virtual kawai K4 (for SB AWE)

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kensuguro
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Post by kensuguro »

Nothing to do with Pulsar, but not quite OT enough for the OT forum.. I found this in MAZ sound tools. I was wondering if anyone had tried it out.

http://www.maz-sound.com/archives/virtk4.zip

Virtual Kawai K4
freeware, simulates a Kawai K4 synthesizer via SB Live! hardware or AWE 32/64 (required!), needs 1 MB free wavetable RAM
AWE users need to have Creative Labs Soundfont Manager installed, as the Program uses many wave samples simultaneously, it's possible to quickly hit the 32-polyphony-maximum of the old AWE's
uses small wave samples as Oscillators (represented by a soundfont that contains parameter-neutral recordings of the K4's waveset), usually combines 2-4 Oscillators to create a single sound, some of the K4's Wave samples are so called 'Digital-Cyclic' waves (or 'Fourrier-Waves'), allthough these waves are extremely small, they contain the sound spectrum of complex instruments
loads 4 waves into 4 differend soundfont banks and plays those waves simultaneously with the EMU-typical filter cutoff, resonance, coarse / fine tuning, reverb and chorus effect, volume- and filter envelope, vibrato + LFO
imports SysEx files from the Kawai K4 and translates it into Soundfont-parameters (you'll find lot of K4 Sysex files on the net)
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Post by astroman »

Ken, that's a real cute one :smile:
I've a K4 right in front of me and could do a one to one compare on different Pulsar channels if :sad: I hadn't given the SBLive away.
I'm a true fan of the K4 and from that 1500 presets floating on the net one can compile a couple of nice and useful banks.
For those interested in the K4: there's a sliderbox MM-16 by Kawai with 16 faders which can control about every parameter of the sound programming without entering edit mode.
For example push 4 faders and cutoff and resonance of both filters are changed in realtime. :eek:
That box can be found quite cheap (paid about 70 bucks) 2nd hand and sends regular controllers as well.

cheers, Tom
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