Kurzweil PC2R
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- Online Price: £799.00 GBP (inc VAT)
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- Euro Price: €1010.29 EUR (1 GBP = 1.26444 EUR)
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Designed for anyone in search of the best sound quality and great sounding effects, the PC2R rack brings the much sought after PC2 sound and other capabilities to a compact 1U rack module design.
Outstanding New Sounds
This is a songwriter's dream palette! It provides impeccable high quality new sounds including a brand new super dynamic stereo grand piano, stereo strings, Take 6 vocals, brass section, classic electric pianos (FM, Wurlitzer and Rhodes), organs, harpsichord, Clavinet, vibes, marimba, electric and acoustic basses (with and without layered ride cymbal), guitars, drums, percussion and synth sounds. It also features Kurzweil's KB-3 modeled tone wheel organ mode, giving you ultra-realistic tone wheel organ programs with programmable drawbar, vibrato/chorus, percussion settings, and more. 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.
The PC2R 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 PC2R 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 PC2R 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 PC2R 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 PC2R offers the user clear and concise control over their sounds. Equipped with a 2 X 20 character backlit display, the front panel also sports four front panel knobs that can be used as physical controllers and can be programmed on a per zone basis, allowing you to send any MIDI controller message on any zone or any combination of zones. The built in arpeggiator can be synced to an external MIDI clock, and include many different latch modes and play orders. This flexibility allows for the creation of endless varieties of arpeggios and percussion patterns.Each zone can be set to play the PC2R's own sounds, or an external MIDI device, or both. Of course, you can set the note range for each zone to create custom splits and layers, as well as customizing velocity responses per zone. 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 selecting a program or setup. A PC2R setup can have up to 4 zones, and transmit on up to 4 different MIDI channels simultaneously.
High Quality Audio Output
The PC2R 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:
- Rack Module: 1U
- Display: 2x20 character LCD w/ front 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: 4 programmable knobs
- 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: Front panel 1/4" headphone output
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
SPECIFICATIONS :
- Dimensions
Height (1 3/4") (4.50 cm)
Depth (11 1/8") (28.30cm)
Width (19") (48.30cm)
Weight (6.88 lb.) (3.1 kg)
- Power: 9.0VDC / 2.0A external power supply.
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