Exploring the Kurzweil K250 at the Museum of Making Music
The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California and its Manager of Artifacts and Exhibitions, Jonathan Piper, provides a behind the scenes look at an interesting artifact, a Kurzweil K250, one of the first electronic instruments able to reproduce the sounds of other instruments through sampling. Jonathan breaks down the process of how the Kurzweil produces the sampling effect and the unique story of how the K250 was developed. Check out this artifact and more at the Museum of Making Music.
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If someone was to put a K250 in a grand piano shell when it came out lots of people could have mistaken it for a real one. It was way ahead of it's time.
it was not the first instrument to reproduce sounds of others via digital sampling. The Fairlight was before the Kurzweil and the E-mu Emulator 1 by a few years. Some claim it was the first rompler but the 360 Systems Digital Keyboard was also before the Kurzweil.
@skaneverdies
Жыл бұрын
Right, the Synclavier II and I think even the Emulator II might pre-date the K250 as samplers as well.
@jaggass
5 ай бұрын
The Emu II+ came out the same year as the K250.
Brother... the Fairlight CMI came out in 1979 and was the first sampler ever made... before that there was the mellotron wich used tape... please learn your stuff before you try to teach people...
@jaggass
5 ай бұрын
The Mellotron wasn't a sampler but more like a keyboard controlled tape player. It was the foreunner to digital samplers though,