![]() It's almost not fair to refer to them as "effects", as there's plenty of synthesis that can be done with the effects alone. Kurzweil's effects are essentially another avenue for VAST, so you can do lots and lots and lots of fun things to incoming audio. These features push the Forte beyond the PC3 in many ways. The most recent major OS update to the Forte added a.) The ability to load about 3.4 GB of user samples into the Flash memory (with all the benefits of FlashPlay), and b.) The ability to apply an effects chain to the 1/8" audio input. That's pretty darn amazing from an engineering perspective, and it means there's practically no "loading" time for any sound - they play straight from Flash without having to load into RAM first. It really works like that you have real-time random access to any point in the Flash memory, which is also non-volatile. Kurzweil developed and patented "FlashPlay", which essentially turns Flash storage into RAM. There are precious few synths on the market that have anywhere near the same depth. ![]() The thing has its own language, once you learn the ins and outs of it writing new stories can happen every time you boot up. That's practically all I do these days, and it's an endless rabbit-hole of fun that goes beyond anything I've experienced in the hardware world (modular or otherwise). Some systems might be easier to use, or have a trick or two that they can do that the PC3 can't do, but overall the PC3 has a real edge, especially when it comes to "new" synthesis methods, and by that I mean kinds of synthesis and signal manipulation that don't have names. By that I mean the sheer amount of stuff you can do is greater. I still think the PC3 series is more capable than any hardware synth available today, surpassed only by the Forte (more on that below). But I think the best thing is getting a software editor to edit this thing, like MidiQuest 11. I don't really think they'd need to ever upgrade the sound or features of a K2600, but just add an easier to edit interface. One of the deepest and coolest engines out there. ![]() The K2600 is so deep, this is how I would envision an upgraded K2600 / K3000 to look like. What they could do of course is simplify things a bit and give it knobs, but I think someone once calculated if every function on the K2x00 had a knob it would take up more real estate than the cockpit of the space shuttle: will get an upgrade is if/when some or all of the original USA R&D team are able to buy back the once illustrious name and set up shop for the new millennium - Sequential Circuits/Dave Smith style.Īnd when I say 'upgrade' I really mean 'sidegrade' - it's hard to see where they could go with what is already one of the most sophisticated, capable synthesis architectures out there. The once innovative Kurzweil has stood still developmentally speaking since being bought out by Young Chang Corp.
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