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Kawai K3 – a rare hybrid synthesizer

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Kawai K3M

StereoPing K3 / K3 M Controller

StereoPing offers a specialized midicontroller allowing realtime edits on the K3 / K3M.

“The midicontroller will be plugged in between the midi sending device and your synth. It merges incoming midi
data with it’s own parameter change commands and forwards both to your synthesizer. Means: you can perfectly fire
your synth with midinotes while tweaking it’s sound with the synth controller – realtime.

The 16 dials of the Synth Controller are split in 3 color layers, each knob has printed up to 3 parameters under the
knob. By pressing one of the 3 immluminated push buttons you select one of the layers. In consequence you got up tp
48 parameters in direct access.

The Synth Controller also got a built in translator converting incoming ordinary CC (‘Controller Change’) data into
the complex Sysex commands. You can remote or automate your parameter changes using Midi-CC data. (Translator
only present in editions using SysEx-data for parameter changes).”

(Source: 

stereoping.com

)

Содержание K3

Страница 1: ...r to that of a Korg DW 8000 but much bigger In its appearance the Kawai K3 released in 1986 is reminiscent of the DX 7 just like the Oberheim Matrix 6 Casio CZ Series Sequential 2000 Roland Alpha Juno...

Страница 2: ...ents in a mix It leans more toward PPG like bells and pads than toward classic Oberheim Sequential like brass sounds It s perfect for dreamy softly evolving arpeggio sounds and for cool drawn in delay...

Страница 3: ...lts in organic evolving sound clips x Keyboard tracking of VCF and VCA is very flexible too Settings may be positive or negative making the keyboard an important and expressive tool Let s look more cl...

Страница 4: ...is that at any particular instant the waveform can be broken down and expressed as the sum of a series of sinusoidal waves whose amplitudes may differ but whose frequencies are all whole number multip...

Страница 5: ...shapes in popular synthesizers such as triangle sawtooth and square waves are easy to reconstruct in this manner Alternatively you can choose a different set of amplitude settings and produce somethi...

Страница 6: ...the Kawai K3 are more than sufficient enough material to program heaps of new interesting sounds Still the user defined waveform seems to be an underrated aspect of sound programming something I d lik...

Страница 7: ...the end of the article It contains what surprise all 32 waveforms 31 factory and 1 user waveform noise is left out As with the old PPG synths the amplitudes of the single waveforms differ considerably...

Страница 8: ...he K3 keyboard into a highly versatile pro instrument Velocity VELO VCF controls VCF cutoff frequency VELO VCA controls VCA output level Aftertouch PRES OSC BALANCE mixes balance between the oscillato...

Страница 9: ...Controlled Filter The ANALOG K3 The VCF seems to be the most interesting part of the bunch six well known chip SSM 2044 with resonant Low Pass Filter 24db oct however keep in mind that the Cutoff and...

Страница 10: ...er called LOW CUT The latter can only be adjusted manually similar to the HPF on many Roland synths VCF and VCA have their own ADSR envelope generator Like with many mid 80ies synthesizers the envelop...

Страница 11: ...for expressive synth soli The LFO in general affects the oscillators vibrato the VCF and the VCA Performance We have already spoken of velocity aftertouch and other strong keyboard functions Sadly th...

Страница 12: ...mention that Increment Knob yet This one is really a bargain It feels wonderful and is a very precise tool quite a pleasure to use really I think it s much better than the data slider of its competit...

Страница 13: ...INK Function Two more performance features MONO stacks the oscillators to provide a fat lead synthesizer sound It turns the K3 monophonic with 12 oscillators at your fingertips LINK allows you to stor...

Страница 14: ...s with each other But sometimes you just can t avoid it when discussing products with similar features The Korg DW 8000 again a typical 80ies hybrid instrument with a mix of digital and analog compone...

Страница 15: ...m exaggerating a little that s for sure Nevertheless nothing like that will happen with your Kawai K3 This is a heavy chap 15 kg solidly made with a proper keyboard a wood finish front panel and a hu...

Страница 16: ...eaking it s sound with the synth controller realtime The 16 dials of the Synth Controller are split in 3 color layers each knob has printed up to 3 parameters under the knob By pressing one of the 3 i...

Страница 17: ...if that is the case with your K3 and you ll be just fine Slow envelopes are a common phenomenon on many mid 80ies synthesizers The VCF is ok not as well sounding as any of those big polysynths Roland...

Страница 18: ...only Tutorial excerpt Synthesizer at Robert Wittek 1 Mix with Korg M1 and GeneralMusic S3 2 StereoPing Live Editing 1 3 StereoPing Live Editing 2 4 StereoPing Live Editing 3 5 StereoPing Live Editing...

Страница 19: ...Kawai K3 a rare hybrid synthesizer 19 Links Vintage Synth Explorer Review by Robert Wittek German only Hardware Controller by StereoPing...

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