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Average rating:
4.7 out of 5
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I have a Kawai K5000S in great shape with a folding standing a large quantity of patches on floppies. I am looking to get a new piano for my band and have to let this one go. I'm asking $750 even though I know it's out of production and in demand. Email with K5000S in the subject line and I will keep a filter open so I don't miss your message.
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this is the one synth that stands out (owning or having owned about 50 synths so far). yes it is not easy to fit in a mix, yes it is more geared towards experimental / advanced electronica - but it probably is the best digital synth (with the dx7). since so few people bought it, its sounds are always fresh and challenging, and if nothing else it can be used as earcandy to add an otherworldly sparkle to the mix. the hallmark of very high quality gear is present: you can mix it way low and it will still be audible. more character than a microwave, this is a superb addition to your sound design / electro-acoustic studio if you have your analogue bases covered.
they still seem to drop in price, and whether they will ever attain sought-after cult status or not - get one while you can.
the freshest attempt in synthesis in the last 10 years and excellent build quality.
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I have always thought that this synth was a great idea, and a challenge in terms of programming. In fact, even with a pretty decent background in sound programming you will run into many delemas when dealing with a fully additive engine. Much like the oddness of learning FM (say- tg77 for example) but magnified by 1000 percent.
There are a few halmark sounds on this thing that can be used as a basis for creating sounds that weave in and out of a mix...it's a real ear candy sort of device in that regard.
However, getting those sounds to mix properly and musically into a dense mix is VERY difficult. Add to the fact that the k5000 has an annoying mid to mid-low end bump I find it very hard to constitute into a mix, even when using simple sounds. What I tend to work with musically has a lot of depth and clarity, and I realy don't think this synth is very good with clarity. The effects are also there in multi-mode, and they are pretty integral to the sound of this thing overall. In fact, if you drop them you find that they are playing much to big of a roll in the sound. Now, you could program everything from the ground up, not using effects, and that is ofcourse time consumming...
In short I love the k5000 and am not dissapointed with it overall...I just wish it did not have the low end bump and as washy a sound as it does.
Even the pcm waveforms themselves when resampled for use within the exs sampler have qualities that make them difficult to fit into a mix. In general I am not as big a fan of newer digital synths because they tend to take the entire frequency spectrum and not leave room for much else(which means more subtractive eq). The k5000 is a good example of that. It sound amazing just hitting one note by itself, but making a chord musical in a mix is another issue all together.
The keyboard rocks though...very good feel for a synth.
-E
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I have always thought that this synth was a great idea, and a challenge in terms of programming. In fact, even with a pretty decent background in sound programming you will run into many delemas when dealing with a fully additive engine. Much like the oddness of learning FM (say- tg77 for example) but magnified by 1000 percent.
There are a few halmark sounds on this thing that can be used as a basis for creating sounds that weave in and out of a mix...it's a real ear candy sort of device in that regard.
However, getting those sounds to mix properly and musically into a dense mix is VERY difficult. Add to the fact that the k5000 has an annoying mid to mid-low end bump I find it very hard to constitute into a mix, even when using simple sounds. What I tend to work with musically has a lot of depth and clarity, and I realy don't think this synth is very good with clarity. The effects are also there in multi-mode, and they are pretty integral to the sound of this thing overall. In fact, if you drop them you find that they are playing much to big of a roll in the sound. Now, you could program everything from the ground up, not using effects, and that is ofcourse time consumming...
In short I love the k5000 and am not dissapointed with it overall...I just wish it did not have the low end bump and as washy a sound as it does.
Even the pcm waveforms themselves when resampled for use within the exs sampler have qualities that make them difficult to fit into a mix. In general I am not as big a fan of newer digital synths because they tend to take the entire frequency spectrum and not leave room for much else(which means more subtractive eq). The k5000 is a good example of that. It sound amazing just hitting one note by itself, but making a chord musical in a mix is another issue all together.
The keyboard rocks though...very good feel for a synth.
-E
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I've had the Kawai K 5000 s for three years now and now when I power up my unit the screen only shows the intro logo then the screen is still back lit but it's blank I am a former Korg M1 user and had this problem but when it happened to this unit it didn't show anything but the screen was still backlit. I went under the hood and found a LCD battery I replaced it with another battery I bought from a local gift shop and the problem was solved but I'm wondering if there are any LCD batteries in the unit that can be replaced, and would it solve the problem?????
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