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VEKTOR TASTE

A free taste of vector synthesis, for your Kurzweil.

20 sounds, free: warm pads, choirs, brass, bells, strings in rhythm and plucks that open into clouds. Each one is four sounds mixed by a point that moves between them, played by the keyboard's own engine with no computer attached. Open them in VEKTOR and shape them live on the instrument.

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A glowing square on dark titanium with a coloured light in each corner, and a point of light travelling a looping path inside it past twenty small lights
20sounds, free
5families
4ways to move the point
0samples to load
Four sounds, one point, and a chord that keeps changing while you hold it.

VEKTOR TASTE is a free selection of 20 programs made with VEKTOR, our vector synthesis editor for the K2700. There are warm pads that drift, choirs, gongs and bells, filters that bloom on every chord, patterns locked to a tempo, and plucked sounds that open into clouds. All four of VEKTOR's motions are here: an orbit that circles the square, a path that travels between chosen places, a score of 64 steps in time, and your own hands on sliders 1 and 2.

Vector synthesis starts from a simple idea. Put four different sounds at the corners of a square, and let one point inside the square decide how much of each you hear. In a corner you hear that sound alone, on an edge the two it joins, in the middle all four. Move the point and the sound turns into something else, smoothly: a choir into a string section, a bell into a pad. A filter can only make a sound brighter or darker. Vector synthesis travels between sounds that have nothing in common, and it does it while you hold the chord.

The K2700 has no joystick and no vector mixer, so VEKTOR builds them from what it does have. Each corner is a whole VAST layer with any of the K2700's keymaps and its own filter and envelopes, and each layer's level follows the point. The point itself moves on the K2700's own LFOs, envelopes and CC sequencer, which is why these programs move by themselves once they are on the instrument.

Inside

Five families, four ways to move.

Every program has four corners and a point. What changes is what sits in the corners and how the point travels.

WARM MOTION 6

Slow pads of analog waves, voices and strings, their filters breathing as the point drifts.

  • Warm Vector
  • Velvet Drift
  • Warm Choir Swell
  • Ember
  • VS Warmth
  • Dark Honey

PADS 6

Choirs, brass, gongs and bells, from one slow journey to a small orbit that trembles.

  • Air Choir
  • Cinema Brass
  • Temple
  • Shimmer
  • FM Bell Pad
  • Pulsar

SWEEP 3

Filters that open and close on every chord, in brass and in voices.

  • Brass Bloom
  • Wah Choir
  • Poly Brass

PULSE 3

The point follows a score at 120 BPM: filters, strings and vowels that move in steps.

  • Filter Steps
  • Gated Strings
  • Rhythm Vox

KEYS 2

A plucked sound strikes first, then the point leaves it and travels through held sounds.

  • Harp Cloud
  • Pizz Pong
Hear it

All 20 programs

Recorded directly from a Kurzweil K2700's audio output, with no external processing: every sound and effect is the K2700's own. Each plays a riff or chords that suit it; only the levels are matched.

  1. 01 Warm VectorWARM MOTION · Orbit

    Two warm analog waves and a saw circle a stereo string section, and each corner opens its filter in its own time.

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  2. 02 Velvet DriftWARM MOTION · Path

    A muted saw, a triangle an octave below, soft "ooh" voices and tape strings, on a slow loop around the square.

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  3. 03 Warm Choir SwellWARM MOTION · Path

    A very muted saw gives way to a choir, "aah" voices and a tape choir: one slow journey that ends in the voices while the filters open.

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  4. 04 EmberWARM MOTION · Orbit

    Analog waves, a narrow pulse, a very muted square and an orchestral pad. The filters glow and fade like embers, and the mod wheel speeds up the orbit.

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  5. 05 VS WarmthWARM MOTION · Orbit

    Four of the K2700's vector-synth waves, filtered warm. The orbit speeds up and slows down in a cycle.

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  6. 06 Dark HoneyWARM MOTION · Orbit

    A very muted saw an octave down, an organ wave, soft voices and an orchestral pad in a slow orbit, while the organ's filter closes and opens again.

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  7. 07 Air ChoirPADS · Live

    Two vocal ensembles, "aah" and "ooh", a choir and a synth voice. The point is yours: sliders 1 and 2 move it between the four.

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  8. 08 Cinema BrassPADS · Path

    Stereo strings, a French horn section, trombones and synth brass: one passage that grows from the strings into the brass.

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  9. 09 TemplePADS · Path

    A Tibetan gong, a church bell, voices and a low sine wave, on a very slow path between them.

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  10. 10 ShimmerPADS · Orbit

    Celesta, glockenspiel, a sine an octave up and airy bells in a small, fast orbit: a shine that trembles.

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  11. 11 FM Bell PadPADS · Path

    An FM bell, a bell wave, a bright struck bell and strings: one passage from the bell into the pad.

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  12. 12 PulsarPADS · Orbit

    A buzz wave, a formant wave, a pulse and a square through resonant band-pass filters, in a small, fast orbit.

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  13. 13 Brass BloomSWEEP · Orbit

    Synth brass, French horns, an analog wave and a saw. Every chord opens the filters and closes them halfway, like brass taking a breath, and the orbit mixes the four.

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  14. 14 Wah ChoirSWEEP · Path

    A synth voice and a formant wave through band-pass filters that move on every chord, with "aah" voices and a muted saw: a choir with a wah, on a path that goes there and back.

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  15. 15 Poly BrassSWEEP · Live

    Classic synth brass: the filter's "bwah" on every chord, wider the harder you play. Sliders 1 and 2 take it from saw and pulse to synth brass and trombones.

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  16. 16 Filter StepsPULSE · Score

    One saw through four filters: closed, resonant, band-pass and open. The K2700's sequencer jumps between them in sixteenths.

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  17. 17 Gated StringsPULSE · Score

    Stereo and synth strings against a very muted saw and a string ensemble. The sequencer opens and closes the strings in a syncopated rhythm.

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  18. 18 Rhythm VoxPULSE · Score

    A synth voice, "aah" voices, a formant wave and soft voices: vowels in eighth notes, a choir that speaks in time.

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  19. 19 Harp CloudKEYS · Path

    The pluck of a harp, then "ooh" voices on the right, a sine an octave up on the left and airy bells: the harp opens into a cloud that drifts between them.

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  20. 20 Pizz PongKEYS · Path

    Pizzicato strings on the left and right, with a ping wave and a bell wave an octave up. The point jumps from side to side on every eighth note, changing colour, and the delay answers.

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On the panel

Play the point, not a menu.

Every program answers the K2700's own panel in the same way: the effects are under your hands while you play, and in the LIVE programs sliders 1 and 2 are the joystick.

CONTROL
  1. Knob 1: EQ BASS
  2. Knob 2: EQ MID
  3. Knob 3: MID FREQ
  4. Knob 4: EQ TREBLE
  5. Knob 5: —
  6. Knob 6: FLANGER RATE
  7. Knob 7: CHORUS RATE
  8. Knob 8: DELAY TIME
  9. Knob 9: REVERB TIME
  1. Slider 1: POINT X
  2. Slider 2: POINT Y
  3. Slider 3: —
  4. Slider 4: —
  5. Slider 5: —
  6. Slider 6: FLANGER
  7. Slider 7: CHORUS
  8. Slider 8: DELAY
  9. Slider 9: REVERB SEND
  1. Button 1: EQ
  2. Button 2: PRESENCE
  3. Button 3: —
  4. Button 4: —
  5. Button 5: —
  6. Button 6: FLANGER
  7. Button 7: CHORUS
  8. Button 8: DELAY
  9. Button 9: REVERB ON

Sliders 1 and 2 move the point in AIR CHOIR and POLY BRASS. The mod wheel speeds up the orbit in EMBER. Pad 1 sets the delay's feedback.

Load and play

Three steps to the first note.

Download it

One .K27 file with the 20 programs, free. Programs only: the keymaps and the effect chains are the keyboard's own, no samples, no sample memory.

Load it with FILL

From a USB stick. The programs go into free USER places; nothing of yours is replaced.

Play

Find them by name and hold a chord. The PULSE programs run at their own 120 BPM; AIR CHOIR and POLY BRASS wait for sliders 1 and 2.

Details

What you need

Instrument
Kurzweil K2700, K2088, K2061 or PC4.
Contents
20 programs in 5 families: 6 WARM MOTION, 6 PADS, 3 SWEEP, 3 PULSE and 2 KEYS, each with EQ, presence, chorus, flanger, delay and a recital-hall reverb.
File
One .K27 file, 51 KB, programs only, loaded with FILL.
Controls
On the K2700: buttons, sliders and knobs for the effects and the reverb; sliders 1 and 2 for the point in the LIVE programs; velocity and the mod wheel where a sound uses them.
Price
Free.
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Get VEKTOR TASTE

Free: download the .K27 file and load it on your keyboard with FILL. Nothing of yours is replaced.

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Open them in VEKTOR and play them live on your keyboard.

These 20 programs are VEKTOR's own. Load them on your keyboard and VEKTOR finds them when it scans the instrument, ready to edit in real time. VEKTOR WEB, free in your browser, does the same. Four corners that take any keymap, and a point that orbits, travels, follows a score or follows your hands. The VEKTOR page shows how it all works, step by step.

  • Any keymapEach corner takes any of your keyboard's keymaps, with its own filter, filter envelope, level, pan and amp envelope.
  • Four motionsOrbit, path, a 64-step score or your hands on sliders 1 and 2, with a speed the mod wheel or an envelope can move.
  • Live on the instrumentWith the keyboard on USB, every move reaches it as you make it: you edit the sound on the instrument itself.
  • Keep itSTORE puts your version on the keyboard; READ brings a stored program back into VEKTOR.
Discover VEKTORUser manualOpen in your browser

VEKTOR needs a Kurzweil K2700 on USB: it plays through it. On the K2088, K2061 and PC4 it is still being tried.