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Average rating:
4.7 out of 5
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Many people have raved about this synth...and so will I! This may be one of the best non-analog machines ever. Simply put, it is extremely versatile. From analog to digital and beyond, it covers many bases. Don't expect realistic acoustic instrument emulations, those aren't gonna happen.(hey, no machine is perfect...get a sampler for that). This board is stupendous for pads (especially long, evolving ones) and other atmospherics. Some of the organs are very good, as are the analog-type noises (I've managed to get juno-type basses and minimoog-style leads). Even DX and Synclavier-like sounds are to be had.
Other pluses: It looks and feels great. The action is superb and very expressive. This machine is built rock-solid and oozes quality all the way.
Yes, there are a few minuses: 1) There needs to be more patch memory 2) The manual's crap (what else is new?) For programming help get the Wizoo book. 3) It would be really nice to be able to audition patches directly from the disk drive. Trying to find the right patch on a disk can be a pain, especially if there's several hundred on there...
Still, it's my favorite synth and I would never part with it. It's great for all kinds of music, from spacey ambience to industrial noise. I think that says it all. K5000 FOREVER!!!
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This thing is a MONSTER! I have absolutely fallen in love with this keyboard! Perfect atmospheric, pad, and string sounds!!! It rivals my Access Virus! Love the keys (action and feel), great build quality too!!! Not to mention how cool it looks in my studio! Love the HUGE blue lcd! One of a kind!
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The sounds are not so dark, they could also be fresh. I would sugesst it for ambiental and new age, music with slow tempo and a lot of morphing pads.. I was looking for Ensoniq Fizmo but I end up with K5000s because it sounds more digital and fresh to me.. There is a lot of patches on the net that can be downloaded to K5000s using midi..
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I took a chance and bought kawai K 5000... excellent synth, it has original sounds like no other. It also covers all kinds of styles & sounds. Sonic quality is wonderful, same standard as korg triton and trinity (I have had both of them and lots of other stuff to compare). Kawai has much better build quality and keyboard than korg synths.
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I have owned my K5000s for about a year now. I did a lot of research before buying it, and new the pros and cons before I got it. The K5000 can only be found second hand, because it was taken off the market shortly after it was released. Since then it has become a cult item, and hence harder to find. I would imagine the second hand price for this is going to climb up. First of all, it looks really cool, sitting there with that silver metal finish, and all those knobs. It's a great machine for atmospheric and ambient stuff, like Steve Roach or something similar. It does get unique sounds, as everyone claims, which is why I had to have it. I heard that one guy made a patch on it where you held a key down for 30 minutes and the sound just evolves and doesn't repeat. My main complaint is that the interface doesn't really allow you to edit ona large enough scale (in my opinion). There are literally 999 paramters *per layer(!)* that can be adjusted. Imagine fully editing a 6 layer patch, that's about 6,000 parameters you can tweak!!! Yes you can edit sections of parameters at a time, but I can sit and adjust 47 parameters and still have basically the same sound. I have no control over this thing. Even with Soundiver things don't get much easier. But that seems to be part of the appeal, the complexity and depth of programming. It only seems to be 4-part multitimbral (unless I'm wrong), which is limiting to say the least. One more thing, the resonance could have been implemented better, as some have mentioned already.
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