The Journal

Hi,

SPAMbots registering fake users in the forum is at historic peaks.

I just read that the Mastering VAST guys are suffering the same issue. It’s really annoying and a waste of time.

I’ll be taking measures to try to deal with it in “bulk”.

One of the ways is that accounts with 0 posts will be DELETED. That I can do in bulk fairly quickly and is a fairly easy way to weed out fake accounts.

So, if you have a real account, please say Hi in the People’s forum. In any case, without doing that you can’t download anything so better just introduce yourself and be a regular member.

There are and there will be more restrictions for registering new accounts, like specific domains or some strings within the name.

If anybody gets contacted by any SPAMMER from withing Ksetlist please let me know and I’ll delete that account.

Thanks,

Regards,

Fran

Dear Ksetlisters,

It’s been a while without any update so here you have one.

First thank you to all of you who have donated the $5 to keep the site alive and my wife less mad. It makes a difference. If you haven’t done it, please click on that Donate button on the main site and do your part. Thanks!

I’ve been extremely busy with the K2700 release plus other things that you’ll learn about at the appropriated time. So, sorry if I was not too active in the forum. Still, I was still cleaning up the usual SPAM and other minor things in the site.

The K2700 will soon be shipping worldwide (hey, this year shipping containers is an absolute chaos, so give it some time, please have patience) and I can’t wait for you to get your hands on one of them. It’s an amazing keyboard. For somebody like me, who like to layer sound after sound after sound, there is such a great variety of programs and multis that you can create amazing sonic landscapes. Lots and lots of pads and synths in this one. Of course all the other stuff too 😉

I’ve put the PC3LE programs file up again as some of you, specially SP4 users, kept asking for it. Check it out here: https://ksetlist.com/community/ksetlist-com-compilations-volumes/

Last, I read some comments in Facebook that this site was dead and far from it. Ksetlist is all about sounds, and you have hundreds of awesome sounds here to download into your Kurzweil keyboards. Yes, I would love you to keep contributing by uploading more sounds. That has slowed down quite a bit in the past years. In part because there are already a lot of sounds for lots of classic famous songs, but also in part because people are not uploading new stuff. So, I’ll repeat the main idea of Ksetlist, if all of us contribute with few sounds we’ll have lots and lots and lots of sounds. It has never the idea of having few two people making the sounds for the thousands of other users. The idea is that the thousands of Ksetlist users contribute with a few sounds each. That is the spirit of this community. Because we are a community. So, please, did you program an awesome sound to play a famous song? Please share it with us!

It’s exciting times in the Kurzweil world, let’s show it with awesome sounds!

And big thanks to all of you,

Last, please be safe, the virus is still there,

Regards,

Fran

Sometimes I also forget that Ksetlist exists in part because of the people who do not want to be on Facebook or other social media platforms. So, let me share this with you here.

As some might know, I have been working on a new keyboard called the Kurzweil K2700. This is going to be a very special keyboard that will be released fairly soon. Sometimes engineers like me need to test the keyboards just by playing them (isn’t that amazing?), as a real user case scenario, just to check if there are unexpected problems. So I decided to make a soundtrack for a video I took of an osprey eating a fish. The video is just an osprey eating a fish, nothing else. All the sounds are factory programs of the K2700. I went thru some of the synths and pads sounds (soundware guys have done an AMAZING job on that front) and used the built-in ribbon controller a lot to create this “bird” atmosphere. Some of my colleagues instantly mentioned the intro to Gary Wright’s Dreamweaver that, I’m ashamed to admit publicly here and now, I had never listened to previously. In any case, here you have an osprey eating a fish with K2700 fresh sounds out of the box.

And no, this is not like a normal keyboard demo because that was not the goal.

Hope you like it.

Regards,

Fran

Hi,

We are in the middle of the Spring here in the Northern hemisphere and you know what it means. Spring fundraising!

I only ask you to donate $5 a year to help me with the cost of the server, security certificate and domain. You can use the Donate button at ksetlist.com to send your donation in a totally secure way and, not only me, but all the rest of the community will thank you forever.

As most of you know, while I work at Kurzweil, this site is not a company site. It was born with the idea of being a community maintained by the community site. All the amazing sounds you share and you can download is what makes Ksetlist special. I just give you a platform to do it in an orderly way. But recently the costs of maintaining a website have gone up, specially because of the security certificates. As I pay this out of my pocket, if the cost is too high this can get my wife mad. And you don’t want my wife to get mad! Believe me, you don’t!!!

So, please do the sensible here, don’t let my wife get mad and chip in with your five bucks and let’s keep Ksetlist up and running for a long time.

Last, don’t forget the main goal of Ksetlist and upload your best sounds for your favorite cover songs. We have hundreds of sounds already but, with your help, we can be in the thousands!

Thanks,

Fran

Hi,

The PC4 has a new update available, v.1.09.

If you have a PC4 (or a PC4-7) is very important that you update as this release not only offers new features but also improves the stability of your PC4.

Here you have a video that summarizes the new features.

Update 1.09

Regards,

Fran

Hello,

The PC4-7 and SP6-7 are starting to appear in multiple stores as a pre-order option at least in the USA. Sweetwater, Kraft, Musician’s Friends, B&H and similar. For what I can see, it seems that the prices would be around $1,199 for the SP6-7 and $1,799 for the PC4-7, which is amazing considering that they have the same features as their bigger 88-keys brothers. I don’t know when the units will be actually shipping but, if you are looking for one of those, at least you can make your plans considering the prices and pre-order them if they fit your needs.

I don’t know about other countries as each distributor works independently but probably their timing wouldn’t be too off the USA’s one.

Also, check out all the details of these 2 new models at:

PC4-7

SP6-7

Regards,

Fran

Hi,

The latest Kurzweil pro products like the PC4 or the SP6 have two 1/4 inch stereo jacks for switch pedals. This means that you can have up to 4 switch pedals. This is very helpful for people that want to do something more than triggering sustain and sostenuto with the pedals, like changing your multi or triggering chords. The possibilities are endless.

But Kurzweil does not sell a double pedal at this moment, so, how do I get these 4 pedals?

Well, you can buy one that is compatible like the Studiologic VPF2/10B.

https://www.studiologic-music.com/products/vfp2/

But be careful when buying this one because there are 4 models and you want the one with the stereo connector, not the one with the 2 separate connectors. While the 15B might work I personally have not tried it so I will recommend the 10B that I have and works well.

The other option you have is to use regular single pedals thru an adapter. While the adapter will have one 1/4 inch stereo male connector on one end and two 1/4 inch mono female connectors on the other end be careful because they sell a lot of adapters that look exactly the same but the 2 female connectors are stereo. Make sure you buy the one with the female mono.

With either solution you should be all set to use the 4 pedals.

Have fun!

Regards,

Fran

Hi,

It’s the first day of the Fall in the Northern hemisphere or Spring for you Southern ones… although those Australians have been having a Spring for quite awhile already.

This is the time of the year where I humbly ask for your support to keep this site alive. If you can, please consider donating $5 to Ksetlist. Your money will go directly to pay for the server cost and the security certificate that will help to keep Ksetlist alive.

Those of you who have already donated this year, thank you so much, you are the best, and I hope you can do it once a year. And for those of you who haven’t done it yet, it’s very easy and secure just click in the Donate button that is in the main page.

Good things are coming…

Hi,

Don’t miss the preview on the upcoming brand new PC4-7 and the SP6-7 at

PC4-7

and

SP6-7

With the same features of their 88 keys brothers, in a very slim and light 76 semi-weighted keys package, these two new Kurzweil keyboards are really going to be great for you to carry around without breaking your back. It’s not that the PC4 and SP6 are heavy, because they aren’t as they have plastic enclosures, but the SP6-7 is under 8 kilograms (17.5 pounds) and the PC4-7 is under 9 kilograms (19,4 pounds), which amazing for keyboards with these features.

I remember when back in the day I was carrying my PC2 in a custom metal roadcase and I literally broke my back carrying it around from gig to gig. Well, those times are over! How about carrying a 7 or 8 Kg keyboard with a million of features to your gigs?

Ask your dealer about prices.

Hi,

We get lots of SPAM fake registrations at Ksetlist and, well, at any other community in the planet. In order to avoid those fake accounts SPAMMING the hell out of us, there is an anti-SPAM filter in place. This filter is pretty strong so sometimes it flags as potential SPAMMERS regular users that are coming back to Ksetlist after awhile or are new users.

In the Anti-SPAM filter, if I see somebody flagged who is clear a SPAMMER, I will block their IP. But if it’s unclear, I’ll send an email to that person and that person will have to reply in order to get access to the site. Until I don’t get an answer, there’s no access. So, very important, use a real email address when registering to this site or you might end up flagged as SPAM and blocked just because you are not answering my verification email.