By Daniel Fisher, Director of Soundware Engineering    Having read your way through much of this issue you already know just how excited we are about the new products we saw at the Summer NAMM Show. It was also a great chance to show the world some of our own exciting releases. Unquestionably, the biggest draw to the Sweetwater booth was our exclusive K2500SWx keyboard package, which delivers the world's most powerful synthesis and sampling keyboard along with everything needed to make it a world-class music production station — one that looks as good as it sounds.    The real oak endcaps and oak music stand along with the custom wooden keyboard stand will make the K2500SWx the centerpiece of your studio. A customized, lazer engraved brass plate with your studio's name completes the look. The K2500SWx not only comes fully loaded with every possible option inside the 88-note weighted keyboard, including 128 megs of RAM, 28 megs of ROM, 2.5 megs of P-RAM, and the powerful KDFX digital multi-effects, it also sports an internal 2 gig hard drive.    The K2500SWx has the latest soundware and software upgrades installed as well which provide the very cool KB3 organ simulation and the exciting Live Mode which lets you bring external audio signals in for "VAST-ing." Our K2500SWx is also unique in that it comes with our entire Sweetwater Soundware Library including the acclaimed Power Translator Series (with the Roland CD-ROMs!), along with some of the best third-party CD-ROMs in the industry for a grand total of over 15,000 megabytes! There's so much more to tell about the K2500SWx, but I'll leave it to your Sweetwater Sales Engineer to fill you in on the rest.    In other Soundware news, we're proud to announce our latest offering for the E-mu ESI-4000 sampler called the ESI Premium Rhythm Section CD-ROM ($99 list). It's the latest of our $99 Mini-Series CD-ROMs which now brings our award-winning Young Chang Stereo Triple-Strike Grand Piano to E-mu owners (an E4/e64 version is currently in the works). The CD-ROM also contains 5 of our GM Standard Drum Kits from the Total Stereo Session Drums CD-ROM, 5 of our best Bass Guitars and a Yamaha Rock Piano and C7 Piano. There's even a classic DX-7 Electric Piano thrown in for variety.    This CD-ROM follows our other already successful $99 "Mini" CD-ROMs including the Electron Bomb CD-ROM which features Dance, Techno, Industrial, Rave, and Ambient VAST programming from Kurzweil gurus Andrew Schlesinger, Gary Phillips, Brian Cowell, and Bruce Duncan. You'll find 100 Synthetica Volume 1 programs (regularly $39) as well as the latest Synthetica Volume 2 for Contemporary ROM (also $39). You can "rave-on" with the 100 DEEPRAVED Programs ($39) and push the limit with our 100 Techno/Ambient programs (again $39) and much more, all for just $99!    And don't forget our recent addition to the $99 Mini CD-ROM series, the Young Chang Mini CD-ROM for the K2000/K2500 which features our best 16 meg and 13 meg Stereo Virtual Grand Pianos. It even includes an 8 meg Mono Virtual Piano for your mono PA gigs all for the outstanding "Mini" price of only $99. If you bought these three floppy sets separately it would cost you $227, but we're offering this "mini" CD-ROM for only $99! Get your copy today and start playing piano for real.    Well that's all we've got for this issue. Next issue I'll be back to let you in on some really hot soundware that we're developing for several of the other popular brands of samplers. You won't want to miss this one. Accurate pricing and availability of products shown here in Sweet Notes may fluctuate. Products may be discontinued or newer versions may be available. While we do try to keep this information accurate, please contact your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for current information. Master Index | Sweet Notes Index | Home | Back Page | Next Page