Kurzweil always surprises me with how good it sounds. I would say it's got a nicer sound than Roland or Korg workstations and definitely better sounding effects than just about anything else. Up there with Eventide and Lexicon. Nice demo.
Agree, whenever I watch a video to get an idea of variations of sounds it’s always someone playing pianos, electric pianos, organ, clavinet, guitars, never any original unique sounds
Kurzweil craps all over the Montage except when it comes to the touch screen. The K2700 has a lot more power and possibilities. The VAST system is like a modular synth in itself. Also the fx are bloody excelent on the Kurzweils
@@jumpingman8160 i considered the K2700 as a cheaper alternative, but programing the K2700 seems tedious and heavily menu-divy. Things as simple as two detuned sawtooths going into a lowpass filter with an envelope or lfo requires so many presses of the arrow keys and +/- buttons, trivial stuff is buried in pages and pages of menus, navigating is like on a 90's keyboard. Its envelopes don't have a sustain stage. Looking at the Montage M8X - you get poly aftertouch, more than twice the rom size, faster workflow, better B3 simulation, bigger screen (and a 2nd screen), a deeper FM engine etc etc.
@@bateimidrashnetwork you won't use the rom space on the montage. The UI of the montage is horrendous (don't let the touch screen fool you, it's VERY menu divey). The envelopes on the Kurzweils can be whatever you want them to be: simple or complex. B3 simulation... you can change everything about it. The soundfiles on the Kurzweil are multi-layered (you can layer up to 32 different ones per program and have plenty of programs running simultaneously in a group). The zones are also easier to program.
@@jumpingman8160 1) What do you mean by "i won't use the rom space on the montage"? There's the factory rom and there's the user rom. The factory rom on the new montage m is 10GB whereas on the K2700 it's 4.5GB, and both have an additional 3.5GB of user rom. This means the sounds/samples on the Montage are bigger, bigger pianos, bigger string samples, more sounds on the whole - more than twice the size of what's on the K2700. 2) The Montage M is menu divey - but not as much as the K2700. And the new workflow on the montage M seems faster than the older Montage. The K2700 has 32 layers per part? The new Montage has 128 per part. I think what you're saying about the Montage seems like it's based on the older 2016 model and not the new one with the bigger rom, two screens, additional engine - not to mention polyphonic aftertouch
@@bateimidrashnetwork are you refering to polyphony or actual number of layers you can have at the same time inside each program? Having owned the Montage and owning the Kurzweil I guarantee you you won't be using the internal memory space. To use samples you have to convert them using the montage app. No one has time for that. Whereas on the Kurzweil you can get 3rd party multi-samples for everything imaginable. The thing is, the samples on the Kurz are of the highest quality already.
PC3 - amazing orchestra sound. PC4 and K2700 - normal vst sound, like nexus. I think that it was necessary to follow the path of a more realistic sound, including not saving the cost of amplification.
PC3 isn't limited to orchestra sounds, it has Cascade V.A.S.T. and Dynamic V.A.S.T.. This one too but also has an internal DX7 compatible engine included.
OMG - play some different chords when you switch sounds, for heaven’s sake! Don’t play the same chords forever over and over! Learn some new chords! 🤦🤦🤦🙄🙄
