Kurzweil K2000 Complex Sounds

Kurzweil K2000R. Several complex textures: pad followed by chimes, choir-like pad, almost human's "ah no way" generated from simple waves, 'birds' also generated, a thunder made from grand piano sample, a rain made from noise, nothern winds and an 'apocalypse' patch called 'Doomsday'. All the sounds are pre-set in K2000VP and in this video I play them manually from keyboard. Great sound programming from Kurzweil!

Sincerely yours,
Vlad Gavrilchik

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Kurzweil
• K2000R
• K2000
• K2000VP
• demo
• sounds

[dazeja]

This is misleading,,, is it the K2000R or The K2000VP? They are two different modules.

[vlad1gavrilchik]

@dazeja The exact label for this particular module is - "Kurzweil K2000R V.A.S.T. Player". From what I know they all have the same architecture. I had earlier keyboard version of K2000 before this module and the only major difference for me was the basic soundset. If you know more about the differences, please, share with us.

[Kafrifelle]

Wow, this is simply amazing ... I have a question, can a K2000RS produce these sounds as well ?? Can someone also load Mellotron sounds into a K2000RS, I would appreciate an answer if you have time. Thx ...

[vlad1gavrilchik]

@Kafrifelle depends on the version of your module. I'm not sure these particular sounds are by default in your k2000 as my k2000 VP had a K2500 soundset. And yes, you can load any KRZ, wav or akai sample (mellotron as well). Or even sample it directly to the module (S stands for sampling option)

[stevevarunee]

Blaze..this is awesome. I assume you did it with the module instead of the keyboard. Did you use the orchestra expantion

[vlad1gavrilchik]

@stevevarunee these are just presets from k2000 VP module. It comes with the k2500 soudset. No orchestra expansion here

[Mortenling1]

The K-2000 VP is blue and is 18 bit

[kerzwhile]

@vlad1gavrilchik The only thing that Ever set any of the K2000's apart from each other had everything to do with which operating system the unit had! There of course were the ROM expansion Blocks too, Orchestral and Contemporary ROM expansion! The K2000VP or "VAST Player" was the Last Hurrah for the K2000... BUT, Just Before that Model was the K2VX and K2VXS, "S" designating the Sampling Option was installed... The K2VX simply was a Fully Expanded K2000.. "out of Space, i could go on...":)

[outhdare]

The first sound is beyond belief! If anyone knows the name of that preset, please respond. Is it playable from bare-bones K2000?

[AnalogX64]

I used to drool over this beast when it first came out.. could never afford one.

[dazeja]

@vlad1gavrilchik I used the wrong wrod. i didn't mean misleading,,,, more confusing since the picture is a K2000r and the description says a K2000vp.

I have the k2000r and didn'rt have anything near those sounds in the presets. So I was wondering if the VP has different presets.

[MrNeyus]

The composer Michael Land did justice to this keyboard. Speficially doing the soundtrack for the PC game called The Dig

I suggest you guys check it out!!

[frankbraker]

@Senj1n is this a recent change? - I had read a review that said it didn't. Would really be nice if it does.

I have a K2500 and by no means an expert - but what Omnisphere seems to offer is dynamic program morphing, which K2500 doesn't seem to have any allowance for. Everything I've played with on K2500 reaches a certain limit, which I could immediately hear was exceeded in the Omnisphere demo.