Longtime Sweetwater customers know that we've been major fans of Kurzweil Music Systems synths and samplers from Day One. Seems like every time one of their instruments has reached its full potential, along comes another Operating System or Hardware Option that once again gives the instrument new and exciting areas to explore.

Since the release of the K2000 back in 1991, the bar has been raised many times to once again set the standard for synthesis power: a full-blown arpeggiator, 8-Zone Set-ups, the DMTi Digital Multitrack interfaced, Note-Starts from Controllers, KB3 realtime organ drawbar system, and even a Live Mode that allows external audio to be processed by VAST. But the single most innovative and revolutionary option is the new KDFX (Kurzweil Digital Effects) for the K2500. Its sonic power and flexibility rivals most outboard effects and its retail price of $795 is far below other serious professional studio devices.

There are a number of advantages in having a KDFX unit in your K2500 as opposed to using an outboard processor. You can easily design and store individual KDFX Studios and Effects Presets for every Program in your K2500, meaning you don't have to create MIDI Patch Maps to link Programs to Effects like you would with an outboard processor. This allows you to save all your Programs, Songs, Samples, and Effects as a single file! An outboard digital effects unit would need to save its files as a SysEx dump somewhere else. Another area where the KDFX is superior to outboard effects processors is its tremendous controller assignment capability. Kurzweil's Variable Architecture Synthesis Technology is recognized as having the most powerful control signal processing, and now, all of these controls (and more) are available for every single KDFX parameter. This allows you to create powerful digital multieffects that precisely follow your performance. For those of you with studio applications the KDFX is a god-send (and god-return?). Not only does the KDFX allow 4-stereo busses of digital output which can be sent to ADAT Lightpipe or TASCAM TOS Link (via the DMTi Digital Multitrack interface), it also can send a stereo, 16- or 20-bit digital signal directly from the K2500 itself. You can even bring live, external digital or analog audio signals into the K2500 (via Sampling Option) and process them with both VAST and KDFX. The result can be sent back out of the K2500 as either an analog or digital signal. So it's almost like getting a full blown external processor for free.

But convenience, controllability, and external processing would all be of little importance if the KDFX didn't have stellar sound quality. Soundware designers and audio experts have already favorably compared the KDFX's reverbs and effects to many of the world's most expensive processors. The Reverbs (over 100) in particular were singled out as being among the best in the industry. But besides reverbs, there are also Complex Echos, 4- and 8-Tap Delays that can sync to MIDI Clock, Spectral Delays, Stereo Choruses, Flangers and Phasers, Lazer Verbs, Pitchers, Shapers, Bit Quantizers, Distortions with EQs and Cabinet Simulators, PolyDistortions with up to 8 distortion stages, Leslie Rotary simulators with separate Horn and Rotor control and the list goes on. And the list will keep getting longer as new FX Algorithms ware are made available via software from Kurzweil in the future.

If you're convinced that the Kurzweil Digital Effects Option is just the ticket to take you into the 21st Century of audio production please visit the KDFX Install Party. There you'll learn why Sweetwater Sound is, by far, the best place to have your KDFX professionally installed. There's also instructions on how to safely prepare and ship your K2500 to Sweetwater for this exciting new upgrade. We've even provided an on-line form where you can create the Return Authorization document and the FedEx Airbill which will expedite sending us your instrument. You can even download the entire KDFX User Manual and Algorithm Reference to read at your leisure. But don't say we didn't warn you: Once you go through the manual and flip through the Algorithm Reference you won't be happy until your K2500 has KDFX.

For more expert information and your best KDFX value simply call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer and we'll get you up and running in the shortest time possible.