Kurzweil PC3-X Performance Controller Keyboard
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Description
Product Description
The Kurzweil’s PC3X has a new look on the outside, the 88-note PC3X delivers 128 voices of incredible sound quality along with a host of powerful, easy to use features, it’s Kurzweil's ultimate performance controller keyboard, with an enormous collection of sounds combined with comprehensive real-time controller functions.
The PC3X features hundreds of new sounds; basses, drums, guitars, and synths suited for every style and taste, along with a collection of flawless vintage keyboard emulations, KB3 Mode and over 250 orchestral and string section programs.
The PC3X's new Dynamic V.A.S.T. architecture is a huge step forward in synthesis, improving processing power, flexibility and user-friendliness. Kurzweil has integrated their legendary VA-1 Virtual Analog Synthesizer into the new system!
For good measure they include an unlimited-track sequencer with 960 PPQ resolution and more effects processing power, making the PC3X a full blown music production workstation. Add in USB, flash xD card port, a newly designed keyboard action, and a new intuitive user interface.
Product Features
- 88-note, Fully-Weighted Hammer-Action, With Velocity and Aftertouch Sensitive Keys Keyboard
- 240 X 64 Angled, backlit LCD w/ Dedicated Back Panel Brightness and Contrast Controls Display
- 128 Voice Polyphony, Lighting Fast Performance
- 16 Parts
- User Controllable Master EQ
- Quick Release Spring
Specifications
Product Specification
| GENERAL | ||
| Keyboard | 88-note, fully weighted hammer-action, with velocity and aftertouch sensitive keys | |
| Display | 240 x 64 angled, backlit LCD w/ dedicated back panel brightness and contrast controls | |
| Polyphony | 128 Voice Polyphony, dynamically allocated, lightning fast performance | |
| Multitimbral | 16 parts (one per MIDI channel) | |
| Software | Mac and PC platforms | |
| Factory Presets | Over 850 Stunning New Factory Presets | |
| Factory MIDI Setups | 128 factory programmed MIDI setups | |
| General MIDI | Standard | |
| User Memory | 2048 locations for user created preset programs, songs and setups | |
| Expansion Slots | 2 | |
| Sequencer | Unlimited tracks (on import); 960 PPQ resolution | |
| Effects | 16 insert effects distributed over 11 busses | |
| Master FX Section | User controllable master EQ section and master | |
| Controllers | Pitch wheel, modulation wheel, 9 front panel sliders/drawbar controllers, 10 front panel switches (momentary or toggle, software selectable), 3 switch pedal input, 2 continuous control pedal inputs, mono pressure, Super Ribbon input, breath controller input | |
| Arpeggiator | 16 full-featured independent arpeggiators with multiple latch modes | |
| Riffs | 16 unique "Riff" generators | |
| Analog Outputs | Four 1/4" balanced TRS analog (24-bit DACs) | |
| Headphones | 1 rear panel 1/4" headphone output | |
| Digital Outputs | 24-bit, stereo S/PDIF featuring 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, and 192-kHz modes | |
| MIDI | In, Out, Thru | |
| USB | MIDI over USB | |
| Flash Memory Port | xD card type. Store and load programs, OS updates, and sequences | |
| FREE OS Updates | Flash ROM upgradeable via USB or flash memory card | |
| ARCHITECTURE | ||
| Dynamic VAST | Powerful new synthesis engine, with user programmable DSP algs and routing | |
| VA1 Inside | Anti-aliasing, power-shaped oscillators and DSP | |
| Cascade Mode | Lets the user route one layer through the DSP of any other layer within a program - up to 32 consecutive layers deep! | |
