Vintage Electric Pianos Rom Option; Program Farm Files - Kurzweil K2661 Musician’s Reference Manual

Appendix G

Vintage Electric Pianos ROM Option

Objects for the Vintage Electric Pianos ROM are included on the SmartMedia card that came with your K2661. The
procedure for installing these objects is described in the installation instructions that came with your option kit.
The Vintage Electric Pianos ROM option equips your K2661 with the classic electric piano sounds that are vital to
any modern keyboard player. While some electric piano sounds have remained obscure vintage gems, others have
attained a level of importance to the keyboardist comparable to that which the Fender Stratocaster or Gibson Les
Paul has for the modern guitarist.
Program slots have been assigned and organized for optimum usefulness. The instruments represented in this set
are: Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Hohner Pianet, Yamaha CP-80 Electric Grand Piano,
and the RMI Electra-Piano.
Each program was created using high-quality audio samples of electric pianos as a starting point. The sounds were
then processed using Kurzweil's V.A.S.T. synthesis engine. This allowed us to apply powerful filters, velocity
layers and cross-fades, envelopes and a host of other sound-sculpting tools. In some cases, samples from the
K2661's base-ROM were also used in combination with the Vintage EPs samples in order to add a certain flavor or
to enhance the harmonic content of the sound.
The final stage of sound-shaping was done in KDFX, our massive effects processing engine. KDFX played a crucial
role in making this a truly ground-breaking project, providing on-board effects unprecedented in both quantity
and quality. Effects pedals, speaker cabinets, and recording techniques have all been faithfully replicated, giving
the Vintage EPs programs a level of detail and realism never before achieved in any electric piano emulation.
Using V.A.S.T. and KDFX we were able to replicate the exact sounds from dozens of different live and studio
recordings of electric pianos. This is why many of the program names in Vintage EPs are derived from song titles
and not electric piano model numbers. Also, we have included a section devoted entirely to non-realistic sounds,
"hybrids and synths," where we transformed the Vintage EPs sound sources into a wide variety of sonic textures,
ranging from slight mutations to completely unrecognizable new sounds.
We have included detailed charts that list the controller assignments for each program and setup. If a program has
been taken from a specific recording, the artist's name and song title have been provided as well.
On the following pages are brief descriptions of each of the instruments sampled for Vintage EPs.

Program Farm Files

In addition to the 100 programs described on the following pages, we have included a number of other programs
in the file EPFARM.K26. You can load these programs into the bank of your choice using the K2661's Disk Mode.