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Kawai K1 Vintage Synth Review
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The K1 is one of Kawai's most economic digital synthesizers in the K-series. The K1 has 256 digital samples of waveforms, 50 of which are from acoustic instruments. You combine up to four wave shapes to create very new and unique sounds. The K1 is capable of very good unique synth sounds or at times, completely noisy walls of complex sound.

During the time that I owned the Kawai K1 I used it as a mother keyboard and use it mostly for the backing sounds as I found the samples a little noisy at times. the editor I always used were from Sound Quest. Using sound quest I found it very easy to manipulate the sound banks.

If you search the net you will find that the Kawai K1 series is still failry well supported. This is a testimony to the sounds that can be produced by this PCM synth.

Keyboard 61 Keys (K-1), Note Range – C4-G8

Voices 10 Maximum

Program Memory Internal: 96 (64 Single/32 Multi), DC-8 Memory Card: 96 (64 Single/32 Multi)

Single Edit Edit: Volume, Name
A – Source 2/4,vibrato depth, speed, shape, pressure vibrato, wheel vibrato assign, auto bend depth, time, vel-depth KS time, PRS-Freq, pitch bend, KS curve, poly mode
B – Course (fixed key), fine, key track, vib/A, bend on/off, PRS-Freq on/off, KS-freq on/off
C – Wave select, AM S1.S2, AM S3.S4, Copy
D – Level, delay, attack,, decay, sustain, release, vel curve, vel-env level, PRS-env level, KS-env level, vel-env time, KS-env time

Mulit Edit (K1) Edit: Volume, Name
A –Window 1: Single assign
B – Window 2: Zone LO-HI, velocity switch
C – Window 3: Poli, (Mode), RCV CH
D – Window 4: Transpose, tune, level, output

Write Write Link: 1st – 8th

System (K1) SYS: Tune, transpose, int protect, card protect, card format, save, load
TRS: Channel, PGM, PRS, Bend, MOD, HOLD, Data dump
REC: Channel, Omni, PGM, PRS, BEND, MOD, VOL, HOLD, VEL, Exclusive

Stick Stick control

Panel Controls (K1) Front: Pitchbend wheel, modulation wheel, stick, volume, patch select, write switch, system switch, system switch
Rear: Power switch, DC IN, output R/Mono-L, Headphones, card slot, MIDI IN/OUT/THRU

Display 16 x 2 LCD back lit

Dimensions K1 – 36.8" x 10.2" x 3.15"
K1m – 14.5" x 8.15" x 2.3"

Weight K1 – 15 lbs.
K1m – 2.8 lbs.

Accessories K1- AC Adapter, Owner's Manual, Audio Cable
K1m – AC Adapter, Owner's Manual, MIDI Cable

Some things you can do, useful if you have lost your manual

Setting your Kawai to do clever things once you've lost the manual is a bit tricky. Each major category below lets you do one thing.

SysEx stands for "System Exclusive" and indicates special messages that your computer sends to, or receives from the K1 to configure it's internal patches (settings to determine how each instrument choice sounds).

If the device below is not mentioned in a step, assume it is the K1. If you see ???, it means the value could be anything. K1 keys are show in GREEN, and the display of the K1 is shown in YELLOW.

Setting up your equipment

  1. Attach the MIDI cables from your K1 to your computer's MIDI adaptor.
  2. Power up the K1 and your computer.
  3. Start your computer's SysEx capable MIDI software (we use something called "MidiTools" for the Amiga).

Disabling protection so you can write changes into your K1

  1. Push SYSTEM once to display SYSTEM/MIDI =???
  2. Push NO or YES as needed until the display is SYSTEM/MIDI =SYS
  3. Push SYSTEM 3 times to display SYSTEM INT PROTECT=???
  4. Push NO or YES as needed until the display is SYSTEM INT PROTECT=NO
  5. Push I.i/E.e once to display whatever patch is on that instrument. This is just to get out of system mode.

Turning on MIDI receive of SysEx messages

  1. Push SYSTEM once to display SYSTEM/MIDI =???
  2. Push NO or YES as needed until the display is SYSTEM/MIDI =RCV
  3. Push SYSTEM 10 times(!) to display MIDI RCV EXCL =???
  4. Push NO or YES as needed until the display is MIDI RCV EXCL =ON
  5. Push I.i/E.e once to display whatever patch is on that instrument. This is just to get out of system mode.
  6. You can now use your computer to send SysEx messages on MIDI channel 16.

Dumping a SysEx message from the K1 to your computer

  1. Push SYSTEM once to display SYSTEM/MIDI =???
  2. Push NO or YES as needed until the display is SYSTEM/MIDI =TRS
  3. Push SYSTEM 7 times(!) to display MIDI DATA DUMP =???
  4. Push NO or YES as needed until the display is MIDI DATA DUMP =PACH
  5. Push SYSTEM once to display MIDI DUMP EXEC?=
  6. Push YES twice and the dump will be performed.
  7. Push I.i/E.e once to display whatever patch is on that instrument. This is just to get out of system mode.
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