Hi Diki
Sorry, James, but I built a pretty extensive library for my K2500... most of the TOTL Kurzweil and Akai libraries, including a lot of custom breath controller stuff, and have it tweaked to death! It still impresses most of my clients, and, in all fairness, was the basis of MANY, many hits from the nineties that still impress to this day (not that I played them, but the Kurzweil did...!).
Diki, it's only my opinion but I strongly believe that not even the official demo's on their website right now sound remotely close to what Yamaha are doing with the Tyros 4.
Bearing in mind that the Tyros 4 also has the most basic crud ass engine going, it still puts VAST to shame in the demo's I'm hearing. VAST is wasted because Kurzweil don't have anything much of good quality to feed through it and I bet the reason for that is PCM space is pretty much like the rest of their specs. Dated and low spec...!!!!
You see, for me, it's NOT about having the latest greatest. It's about having something 'good enough' that I am intimately familiar with... That being said, I do agree that there are more sophisticated tools out there, and for pure synthesis, the old K2500 has long been surpassed. But the list of players WELL out of our leagues that still continue to play them is long and storied.
Sure, I personally don't believe any keyboard has a �use by date� that makes it obsolete after a certain amount of time but it is sad to see the state of the new keyboards they are releasing.
Kurzweil are sitting on one of the top sound engines and they can't make it produce anything current because things like the PCM data are very limited and the content is dated.
It's a crying shame. They just appear to lack money to develop the technology and seem to be hoping to sell new products based on the good old days.
Hollywood scores were recorded on them. Countless hits were recorded on them. That's good enough for me.
Yes, in the 90's everyone was using them for soundtrack work but since then they have been hugely left behind. When a keyboard with a crap sound engine like the Tyros 4 clearly produces a better and far more realistic sound in my opinion, then that's a sad day for Kurzweil.
Really, how wrong is that when Kurzweil have one of the top sound engines. ..!!!!!
If I need anything past its' capabilities, then I've got quite a few VSTi's for synth stuff (big fan of much of the Arturia stuff) or I can use Kontact, etc.. But my primary library was built in the nineties, was TOTL for its' time, and still satisfies most of my clients. Hollywood comes knocking (fat chance!) I'll run out and get the latest greatest... Until then, what I have does the job!
Just so you know, I'm not putting down your K2500. I'm just saying that Kurzweil have gone almost nowhere since the 90's. It's a great keyboard, but today current range are only slightly better and they still sound like something from the 90's.
Regards
James
[This message has been edited by Irishacts (edited 10-21-2010).]
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