Hello, I hope I am finding you all well.

In the last few months I've really had the urge to experience some of the keyboards I missed out on in the past that I think very notable. I've owned so many keyboards and brands over the years that I still couldn't understand why I had never owned a Technics - until now.

Whilst searching, I found an online store that were selling both the KM6500 & KN7000 at a very nice price so I got them both. They are in beautiful condition as well which really is a bonus. They both are really great looking instruments.

After having a good play on them both, they still sound fantastic. Yes they are few generations old but put that aside and play them for what they are and they still sound great.

However it is another new learning curve to get around the operating system and how the disc functions work, especially on the KN7000 which has my head scratching a little, it does seem the most complicated one so far to master. I am trying to find more styles for the KN7000, especially styles from previous generations like the KN2000, 5000 etc etc.. I have read that I would need to use a program called Song Manager which I don't have or even know how to find it. I didn't get any software with the keyboard, just the manual so I presume it originally had a CD that came with it? I tried to google this program but to no avail mainly because I don't know what I am looking for.

I am guessing here but is this the equivalent to Yamaha's expansion manager program? If this is so then without this program would mean I can't load any new styles in the system?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

All the best,
Danny

Hi Danny, contact Bill Norrie, he has lots of stuff you could use, just download to a SD card.

Ray

Hi Ray,

Thank you ever so much for your reply I really appreciate it.

I will contact Bill as suggested.

Thank again,
Danny

New styles such as those I produce - see www.technicskn7000styles.com - can be downloaded and unzipped before loading them one at a time into a floppy disk and then transferring that floppy disk to your KN7000 keyboard to load them for playing. You'll need a floppy disk drive attached to your computer to be able to do this. Be careful when subsequently saving them in your KN7000 keyboard to an SD Card not to try to use the more modern SDHC Cards as they don't work on KN7000 keyboards.

Hi DannyUK

congratulations on purchasing great instruments.
Check out the instructions written long ago by @technicsplayer.
SD CARD TUTORIAL

Everything you need is described there. From this link you can download Factory Rhythms for KN2000, KN3000 and KN5000. I didn't put in for KN6000 and KN 7000 because you don't need it.

Reprise KN2000 KN3000 KN5000

Hi Roger & Leon,

Thank you very much indeed for your replies, this is fantastic and I really do appreciate your help and for the additional styles.

Leon, thank you for providing those internal styles, but is there any chance you could also include the KN6000 styles (I presume they are the same as the KN6500)? The reason I ask is that after playing both keyboards, even though the styles are almost the same there are a few from the KN6500 that are not in the KN7000 which I would like to play on the KN7000, is it possible you could also attach the KN6000 styles as well?

Thank you very much,
Danny.

Hello Danny,

these are Styles from KN6000
KN6000Style

Hi Leon,

Thank you so much for these, you're a star!

All the best,
Danny

Here is Bill Norrie's web page - http://www.willumspages.co.uk/

Hi Roger,

Fantastic thank you for the link