(c) Josh Nursing
I am a huge fan of the Kurzweil K2 series synthesizers and their seminal V.A.S.T. architecture which is still one of the most powerful synth engines today.
But with power comes complexity. Hence, as a long-time contributor to the Kurzweil mailing lists for about ten years, I usually teach people how to harness the raw synthesis power of these synths.
On the mailing list once, a reader asked if it was possible to re-create sounds that The Prodigy used on their album “Voodoo People”. Although somebody else was saying that The Prodigy probably used ‘racks of gear’ and that it was impossible to do the same on the Kurzweil K2000, I proceeded to describe step by step a few avenues to explore. The reader replied that during the week-end, he had achieved even better sounds thanks to my advice.
Subsequently, I wrote several advanced tutorials for the Kurzweil synthesizers based on more than 15 years of experience with sound synthesis.
These advanced tutorials for the Kurzweil K2 series synthesizers have been edited from their previous versions and reproduced here. I have added screenshots to make them easier to follow. The screenshots are provided by YashLabs’ KurView, a brilliant software remote controller for the Kurzweil K2 series synthesizer.
The texts were originally called “Advanced K2000 Programming” because they went much further than the original Kurzweil manual as well as the existing tutorials by other users at the time.
Readers were enthusiatic about the information these tutorials contain. You can read their comments at the end of this post.
There were three original tutorials targetting mostly the K2000 but the information is valid for other synths like the K2500, K2600 and K2661:
1. Interactive Phrase Sequencing
2. Vector Synthesis & WaveSequencing Emulation
3. Faking effects
I was the winner of an early VAST programmer’s challenge for a program called “Evolvers” based on my ideas about Wave sequencing emulation and received three great samples CDROM from Sweetwater.
And when I wrote the tutorial about Wave Sequencing emulation, a new VAST programmer’s Challenge was under way with that very same subject! See the comment by Jeffrey Carpenter below.
Enjoy the tutorials.
The Comments are on the next page.
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