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Average rating:
4.7 out of 5
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Still using mine as a master keyboard/16-channel sound source. A couple of corrections to your info: The keyboard can transmit on 3 different channels (at least in the later software versions). The mod wheel can transmit any 2 different controllers (one up, one down) as can the data slider- that's 3 controllers if you don't insist they all be simultaneously available. Also, the 'effects' aren't produced by the kind of fx chip in current keyboards- They use voice layering and the wide range of modulation sources/destinations to produce time-based fx. The main shortcoming- the more fx you use, the less poly- phony you've got. That and the absence of any filtering! But for multi-channel sequencing, this approach let you give each channel its own effect (no '# of processors' to limit fx, just the # of available voices). The K-1000 has dynamic voice allocation to the extent that you can hold the sustain pedal and play while changing programs and each (sustained) sound can be a different patch. Was that clear? Sustain pedal also 'catches' decaying notes and sustains them- you know, like a piano. Lots of good musical thinking in the software of this old warhorse. Still a great gigging keyboard. If you've got a Mac, there's free "Object Mover" software to store patches & settings, as well as put a simulated LCD display on our screen to (slightly) improve dealing with the interface.
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