Kawai K5000W Synthesizer workstation

Description

Kawai K5000W Advanced Additive Workstation - In excellent condition, owned from new in 1998. Little home use and original screen protector. Complete with original box, floppy disk drivers, and manuals.

Almost new condition and fully operational. The slightly yellowing keys are usual on these keyboards and have no bearing on its functionality. See photos.

The K5000 is credited as one of the few commercial synthesizers to use additive synthesis. Even today this technology is mostly found in software synthesizers.

A K5000 sound is composed of up to six different layers, each of which could use the "advanced additive" synthesis engine or perform fairly standard subtractive synthesis using the internal PCM sound bank. Each source that used additive synthesis could use up to 64 harmonics per source (tuned in a harmonic series, each with their own amplitude envelope) and had its own formant filter that could be modulated by an LFO or its own envelope. The standard digital filter, available with both additive and subtractive synthesis, is known for its rather extreme self-oscillation at higher resonance settings. Another useful feature is that most functions of the synthesizer can be tied to velocity, location of a note on the keyboard, and MIDI controllers, allowing for timbral variation in response to player dynamics.

Thorough modernisation of the classic K5 — the only successful additive synthesizer.
PCM samples can be added into additive synthesis for the first time.
Great effects routing and algorithms
Good sequencer with large capacity and excellent editing features.

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