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What is waiting for us inside the beautiful music machine, keyboard synth Kurzweil K2000? Let's give it a little bit of light.

Let's name it, say, a supplementary for those of you, who are about to screwdriving and getting inside your favourite synth. I think this should help a card reader insertion article for Êurzweil K2000. And to help installing other factory options. Generally, what to grab and what to expect when you open the housing. OK, let's do it.

And so we have the room with the view — a Kurzweil K2000 inside. To comfortly guide us through I numbered the main components.

 2. Beautiful vew of keyboard's innerosity.

So, from first to last. 

 1  — Battery compartment. Use three AA batteries. They keep alive the memory in which the settings for your edited programs and effects are stored. Unfortunately, these are not for sampler memory of K2000 – every poweroff/poweron makes you load your samples from the start. But the good thing is the battery life in this case last for years and the problem of sample loading could be kinda solved usind boot macro on your Kurzweil .

 2  — Keyboard in Kurzweil K2000 is well isolated from human intrusion. I remind first time I opened the synth being kind of surprised afterwards - I could not see keys from bottom!. Everything is accurately covered by metal panel and packed in foil. I suspect this solves the shielding problem — the keyboard's housing is entirely plastic.

 3  — Power supply. The transformer sits inside the instrument in a good distance from circuit boards, that's good. The more pleasant is the shielding – look at the wire and the foil around the audio outs. Yeah, everything for a clear signal.

 4  — Moving to the right, we are on Audio Board (according to Kurzweil terminology). Nothing  interesting to look at, just audio outs, directed towards the rear panel of the synth. And what we have here also, is the little power socket, which I used during the card reader installation (white, four-pins, in the upper part of the pic).

 5  — On the right of Audio Board, connected by multiple pins is the Engine Board – the heart of K2000 synthesizer. Long socket below holds the P-RAM memory extension. On the right – 4 sockets for sampler memory – SIMM up 16 ÌÁ each. Above them – internal SCSI port, SCSI output to the rear panel and three MIDI holes. To the right of the this misterious thing is the floppy connector. 

 

 

5. Engine Board — ïðè ðàñøèðåíèè è àïãðåéäå Kurzweil K2000 ðàáîòàòü ïðèõîäèòñÿ èìåííî ñ íåé. 

 

 6  — Moving to an end of our review we see a floppy disc drive, sitting in the metal slideways, and  7  — the Pitch bend and modulation wheels component. 

 

 

So this is the very end of our little tour inside Kurzweil K2000.

Vladislav Gavrlchik, 2005-2007