Kurzweil Music Systems K150 User's Manual

The KURZWEIL 150 Fourier Synthesizer

Resident Presets

Program Display Description

PIANO

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15 16

18 19 20 22 24 25 26 29 30 31 32 34 35

36 253 254 255

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

ABS/PNO ROCK PNO SOFT PNO BRT PNO TOUCHPNO CH PNO1 CH PNO2 ELEC PNO BR E PNO VIB EPNO EBS/BEPN

HARPSCHD SOFTHPCD VIB+EQHD LYR HPCD KPR HPCD A BASS E BASS PHS EBS VIBES FLUIDVIB MARIMBA OCT MBA JAZZ ORG SEB/JORG PERC ORG ROCK ORG CH RKORG RAMPWAVE SKWRWAVE SINEWAVE

Acoustic piano Acoustic bass/piano. No pitch bend on bass. Bright acoustic piano Mellow acoustic piano Timbre shifted piano with EQ Lightly chorused piano with timbre shift controlled by velocity Rock piano with chorusing Piano, two layers with timbre shift tune adjust and EQ Electric piano Bright electric piano Electric piano with vibrato and timbre shift Electric bass/bright electric piano split at C3. Use mod wheel to control chorus & vibrato depth Harpsichord Soft harpsichord Soft harpsichord with vibrato & EQ. Use mod wheel to control vibrato depth. Layered harpsichords in octaves with detune & EQ Harpsichord. Vibrato depth controlled by key pressure. Acoustic bass Electric bass Electric bass with chorusing Vibraphone Layered vibes with slow vibrato & tune adjust Marimba Marimba, chorused with 1 octave detune & a short delay Jazz organ Soft electric bass, jazz organ split at C3 Jazz organ chorused, layered with marimba in octaves Rock organ Chorused rock organ with vibrato Ramp Wave Square Wave Sine Wave

Annotated Program List

Voice Block A Presets

SEB/EPNO

PHS EPNO

BR ABASS

BR EBASS

VIBR VIB

AB/VB+PN

ABS/JORG

EBS/RORG

KPR ROCK

ROCK/JZZ

AGUITAH1

ABS/AG1

AGUITAR2

EBS/AG2

AGUITAR3

ABS/AG3

12STR GU

PHS GUIT

Soft electric bass & chorused electric piano split at C3 Phased electric piano with timbre shift and chorusing Bright acoustic bass with timbre shift Bright electric bass with timbre shift. Vibrato depth is controlled by key pressure. Vibes with vibrato, depth controlled by mod wheel Acoustic bass/vibes layered with piano split at C3 Acoustic bass/jazz organ with vibrato controlled by mod wheel - split at C3 Electric bass/rock organ with chorus depth controlled by mod wheel - split at C3 Rock organ with chorus depth controlled by key pressure Rock organ with chorusing, transposed up an octave/ Jazz organ with chorusing, transposed down an octave, split at C#4 Steel string acoustic guitar Acoustic bass/Guitar split at C3 Bright steel string guitar Electric bass/Guitar2 split at C3 Nylon string acoustic guitar Acoustic bass/Guitar3 split at C3 Guitar1 layered in octaves Guitar2 with chorusing

5THSGUIT

GUIT+MBA

GUIT+VIB

SYN HORN

EBS/S HN

SYNHN+PN

KBEND HN

SYNSWEEP

SYN CELE

SYN BASS

S BS/CEL

SBS/JZHD

CONGAS

ECHO CGA

POP PNO

SCHIZPNO

ALIENPNO

AUGM MBA

BELLS

Voice Block B Presets

Guitar with vibrato & chorusing with echoes a 5th above and a 5th below the pitch played, delay is 120 milliseconds Guitar3 and marimba layered. Guitar has timbre shift Guitar 1 and vibes layered. Vibrato on vibes is controlled by mod wheel Synth horns Electric bass/synth horns split at C3 Synth horns layered with soft piano. Chorus depth on piano is controlled by mod wheel Synth horns with chorus. Depth on the mod wheel and pitch bend controlled by key pressure or the pitch wheel Synth filter sweep Synth celeste Synth bass Synth bass/Synth celeste - split at G#3 Synth bass/Jazz organ layered with harpsichord an 8ve lower - split at G#3 Congas Congas - 7 echos, chorus detune on mod wheel Electric bass & piano synth sweep & piano - split at C4. Electric bass (no pitch bend) layered with piano/sweep, timbre shifted & layered with piano an octave higher. Sweep/piano balance controlled by key velocity. Pitch bend depth is one octave. Piano with timbre shift, chorusing, square wave vibrato and EQ. Pitch bend depth is 1 octave. Layered pianos with square wave vibrato & tune adjust Multi-layered marimba transposed to form an augmented triad Multi-layered vibes, transposed, with tune adjust, and chorus on layer 1.

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101 102 103

CLARINET AbS/CLAR OBOE HARP OCT HAHP HPHARM ECHOHAHP CHIMES HANdbELL KbEND CL PERCHAHP VibR ObO SPACECHI CH HARP VibES+Hll CEL+CHIM PIANO/CLAR VibEi+CL

SBS+CHI MAR+BELL HARPGUIT

PERCCLAR SINECHIM HARPPLEX

Clarinet Acoustic bass/clarinet split at C#3. Acoustic bass in left region, clarinet in right. Oboe Harp Two layers of Harp, one transpose up 12 semitones Harp Harmonic. Harp with Timbre Shift Echo Harp. Harp with delayed chorus Chimes Handbells Clarinet with key pressure pitch bend Harp layered with timbre-shifted congas Oboe with key-pressure vibrato Space chimes. Delayed chorus chimes with key-pressure vibrato (square wave) Chorus Harp. Harp with 3 note chorus detuned 4 cents, +/- mode. Harp layered with vibes Synth Celeste layered with chimes Piano/Clarinet, split at C#5, Piano in left region, clarinet in right Vibes/Vibes and Clarinet, split at B4, Vibes in left region, Vibes layered with Clarinet in right Synth bass layered with chimes Handbells, transposed and timbre shifted, layered with marimba Harp layered with split guitar. Guitar split at F #2 and C#6. Left region transposed up 12 semitones, right transposed down 12. Chorused clarinet layered with chorused congas Sinewaves and chimes layered with vibrato and chorus Complex harp. Two layers of harp, one with 600 ms chorus delay, one with key-pressure vibrato and attack velocity timbre-shift. Try it with the sustain pedal.

All programs have default chorusing and vibrato that may be turned on at the layer level and controlled by mod wheel, key pressure, or set at the fixed setting

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