Amidst the vast sea of marketing hype,flash & rhetoric amongst keyboard workstations these days,there is a product from a company where quality,functionality and reliability exists without question-which is the Kurzweil PC3X!
This particular Kurzweil model does not have a sampling function,nor does it have a multitrack audio recorder built in,but in terms of sheer quality with regard to acoustic,as well as synths sounds and it's sequencer,this not only out-performs the Roland Fantom G6 by leaps and bounds,the PC3X has unsurpassed sample quality of acoustic sounds and the most flexible and powerful synth engine ever created in the industry-and this is undisputed.
Size: 88 weighted keys
Polyphony: 128 note,16 part multitimbral
Synth engine: improved Vast engine with an additional VA-1 synth(from an older prototype model)
Program presets:850,with 1,024 user memory locations
Sequencer: unlimited tracks,with 16 insert effects!!
Arpeggiators: 16 independent
Memory storage: xD card
Price: $3,269.97(USD)
This is Kurzweil's best product to date and it is roughly 2 grand cheaper than the 88 key K2600XS workstation,so that being said,having no sampler and audio recorder built in is trivial.
User review: http://www.sweetwater.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20508&highlight=kurzweil+pc3x
Audio demo from the previous K2 series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWzB6QZ18W8Website:
http://www.kurzweilmusicsystems.com/Product.php?product=37If I had to replace my Korg,this keyboard would be it and if I did this,it would be like having the old K2661 and an Access Virus all in one,but with far more polyphony and sequencer tracks!!!
Thom
