Re: Kawai K5 ROM upgrades available again.

Howdy, I'm still interested, but I've got to get the display working before I upgrade. Thanx.Rig

--- On Wed, 9/23/09, antdes45 <antdes45-FFYn/[email protected]> wrote:

From: antdes45 <antdes45-FFYn/[email protected]>
Subject: [k5synth] Kawai K5 ROM upgrades available again.
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 7:33 AM












 
 




    
                  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