K5synth

Maybe if they still made synths...

Jeff B a \ufffdcrit :
> 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.
>