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Hi Folks! Nice to meet you all.
I recently bought a Kurzweil PC4 which is a beautiful piece of kit! (apparently the Forte uses similar tech so this would apply to that also).
I have a K2600 with the "Best of V.A.S.T." sounds upgrade - which is a beautiful piece of kit for a couple of sounds that I use often such as the sound "Portal" and "Bell Players" both gorgeous unique sounds. Especially with portal as you can use the ribbon controller to really give the sound an organic feel.
I would like to load these few sounds, or even perhaps all of them and then sell the K2600 at some point as I am sure there would be an enthusiast out there who would give the K2600 the love that it deserves more than I would just using two or three sounds.
Does anyone know how to go about loading these sounds from the K2600 into the PC4? Obviously there is a USB port in the PC4, and there is a floppy drive in the K2600. I have heard that you need an external SCSI zip drive, plug it into the K2600, take the SYSEX files off the K2600 and load them to the USB and import them to the PC4 (or Forte or other newer Kurzweil).
Another way I am guessing might be to manually program in the V.A.S.T. parameters into a custom sound.
Another way might be to copy something to a floppy from the K2600 then use the floppy in my PC to transfer something to USB?
Does this sound about right? How do I actually do all this though? Or does someone already have the K2600 files that I can copy to my USB?
Cheers!
Michael
I recently bought a Kurzweil PC4 which is a beautiful piece of kit! (apparently the Forte uses similar tech so this would apply to that also).
I have a K2600 with the "Best of V.A.S.T." sounds upgrade - which is a beautiful piece of kit for a couple of sounds that I use often such as the sound "Portal" and "Bell Players" both gorgeous unique sounds. Especially with portal as you can use the ribbon controller to really give the sound an organic feel.
I would like to load these few sounds, or even perhaps all of them and then sell the K2600 at some point as I am sure there would be an enthusiast out there who would give the K2600 the love that it deserves more than I would just using two or three sounds.
Does anyone know how to go about loading these sounds from the K2600 into the PC4? Obviously there is a USB port in the PC4, and there is a floppy drive in the K2600. I have heard that you need an external SCSI zip drive, plug it into the K2600, take the SYSEX files off the K2600 and load them to the USB and import them to the PC4 (or Forte or other newer Kurzweil).
Another way I am guessing might be to manually program in the V.A.S.T. parameters into a custom sound.
Another way might be to copy something to a floppy from the K2600 then use the floppy in my PC to transfer something to USB?
Does this sound about right? How do I actually do all this though? Or does someone already have the K2600 files that I can copy to my USB?
Cheers!
Michael
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