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Re: Embossing from K1000
Vaughan Dodd
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThanks for this. ? Sorry if I have contributed to the confusion you refer to here. ? Maybe this is not my list? ? All the best. ? Vaughan. ? ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lennart Regebro
Sent: Saturday, February 3, 2024 9:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [K1000-K1200] Embossing from K1000 ? Very confusingly, the Kurzweil 1000 software, and the Kurzweil K1000 to K1200 line of musical synthesizers have very little in common. So it's not very likely anyone here can help you. ? On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 6:29?AM Vaughan Dodd <vdodd001@...> wrote:
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Re: Embossing from K1000
This is a product naming error Kurzweil made. (I wish they hadn't done that)
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Unfortunately, I don't know where to refer you to anymore, because some of the mailing lists devoted to helping out blind and VI folks have gone dark. If you find one that's devoted to helping us out, please let us know where it is. Nicole -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vaughan Dodd Sent: Friday, February 02, 2024 8:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [K1000-K1200] Embossing from K1000 Hello everyone. I have joined this list after this morning upgraded my Kurzweil 1000. It has been several years since I used this application. Between my last use of K1000 and now, I have installed an Index Everest embosser. In setting up the properties for K1000 to properly print to this, I notice three choices for correctly forcing new pages. Form feed, vertical tab and skip lines. K1000's default are 40 characters per line, 25 lines per page. These can be adjusted. There are no settings for binding space and number of blank lines at the top of each page and page number position so I presume the embosser just looks after those. The setup is Windows 11, and I use the supplied Index driver which is networked. Experimenting of course, but if others have found the configuration which works - I'd be pleased to learn about it. Thanks. Vaughan. Vaughan Dodd Vdodd001@... +6421 784 856 |
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Re: Embossing from K1000
Very confusingly, the Kurzweil 1000 software, and the Kurzweil K1000 to K1200 line of musical synthesizers have very little in common. So it's not very likely anyone here can help you. On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 6:29?AM Vaughan Dodd <vdodd001@...> wrote: Hello everyone. |
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Embossing from K1000
Vaughan Dodd
Hello everyone.
I have joined this list after this morning upgraded my Kurzweil 1000. It has been several years since I used this application. Between my last use of K1000 and now, I have installed an Index Everest embosser. In setting up the properties for K1000 to properly print to this, I notice three choices for correctly forcing new pages. Form feed, vertical tab and skip lines. K1000's default are 40 characters per line, 25 lines per page. These can be adjusted. There are no settings for binding space and number of blank lines at the top of each page and page number position so I presume the embosser just looks after those. The setup is Windows 11, and I use the supplied Index driver which is networked. Experimenting of course, but if others have found the configuration which works - I'd be pleased to learn about it. Thanks. Vaughan. Vaughan Dodd Vdodd001@... +6421 784 856 |
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Re: Public Service Announcement - Groups.io reverification emails
I re-verified several groups, but at least one has told me I'm not re-verified yet. It's been over a week, so I'm not sure if it's still processing through or something glitched, though I got a notification that it'd gone through.
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Nicole -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Max Thompson Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2024 6:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [K1000-K1200] Public Service Announcement - Groups.io reverification emails Hey Patrick, Just checked. Looks like you¡¯re good and don¡¯t need to re-verify. Thanks! Max On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 6:37?PM fop29, via groups.io <> <fop29@... <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Please tell me if I need to reveries. I don¡¯t see any links for this process. Patrick Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad <> On Saturday, January 27, 2024, 6:41 PM, Max Thompson <maxibillionthompsonmusic@... <mailto:maxibillionthompsonmusic@...> > wrote: Hello folks, I received this email recently from the Groups.io tech folks, and wanted to make sure I put an announcement out for folks! I'll just paste it below, but basically Groups.io is having to re-verify some users' email addresses due to one of the email servers being blacklisted as a "spam" server by a security provider earlier in the month. In order to fix that, they're requiring some (but not everyone, it seems) to re-verify their email addresses. I looked through the members list here and we have several folks who need to complete this process ASAP, so I wanted to get a message out to you all. Email from Groups.io (bold emphasis mine): ---- You are receiving this email because you are an owner or moderator of one or more Groups.io groups. We are in the process of reverifying some of our users and we wanted to make sure you knew what was happening and why. For more detail about this, please visit the Reverification FAQ, at /static/ reverifyfaq </static/reverifyfaq> On Saturday January 13th, 2024, an anti-spam service called Spamhaus labeled one of our email servers as a spam sender. This caused any email service that uses Spamhaus to stop accepting email from our server. Because of this, we began a reverification process and sent out reverification emails to a subset of our users on Sunday January 14th. Spamhaus lifted their block on Monday, January 15th, 2024, but we need to continue the reverification process. You can see which, if any, of your users are affected. Go to the Admin section of your group and look at the Members page. Next to each user's email, there may be a badge with the letters RI or RS. RI means the confirmation/reverification is in progress, but has not been completed. RS means the confirmation/reverification has been successfully completed. Here are the next steps in the reverification process: 1. On Sunday, January 28th, group emails to people in the RI state will be disabled. Messages from moderators and login link emails will still work. 2. Until February 11th, people will still be able to reverify themselves and the RI and RS badges will still show up in the Members page. 3. After that, members still in the RI state will be removed from groups. The activity log entry will be Membership - Member Removed, with the added reason of reverification failed. For domains where no reverifications happened, no invites or direct adds will be permitted going forward. If there is a valid person on one of those domains, they should contact [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> to have the domain ban lifted. We apologize for the inconvenience this process may cause, but it is necessary to ensure that we are able to continue delivering group email reliably. Thank you for using Groups.io. Best Regards, The Groups.io Team ---- Please let me know if you have any questions! Hope y'all are doing well in the new year. Thank you, Max Thompson |
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Re: Public Service Announcement - Groups.io reverification emails
Hey Patrick, Just checked. Looks like you¡¯re good and don¡¯t need to re-verify. Thanks! Max On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 6:37?PM fop29, via <fop29=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Public Service Announcement - Groups.io reverification emails
Please tell me if I need to reveries. I don¡¯t see any links for this process.
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Patrick On Saturday, January 27, 2024, 6:41 PM, Max Thompson <maxibillionthompsonmusic@...> wrote:
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Public Service Announcement - Groups.io reverification emails
Hello folks,
I received this email recently from the Groups.io tech folks, and wanted to make sure I put an announcement out for folks! I'll just paste it below, but basically Groups.io is having to re-verify some users' email addresses due to one of the email servers being blacklisted as a "spam" server by a security provider earlier in the month. In order to fix that, they're requiring some (but not everyone, it seems) to re-verify their email addresses. I looked through the members list here and we have several folks who need to complete this process ASAP, so I wanted to get a message out to you all. Email from Groups.io (bold emphasis mine): ---- You are receiving this email because you are an owner or moderator of one or more Groups.io groups. We are in the process of reverifying some of our users and we wanted to make sure you knew what was happening and why. For more detail about this, please visit the Reverification FAQ, at /static/ On Saturday January 13th, 2024, an anti-spam service called Spamhaus labeled one of our email servers as a spam sender. This caused any email service that uses Spamhaus to stop accepting email from our server. Because of this, we began a reverification process and sent out reverification emails to a subset of our users on Sunday January 14th. Spamhaus lifted their block on Monday, January 15th, 2024, but we need to continue the reverification process. You can see which, if any, of your users are affected. Go to the Admin section of your group and look at the Members page. Next to each user's email, there may be a badge with the letters RI or RS. RI means the confirmation/reverification is in progress, but has not been completed. RS means the confirmation/reverification has been successfully completed. Here are the next steps in the reverification process:
? For domains where no reverifications happened, no invites or direct adds will be permitted going forward. If there is a valid person on one of those domains, they should contact [email protected] to have the domain ban lifted. We apologize for the inconvenience this process may cause, but it is necessary to ensure that we are able to continue delivering group email reliably. Thank you for using Groups.io. Best Regards, The Groups.io Team ---- Please let me know if you have any questions! Hope y'all are doing well in the new year. Thank you, Max Thompson |
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Re: Sudden "interval" sound
Hi again Chuck,
Glad that that was useful for you. In essence, on the v.5 instruments, any ban of 100 locations that is blank can be a RAM location. Therefore, taking the info from K1000.net regarding the presets, you can see that banks 100, 200 and 300 are populated. Those are your ROM programs. Now if you want to include ANY of those in your other RAM banks, that's fine - if you want say, patch 001 'Q orchestra' to appear as program 873, 873 will look at the data in program 001 and act accordingly. It won't take any space up in RAM to do this. So you can add as many ROM progs as you like to your RAM banks, particularly if you find that there are some presets that don't appeal. Yes, you are correct - the RAM banks are blank until you decide to import either ROM programs from elsewhere on your instrument or RAM patches from libraries. That's why you get 'Prg not found' as there's no info in there to tell your Kurz what to play. Once you've added a RAM sound, you can choose to store it anywhere you like and duplicate it as many times as you like across different banks of sounds. That way you can assemble suitable libraries for different functions: soundtrack, rock, jazz, you name it. Try playing around with the libraries and audition some of the banks. I think you'll be surprised and delighted with what's available, and remember when you've made your custom banks to save everything . That way you won't risk losing anything that may inspire you! Very best wishes, David. |
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Re: Sudden "interval" sound
Hi David,
Thanks for all of this helpful info - those are great details. I might just not be understanding, but I am still not sure where the RAM programs actually are in these number ranges (I have some other old keyboards from the era that are a couple of years newer and that have explicit ROM and RAM banks, for example). Are the RAM location numbers blank or somehow occupied with "copies" of ROM programs? Also, the weird interval problem seemed to be that imperfect fifth everywhere, but I'll have to double check.? Thanks again! Chuck |
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Re: Sudden "interval" sound
Hi Chuck, and welcome to the warm and wonderful world of the 1000 series!
Firstly, regarding your added sound: this is a guess on my part, but I recall somebody else having this problem on the old yahoo group. I believe it could be an inadvertent contact in the tracks that deal with each note. Maybe there's crud on the tracks and so the signal is jumping to an adjacent track and triggering the extra note? Is the interval of the 'imperfect 5th' the same with different notes? In other words, does it change with different notes you play? If so, my guess would be gunge on the mani boards causing tracking errors. If you have a tame tech who can look at it, then hopefully that will solve the problem. Regarding the sounds and the way they are organised, from what you've described there, you have a 'stock upgraded' unit - if you see what I mean - with no custom sounds onboard. With v.5 software, you have the option of Extended Program changes. What this means is that you have potentially up to 1000 sound locations of both ROM and RAM sounds. Note that I did say 'potentially', as I've found that the RAM memory can easily get maxxed out when loading sounds in - I'll come back to that later. What the extended program changes offer is 10 lots of 100 sounds: 000-099, 100-199 and so on (I might have the numbers slightly out as I'm away from my 1000 modules and the manuals, but you get my meaning, hopefully. Now, what Kurzweil did is do away with all the LSB and MSB bank changes that you have to use with other manufacturers (and I find them rather long winded myself) and give you a very simple system where TWO program numbers will call up any one of the potential 1000 sounds. It works like this: send your Kurz program changes 104 and 37. 104 calls up the 400 bank, and 37 the number within that list - so you have program 437.? Want program 296 - send 102 and 96, and there you are! Now while the theoretical limit for sounds is 255 RAM sounds (I can't remember the reason why but its something to do with the MIDI spec. As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong guys), it's actually 256, where 0 is a value, so 0-255 = 256. It's a multiple of 2: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256. Now the thing to remember is that RAM sounds are different sizes, dependent on how large the program is. It may be a single layer, like a piano, or it may be a four layer orchestral patch and hence possible four times the size. So while you have potentially locations for RAM programs up to 255, in my experience you run out of space for RAM programs around 232 or so. Mind you, I have a couple of GX modules upgraded to v.5 and I've loaded up much more sounds than 255 - why that's working, I don't know, but it does! Now you may be wondering: if I only have up to 255 RAM locations, what's the use of 1000 locations? Easy, you can make your own custom Playlists in the empty lists (400, 500, 600 and so on) and they can be ANY COMBINATION OF ROM AND RAM PROGRAMS. You can assemble your own 'greatest hits' using the presets on your instrument and adding custom RAM sounds from the libraries on K1000.net. You'll find a lot of my libraries there, together with some astounding ones that Kurzweil themselves developed, proving the maxim that later custom sounds on a synth are always better than the original presets. Any DX7 owner will tell you that. Anyway, I've rabbited on enough, so hopefully this will all make sense. Do get back to me for any other info. Very best wishes, David. |
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Sudden "interval" sound
Hi folks,
Glad to have joined the group here. We got a used K1000 keyboard almost five years ago; when we bought it, the previous owner said that it had been fully upgraded (paraphrasing), but of course at the time we didn't understand the specifics. The list of sounds matches the "Pro 1" sound list here:??the "Show Version" menu option says "Engine: v5.32" and "Setups: v5.10". So far we have just been naive preset users, not really even knowing how to move around properly in the menus. The unit was in storage for maybe a year or so but a couple of weeks ago I got it back out for my daughter to use. I recently printed the manuals and started to read them a bit, having been interested to get to know it better when I find some time. Then suddenly this week... All was fine until a couple of days ago; my daughter complained about it playing two notes at the same time and that appears to be the case. I did some testing against another keyboard and to me it sounds like the Kurzweil is playing what I'd call "imperfect fifths" when you hold down a single note. I looked at the "Transpose" parameter for each layer from a few different randomly-selected sounds but didn't find anything other than zeros, save for one patch that was transposed an octave (it was set to "12"). I'm wondering if it's malfunctioning, such that the "hard reset" is the only option here, but I'm loathe to do it because I am not sure if there are any custom programs from the previous owner in there somewhere - I went through the full range of sounds (000-493; with 401-493 saying "(not found)") and the lists (000-099, 101-163, 201-299 and 301-363) matching the "Pro 1 sounds" lists). I'm confused by the FAQ () saying that in the Rev 5 products, the RAM programs were in "location 255 down" - I don't know if this means 000-255 or 201-255 in the "Pro 1 Sounds" list - I was under the impression that these lists were all ROM sounds from the myriad ROM chips that get installed. Hopefully I did my homework well and the description above is helpful - thanks in advance for any recommendations! Chuck |
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Re: Reviving a K1000 SE II / Extended
Hi Alex,
Thanks for responding. I have not been able to get diagnostics to run. I was under the assumption that if the display was only showing blocks you couldn't get to diagnostics. But I have tried every combination of holding two buttons while powering on that is listed for all the different models. I guess I have two main questions right now that will help me determine how to approach my next phase of troubleshooting. 1) What jumpers should I have for the pro76 configuration? Right now I have jumpered JP2, JP3, JP18 near the eproms, JP8 and JP14 near the Arnolds, JP11 near the sound roms, and I also added JP5 near the sound roms based on info on K1000.net. I think my motherboard is one of the latest versions as it has sockets for all the sound roms. 2) Would bad Arnold chips prevent it from booting up and getting to diagnostics? If these are not needed I can ignore them for now. |
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Reviving a K1000 SE II / Extended
I'm hoping someone on here might be able to give me some guidance. I acquired this keyboard in non-working condition. It only shows blocks on the display. The first thing I had to do was replace the eproms because it only had one out of two eproms populated. I burnt the Pro76 eproms and added the three sound roms it was missing. I went through all the checks on k1000.net a few times. The power supply is giving proper voltages with no ripple. I started probing everything. I see tons of activity around the 68000 and anything associated with it. Lots of pulsing for the address and data busses, etc I see virtually no activity around the arnold chips and everything that comes after the arnold. I'm not the greatest with digital stuff so I'm at a bit of a loss. Is it likely that both my arnold chips are dead or that some input is wrong and that is preventing them from operating? Any advice would be appreciated.
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Re: New member needs advice :) K1000 keyboard flaws: missing programs & low note high note problem
Hey David, thanks so much, this is good to know. I think, I will first restore the second K1000 as it is already an upgraded version and leave the old version in its original state (before destroying something unwillingly ;-) best, Jules |
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Re: New member needs advice :) K1000 keyboard flaws: missing programs & low note high note problem
That daughterboard is a great find. Some of the earlier K1000 keyboards had to have them to upgrade.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of j_u_l_e_s_b_e_r_n_a_r_d Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2023 5:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [K1000-K1200] New member needs advice :) K1000 keyboard flaws: missing programs & low note high note problem [Edited Message Follows] Hi David, hi Michael, thank you for your input and quick replies! The master menu says "engine v 1.80" and "setups v 2.00". I have not yet completely understood how the upgrade process would have to be done. Sounds complicated to me right now... I really have to take some time and read through all the info on k1000.net (sorry, still a beginner here and this is a lot of information) True, Michael, I totally looked on the wrong program list. The keyboard has 179 programs. I am so happy though to find out my unit is fully working! Can't stop playing on it, the sounds are so nice. And the thing with the sample range completely makes sense. Thank you for the confirmation. Before dusting off the unit everything was going crazy, screen was freezing, buttons didn't react and whatnot... I thought, I would need spare parts and found a second k1000 keyboard this monday. I guess this will now become a separate project :-) This one's missing keys, sounds digitally distorted BUT has the rom extension board inside. The extension board was loose and has broken pins, a line out socket is missing and there's ugly soldering jobs on mainboard connectors. I need to completely clean it and have a closer look before starting another thread for this :-) Thank you both again for your help! Jules |
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Re: New member needs advice :) K1000 keyboard flaws: missing programs & low note high note problem
Hi again Jules,
Glad to be of help in any way! Engine v.1.80 and setups v.2 mean that this is an original version instrument. Upgrades are 'relatively simple' (ha ha). Basically, it's a case of removing the Engine and setups ROMS, and installing new ones, together with the added sound ROMs. I'm generalising wildly, but that's the gist of things. Upgrading the engine adds new features in how the instrument operates and offers extra housekeeping, while the setup ROMs provide new ROM libraries in a completely different order from the previous ones. If you check your instrument lists it'll probably read 000_piano, 001 - strings, etc. By the time you get to v.3, you'll find that the first few sounds are all pianos, the next strings, etc. V.5 soundlists are different again (See the instrument lists on k1000 and you'll see what I mean). The other thing that needs doing (I'm relying on memory is one cut and one jumper on the main board at JP03 and JP04. I forget which is which, but I believe the upgrade documentation is all on k1000.net, or in the files section of the Facebook group: Digitally distorted sounds on an upgraded version is usually a pointer to crud on the pins of the sound ROMs. I have an upgraded PX that regularly needs the recalcitrant chips pulling out and cleaning every so often. After that things return to normal (at last for a while). Good luck with your restoration on that one, and have fun exploring the extra sounds and features! Best wishes, David. |
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