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Kurzweil K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User Manual
Kurzweil K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User Manual

Kurzweil K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User Manual

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K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User's Guide
The Vintage Electric Pianos ROM option equips your K2600 with the classic electric piano sounds that are vital to any modern key-
board 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 K2600'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 cabi-
nets, 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, included with your objects disks. You can load these programs into the bank of your choice using the K2600's Disk
Mode.
Part No. 910380, Rev. A

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Summary of Contents for Kurzweil K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos

  • Page 1 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.
  • Page 2 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Slider Assignments and KDFX V2 Here are a few of the guidelines which were used in determining control and slider assignments for the programs in Vintage EPs. These general rules should make it relatively easy to adjust the most basic program settings when first scrolling and playing through the com- plete set of sounds.
  • Page 3 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Fender Rhodes Produced from 1965-1986 in a number of variations of the original model, the Fender Rhodes is the most widely recognized and easily identified electric piano sound in popular music. The Rhodes played an important role in defining some of the new styles of music that began to emerge in the mid-sixties and early seventies, mainly jazz-fusion, disco and funk, and was adopted quickly by other already established styles such as R&B, rock, pop, blues, and jazz.
  • Page 4 2002, All Rights Reserved. K urzweil is a product line of Young Chang Co., Ltd. Kurzweil, K2600, LaserVerb, KDFX, and V.A.S.T. are trademarks of Young Chang Co., Ltd. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their...
  • Page 5 The sound itself recreates the Rhds on Stevie Wonder's “Living for the City”. Featured in KDFX is Kurzweil's emulation of the classic Echoplex tape delay, with sliders assigned to con- trol the tone and pitch of the echo effect.
  • Page 6 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Enables mono tremolo MWheel Enables smooth stereo tremolo Data tremolo Rate Data Tremolo Rate MIDI 25 Reverb Wet/Dry MIDI 22 Echo Feedback MIDI 26 Distortion Warmth MIDI 23 Behaves exactly like a Wah...
  • Page 7 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Stereo Tremolo Depth MWheel Phaser Notch Depth (Tone) Data Tremolo Rate Data Phaser Rate MIDI25 Reverse Reverb Wet/Dry MIDI 22 Chorus rate MIDI26 Reverb Hi Freq Dampening MIDI 23 Phaser Depth (Brightness)
  • Page 8 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Enables Mono Tremolo MWheel Enables mono Tremolo Data Tremolo Rate Data Tremolo Rate MIDI 22 Brightness MIDI 25 Reverb Wet/Dry 624 Triple Tines (Filter Cutoff Freq in VAST) MIDI 26 Chorus Mix 618 Serious EPno...
  • Page 9 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Enables Mono Tremolo MWheel Enables Mono Tremolo Data Tremolo Rate Data Tremolo Rate MIDI 25 Reverb Wet/Dry MIDI 22 Brightness (Filter Cutoff Freq in VAST) MIDI 26 Distortion Warmth MIDI 25...
  • Page 10 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Enables Mono Tremolo MWheel Enables Tremolo and Vibrato (VAST) Data Tremolo Rate Data Tremolo/Vibrato Rate MIDI 22 Brightness (Filter Cutoff Freq in VAST) MIDI 22 Brightness (Filter Cutoff Freq in VAST) MIDI 23...
  • Page 11 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Enables mono Tremolo MWheel Enables Mono Tremolo Data Tremolo/Vibrato rate Data Tremolo Rate MIDI 22 Brightness (Filter Cutoff Freq in MIDI 23 Enables Alt Start VAST) AND KDFX EQ (Mellows the attack) MIDI 23...
  • Page 12 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Tremolo Depth MWheel Enables Tremolo Data Tremolo Rate Data Tremolo Rate MIDI 22 LoPass Frequency MIDI 25 Reverb Wet/Dry 657 CP80 All Purpose MIDI 23 Alt Start Control MIDI 27 Chorus Wet/Dry...
  • Page 13 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Tremolo Depth Data InEQ: Bass Gain Data Tremolo Rate MIDI 22 Para EQ Amp MIDI 22 LoPass Frequency MIDI 23 EnvCtl: Impact MIDI 23 InEQ: Bass 667 Lamb's Wool MIDI 24...
  • Page 14 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MIDI 22 Phaser Rate MWheel Enables Mono Tremolo MIDI 25 Reverb Wet/Dry Data Tremolo Rate MIDI 29(Sw2) Enables Volume Pedal MIDI 24 Switches to Stereo Tremolo CCPedal1 Volume (When Enabled) MIDI 25...
  • Page 15 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Vibrato, Vibrato Rate, Flange MWheel Bandpass Filter Freq, EQ, Dist Mid Freq, Tremolo, Tremolo Drive, Rev W/D Rate Data Hi Freq. Stimulation Drive Data Enables “Feedback”...
  • Page 16 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Tremolo MWheel Tremolo Data Tremolo Rate Data Tremolo Rate MIDI 22 Disables High 8va Layer MIDI 22 BandPass Ctl MIDI 23 Disables Low 8va Layer MIDI 23 Timbre (amp) Ctl 693 Electro Fugue...
  • Page 17 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Programs Name Control Function MWheel Tremolo Data Tremolo Rate MIDI 22 LoPass Freq, LoPass resonance 698 Ambient Swells MIDI 23 Alt Control MIDI 24 Slow Vibrato MIDI 25 (Aux) Hall Level MIDI 26 Delay Level MWheel Real time LaserVerb control...
  • Page 18 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Setups Vintage EP Setups Note: SW 1 (above pitch wheel) turns arpeggiator on/off in all setups. Name Control Function MWheel Sw Mellotron Ens Name Control Function Strings/SoloStrings/Flutes MWheel Tremolo Depth Data Octave Switch (Mellotron) Data Phaser LFO Rate MIDI 22...
  • Page 19 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage EP Setups Name Control Function Name Control Function MWheel Vibrato Depth (Fretless Bass) MWheel Tremolo MIDI 22 Hi EQ Boost (KDFX 1c) Data Tremolo Rate, InEQ: Bass Gain MIDI 23 Flute Timbre, Voices Timbre MIDI 22 Double Notch Separation MIDI 24...
  • Page 20 K2600 Vintage Electric Pianos User’s Guide Vintage Electric Piano Keymaps Vintage Electric Piano Keymaps Keymap Keymap Rhoadz Hard Wurly Key Rel Rhoadz Soft RMI_EP Rhoadz 2-vel RMI_ACC Rhoadz Thump RMI_accenter lo Rhoadz Soft c7 RMI_accenter hi Wurly Hard RMI_accenter jk Wurly Med RMI ds6 Wurly Soft...