Kurzweil K2700 Tutorial : Controllers (feat Jim Alfredson) 

Jim, thank you so much! Really appreciate your Kurzweil K2700 tutorials!

Hearing one of the greatest prog songs by the greatest prog band composed by the ultimate prog keyboard composer & performer is a refreshing change from various funk, jazz, fusion that dominate keyboard demos on YT!!

Great video. Another thing I love here is that all these controller assignments are MIDI assignments right from the start. Mapping to external synths and recording data to a DAW simply works. World class. 13:13

Excellent. I did not know we could toggle a sound in and out with a foot switch. I bought all the pedals with my PC4: half sustain, switch and two CCs (I know I can add TRS dual pedals for a total 6 pedals)!! Been toying with the idea of adding the control strip too, just can't think of a place to mount it, over the top/back of my PC4 are 4 Roland Boutique synths, they fit perfectly.

Thank you. Please post many more of these! Also, If Kurzweil offered a printed version of their manual I'd pay $50 for it or more. Please convince them to offer one!

Thank you! I always saw pads as being little more than toys and this kinda confirmed it. They are fun and seem to be useful at first but really they aren't. The biggest problem is that they are always on the right hand side, so whatever I'm programming on them I have to stop playing on the keys with my right hand to trigger it. So that's a serious amount of shiny and fancy technology which makes this otherwise great keyboard cost even more, while I can count on one hand the situations in which these pads could come in handy. And ion most of those cases I can solve the problem a lot better by other means, especially since I am a prog rock musician and a film composer and I like to play my sounds myself and not relegate the job to R2D2. Also, I don't quite understand why Kurzweil is sticking to the pitch wheel-mod wheel combo. I used a K2600 for a long time and I loved it but I always found joysticks to be far more intuitive and without the risk of grabbing one instead of the other in a live situation where for instance you are momentarily blinded by a stroboscope. But maybe that's just me, I don't know. And VAST seems to be incredibly complicated. Not impossible to understand and work with, but there were times when I had to figure out with my K2600 in which sub-menu of which sub-menu I was. And it took me ages to figure out how can I switch to the next patch in Quick Access using a footswitch Jordan Rudess style, if I'm also using multis. To say that the solution was counter-intuitive is an understatement. Now that I have to replace my K2600, I'm on the fence. This one is still on the short list but unfortunately not in first position, not even in second position.

I am amazed by the fact that Kurzweil designed a very user friendly user interface and shortcuts to access various functions this complex system. It is not a😊 touch screen, it is small and the design is basic but this maybe it. Like people preferring physical knobs in cars instead of touch screens

I find this keyboard so interesting and intriguing man🔥🔥

It is great, Jim, that you have so much fun with building a new multi. Love it.

Hello Jim, thank you very much for the great video. I would still be interested in one topic: Programming a multisound with drum riffs and bass arpeggios. I think there are some great performance possibilities here.

What amplifier/speakers do you recommend for the K2700? Thanks, Barry

I’m the first 😮 !!! Kurz are insane ! I’ve k2500 and pc3le … so I need this k2700 😅

Great video and instrument, thank you! Only one question, is it normal that the keybed seems to be soo loud? Is it louder than other weighted master keyboard's? Thanks

QUESTION: Would it be simpler to build a program instead of a multi. Aren't all the features of the multi also in the program layers?

Hi, thx for the tuto ! After 1 year using my pc4 I begon to use it fluently. Still there are things I'd like to solve: I'm using an external midi organ foot pedal (13 notes). I create my multi, create zone 5, set my pedalboard to emit on ch. 5, set in the multi main page the input channel to (5 M). Then I want to use slider 5 to control the volume, and button 5 to mute. But then the enter quick select doesn't work anymore, and setting slider 5 manually is possible but results in no effect. What should I do ? Also, how do I erase all midi assignations in order to create just a 9 track mixing desk on the sliders ?

What's the difference between the K2700 and the PC4?

Thank you for the tutorial I really need some help with this instrument. How do you make rhythms and assign them to Pads. How does the CC sequencer work in general and how do you use it in multi's? How do you assign original samples to the pads? I need to have some rhythmic support for the band. Must ben able to adjust tempo real time so I can jump in. Greetings from Bruges!!

When is the next video coming ?

When will you guys announce a release date or more info for the upcoming k2061/2088?

Wait, isn't he the famous V50 guy?

Jim, Can pads be used to trigger samples?

To my personal taste the keys seem to be too loud……

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