KawaiK3Zone

On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 03:28  PM, 
kawaik3zone@yahoogroups.com wrote:
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> Message: 1
>    Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 07:51:14 -0000
>    From: "senatoradam" <senatoradam@...>
> Subject: Whats ounds do you use your K3 for mostly?
>
> I use my K3m mainly for pads.  What do you guys mainly use yours for?
>

Until I bought an AN1X, I used the K3 for all vintage monophonic lead 
sounds (sawtooth, square, sine wave kinds of things... "Tom Sawyer", 
"And You and I", etc..). I also made a nice polyphonic patch for 
"Subdivisions" by Rush. Now I use the AN1X a little more, because of 
the on-board knobs...but I am still very happy with what the K3 can do.

I also used it quite a bit for Hammond sounds by using the additive 
mode on bank 32...... The Hammonds were ok  as pads when used with a 
Dunlop Roto-vibe. At least for about 10 years ago. I don't use it for 
these sounds anymore.

I know there was some talk about loading patch sysex files into the 
computer on this list. This synth isn't as user friendly in this way as 
many others I have. Do you have to load each patch separately...or can 
you load the entire bank...like most other synths.

I owe someone some patches and would like to try to get this done very 
soon.

Thanks,

Linda
http://www.dachtyl.com
http://www.waltjames.com

--- In kawaik3zone@yahoogroups.com, Linda Dachtyl <lindaleed@e...> wrote:
> 
> I also used it quite a bit for Hammond sounds by using the additive 
> mode on bank 32...... The Hammonds were ok  as pads when used with a 
> Dunlop Roto-vibe. At least for about 10 years ago. I don't use it for 
> these sounds anymore.

A recent Sound on Sound magazine "Synth Secrets" article discusses
just that-- how the K3 is one of the better analogish synths for
simulating a Hammond 88 8000 000 registration. 


> I know there was some talk about loading patch sysex files into the 
> computer on this list. This synth isn't as user friendly in this way as 
> many others I have. Do you have to load each patch separately...or can 
> you load the entire bank...like most other synths.

If there's a way to dump the whole K3 bank at once, I don't know of
it. Of course, I don't have the K3 user docs. What you can do is set
up your sequencer to receive sysex data until interrupted and then
(with the K3 in the send-sysex-on-program-change mode discussed in the
other e-mails) cycle through all the patches in a bank. Each time the
patch changes, the sequencer should receive sysex bytes. If this is
transmitted to a K3/K3m, it should populate the patch bank with sounds.

Good luck,
Ben