Exotic Instruments for Your Kurzweil!
Broaden your musical horizons and explore new sonic territory with world instruments like bamboo flute, sitar, Paraguayan harp, South African Sansa, and more. Plus synths (like the Oberheim OB8, MemoryMoog, and Super Jupiter) and vintage keys as a bonus!
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NOTE: Formatted for Kurzweil Kxxxx keyboardsThese Kurzweil CD-ROMs are in a proprietary Kurzweil format that can only be read by a K2000/K2500/K2600 series keyboard using a Kurzweil-compatible SCSI CD-ROM drive. These CD-ROMs can NOT be read by a Mac or PC. If you are interested in adding these sounds to your Kurzweil PC3K, we suggest that you try our Sweetwater PC3K Library, which has over 100 instruments selected from all nine of our Kurzweil CD-ROM libraries. The library comes on a 2GB thumb drive that's been formatted so that you can plug it directly into the PC3K and start loading. Since there will be plenty of room left over on the drive, we'll include the latest operating system and objects, as well as the currently available Kurzweil PC3K libraries (including the SynthScapes and Take 6 collections) and the K2661 ROM compatibility files.
We think you'll find that this material will not only fill in some holes in your collection left by other sound libraries, but also surprise and delight your ear with previously unchartered sounds capes. Far from being a "me too" ethnic sample collection, the instruments here were not chosen based upon their timbral odd-ball factor. Instead, our goal was to create a truly musically useful collection of non-standard foreign and domestic textures that would add spice to any application.
Consider, for example, the Praguayan Folk Harp. This instrument is hand made of rosewood and mahogany. Its tone is warmer than the modern orchestral harp and yet richly detailed in its provocative harmonic series. The South African Sansa is a wooden box resonator to which a number of split cane or metal tongues are attached, free at one end to be plucked with the thumbs. The texture is almost harpish in sustain, and yet distinctly "tuned percussion" in its attack.
In our quest to provide such rare and pleasing treasures as the examples above, we have also chosen to include several classic analog synth programs from such instruments as the Oberheim OB8, MemoryMoog, and the Super Jupiter.
Keyboard:- Accordian One
- MIDI MIX Piano
- Gig Pianos
- Wurlitzer Electric Piano
- CP-70 Electric Grand
- DX Electric Piano 1&2
- DX Electric Piano 3&4
- Toy Piano
- Analog Pad One
- Synthbasses One & Two
- Synthbasses Three & Four
- Synth Brass One
- Dramatis One
- Dramatis Two
- Harmonica One
- Andes Flute
- Pan Flute One
- Cane Pan Flute
- Japanese Mountain Bamboo Flute
- Shakuhachi One
- Soprano Recorder
- Blown Bottle
- Didjeridu
- Sitar One
- Shamisen
- Koto
- Paraguayan Folk Harp
- Yueh Chin
- Elizabethan Harp
- Banjo One
- Mandolin One
- Piano Harp Effects
Percussion:
- Kyoto Gardens
- Ethnic Percussion One
- Ethnic Percussion Two
- Conga Collection
- Timbales Plus
- Shakers One
- Super Latin Percussion
- Latin Percussion Two
- Body/Voice Percussion
- Sansa One
- Steel Drum One
- Steel Drums Two
- Space Bass One