Very cool! smile

The K1 was my first synth, and definitely had low-resolution sounds. It was basically a poor musician's version of a D50.

The synthesis algorithm allowed stacking multiple simple waveforms, and had a lookup table filled with sampled transient attacks from different instruments.

The synthesis method took advantage of the fact that the initial attack of the instrument was the defining characteristic of the sound.

That is, if you had a generic sustained tone and stuck a piano attack to the beginning of the sound, you'd hear a piano, while if you took the same sustained tone and put a violin attack in the front, you'd hear a solo violin.

Since I mainly played the keyboard at church, the main sounds I ended up playing were pad strings and the electric piano. But it was the fat Jan Hammer styled synth pads where the keyboard really excelled - the "Ahhh" was as close to a Fairlight as I was going to get.

I eventually sold my piano and got a Proteus 2, using the K1 as a master keyboard controller. But I had a number of occasions when the Proteus would occasional start playing gibberish, and the K1 sending spurious MIDI commands was most likely the culprit. Since money was tight and I couldn't afford another controller, the Proteus had to go. frown

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?