K5synth

If the K5 came out in '87, and the K5000 came out in '97, shouldn't Kawai be releasing a K5000000 sometime soon?  ;-)

Jeff

----- Original Message ----
From: antdes45 <antdes45@...>
To: k5synth@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:38:11 PM
Subject: [k5synth] Hey Everyone, some news about the Kawai K5!









  


    
            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. 





    
  

    
    




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