Kawai Synthesizers

Wow Steve that's an amazing deal!!! 
However the power supply deal sounds worse than "Flirting With 
Disaster" by Molly Hatchet. There is a blocking diode in the K4r 
power section and that's probably doing the half wave thing but the 
power factor is way off. This can't be good for either module. The 
only thing I could find on the XD5 was the same DC IN 12V that's 
printed on my K4r is shown on page 5 of the PDF manual Kawai has on 
their site. The power consumption isn't listed on the spec page but 
it's the K4r's sister so it should be the same value. 

According to the manual this (the only?) Kawai Percussion Synthesizer 
has 256 waves and samples to play around with. 16 bit 44k technology 
for the samples and the waves are the same as the K4(r). These sound 
great in the K4 and I'm betting the XD5 can do the TB303, TR909 and 
all these popular sought after sounds. There's even a gated mode and 
8 outputs. Neat! Tell us how it sounds when you get a chance....

Narfman  

--- In kawaisynths@yahoogroups.com, Steven Wright 
<drivefastplayhard@...> wrote:
>
> hey, I just bought a used K4R and an X5D or whatever the K4R based 
drum module is.  Only one PSU though and it's a 12 volt AC 350ma or 
something like that (don't recall the current actually but it was 
smallish).  the AC thing surprised me.  They work fine with the 12v 
ac output adapter.  does it really need ac though or is it ignoring 
half the waveform and only needs dc power?
> 
> I need another psu for my second unit obviously which is why I ask.
> 
> By the way, got a crazy deal on the gear.
> 
> $280 canadian for:
> K4R, X5D, Emu Orbit V2, behringer 16 channel level mixer (one rack 
space), behringer t1954 enhancer (I'm trying to sell that but we'll 
see, could be useful, looks cool anyway LoL), behringer tweakalizer, 
and m-audio x-session.
> 
> Scary deal huh?  Anyway, so I'm new to the K4R but it and the emu 
orbit v2 both impress me a lot.  the orbit has portamento which I 
love for leads, and it has nice filters, the k4r has one wicked 
filter though.... fairly edgy analog sounding unit.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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