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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)

Ken, that's a real cute one
I've a K4 right in front of me and could do a one to one compare on different Pulsar channels if 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.
That box can be found quite cheap (paid about 70 bucks) 2nd hand and sends regular controllers as well.

cheers, Tom