From Our Research Team:

The Ultimate Digital Grand Piano!

Kurzweil's Mark 12i Digital Grand Piano is perhaps the ultimate keyboard instrument for your home or studio. It offers 300 sounds including a stunning Concert Grand Piano, a Boston Acoustic design speaker system, 16-track sequencer and tons more, all wrapped up in a beautiful wood cabinet.

Kurzweil Mark 12i Digital Grand Piano at a Glance:

• Premier-quality sampled sounds
  
• 3D stereo sound system
  
• User-editable auto-accompaniment styles
  
• "Anyone Can Play" feature makes every note sound right
  
• Remarkably easy to use

Premier-quality sampled sounds
The Mark 12 sets the standard for digital pianos. It includes 325 unequaled sampled sounds that maintain the Kurzweil tradition of the finest sound quality in the industry. The Mark 12 features a superb Concert Grand Piano, new French Horns, snare drum with brushes, harmon-muted trumpet, arpeggiated or solo harp, pizzicato strings, banjo, nylon string guitar, and hundreds more sounds on which the best composers and arrangers in the music business rely.

3D stereo sound system
The Mark 12's SRS sound system offers a stunning surround-sound effect without the need for additional speakers. The Mark 12's 3D stereo sound is a dramatic improvement in sound quality and projection that revolutionizes the way you expect a digital ensemble to sound.

User-editable auto-accompaniment styles
In addition, the Mark 12 offers 64 user-editable auto-accompaniment styles. We hired some of the best arrangers working today to create the most realistic sounding styles on ANY digital instrument. These styles are undoubtedly the finest Kurzweil has ever produced. Kurzweil has made it so easy to use that Mark 12 owners can create their own styles quickly and easily.

"Anyone Can Play" feature makes every note sound right
This exclusive feature means exactly what it says: ANYONE can play. The Mark 12 makes every note sound right. Use Anyone Can Play with auto-accompaniments; or Kurzweil's Interactive Music Disk Collection. With Anyone Can Play, even a non-musician can get full enjoyment from the Mark 12. The Mark 12 also features an easy-to-use 16-track recorder/sequencer. The Mark 12's Flash ROM insures against system obsolescence. As Kurzweil develops new and better software, Flash ROM offers you permanent system upgrades- AND THEY'RE FREE. The Mark12's innovative Edu-Games feature encourages everyone to have fun by sharpening their skills while learning important musical concepts. Edu-Games include harmonic, melodic and rhythmic ear training games. There is also a scale tester and chord dictionary which helps you learn your scales and chords. This is a $400 additional software package, built into the Mark 12!

Remarkably easy to use
The Mark 12's display provides easy-to-read, "no jargon" text, with intuitive menu choices. Its a snap to use everything the Mark 12 offers. With the Mark 12, it's easy to find the sound you want. Simply push a button to get to your favorite instrument, or press the "menu select" button for a list of sounds related to the category you've chosen. And with the Mark 12's disk drive, you don't have to wait while a song loads from a disk - the Mark 12 can read a song directly from the disk and play it - like a CD player. And just like a CD player, you can play songs in order or randomly shuffle-play them.


Kurzweil Mark 12i Digital Grand Piano Features:

• 325 selectable sounds including 21 pianos (acoustic, rock, and ragtime)
  
• Over 100 jazz, rock, and latin percussion instruments are accessible in 17 selectable keyboard arrangements
  
• Any 2 sounds may be layered and their relative volumes adjusted
  
• Any sound can be split with one of 4 basses (acoustic, electric, and synth), plus two "custom" (user-definable) sounds
  
• User selectable split point
  
• Independent octave transposition of each side of split over a +/- 5 octave range
  
• Split and Layer functions can be combined
  
• 880 Reverb and Effects Combinations
  
• Reverb: 19 different settings - Room, Stage, Hall, and Space, with 4-5 variations of each type
  
• Effects: 43 different settings - Chorus, Rotary, Echo, and Special, with 7-14 variations of each type
  
• General MIDI mode for playing GM sequences
  
• Auto Accompaniment: 64 preset musical styles. Categories include Big Band, Jazz, Classical, Show Tunes, Gospel/World, March/Polka, Latin, Country, Rock/R&B, Pop, Dance, and Special. Each category offers 3 or more choices
  
• Introduction, Basic, variation, Fills, and Ending for each style
  
• Flash ROM allows for updating of the Operating System via disk. Operating Systems can be downloaded at no charge
  
• Up to 7 additional new styles can be loaded from disk. Information on these styles can be found on our Mark Series Disk Information page
  
• Independent volume and mute controls for accompaniment (drums, bass, and three accompaniment parts)
  
• Basic, Advanced, Chord Inversion, and Full Keyboard recognition modes, plus chord hold feature
  
• Anyone Can Play Mode - allows you to play any note on the keyboard and have it sound correctly in harmony with the chord you play in your left hand
  
• Harmony feature - adds a full chord to every note you play in your right hand using the correct harmonies, based on the chord you play in your left hand
  
• Arpeggiator - takes chords you play on the keyboard and automatically turns them into arpeggios. Many different adjustable parameters allow you to specify what type of arpeggio is created
  
• Drawbar Organ Mode - Allows you to program and save your own organ settings.
• Features all the standard settings found on a typical drawbar organ, including 9 different partials, percussion, and key click
  
• Recorder/Sequencer: Stores up to 16 songs, 16 tracks per song
  
• Punch-In, Loop, Merge, and Quantize functions
  
• Internal/External Sync for hook up with other sequencers
  
• Records and plays back auto-accompaniment performances
  
• Can play Standard MIDI Files and can read and convert disks from Yamaha PianoSoft and Disk Orchestra Libraries, plus PianoDisc Music Library
  
• Disk Drive: 1.4 meg floppy drive for loading and saving songs, styles, and sounds
  
• 9 Panel Storage Memories store and recall complete front panel settings.
  
• Edu-Games - This special feature has several different interactive games that are both educational and fun to play. They are designed to help you develop basic musical skills
  
• Premium Audio System, jointly designed with Boston Acoustics
  
• 130-watt bi-amplification system (2x50 watts for 6.5" woofers, 2x15 watts for 1" dome tweeters)
  
• Volume, treble, and bass sliders
  
• Headphone jack, two RCA audio in and four RCA audio out jacks (2 switched by headphone and 2 unswitched)
  
• 88-note weighted two piece action
  
• 32-voice polyphony MIDI In, Out and Thru jacks. Complete MIDI implementation. 16 channel multitimbral
  
• Full Transposition; Tuning Adjust +/- 50 cents
  
• Available finishes: Ebony Polish, Mahogany Red Polish
  
• 3 pedals (sustain, sostenuto, soft)
  
• Sliding key cover and moveable music rack
  
• Pitch Bend ribbon
  
• Matching bench
  
• Dimensions: (H x W x D) 33.25" x 56.5" x 22.25"
  
• Weight: 198 lbs.

Kurzweil Mark 12i Additional Sounds Include:

• 10 electric pianos
  
• 3 harpsichords
  
• 9 pipe organs
  
• 10 jazz and rock organs
  
• 3 clavichords
  
• 2 celestes
  
• 16 basses (acoustic, electric, and synth)
  
• 9 acoustic guitars
  
• 3 banjos
  
• 16 jazz and rock guitars
  
• 20 string sections
  
• 8 choirs
  
• 2 solo violins
  
• viola
  
• 2 cellos
  
• contrabass
  
• 12 flutes
  
• 4 clarinets
  
• 3 bassoons
  
• 2 oboes
  
• english horn
  
• 5 trumpets
  
• 2 trombones
  
• 2 french horns
  
• 2 tubas
  
• 11 brass sections
  
• soprano sax
  
• 2 alto saxes
  
• 2 tenor saxes
  
• 2 baritone saxes
  
• 4 vibraphones
  
• 3 marimbas
  
• 6 other mallet instruments
  
• accordion
  
• harmonica
  
• bells
  
• ethnic/world instruments
  
• synth brass
  
• ensembles
  
• orchestral ensembles
  
• pads
  
• leads
  
• synth effects
  
• sound effects

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number Mark 12