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> > Kurzweil, which is American despite the German sounding name, does little to
> > innovate. Their VAST engine is quite old by now, even though their stuff is
> > top-end, and even more expensive than Roland.
> 
> The WERE innovative; after all they came out with the first sample-based synth
> back in 1984 (The grand old Kurzweil 250) but for the past 8-9 years they've
> essentially came out with the same product (various versions of the K2000 <yawn>).


I have a K2000 in my setup and it is a killersynth/sampler. The power of this machine is majestic. and guess what, they still have support on this machine, can you say that about most other synths......NOOOOOOOPE. Yes, they haven't presented a hole range of new synths called "Kurzweil groovebox", "Kurzweil 303", or whatever, they have a powerfull killer synth, so why change that.

Jan