That pretty lady demoing the K2000 is Jennifer Hruska. She's quite an interesting person. She designed the sounds on the K2000 and she also created SONiVOX. Later on she was one of the heads for Akai's Software engineering team and worked with them on the MPC Renaissance that was one of her projects. It's kind of cool to know the software we use on our MPC's right now she probably helped design early on. One of her main focuses was trying to get Akai products to be "Stand alone". That' woman needs to take a bow. We're probably all banging out on the Modern MPC's because of her.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok wow!..Thats pretty dope!..Just checked out a recent interview with her.

I currently have a k2000s that my girlfriend gifted me last year. Upgraded the Eprom chips, the lcd screen display to a blue one for easier visibility, and an SD card media drive swap instead of a floppy. Super advanced for someone that comes from analog synthesis, but a beast none the less. I love that thing

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Cool!.. Dope upgrades!..Adding the sd card makes a huge difference.

@187onasimp

2 жыл бұрын

If you have a girlfirend gifting you keyboards.. put a ring on that.

@nasor3675

2 жыл бұрын

what did you use for the sd slot? sounds like yours is hooked up!

@BenjaminBeak

Жыл бұрын

Which sd upgrade did you get ? Can you link it here ?

I have a deep love for this thing. I saw on his thread that some said they were into music but were broke. I relate to that completely. I used to look at the K2000 and dream. I eventually purchased one in the early 90's, read the fat ass manual a thousand times. In car rides, to parties, at my girls place, while eating dinner, lunch and just snacking. I read that thing over and over. I was hungry to create like the dudes on the records I was buying. I was broke and irresponsible but made it happen. A K2000RS, rack version with the sampling option. I taught my everything I'd need to ever know about programming synths and samplers. I used it with an MMT8, CZ101, R-8, and Little 1202vlz with a bunch of guitar pedals and I gotta say after becoming way less irresponsible and apprehending a bunch of gear, I think back to those times and think, those were the best times and those tracks still sound fresh to my ears today. Recently purchased a 2500 rs for super cheap in perfect condition. Put it in a rack and man, I love having it around. The key mapping samples, processing samples in the weirdest way. This thing is unique sounding. Using it a lot and in the end, it extra usable. Cool vid.

@DyReckProductions

11 ай бұрын

Nice! thanks bro..Yeah its funny after a while when you get to finally buy the gear you love an go in Lol..Best feeling in the world!

The Kurzweil K2000 is def.. a collectors keyboard they sounds was clear and legendary

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Yup!

Back in the 90's when I was a broke kid in high school, but was also into music production, but could never afford the expensive professional gear that was available at the time, I used to see this keyboard on T.V. lots of times often either on T.V. shows or used by professional musicians during a live performance. I was always intrigued by the K2000 because it looked so advanced. It literally looked like it could do everything and would be the only keyboard you would ever need if you were into music production (that and the ASR-10). Of course, I never knew how much it cost at the time but knew that I would never be able to afford it or anything like it until I finished school and could get a good paying job afterwards. Eventually, that is what happened. By that time however, technology has progressed and there were many other options available. With that said, I still have not ever had the opportunity to play a high-end Kurzwell, let alone actually own one. Now, I honestly could have bought one by now if I really wanted to, but never had a chance to try it out first, nor did I feel I really needed one with the other many alternatives out there. I'm willing to bet the K2000 would still be a very nice keyboard to own even today. BTW, I'm thankful I was blessed to grow up in the 80's in a household with cable T.V. and a computer, which is something many households did not have at the time because many people could not afford it. Excellent video!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro! Your right alot of folks could not afford cable back then in the 80's..And it was a great decade to grow up in.

@Podus81

2 жыл бұрын

Any music I can check out?

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@Podus81 Definitely gonna put some up Podus81.

@Am71919

2 жыл бұрын

It's still not too late to get one, all of our favorite songs we used to hear growing up were made on those vintage instruments, they sounded good then, and they sound good now

@Abruzzo333

9 ай бұрын

80's? It wasn't produced until 1991. The K2000 was a pwerhouse of the 90's. It's still every bit as great today. It's not possible for the K2000 to be technologically obsolete with the amount of synthesis power under the hood. Especially with the sampling option installed.

Even 5 years later this baby BLEW MY MIND !! We used it even as an insert FX processor, thanks to sockets to plug in "in line"

@DyReckProductions

Жыл бұрын

Oh ok cool!

Wish I could go back to the 80’s as an adult. My life would have turned out better.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

The 80's was something else.

We keep forgetting to play the game on the k2000, Thanx for greAt info.

Awesome. I have the rack version. Sounds amazing. Took me years to get it. Worth the wait and less than half the cost . Keep em comin man.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol..Your right about the cost..Thats the secret right there.

@eliashall9357

2 жыл бұрын

Hell, it was 2400 way back. I paid 250. Bam. Lol

After playing keyboards, piano, and organ for 55 years, I finally bought a VAST/FM synthesizer last year, the PC4. Still struggling with the OS even though I am very good at subtractive and FM sound design. Sure would have helped if Kurtzweil had a video series or at least block diagrams in the manual. I understand the 32-layer modular type VAST, it is the details that are difficult to get at such as effects for those 32 layers, and series/parallel architecture. I gave up for about 4 months last year because the keyboard was freezing (locking up) during just about any function. Fortunately, I started using the PANIC button instead of turning the keyboard off and have had success with that. But those details, last month wanted to control some external synths from my Kurtzweil but it was not sending pedal CC info to the synths. Even though the Kurzweil is sending pedal info according to its MIDI monitor page, the synths aren't getting it. The synths are getting it from other keyboards so it is definitely the Kurzweil. Could take another month to figure out. I am going to keep trying with this PC4, because I can see the power of VAST and want to get my hands on it.

I’ve used one and boy do I miss it. It was so easy to use and creating songs was almost effortless. Best synthesizer ever in my book. Wish I could’ve gotten it up graded to sample.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you.

Another classic!!! Thanks DyReck!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks fam!

Love your takes, Dyreck….

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks fam!

96 oscillators? That's clearly insane. That had to be Stevie's idea.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol.

@christiankennedy2212

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, coming from the TONTO!

Not the Cable Box with the descrambler!!! Hahahaha you took me back!!!!!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao! yup..I had one of those..Then they zapped me Lol.

Man i was so looking forward to this one we feelin you down here in sanantonio tx love these episodes this was the first keyboard i used for making beats got it in 1994 very slept on machine

@DyReckProductions

Жыл бұрын

Thanks fam!..I appreciate it.

oh man this popped up in my feed. I still have my k2000 with the sampling option. I was in a rock hip-hop band back in the 90's and it never failed. It held up and was easy to use. Other local band friends were using the ASR-10 but that was using numbers and an ear to program whereas the k2000 had a waveform on the display! Unfortunately I paid $3k for it because it was a power house but I don't think I can get more than $400 in todays times.

@DyReckProductions

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I feel you..Thats the going price on the resale market..Which is a very good pick up for someone who wanted a chance at owning one..I was thinking of getting one..But im not sure how the programing of the synthesis would be for me..But im probably gonna pick one up sooner or later lol.

Pink Floyd was Kurzweil... before the 80's. They sampled with Kurzweil

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok nice!

Another dope video

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!

As always thanks this was a good one

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!

I had the 2500 absolute beast of a keyboard. Way ahead of most. The v.a.s.t. synthesis was crazy. The "unloop" function was a clutch move as well.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you!

This history lesson was very entertaining! Yeah, I jammed on one but was a fantasy. Now most keyboards and sampled sounds trying to get as real as possible in sound architecture. I loved most about the K2000 was the feel of the keyboard compared to its competitors.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok I feel you.

I love the K2000, it was all over the place when they first put it out and it gave the Korg O1W a run for the money lol, fun times with the new keyboards from that whole era 🤘

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Yup!

@madness8556

2 жыл бұрын

I had a Korg T3EX which was the previous model of the O1W and the K2000 left them both for dead when it came to raw synthesis power.

@johnhenningfield4360

2 жыл бұрын

@@madness8556 "nice 👍, I love vintage keyboards and would definitely check the specs Mad Ness thanks 🙏"

i was in the talks of picking one up before this vid came out and, man i gotta try out that pong mode. best part of the synth handsdown.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I feel you.

Love your channel brother! I watch religiously and feel like Ralphie in front of the radio to see what Little Orphan Annie up to. Got a request for a non gear video. Scratch Magazine, what had happened was......

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oooh Thats dope!!..Im feeling that one..Scratch Magazine!..No doubt bro!

Lmao with the cable box. Woooow. Before that box, I had an HBO box with antenna that you bought at the electronic stores in the Bronx. Yeah the Zap was somethin else. But on the K2000, an old friend of mine lent me one and I had it for a few years. Definitely was a great keyboard with sampling option, I believe 6 audio outs and SCSI. The sounds were very realistic. The keybed felt very good. I'll buy one again or even the rack version of it. Nowadays I have a K2500 fully blown. Got that a few years ago for only $190 USD. Great video. 👍👍👍👍👍

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks fam!..And great deal!

We were old school…, the cable company didn’t offer service in our area in the 80’s. We used the old rooftop motorized antenna with directional dial box. Man.., the K2000 was a board I dreamed of owning. Kurzweil was just so damn expensive though.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol..I feel you.

I use a k2000s keyboard with a k2000r. I got both for under a grand cdn. with cases. love them! great video, cheers!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro.

sounds amazing, just gotta put the time in to understand vast..great vid!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you bro!..Thanks.

My G I have been waiting for this Video!!! I just lost my Kurzweil Artis in a house fire. I pray to be able to afford to replace it. The sound of a Kurzweil Keyboard is phonaminal!!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you..Hope your able to replace it bro!..Hope everyone was safe though.

@everythingrandmallc6704

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Thank you my Brother everybody got our safety. Most appreciated!!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@everythingrandmallc6704 No doubt fam.

Can you please do a video on the roland 2480. I use to love that box. It was iconic for its time. Think it would be a dope video. Love your blast from the past...

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks fam!..No doubt that's definitely on the list.

🔥🔥🔥☝🏽 Kurz units been 🔥🔥🔥 nice authentic sounds, expensive asf tho 😂😂😂

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you.

Wow, I didn't see that coming, I'm glad! I have one. It can create very nice pad sounds. Some of the factory sounds are pretty amazing, like rain and thunder sound. It has 8 different MIDI channels, so it's pretty easy to sequence it using MPC or other MIDI sequencers. It doesn't do deep base sound though. Also, K2000's file management function capability is pretty impressive, compared to Akai product of that time; It can copy files AND DIRECTORY! Try that with MPC-2000XL!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol..No doubt.

Kurzweil was extremely brilliant... Like Einstein brilliant. I bought a book he wrote on the singularity, got through the first two pages of the introduction, closed it up, and then never opened it again. Nope. I'm apparently too stupid to even read an introduction by him.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao!..He's a really smart dude..I think he was making computer programs at 13!

@jaxager

2 жыл бұрын

@@DyReckProductions It wouldn't surprise me. Now his book sits on my bookshelf, unread. Maybe people will think I'm smart because I read his stuff. Hopefully they don't ask me anything about the contents of the book. 😁 Anyway... Love your videos, dude! Always a joy when I see a new one drop. Keep up the great work.

@187onasimp

2 жыл бұрын

@@DyReckProductions They're smart but they be making keyboards no body can fully understand how to use but them. That's why you always need someone dumb on your team to be the voice of the average man. Like when they put some smart stuff on the keyboard you can say "What the hell this do!?" So they can dumb it down and make it easier to use. I'm almost 1000% sure that's how Smart Phones were created.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@187onasimp Lol!..I feel you on that..You always need the dude that can explain it to the average person. 50 cent use to say some people are so smart there dumb lol.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaxager Thanks bro!

I got so caught up in the 80's scene-setting that I forgot there was gonna be a gear breakdown LOL

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao!

Attracted the k2000 vp, yeS!!!! Love this video series. Inspired by the textures. & It loads ASR-10 disks!!!!

Great vid!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!

my dad had one of these back when I was growing up, loved the sounds, but he eventually sold it and replaced it with an ensoniq ZR-76 which we have to this day

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok!..Dope keyboard!

I loved using the K2000 in my university's music department along with DX711FD and Akai S1100. The K2000 was very ahead of its time as a fully digital synth with that VAST synthesis. It's acoustic samples were outstanding, especially those beautiful Kurzweil strings and choirs, great acoustic and electric guitar programs, acoustic and electric pianos, solo trumpet and sax as well as the ensemble brass, not to also mention the double and electric basses. I haven't even started to mention the phenomenal synth sounds including the leads, pads and basses. It really could replace many synths in the one box and it really had a beautiful warm American sound as opposed to a polished clean Japanese sound. I really wanted to buy a K2000 but it was way out of my price range and several years passed before I bought a PC361.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you..They put alot of detail in making the K2000.

Thank you !!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt bro!

Almost 3 and a half minutes in and you JUST said the name Kurzweil for the first time. You definitely went in on the history. I first learned about this keyboard in a keyboard magazine ad in early 1991. I then saw it demoed at the 91 AES and was mind-blowing. I used it a couple of times but never dug deep into it. As far as FM Synthesis, Yamaha threatened to sue when Kurzweil first presented it. I think they settled it later and it was eventually added in years later. I don't remember

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow Yamaha wasn't playing..These companies are real serious about there patents.

@avace917

2 жыл бұрын

@@DyReckProductions While I was recording with it, we put a MPC 3000 disk into it just to see what would happen. While it would list everything on the disk, it couldn't load in any sounds. It loaded almost everything else. Ensoniq and Roland sample disks for example

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@avace917 Oh ok cool!

I hate that you call it a one hit wonder but you're right lol still dream of the K2661, keep it up Dyreck!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt bro thanks!

@Abruzzo333

Жыл бұрын

One hit wonder? The K2500 and K2600 greatly expanded what the K2000 was capable of.

@summerlaverdure

Жыл бұрын

@@Abruzzo333 an expansion isn't an evolution or revolution, better things aren't new groundbreaking things

@Abruzzo333

Жыл бұрын

@@summerlaverdure Kind of disagree. Kurzweil is still making new workstations and they have greatly expanded on their architecture. added their virtual analog engine and an FM synth engine to the new version of V.A.S.T. It's not a massive company like Roland, Korg and Yamaha....those companies still haven't created anything to rival what Kurzweil have done...anything they've made that's comparable was an attempt to compete with it. Everything that can be done in the synthesizer world has already been done for the most part.

I just learned that the Sounds of the 250 weren't not just samples , they were an early kind of physical modelling. Does anyone know more about this? There is nothing on wikipedia about it...

Did you do the Alesis Fusion 8 hd yet?

I bought one in 95. Made beats for years and years. Still do. and I have a k2500 still making beats. I have the SD card and sync it up with a Maschine and Reaper. It's all working good. It took awhile to get it all to work together. Never met anyone making beats on Kurz, anything. So to some degree it was my little secret. backing up: I had samplers in the 80's. ensoniq, akai, emu and finaly the first mpc 60 (1989) had that until 95 and traded it for some 1200's and some other gear. i whish I never did sell that MPC. I sold it to a friend, he still has it. anyway, yada yada.......

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok nice!..I feel you about the 60.

@EvLoutonian

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh- get the MPC back if you ever get the chance.. (-: Got a link to some beats up inline?

@arifmemovic3383

2 жыл бұрын

I spent a lot of time trying to find footage of someone making beats using a k2000! How do I get my hands on some of your k2000 instrumentals?

"Are you sure you're sick?" "I've been spewing from both ends all day, what do you think?"

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol.

I want that K2700. Crazy how much you get for 3k today and that was 3k back then.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Yup.

The K2000 was my favorite keyboard of all time, it was only limited by the performers imagination in sound design, I gigged with one professionally for 14 years until the k2661 came out, but it was different from the k2000, I actually own a k2000 to this day, they can be pretty unreliable today

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow..Hopefully it didn't break down or anything..I mean it did come out in 91 but still.

@jemkeystv5717

2 жыл бұрын

@@DyReckProductions oh, it's broken down on gigs, luckily it was easy to work on and fix between sets, six screws is all you had to remove 😅, but I use a pc3k6 and a Korg Kronos to gig with currently

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@jemkeystv5717 Oh ok cool.

@Abruzzo333

Жыл бұрын

I currently own a K2661 and sold my K2000. In what way do you believe the K2500-2600 different? The 2600 series offers so much over the K2000 IMO. Far better effects, and live mode which allows the user to route an external signal directly through the V.A.S.T architecture. This alone is capable of incredible possibilities. I compared some of the same patches before selling the K2000 and the differences were pretty negligible to my ears.

@sapainca

9 ай бұрын

K2000 to k2500 multi bit dac with steep analog anti alias filters K2600 multi bit dac with no steep analog anti alias filters K2661 delta sigma dac with no steep analog anti alias filters Multi bit is faster, punchier sounds closer to the analog osciallators Delta sigma sounds like your daw/computer

Too much menu diving. I don't see (no pun intended) how that tiny screen is good for the blind. I like knobs and sliders and patching. Stevie was great on the 2600. Great video. You didn't mention the word "skeezers". I forgot that word for over 30 years until last week.

Another excellent video! My K2000 didn't have sampling, but it didn't matter to me because it DID have a floppy drive and could read .wav files. I'd sample on my computer, save that as a .wav file to disk, then put that disk in me Kurzweil and viola! "sampling keyboard". I don't remember whatever happened to that keyboard, but I do still own a K2600 and a K2661.... I'll never sell them.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok Nice!

thanks man... Kinda like EMU E6400 . menu diving but I think it's like for every sampler anyway...

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you.

4:23 So what I remember from the conversation, got it from an interview with Kertzweil, was Stevie said the electric keyboards sounded too electric and wanted to hear a real piano. Kertzweil then developed a wave table synthesizer, the first of it's kind, where he sampled and digitally stored the sound from a real piano. Each note. Then assigned 88 or how many wave table storage and playback boards to each key. That's what they did.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok dope!

My brother how about doing one on its big brother the K2600sx. great vid thank you I use to own one of them the K2000 sold it like a dummy God bless you and Jesus loves you may He bless you and your family Bro. Todd

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!..Same here.. I was looking at the K2600..pretty dope!

Three thousand dollars in the nineties was like a billion-dollar lol. You're a funny dude!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao!

Damn the black boxes bruh, me n my dad were the plugz in the hood lol

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I feel you.

I picked up the rack version a while back for an awesome price but couldn't really deal with the workflow. The sampling part really did feel like an afterthought and I could never vibe with the sequencer. The sound-mangling capabilities are pretty nuts, and would probably be very useful if I was making techno or dnb, but even then the hours of menu diving to make dope patches almost make it not worth it. It's still sitting in my rack, but I almost never use it anymore

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok wow..Well workflow is important..And if a piece of gear doesn't fit you..you just might not have the inspiration to use it.

@arifmemovic3383

2 жыл бұрын

I picked up a rackmount k2000r from a pawn shop for $20. For me, learning the early 90s menu diving workflow was enjoyable because I am someone who is curious about the history of music technology. There doesn’t seem any sonic benefit to programming patches this way today apart from the enjoyment and intrinsic value of doing something the old school way. Did you end up keeping yours or did you flip it?

@prufrockrenegade

2 жыл бұрын

@@arifmemovic3383 I still have it for now. The FX board never worked right so I figured it would be a pain to sell in that condition. I updated the ROMs to the K2500 sound set and I still use the stock sounds from that every once and a while

I have stil the K2500RS. 💋 It needs a new display and a new power unit inside...and a new jod dial....and a new SCSI2SD unit...and a new floppy....and a clean up.... 😇 I think i give it away for a repair......this video inspired me. :) 💕

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt bro! Thanks!

I don't know how this joint got slept on you were able to load pretty much any format in that joint from other samplers

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Yup!

I use to want one of those so bad back in the day. It was out of my price range.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I feel you.

I own a KURZWEIL MIDIBOARD and a KURZWEIL ME-1 Micro Ensemble. 😎 ❤🤘🏻

DyReck mah man, send me a shoutout! Love your content man o/

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt bro!..I appreciate it fam!

Can you do one on the Roland U-20 and U-220

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok..Gonna definitely put that on the list!

2pacs producer Johnny J said he couldn't work without his k2500. Maybe that's why all eyez on me sounded so clean compared to other albums of that time.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok.

You should do a video on the Roland XP-80

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh thats a nice one!..Gonna put that on the list!

I might add the K2000 was so expensive back then. I had no car, K2000 or girlfriend. Was'nt there a tune about that?!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh man Lol.

jennifer in the beginning was lookin mad professional lol

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol..Yup.

Damn I miss this keyboard!!!!!

@DyReckProductions

Жыл бұрын

Great keyboard.

I owned the keyboard, lost it in the pawn shop and a decade later lucked up and bought the rack mount with the orchestral snd contemporary rom inside...SCORE! Lol. Another never sell piece of gear in my arsenal.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

I remember having the Kurzweil K2000. Powerful keyboard but didn't sound the same when I loaded sounds from the ASR-10 disks, so I got rid of it. 🤦🏿‍♂️

@titanjake8640

2 жыл бұрын

ASR10 master board to this day and I have still not mastered it!!!!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow ok.

I got one of these keyboards but the lcd says change battery and I have no idea how to change the battery. Anyone know? It’s not the one under the keyboard

@DyReckProductions

Жыл бұрын

might help..www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=180515

@bugaljackson494

8 ай бұрын

Guessing you figured it by now but if it's for saving programs, there's the AA battery compartment under the unit, just remove the cover and pop them in.

96 Oscillator wonder-keyboard. I'm old enough to remember all that music and when the K2000 came out. By the way, did you know Jim Carey? I hope he did'nt get too attached to you or stalk you!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao! Jim Carey is the man!

Is this the keyboard Stevie Wonder used on the Cosby Show where he sampled the Cosbys' in the studio?... when Theo says "jammin on the one" 😄

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow!

I had one of these

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Nice.

I recieved one of these as a kind of hand-down. Felt like I was getting the hang of it until it started repeatedly blowing fuses so I shelved it for now...shame.

@DyReckProductions

8 ай бұрын

Oh wow!..Thats crazy.

Can we get some of the equipments real sound bites in your videos maybe ?

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt bro..Ima definitely see about that.

I have a k2000 sitting to my left and a k2600xs sitting to my right. Definitely wouldn't have been able to afford these back in the day as a student.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you fam.

In case y'all didn't already know, that's Courtney Cox dancing with Bruce Springsteen on stage.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow your right!..Small world!

Did she just talk about oscillators? Shorty better stop before she ends up married and pregnant.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao!

I lowkey got ones of these a friend gave away

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok cool.

0:50 ok, DyReck got pipes tho

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao!

All the 5 percent cats that produced had the Kurzweil when RZA started using it.

@DyReckProductions

Жыл бұрын

Oh ok Dope!

Bro I know you grow up in da Bronx lol

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol Nah..Been to the BX a whole lot though.

I still own and use my K2000R.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@showbread9366

2 жыл бұрын

I picked one up years ago & still haven’t messed with it 🤦‍♂️ intimidating interface (2000r VAST)

@timdanyo898

2 жыл бұрын

@@showbread9366 there are a TON of old patches online for free. It’s a great preset beast if you don’t have time to swim in the menus. The key is finding an old floppy drive that can still be recognized via USB. There are SD card reader modifications you can do to the K2000 as well. I’d like to do that to mine.

@showbread9366

2 жыл бұрын

@@timdanyo898 yeah I also want to update the firmware Janice or something? There’s a reason I picked it up - dudes are sleeping. I have too much gear is the real issue 😄

So...what happened?

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol.

I know for a fact church musicians was playin that ping pong game during service when they couldn’t leave during the sermon 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao!

We had Select TV and ON TV also Satellite 📡 TV. I wanted the K2000 but it was too pricey.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok I feel you.

i definately knew what cable was in the 80's cuz everybody in the apartments i lived in was all stealing it. unfortunately i have a long history of TV signal theft. many years later had that rft-pio that hacked the pioneer cablebox. also stole directv for like 4 years in the early 2000s, had an H/HU card programmer and all that. nowadays i'm totally legit except for my bootleg spotify app 😉but i digress. anyways, i played with a k2000 back in the day, the 2vx, and almost bought the 2600 but really i always was an ensoniq and roland guy. and yes $3k was ALOT of money back then a brother coulda copped a nice ride off the car lot for $2995 🙃

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you.. If you spent 3k.. You meant business Lol!

Had one in my lab in the 90s I ended up giving it away

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok.

@Abruzzo333

Жыл бұрын

Stupid.

The k2700 is so under used I’ve never seen one anywhere but I learned it’s the only keyboard they use on broadway productions. Btw the don’t have a PA , the keyboardist has two genelec monitors facing the stage actors , and two more pointed up and over the pit. They set the volume to be the same as the cellos. One keyboardist was like WTF seriously ? No pa ? , no front of house , none of that ? Nope, the best productions just have a set of good genelecs at the same volume as the cellos and bassoons . Sure enough it blends right in with the sound coming out the pit . But that says a lot to me that Andrew loyd Webber not only requires Kurtzweil , and specific samples are required to be used, but also it says a lot about genelec speakers. As far as KZread demos, the Kurz seems to edge out the Yamaha , and I’m told the korg nautilus is great, but it doesn’t sound good on KZread compression. My micro korg has really really good sounds for what it is. So basically Is really flipping hard to choose a workstation , unlike analog synths , I don’t really want to own more than one workstation. The Roland’s out , polyphony problems, kurz seems so good , I’m tempted to pick up the k2700 AND get the new montage this month, I’ve been drooling over the addition of the Yamaha an1x engine , so awm+fm+An1x will be fantastic. Korg has three analog modeling , a physical modeling engine , AND 5 more I haven’t even read up on (they have 9 sound engines on the nautilus . But the Kurtz has sample based+analog modeling+fm and has had them for some time with plenty of polyphony. Only thing I don’t know is how much can I combine them… can I have 8 sawwaves?

@DyReckProductions

9 ай бұрын

Genelecs are awesome speakers!..Right now you can get a great deal on the K2500 and I think the 2700 on ebay right now..Im shocked the price there going for right now.

Anything Stevie was using!!!...........

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol Yup!

K2500RS owner here. my first synth! threw a SCSI2SD adapter in there.

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

And in 2024... Just download an k2000 emulator in your favorite DAW, lol

....the k2000 has not 128 mega sampling ram, that was k2500, the 2000 has max 64 mega sampling ram plus 8 mega internal waves expandable to 24 mega with rom 1/2, and 24 notes polyphony (or 96 because every layer can have up to 3 dsp oscillators summed to keymaps without stealing polyphony).

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh ok.

Just pickef up a k2000 from my local goodwill clearance center for 50 bucks

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Wow..Nice!

@Abruzzo333

Жыл бұрын

I find that hard to believe unless there is major problems with it.

@sauleml1445

Жыл бұрын

@@Abruzzo333 1 key doest work

@Abruzzo333

Жыл бұрын

@@sauleml1445 Wow that is insane. A workstation that sold for $3000 in the early 90's selling for $50. They are seriously deep machines. Basically a modular synthesizer in digital form. Even more powerful if it has the sampler installed. The way to tell this is if it has the 3 prong xlr input and output slots on the back.

Remembering seeing thiS,, unattractive colored keyboard. 'Retro' was too early for then.

Interested in getting one of these..but this video goes off topic WAY too far and WAY too often..

@DyReckProductions

Жыл бұрын

Just really explaining the history of the machine..They got a full how to video on it though kzread.info/dash/bejne/oGqh28moeqvVqdY.html..If your interested in getting it I do recommend giving it a peep.

If the Inception movie was a keyboard…

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol.

WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAAAAAaaaaaaaSssssss!!!

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol Yup!

Can u do a review on the Yamaha rm1x

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thats a good one!..Thanks for reminding me..A low key classic groove box.

@djra-b3906

2 жыл бұрын

I got one I had it for 20 years

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@djra-b3906 Nice!

I remember, when in the mid 90ies my first Boss came into the Studio (the most modern Studio for Movie Post in Germany, with 3 (!) AMS-Neve Digital Logic Consoles...pre Protools) with the successor of theK2000. I wandet to F**k that thing in every midi jack it had...

@DyReckProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Lol..The K2000 is dope!