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Kurzweil PC2 76-Note Semi-Weighted Synthesizer

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Following on the design of our award winning PC88, the PC2 features outstanding sound and impressive master controller capabilities. Our new Easy Split & Layer feature makes it fast and easy to create quick layers and splits.

Outstanding New Sounds

The PC2 features many incredible new sounds not found on any previous Kurzweil models, including a triple strike stereo grand piano, our new lush stereo strings, newly recorded multi-strike classic electric pianos (both Fender Rhodes(TM) and Wurlitzer(TM)), brass sections, drums, percussion, voices (featuring Kurzweil's outstanding Take 6 vocal samples), and more. It also features Kurzweil's KB-3 modeled tone wheel organ mode, giving you ultra-realistic tone wheel organ programs. Orchestral Sounds include String Sections, Solo Strings, Woodwinds, Orchestral Brass, Jazz Brass, Orchestral Ensembles, Choir, Organ, Harp, Nylon String Guitar, Orchestral Percussion, and Ethnic Percussion. Additional sound include mallet percussion, guitar, bass, Clavinet(TM), harpsichord, synth sounds, and more.

The PC2 comes with 400 fantastic sounding preset programs (256 regular programs, 128 Orchestral ROM programs, and 16 KB3 programs). All programs can be edited, allowing for changes to timbre, envelopes, and LFOs. They can then be stored to any of the 256 user locations (128 for regular programs and 128 for KB3 programs). And with 64 voices of polyphony, expandable to 128 voices, you'll never run out of polyphony for playing all of the marvelous sounds.

The Orchestral ROM block comes with 2 banks of 128 programs. Our own unique programs are installed in the Flash ROM. A General MIDI bank is also available, which can be loaded into the User bank. Or, if desired, you can install the GM bank of sounds as presets into the Flash ROM, and then load our unique bank of sounds into the User bank.

Up to 4 programs can be layered/split to create full, rich, and expressive sounds and combinations called setups. The PC2 ships with 32 great sounding setups with room for 128 user created setups as well. It's easy and quick to make setups with layered and split sounds which are impossible to create on other rack modules.

Beyond the wealth of built-in factory progams, the PC2 has room for an additional expansion ROM block, the Classic Keys ROM, which add 128 fantastic new preset programs and 32 new preset Setups into ROM memory.

Fantastic Effects

The PC2 includes dual effects processors which feature preset effects of the same quality as found in our highly regarded KDFX for the K2500/K2600 series instruments. A multiple bus architecture allows separate send levels per MIDI channel for an effect level, and a reverb level. Effects include reverb, chorus, delays, distortion, rotary, phasor, flanging, dynamics processing, and much more.

Control At Your Fingertips

The PC2 will make a great master controller for your entire studio or performing rig. A PC2 MIDI Setup can have up to 4 zones, sending on up to 4 different MIDI channels. A large number of physical controllers can be programmed on a per zone basis, allowing you to send any MIDI controller message on any zone. Physical controllers include: 4 sliders, two wheels, 3 footswitch pedal inputs, 2- CC pedal inputs, a Breath Controller input, 600 mm Ribbon Input (for use with Kurzweil's Ribbon Controller), Mono-pressure, and 5 programmable panel switches. Each zone can be set to play the PC2's own sounds, or an external MIDI device, or both. Of course, you can set the note range for each zone to create splits and layers, as well as customizing velocity response per zone. All controllers can be scaled both positively and negatively and can have offset values as well as entry and exit values to set their 'state' upon program or setup selection. A PC2 setup can have up to 4 zones, and transmit on up to 4 different MIDI channels simultaneously.

The built in arpeggiator can be synced to an external MIDI clock and many different latch modes and play orders. This flexibility allows for the creation of endless varieties of arpeggios and percussion patterns.

High Quality Audio Output

The PC2 gives you pristine quality audio, with both balanced analog (24-bit DACs) and digital audio outputs. Digital audio is sent at a rate of 48kHz. It can be switched between Pro (AES/EBU) and Consumer (S/PDIF) formats and can be switched between 16, 18, 20, and 24 bit resolution.

DEMOS:

The following demos of the PC2 and PC1 Series models are in MP3 format. You will need an MP3 player to listen to them.

Stock Demos

  Demo Details
1 Elements This demo by Chris Stevens covers a variety of styles (2.8 Mb)
2 Fandango A latin jazz tune by Tim Gilpin (1.4 Mb)
3 The Girl with the Flaxen Hair A well known piano piece by Debussy, performed by Lucy DeSa (2.1 Mb)
4 Precipice A solo piano piece in a modern vein, by Jordan Rudess (1.3 Mb)

Orchestral ROM Option (PCR-1 / ROM 1) Demo

  Demo Details
1 Symphonica This demo by Chris Stevens focuses on the samples in the new Orchestral ROM block for the PC Series. (3.6Mb)

Classic Keys ROM Option (ROM 2 / PCR-2) Demos

  Demo Program
1 Trampler Trampled under D6
2 Stevie Dist Stevie Fuzz
3 Black Russian Black Cow Clav
4 Brunelle Joe's Clav
5 Step Wah MistakenIdentitySW
6 Funk Machine StopMakingSense
7 Sneaky Mambo Fagen Phaser
8 Blues Ending Studio Rhds
9 Rick's Lament Sly Ballad
10 SteelyFiller Black Friday
11 Planetarium Spaced Out Bach
12 SecretaryRock Gabriel's Melt
13 Saddest Key CP80 Enhanced
14 Pad Paradise Bladerunner ARP
15 ARP Fever Funkenstein's ARP
16 Hal's Theme Silent Sorrow
17 Tolkien Str Yesesis Tron Str
18 Tea W/Mackey Mellotron Flutes
19 Made For TV Warszawa Layers
20 Dream Off Dream On Session

Features:

  • Keyboard: 76 note lightly weighted keyboard with mono pressure
  • Display: 2x20 character LCD w/ rear panel contrast knob
  • Polyphony: 64-voice, dynamically allocated (upgradeable to 128 with the Polyphony Expansion option).
  • Multitimbral: 16 parts (one per MIDI channel)
  • Factory Presets: 536 Internal programs (incl. Orchestral ROM set). Expandable to 668 via Classic Keys Expansion and optional GM Bank install.
  • Factory MIDI Setups: 32 factory programmed MIDI setups expandable to 96 via Expansion ROM Blocks. 128 user programmable MIDI setups, each with 4 independent zones, effects and arpeggiator settings.
  • General MIDI: available with the Orchestral ROM expansion (included in all units sold in the USA).
  • KB3 Mode: Kurzweil's proprietary modeled tone wheel organ technology.
  • User Memory: 256 locations for User created preset programs (128 for regular programs and 128 for KB3 programs)
  • ROM expansion slots: 2
  • Effects : Dual Processors (A & B) offering: 58 Reverbs, 6 Delays, 10 Choruses, 6 Flangers, 3 Phasors, 4 Shapers, 2 Enhancers, 8 Filtered Effects, 4 Distortions, 1 Mono>Stereo, 3 Wide Stereo, 4 Compressors, 2 Panners, 7 Rotarys, Stereo Tremolo, and 44 combination effects chains utilizing Kurzweil1s unique Laserverb
  • Effects Routing: All 16 MIDI channels can send to A and to B in any amount. Also there is a global send from A to B for serial effects chaining.
  • User controllable EQ: Global 3-Band
  • MIDI: In, Out, Thru (hardware switchable to copy of MIDI Out).
  • Controllers: Pitch wheel, modulation wheel, 4 front panel sliders, 5 front panel switches (momentary or toggle, software selectable), 2 continuous control pedal inputs, 3 footswitch inputs, mono pressure, breath controller input, Super Ribbon input.
  • Arpeggiator: Full-featured MIDI note arpeggiator with multiple latch modes, selectable play order, velocity, duration, tempo, and sync functions.
  • Outputs: Two 1/4" balanced TRS analog (24-bit DACs), RCA digital w/ selectable format (AES/EBU, S/P-DIF), bit width (16, 18, 20, 24), and dithering.
  • Headphones: Rear panel 1/4" headphone output
  • FREE OS Updates: Flash ROM upgradeable (via system exclusive dumps). Click here to download the latest version

OPTIONS:

  • (PCR-1) Orchestral ROM expansion (standard in current units wihtin the US, available as an option for older units)
  • (PCR-2) Classic Keys ROM expansion
  • (PCX-1) Polyphony Expansion - increases polyphony to 128 voices
  • (KFP-1) Single Piano-Style Footswitch
  • (KFP-2M) Double Piano-Style Footswitch
  • (CC-1) Continuous Control Pedal
  • (PC2SRIB) Ribbon Controller
  • (DPC2-MDS) Music Rack

Power: 9.0VDC / 2.0A external power supply.

Dimension

PC2

 

Height

(4 5/16") (10.95 cm)

 

Depth

(14") (35.60cm)

 

Length

(47 13/16") (121.45cm)

 

Weight

(35 lb) (16 kg)

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