{"id":602,"date":"1999-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-10-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=602"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"kurzweil-file-format","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/kurzweil-file-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurzweil file format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We seem to get lots of questions about computer compatibility with Kurzweil disks. Well, here&#8217;s the lowdown from Daniel Fisher, our Chief Soundware Engineer. &#8220;K2000\/K2500\/K2600 CD-ROMs are in a &#8220;semi-proprietary&#8221; format that&#8217;s almost-but-not-quite-DOS. Thus a PC can&#8217;t read them. Strangely enough, a Mac with PC Exchange or Access PC can read &#8220;some&#8221; Kurzweil CD-ROMs depending on when they were made. Anything of ours from GuitarCD to present can be read on the Mac. All Kurzweil floppies can be seen on both a Mac or PC as it is in a &#8220;true&#8221; DOS format.&#8221; There you have it. The obvious corollary to this question is, &#8220;How do I use my PC (or Mac) to load and save files for my Kurzweil?&#8221; That&#8217;s a potentially sticky subject as the answer depends to a certain extent on what type of specific computer hardware you have. We&#8217;ve covered this and other related ground in past installments of TTOTD, but to get a more specific answer for your specific circumstances we recommend you speak to your illustrious Sweetwater Sales Engineer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[33899],"storecat":[],"itemids":[24235,24243],"manufacturers":[33482],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the Kurzweil file format page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/kurzweil-file-format\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kurzweil file format - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We seem to get lots of questions about computer compatibility with Kurzweil disks. 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