RE: [email protected]

Hi,

 

I was a Kawai, Roland, and Kurzweil salesman in years past just as a background, and have owned the K5 since its inception. I also own the K5000 as well. I have programmed both for many years with excellent results. I do not find the K5 boring, it is one of the synths, I keep coming back to for certain tones. 

 

I feel the K5 recreates organ sounds nicely since they follow a very defined harmonic structure. Electric pianos, brass and analog strings are also very nicely created or programmed.  I own many other manufacturers keyboards for their unique sounds as well. Maybe more time is required to program the K5 than some users would invest. Or maybe it just the acknowledgment that each synth has its limitations. I do wonder why would a user in the group want to bash the K5 though. It all comes down to what the song creator decides is a useful sound. 

 

I agree with Fabio, it would be helpful to have a solid reference for additive programming. Maybe someone in the group might know of one.

 

Bruce

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Griffin
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 2:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [k5synth] [email protected]

 

  

I admire your tenacity - but do you remember perhaps a few years back when I 
told you the design is kind of a dead end ?

the implementation of "additive" on the original K5 is in itself inadequate for 
making much more than the integer-related partial (boring) sounds that it came 
with in the first place

see what I mean yet ?

From: somethingkillingyou <[email protected] <mailto:somethingkillingyou%40yahoo.it> >
>To: [email protected] <mailto:k5synth%40yahoogroups.com> 
>Sent: Sun, October 10, 2010 12:22:26 PM
>Subject: [k5synth] Kawai K5 / additive synthesis programming books...
>
> 
>Hi, I'm looking for a book that can be of some help when programming the K5 from 
>
>scratch; somewhere in the www I found some references about a book, "Kawai K5 - 

>Making it happen" by Dan Walker, but that's it... 
>
>I couldn't find it in the end, neither for download nor for sale...
>
>the point is that I growed tired of 'stupid' technical pubblications about 
>additive synthesis that don't actually explain HOW to program a given patch... 
>everybody knows what additive synthesis is and how it works, but if I want to 
>program a certain sound I need to know what harmonics are there (and good luck, 

>if inharmonic content is there too...), which ones change over time, how they 
>change, how they're grouped etc.
>
>so, is there a good book around about the k5 a/o additive synthesis REAL LIFE 
>programming?
>
>Fabio
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