BRIGHT GERMAN
A bright German grand with a clear, ringing top, on your K2700.
A bright, clear German grand in nine velocity layers, with a pedal-down recording at every layer, the undamped top octave ringing on as in the real instrument, and key releases at three dynamics. Three programs: the grand itself, a stage voicing and a room voicing.
Every note speaks, right up to the top of the keyboard.
BRIGHT GERMAN is a clear, brilliant German grand made for the K2700: a piano that speaks through a band and sparkles on its own. Nine velocity layers take it from a quiet, rounded touch to a bright, ringing fortissimo.
Every layer also has its pedal-down recording, so the open strings ring under the pedal. Above F6, where a grand has no dampers, the notes ring on whether you hold the pedal or not, as they do in the instrument. Key releases from three recordings follow your touch, with the K2700's own pedal noises underneath.
Three programs share the samples: Bright German, German Stage and German Room. All of them answer the same 22 controls on the K2700's panel, so you can close the lid, move the microphone or open the room while you play.
One grand, three ways to hear it.
Three programs on the same nine velocity layers.
BRIGHT GERMAN
The grand on its own, every control at its starting point: the one to shape from scratch on the K2700's panel.
GERMAN STAGE
The lid on its full stick, the microphone half a metre away, extra sparkle on top and a hall: for the stage.
GERMAN ROOM
The lid on the short stick, the microphone back at 1.2 m, a softer top and a warm room.
The whole piano on the K2700's panel.
Every program answers the same 22 controls in Program mode, on the K2700 alone: no Mac and no app needed to shape the piano while you play.
- Knob 1: BASS
- Knob 2: MID
- Knob 3: MID FREQ
- Knob 4: TREBLE
- Knob 5: COMPRESSION
- Knob 6: SIZZLE
- Knob 7: DELAY FEEDBACK
- Knob 8: DELAY TIME
- Knob 9: REVERB TIME
- Slider 1: KEY RELEASE
- Slider 2: REVERB TYPE
- Slider 3: PEDAL NOISE
- Slider 4: RELEASE
- Slider 5: DELAY AMOUNT
- Slider 6: STRING RES
- Slider 7: LID
- Slider 8: MIC DISTANCE
- Slider 9: REVERB AMOUNT
The sustain pedal lifts the dampers and brings in the string resonance and the pedal noises. Buttons 2 to 5 and 7 are left free.
Three steps to the first note.
Get the file
One .K27 file with the three programs, their three effect chains, the keymaps and the samples, about 455 MB.
Load it with FILL
From a USB stick, in GLOBAL, FILE, LOAD. Everything goes into free places; nothing of yours is replaced.
Play
Find the programs by name. The samples stay in the K2700's sample memory after power-off: load them once.
What you need
- Instrument
- Kurzweil K2700.
- Contents
- 3 programs on one sampled grand: 9 velocity layers, each also recorded with the pedal down, the undamped top from F6, key releases at three dynamics, the K2700's pedal noises.
- File
- One .K27 file, about 455 MB, loaded with FILL.
- Sample memory
- About 455 MB of the K2700's 5 GB of user sample memory.
- Controls
- 22 on the K2700's panel: 9 knobs, 9 sliders and 4 buttons, and the sustain pedal.
- Price
- $69 (USD), one-time.
- Included
- KEDITOR GRAND for macOS, free.
BRIGHT GERMAN
Available soon.
The editor for your piano comes with it.
Buy this piano and KEDITOR GRAND is yours, free: a Mac app that edits your K2700 in real time: it opens the piano in a room and lets you shape it, lid, microphone, voicing EQ, string resonance, noises and hall, while the K2700 follows every move. Then it stores the patch there, or exports it as a file. KEDITOR GRAND is not sold on its own: it comes with every piano pack.
Build your own pianos automatically, in just a few clicks.
- Shape the pianoOpen the lid, move the microphone from the hammers to the room, voice the EQ, set the string resonance and the noises: you hear each move at once.
- Your touchThe Dynamic Response Curve sets which velocity layer each velocity plays: SOFT, HARD, or every boundary by hand.
- On the K2700's panelAll 22 controls are the K2700's own knobs, sliders and buttons: a stored patch keeps them without the Mac.
- LINK, STORE, EXPORTYour K2700 follows every move in real time while you play; store the patch there as a USER program, or export a .K27 file for a USB stick.
- Build your own pianosOther samplers give you a keymap and hours of programming; the NEW PIANO SAMPLER records a piano from your instrument or an AU plugin and builds the finished K2700 piano in one click.
macOS 12 or later. A K2700 on USB to edit live (LINK), STORE and READ.