Kurzweil PC3 76 Key Performance Controller Keyboard Item #: KUR PC3 

Kurzweil PC3 76 Key Performance Controller Keyboard

The Kurzweil PC3 76-key Performance Keyboard Controller is the Next Generation of Kurzweil Controllers! The Kurzweil PC3 performance controller keyboard delivers 128 voices of incredible sound quality, along with a host of powerful, easy to use features. The PC3 represents a real step forward in Kurzweil's performance controller keyboards, with an enormous collection of stunning sounds combined with comprehensive real-time controller functions You get easy command over your virtual instruments, plus a wealth of built-in quality features with the PC3.

Kurzweil PC3 Performance Controller Keyboard at a Glance:

• Powerful features
• Classic sounds
• Great interface
• Effects and sequencer

Powerful features
The PC3 offers an enormous sound set of over 800 programs. With incredible samples and a powerful, responsive synth engine breathing life into them, you'll feel like you're playing an actual instrument, not just playing samples. Of course there's the famous Kurzweil Triple Strike Piano, with dozens of variations to accommodate every kind of player. All of the basic sounds - basses, guitars, drums, horns and synths - have been painstakingly programmed to reflect the needs of today's professional players, representing a broad selection of styles and flavors from the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and today. Also included is the Classic Keys ROM, which puts an impossibly large vintage keyboard rig at your fingertips. The recognizable sounds of those classic electromechanical instruments, with all of their characteristic imperfections, have been faithfully re-created, along with pedals, amps and speakers. Lush Mellotrons, growling electric pianos, and funky Clavinets are all there at the touch of a button, programmed to sound just like those classic albums.

Classic sounds For more vintage firepower, the PC3 is equipped with the most advanced version of Kurzweil's widely lauded KB3 Mode tonewheel organ simulator, which screams, sputters and sizzles just like the original. In addition to newly developed Leslie effects, and a new bank of B3 programs, Kurzweil has also included sounds from the classic Vox and Farfisa combo organs. The PC3's 9 sliders provide real-time drawbar control. The PC3 offers a full range of world class orchestral sounds, including the String Section ROM bank, making it ideal for film-scoring and soundtrack projects. Every type of articulation, every nuance has been captured, with samples of full and divisi sections of violins, violas, cellos, and double bass. The details, the warm swells, animated pizzicatos and the sound of scraping rosin all add to the breathtaking effect of these string sections. You can plug and play with sounds worthy of a finished production - instant gratification with uncompromising sound quality.

Great interface
While the PC3's user interface may look familiar to veteran Kurzweil users, major improvements have been made, allowing for a much more user friendly experience. Expanding upon V.A.S.T. architecture, the PC3's new UI delivers all the power of a Kurzweil, combined with unprecedented ease of use. The PC3's backlit 240 x 64 display conveys all the information you'll need, when you need it, in an elegant, easy to navigate environment. All programs and setups will be accompanied by help messages which can be accessed by pressing an "Info" soft button. These help messages may contain controller assignments, or any other relevant information; for example, if the sound was derived from a classic song or album. Programs can be selected by scrolling or by using bank and program select buttons for easy one touch access. Move a controller while holding the Cancel button, and the display will let you know what that controller is doing. Whether it's a wah effect, tremolo control, a filter sweep, or something less obvious, the PC3 will let you know what is happening, in musician's terms.

Effects and sequencer
With up to 12 insert effects plus two auxiliary sends, the PC3 offers more than twice the processing power of our acclaimed KDFX engine. Effects can be chained together in series, or distributed among the PC3's 16 multitimbral channels. And these are simply the best effects in the business - burning distortions, transparent compressors, warm phaser and chorus effects, perfect reverbs - everything from flawless vintage emulations to concert halls which decay into complete silence. All parameters are assignable to any of the PC3's real time controllers - sliders, pedals, wheels, and buttons. sThe PC3 features a 16 track sequencer based on the K2 Series sequencer. Combining a set of powerful song editing functions such as step editing, swing, and controller scaling with a new friendlier interface, the PC3 can easily double as a workstation, ideal for music production on the fly. Also included are four independent arpeggiators as well as hundreds of pre-recorded beats and musical phrases.