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