Yeeahhh, I didn't try to read this whole thing last night. The thing is Kurzweils are top of the line full pro keyboards. They're designed for players who really know this stuff. You probably got a good price on this keyboard and it does sound great but it really isn't the best thing for you. Personally if I were you, I would sell it and get something a whole lot simpler that sounds almost as good. If you want to do that we've all got several good suggestions for you.

I just read this on page 2 of that download:

<There are several GM soundsets available, depending on which option ROMs you have in your K2600. If you have previously obtained a GM soundset for your K2600, you will have to get the new version that is designed to work with GM Mode.>

I don't know just how far you want to go with this. What they're saying is you have to find out if you have any option ROM's installed and which ones. Then with that info, you go to the Kurzweil website (I guess) and you download the correct GM soundset patches that matches those ROMs. Then using either a disc or maybe USB install it into your Kurz. I have no clue exactly how that works, you will just have figure it out. then that thing about the GM500. Most keyboards have one simple default effects program for GM and you can change it if you want. Being a pro level keyboard it looks like your Kurz is giving you several choices. Pro's like choices, you don't need them but there they are. Something else for you to have to figure out.

Sigh, I didn't want to have to go this far with you, I was hoping all you had to do was push a couple of buttons and voila, you're in GM mode and that's it. Ok, you don't have to use GM mode, that Kurz has tons of great sounds but they're not GM so Biab will not simply automatically use them. This is probably why some patches didn't sound right, like a piano sounding like a handclap or whatever. To access those sounds in Biab you need a patch map. PG already has a bunch of patch maps including a couple of Kurzweil ones but I don't know if they will work with your K2600 or not. Wait, it gets better. Those patch maps are not created by PG, they're created by users as a convienience to other users and PG simply posts them for all of us. No guarantees they're correct. There's instructions in the help files about how to create a patch map. It's complicated.

I'm at work and have to go for now. Try Ron's suggestion to simply hook up the keyboard to your computer and play the Forte.

Bob

Last edited by jazzmammal; 06/22/11 02:46 PM.
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