61 dynamic keys
sound generator PCM max. Polyphony 64 voices 1.064 sounds (1,028 sounds + 2 organ rawbars + 34 Drumkits)
sound Group: Piano, Guitar & Harpsi, tringer & Vocal, Brass, Mallet & Orch Perc, organ & Accordion, Sax & Woodwind, Synth, bass, Drum kit, digitally Drawbar
sound Explorer
Effect: Sustain, digital, multi Effect, reverb, Chorus
Wheel: pitch Bend, modulation
Part select: right 1, right 2, Left Transpose effect +/- 12 notes
Number of Rhythms: 680 Pattern (170 Styles x 4 variations)
Rhythm Groups: Pop, skirt, Ballad, jazz & Swing, Dance Pop, simple Beat, Dance club, Trad & Waltz, Ballroom & Show, Latin & World, USA
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control: Main volume, MIC volume, balance, Conductor, starting/stop, Intro & ending 1, Intro & ending 2, Fill in 1, Fill in 2, Counts Intro, Synchro & Break, tempo/Program, TAP speed, Fade In/Out, Split Point
performance Pads: 20 Preset of banks x 6 Pads inclusive solo one, user bank x 3, Compile bank x 2, control Preset x 1, stop, auto Setting
AautoPlay Chord mode: Basic, Advanced 1, Advanced 2, pianist, Memory, on bass, Chord Finder, Left Hold
Music Style Arranger
sound Arranger
Music Stylist
One Touch Play
Techni Chord
panel memory: 3 banks x 8 panel, set, Next bank, bank View
Sequencer 16 tracks, 1/96 by Beat, approx.. 40,000 Events, 10 Songs max., functions: Easy record, real-time record, step record, record & Edit, CoPy & paste, rank Edit Composer: 8 tracks bass, Accomp 1 - 5, Drums 1 + 2, approx.. 13,000 Events, 3 Memory of banks, functions: Easy Composer, real-time record, step record, Pattern CoPy, SEQ ton of Composer CoPy, load single Composer.
SD Card: load, save, Favorite Songs, Technics Song Medley, SD audio play, SD sound play, SD Card Tools, SD Preference. sound Setting: part Setting, mixer, master Tuning, key scaling, Techni Chord, sound load option, APC Reverb Setting, sound Arranger.
sound Edit: 40 storage locations + 1 user Drumkit Easy Edit, clay/tone, pitch, filter, amplitude, LFO, Effect.
Reverb & Effect: Mic Reverb & Effect, sound load option, mixer, multi, Chorus, Reverb, clay/tone control.
controls: initial, pair of overalls Touch Sensitivity, Foot Ccontroller, panel memory mode, Music Style Arranger mode, Fade In/Out Setting
Customize: Favorite Setting, display time Out, Midi Setting load option, DATA Protection, Language Setting, disk/D Preference
Midi: part Setting, control Messages, real-time Messages, Common Setting, input/output Setting, Midi Presets, mode Setting, computer Connection
Display: LCD, 320 x 240 points, Page, Contrast, exit, display Hold
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demo
connections: stereo headphone, foot pedal, Expression pedal, LINE Out (R/mono? L), Midi (in, Out), USB, MIC
output 40 Watts (20 W x 2))
Speakers 12 cm x 2, 6,5 cm x 2
power requirement 75 Watts of AC 220-240V 50/60Hz (Europe, Australia and new Zealand) dimension (WxHxD): 105.7 x 16.2 x 40.4 cm net weight: 11.7 kg
Accessories:AC mains cable, note stand, CD Rome, SD Card


And a question...
It will be posible play styles directly from sdcard... as PSR2000 plays styles directly from floppy?
Has KN7000 that function (play styles directly from sd card)?

Styles can be loaded directly from the SD card into either Composer or Custom memory and played from there. I can't see how a style can be played directly from the SD card, or from a Floppy Disc.

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Willum

Well, I played PSR2000, and you may play styles directly from floppy without loading them on user styles area. You may have 20 or 30 styles on user styles area, and play them from there of course; but you may play other styles from floppy directly. It is a great adavantage, because you need not to load them on user area to play them.

Whoop de do

In that case, I would suggest that the chosen style is transferred to a temporary area of memory, which is transparent to the user. Otherwise, there would have to be continuous disc access, while the style was playing and I doubt if this is feasible, or even desirable.

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Willum

I wonder what keyboards the 2400 and 2600 keyboards will be compatible with. Will they be able to interchange with 7000 Technic files ?

SeeYa,
Larry Hawk

ps...( Douglas Dean Whoop de do ) Haven't heard that phrase in a long time. Good one Grandpa !

I am interested to upgrade to the KN2600 from my current KN1400 but the model is only availble here in 2 months time. I too wonder if the KN2600 would play KN7000 files. Anyone tried it?

By the way, Arther, is there a LINE IN at the back of the board?

Free Style, I think there is not a line in at the back of keyboard. There is no a "LINE IN" in Specifications. But I haven't tried it...
About KN7000 files, I hope it may load styles and files from KN7000, but ...

see http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum25/HTML/001555.html for an answer. The 2600 has the new 8 part accompaniment with 170 styles but no custom section. The big thing at this price point so far as I can see is the ability to record digital audio and put digital audio on the card with the CB7 kit and play it from the 2600.

The yamaha direct disk access is a good feature but my personal downside is being distracted by the noise of the floppy spinning for a minute when you put it in while you are trying to play.

If no custom styles area, where user styles are loaded? How is it possible to load new styles if there is not a styles user section? Perhaps it will have "direct sd acces for styles"?

no, it will have a composer section like all the other technics keyboards.

With all this talk about the new 2600 and other keyboards appearing with no floppy disk accessibility, but only SD card compatibility, I'm curious about several things. Dumb questions I know---but how will styles, songs, etc. be downloaded from the internet onto an SD card for use on the new keyboards? Is there a slot or port on computers for the SD card? Will one's keyboard need to be connected to a computer for data exchange? I'm familiar with using floppy disks, but wonder on a practical level how music data will be handled across the internet for SD play on keyboards.

J.Larry,

I predict the SD will replace the floppy until something else comes along.

At present....use Panasonic reader with computer or for much less cost ScanDisk at $25 US or less. (no audio).

Greatest thing since sliced bread.

Fran in Florida

without a card reader you save the files on your pc, then transfer to the 7k and save on the sd card one by one. With a card reader it is just a lot easier using our card tool or techmanager.

Laptops and pcs are already shipped without floppy drives, my no 1 laptop has no floppy drive built in, but does have an sd drive built in. Future pcs will have flash drive bays, only complicated at the moment by too many different formats requiring several slots.

Floppies were only really necessary up to recently to boot up with no operating system. With boot cds now workable in most bios systems even that reason for floppies existence has gone.

Just a thought - not every KN keyboard user has a PC or even access to one. I wonder how commercial software will be distributed for keyboards with no Floppy disc? Unless there is a large amount of software on an SD card, the proportional cost of the Media would make this method uneconomic - that is unless the cost of SD cards drops dramatically.

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Willum

...maybe why floppies will last a little longer on the lower range machines, I would imagine. If you remember http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum25/HTML/001431.html I was surprised, and expected this in the next generation maybe after people had got used to SD for a while. I could not wait to dump floppies... useless things now!

I can't see many 8 MB cards advertised widely anymore, only bigger cards. The prices have dropped substantially already since the 7k was launched, I bet 8 M or lower cards would be pretty cheap in bulk eventually, if you could find someone willing to source them - you'd only need a 500k card to distribute a disk, and that size chip might be as cheap as the plastic moulding soon, but no-one would bother marketing it at that margin.

It would be interesting to know the proportion of buyers of this type of product who have pcs or have direct net access.

Go to a net coffee shop and download your latest disk purchase?

TechnicsPlayer,
I have been looking for 8mb cards without success. Do you know any one who is selling them?
Walt

sure, I could give you a few links that sell 8M cards that will cost you more than you would pay for a 64M card

You can still get small SD from Global Positioning Satellite handset makers at exhorbitant prices for example. I researched this when considering whether it could be cost effective to give away demos on a SD card with the book.

Thanks Alec,
That's what I was afraid of. There must not be a surplus or somebody would be dumping them on the market by now.
Regards,
Walt

Hi Walt,
I managed to pick up a new brand of 128mb sd card for just over $30USD plus postage on Ebay the other day.

Arrived yesterday and they seem to work fine.

Just goes to show they are getting cheaper all the time.

best wishes
Rikki