I won't send PayPal invoices anymore. Instead, I decided to setup an osCommerce during the weekend on my website. Checkout is still done via PayPal, and you aren't sending me any money until I authorize the payment when the chips are ready. 

Here's the link: http://dmsaudio.ca/store/

ROMs are $7 CAD each, and with shipping, handling, PayPal fees, etc. so the cost is around $10.58 shipped to Canada, about $11.50 CAD for one ROM sent to USA, and about $13.65 elsewhere. 

Shipping up to 3 ROMs doesn't increase the shipping costs, so the only extra fees you get are the actual ROM cost and the PayPal 3.9% fees. No one has ever ordered more than 3 ROMs so I can't tell. I'm sure that the weight isn't a problem, but the envelope starts to get large.

I hope the waiting delay wasn't too long so far ;-)

Cheers,
Antoine



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