In fairness to Kurzweil, most contemporary composers are using huge orchestral libraries for the majority of work that would have been the job for a K2500 back in the day.

But the control possibilities as a master controller are still head and shoulders above the rest. Basically, just about anything on a Kurzweil can send any MIDI code you want. I remember setting up the big ribbon to have four zones you could tap in anywhere, and it could change setups! Very handy if you need to make rapid changes but both hands were so busy it was tough to hit a tiny button quickly...

That kind of flexibility isn’t really on even the best master controllers around today. While its 48 voice polyphony and 128MB RAM really pegs my old K2500S as a child of the 90’s, it still trounces the latest controllers as a control hub for my studio.

This new Kurzweil looks to be one hell of a keyboard..!