K5synth

Hi everyone,

The group is pretty inactive... Sounds like no one has trouble with
their K5! 

First, it's K5's 20th anniversary! (Thanks to Klaus Tzieply for
letting me know)

Talking about Klaus, (Thank you for kfuenf.org by the way, that's how
I discovered this group,) he was supposed to update his librarian with
sound editing, but he has no time to work on it because of his job. 

I don't know if some of you remember, two years ago, some of us had
discussions about the K5's internal preamp, but I have the complete
schematic now and can start working on some modifications like I said
2 years ago... I guess it's time to work on it on the machine's 20th!
I got the essential parts to experiment a bit recently, I'm going to
share the modifications with you.


Anyways, I had an idea last week for those of you that wished to
upgrade your K5 to version 1.3, that's why I send this message to
every members. I have a ROM programmer sitting in a corner and I could
easily buy some flash ROMs and ship them programmed to you. (Version
1.3 for K5 and 1.2 for K5m)

Going with flash ROMs would be the ideal solution in my opinion, since
there are no UV rays involved, they're cheap, you don't have to ship
them to me(Unlike with Kawai US), you have your old UV-erasable EPROM
as a backup if something screws up(Unlike about every other current
solutions), and they're easy to erase.

Waiting to hear from you,
Antoine - Moderator

P.S. I could be looking into inverter + backlight kits as well.