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Kurzweil | K1200

Description

The K1200 has a very sophisticated digital/wave synthesizer engine. K1200 patches start life as a digitally coded waveform that Kurzweil calls a Soundfile. A Soundfile can be a sampled waveform (coming from Kurzweil's famous samples like piano, string, wind, etc...) or a digitally produced waveform like sine, sawtooth, or square. Then, you put Soundfiles together into the layers of a program. Effects are part of each layer as well.

The K1200 is a 88 key version of the K1000SE with software version 5, KXA and KXB ROM blocks and some more RAM.

BrandKurzweil
ModelK1200
DeviceSynth
TypeKeys
Engine TypeDigital
EngineSample, Wave
Voices (max)24
Multitimbral16
Oscillators2
LFO2
Engine DetailedSample-based + Digital wave synthesis. Waveforms - Digital Sine, Saw, Square.
Envelope (VCA)2 ASR
FXVibrato, Tremolo, Leslie, Chorus, Echo
Memory162 preset, 64 user
Keys88
Key typeSemi-weighted keys
VelocityY
AftertouchChannel
MidiI-O-T
Produced:1989 - 1992
Legend: Obvious Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator DCO Digital Controlled Oscillator
LFO Low Frequency Oscillator Sub Sub Oscillator
VCF Voltage Controlled Filter VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Velocity As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. Aftertouch Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel.
Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise.

Manuals, patches etc.

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