Kurzweil K2700 - NAMM 2024 - KUCR

[@mrdavies7894]

My 8-year-old and I can attest to the robustness of the K2700 and how it can plummet to the floor, fly off the stand, be whacked with a baseball bat… OMG 😅 and still keep tickin’! In other news, one of my favourite unexpected features of the K2700 is the keybed and how it feels so natural working with _every_ sound! I didn’t think I would enjoy doing primarily orchestral arrangements for theatre on a weighted keybed but it actually really works and doesn’t feel weird! When I’m _really_ playing piano (and assuming I’m not on a real piano!) I have a favourite alternate keybed I prefer, but even there I certainly don’t mind practicing with the aforementioned 8-y-o on the Kurzweil. And, for a synth, it’s got not only the best piano sounds out there but about the best sounds for any category out there!

[@paulsarodh5460]

🎶🎼🎹RoCKiNG🎼🎶🎸🎹🎸

[@rudolfladwig7168]

Why is the Kurzweil K2700, which is available on the market with the same features since autum 2021, promoted by the company at NAMM 2024 as the total novitée that it isn`t?

[@johnlaccohee-joslin4477]

I have a kurzweil PC 3 keyboard that frankly still amazes me with just what it can do. I took the opertunity to join Kurzweil tower, a programme for computer changes to sounds, can you please advise if there is a hand book that is available for this programm as i find i do need a guide to make the best of this programme. I really do like to new 2700 but it a bit out of my price range right now despite my huge interest in it. To date, i can find nothing that i can say comes any where near as good as this product, having been playing for xseventy years( now 79 years old and still playing) I would be most gratefull for any help you can offer many thanks for so many years of enjoyment fifteen years of which i spent teaching music and this over time allowed me to have a reasonable music room.

[@beardenbob6567]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I would love to see the K2X series virtualized in software. Especially the earlier/legacy models. Surely we have enough CPU horsepower nowadays to handle this beast?

[@billhenley2332]

I trust you're referring to the Atlanta NAMM Show where MIDI was introduced as I was there. I met Stevie Wonder there and even helped him fight with setting up a PPG Wave Synth/Workstation as it was very difficult for him to manage. He was an incredible man and Herbie Hancock was there as well trying to play some machine that was Alpha mode at best. Mr. Wonder was intelligent, kind and vey, very funny. For some reason I'm thinking this was 1982 vs 1983 as you stated but many years have passed so I'm probably wrong. Backing up, the user manual needs help. More images explaining the use of external MIDI inputs being one.

[@equinoxpete]

It would have been nice if the interviewer stopped talking long enough to let him play it. You know, so we could hear how it sounds.

[@raykane2063]

Not really because there are tons of videos of people online playing the K2700 and lots of videos of youtubers talking about the 2700. But there are fewer videos of ACTUAL PRODUCT SPECIALIST the people whom make and design this beautiful instrument.

[@danielcolfer4671]

Please give us instructional tutorials

[@MLCFonon]

The other company on the planet who is upward compatible is nord(lead, modular)

[@jacquesmertens3369]

3000 USD and no midi 2.0 . I feel sorry for the sales guy who has to present this model as something "new". What were they thinking at Kurzweil? If it's my piggy bank you're after, Kurzweil, try again next year.

[@sapainca]

the sound. it sounds better than the competition. the ksp8 effects engine is superb and much better than the effect on Roland, Korg or Yamaha.

[@jacquesmertens3369]

@@sapainca The KSP8 was a novelty back in 2003 (!). I'm not a fan of any of the 3 dinosaurs you just mentioned, but Kurzweil can join the list, as a 4th dinosaur.

[@Screaming-Trees]

@@jacquesmertens3369 Well Eventide H3000 was a novelty in 1993 but is still beloved. Lexicon 480 came out in '88 and it fetches 6/7grand regularly now. 224 is even older but still considered one of the best FX of all time. I mean there were some truly groundbreaking and amazing algorithms invented in the 80s and 90s that I think still sound great and haven't really been matched. There is a reason everyone is constantly trying to reverse engineer Lexicon algorithms in plugins and such. Kurzweil effects sounded as good those units for sure. The synthesizer engine also sounds great and sounds are timeless really. If something sounds good it sounds good. There is no reason not to use it. The UI is a bear but the various synth engines in this thing still sound great today.

[@davetomsmusic]

Ca you buy your products in Canada? If so, who sells them, who services them

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

The biggest downside is the lack of illumination on around sliders/knobs. Nothing is legible in the dark.

[@AlexLaptschenko]

Sounds good, gents. But to be very honest nothing can surpassthe PC3K8 till now.

[@alankagan8988]

Are you kidding ??? No keyboard demonstration. You could have saved all the money going to NAMM 2024 and just talked from the Kurzweil K2700 from your home.