Hi, willkommen auf meinem Kanal. Hier geht´s um Musik und Synthesizer.
Dear visitor, First, for the english audience: "Kaffimusic" has no connection to religious or ideologic ideas. It´s just a part of my real name.
I am a music and synthesizer enthusiast. I live in germany near Mannheim/Heidelberg. On this Channel I will post videos about instruments and music that I have done on my own, or maybe with former or current bands. With music + keyboards my focus is mostly on non-electronic music like funk, soul, a bit jazz, a bit rock. I also like ambient and chill-out style music, that currently seem to add my taste.
Wow, thank you! I am honored. I guess I like and mostly use the same type of sounds like you do. In fact I listened to your tunes for weeks before I made that. My fav: "For three voices"! When I heard your Peak bass, I knew I wanted that, bought one and programmed some.
@@Kaffimusic this makes me very happy, and I'm honoured I can count my stuff as a part of your list of influences! And you're a VAST nerd, how awesome. Love what you do, keep it up!
Hey Thorsten - I just wanted to say nice job on the synth programs you created. I recently got a Stage 3 and was getting into the synth section and also felt there was something lacking. Your programs helped to fill the void and also helped to get me more familiar with the Stage 3 synth section. I am also a long time Kurz user and we have chatted a few times on the Kurz Boards on the PC3K and PC4 units! I agree the PC4 can do a lot more than the Stage 3 but after spending a good amount of time with the Stage 3 and pretty much customizing every program to my liking, I am really digging the APianos, EPs and Organs. That is where the Stage 3 seems to shine in my opinion. I will be using the Stage 3 in combination with my PC4 (or MODX depending on the type of gig) and it will be one heck of a nice combination!
Thanks. Yes, the Stage 3 sounds nice and is good to handle. But as my main machine it was way too limited. In the end I found it way too expensive for what it could do and I guess I was pretty annoyed about those limitations. Not willing to keep such an expensive thingy with so little practical value, so I sold it. I recently modified my PC4-7 with a Fatar synthaction keybed, and now I find it pretty much perfect. Sound was out of the question, but I could not get used to that annoying Medeli keybed. Now I have the first and only 73key synthaction Kurz in existence... Well, there is one guy in Slowakia who has copied what I have done. And I guess some more a following. Made a PDF about that.
I do not know much about the Juno D. So I can´t really compare. Today, I´d buy a S30 just for a low price. It´s outdated and clearly was made as a low cost instrument. I guess the same goes for the Roland J.D.
I never used Kontakt, so I do not know if you can get them in the proper format. The Kurz as well as Kurzfiler can import 16bit 48khz (or lower) WAV files, and as far as I remember also .AIFF files (not 100% sure). You need to have you Kontakt samples in that format. If Kontakt has a proprietary (protected) file format, you will need conversion software. It exists, but might be pricey. Maybe you can even get them converted into ready to load keymaps. There is a company, forgot the name... wait... chickensys dot com. No cheap software. Hoever, you can have a workaround (with loss of quality and additional work) if you simply resample your files and save those in 16bit 48khz WAV format.
So and what's with your Kurzweil PC3K6? Alreready sold or is it somewhere in the basement? By the way that device is good, but only there is a keyboard for children. FATAR 40 like KURZWEIL would be there, everything would be great, otherwise... not very, especially if you have strong hands and fingers, then playing NORDs is not very pleasant.
Hello. I am a musician like you. from Russia. I have Kurzweil pc3x. I am writing to you with a request - could you write down step by step how you set up different drum loops on each key. And then we have in Russia with a good knowledge of Kurzweil PC - almost impossible to find...Thank you in advance!
I will try in short. You need a drumsequence. The drumprograms that came with the lates update each have one attached. You hear it when press play in programmode. Now you have to build a Setup. You can have 16 drumprograms in it. Each program gets a RIFF applied. That RIFF takes its data out of the dumsequence, so it can play as it does when you start play in programmode. Now, you have to set one key to start that RIFF and to stop with every other key. You have to become familiar with that, it can also be used with other riffs like melodies. You can even program sequences that just hold a chord for some time. With that trick you can also attach chords to single keys, short noteeffects, ANYTHING that the sequencer can replay. In short: You start and stop segments of songsequences with a key. To some degree it can help out with not having any sampling in the PC3 nonK, since you can create loops with any sound in the synth.
@@Kaffimusic Thank you so much for the answer! I will try to figure it out, BUT we Russians have a saying - it's better to see once than hear a hundred times!...
Hi, great video! Thanks a lot. You know if the same feature is available on the K2600 (not the sampler one) and what are the big differences (i know that there's no usb.. so?)
The K26 can also load samples. The synth engine has some features that are not present in the later models and vice versa. But you can load 90% of the old Kseries sounds into the newer ones. The newer have a higher fidelity sound, more porwerful FX sections, more voices, way more sampling ram and non volatile, FM engine, step-modulationsequencer and lower quality hardware.
Read the text below the video. You can download that (and lots of other stuff) when you are a subscriber at the Mastering Vast forum. You can become a member there for free, but subsciption get you sounds and software for the Kurz. It´s 5,- Aussiedollars per year. A no brainer. It´s a collection of knowledge over the recent 20 years.
@@Kaffimusic Alright thanks. I’m already a member but haven’t been on there in a couple of years. I got the K27 sounds from you back then. I’m going on there now.
@@Kaffimusic I just rejoined. I actually join about 10 years ago. I also paid for the subscription but I can’t figure out how to get credits to download the sounds. You had some FM sounds for the Pc3 years ago that I was always interested in but the Ksetlist link was always broken. Do you still have those sound’s available because I still have my Pc3k.
Uhm, the 361 has no USB drive, just a slot for memorycards. But you can connect it to a Computer, there it will autmatically make a "virtual drive", where you can put suff in and load it then. It is explained in the manual.
@@Kaffimusic my PC3k has 2 USB slots already. The „but“ is here to get a proper algorithm which button should be Putten in which mode (song, storage, master or Midi etc.). In my opinion that monster won’t follow me…
@@user-cr2gj8kw4e Take a USB stick with your Kurzweil-Data. No packed data, naturally. Put it into the 3k. Press "Storage". Navigate though the stuff to the file you want to load. Press "select". Press "OK". Answer the question where to you want to load. Execute. Done.
@@Kaffimusic Thank you, of course. But it is not so. Why, because if you have selected a certain timbre or instrument that you need to record, it disappears immediately if you press the STORAGE button. If you go the other way: press SONG, then the stupid METRONOME turns on immediately, which cannot be turned off or changed in tempo, then EVENT appears on the display with a certain numbering that does not allow you to systematize anything, and I tried many times to record there, but then find these EVENTS weren't possible…It’s a huge problem, isn’t it so?
@@user-cr2gj8kw4e I gues I understand... You want toe RECORD to the USB stick? Not possible. It does not record audio, just store or load data for the machine. You can save sequences/songs, but also - just as a Kurz data-file, not as an audiofile. NoGo.
Check the description below part one of this short series. And maybe watch it, I explain some stuff there. Technically, read the manual. A USB stick will do the trick.
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Du meinst, 1000 000 russische Soldaten schon wieder hier ihr Leben lassen sollen, damit Musikern wie Dir es hier weiter bequem und sorgenfrei geht? Stimmt es? By the way I have to install GERMAN GRAND D and KORE64. There’s a lot to do. But I ll try to do a good job of it. Mit anderen Worten, das, was Du spielen tust, ist mehr, als bloß professionell! Es ist sehr schön und interessant!
I don´t know, haven´t used in in a while. Maybe... try in Admin mode? Try compatibility mode with older Win versions? Sometimes this helps. When I used it, also Win10 64bit. Sorry, don´t remember exactly. But as you can see, it was running.
PC3k war und bleibt bis heute ein unglaubliches Instrument! Ich habe es neulich gekauft, weil ich Glück hate, es lag lange Zeit unverpackt in einem Musikgeschäft (JustMusil Kreuzberg) und ich bekam PC3K8 neu und für relativ wenig Geld. Nun konnte ich auch dazu noch KORE64, German Grand D Extensions + RIP-Controller erwerben. Nun bin ich oberglücklich. Das einzige Dilemma wird jetzt sein, das dicke „schwarze Buch“ mit 460 Seiten zu studieren. Obwohl das Wichtigste für mich wäre, einfach die gespielte Musik auf einen USB Drive oder auf PC speichern zu verstehen. Und das kann ich immer noch nicht. Und das andere noch, warum bei Aufnahme (Song+Aufnehmen) der blöde Metronom immer tickt, was mich stört. Und wie schalte ich ihn aus? 😢