ITALIAN PIANO V5
A singing Italian concert grand, at home on your K2700.
A rich, bright Italian concert grand in eight velocity layers, with its strings ringing in sympathy under the pedal, key releases at three dynamics and the K2700's own pedal noises. Six programs: the grand itself and five voicings, each with its own EQ, lid, microphone and room.
Hold the pedal down and the whole instrument starts to sing.
ITALIAN PIANO V5 is a bright, singing Italian concert grand made for the K2700. Every note plays in eight velocity layers, from a whisper to a full fortissimo, so the tone opens up as you play harder instead of only getting louder.
Under the pedal the undamped strings answer each other: a stereo resonance that grows over two and a half seconds on the notes you play with the pedal down, chosen as each note starts, as inside a real grand. Let a key go and its damper falls with a key-release sound recorded at three dynamics, softer or harder as you played it; the K2700's own pedal noises sit underneath.
Six programs share the same samples: Italian Grand, and five voicings ready for the stage, the studio and the club, each with its own EQ curve, lid, microphone distance, string resonance and room. All six 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, six ways to hear it.
Six programs on the same eight velocity layers, each voiced for a different place.
ITALIAN GRAND
The grand on its own, every control at its starting point: the one to shape from scratch on the K2700's panel.
ITALIAN STAGE
Close and bright for the stage: the lid fully open, the microphone half a metre away, some air on top and a short hall.
ITALIAN WARM
The lid almost down, more body and less top, a touch of compression and a warm hall for slow, quiet playing.
STUDIO HALL
The microphone back at 1.8 m in a large room: the piano and the space around it, for solo pieces and ballads.
ITALIAN ROCK
The microphone at the hammers, all the sizzle and real compression, in a small room: it cuts through a band.
JAZZ ROOM
The lid half open, the microphone at 1.2 m, a gentle compressor and a club-sized room with a little warmth.
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 six programs, their three effect chains, the keymaps and the samples: about 580 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
- 6 programs on one sampled grand: 8 velocity layers, string resonance under the pedal, key releases at three dynamics, the K2700's pedal noises.
- File
- One .K27 file, about 580 MB, loaded with FILL.
- Sample memory
- About 580 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.
ITALIAN PIANO V5
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.