I have also had one of the ME-1 clones for a year and a half now. It was easy to install and has worked perfectly since. My experience is that the extra bank...
I got he K5000s and just discovered the button was broken are these F1 function buttons hard to fix. The shop in la wanted $350 for the thing. I called Kawai...
Hi, If you tell us what the part is, I may be able to help. Is it a surface mount tactile switch, perhaps? Anyway, I expect it will be a matter of desoldering...
Hi to everybody, I'm new in this group and I have a K5000r! Just tried the Sound Driver software in the section files, but it doesn't detect my K5 as R but as...
Hi, I haven't had that problem with my R. However, SoundDiver doesn't play so nicely with recent Windows. It seems to work best with 9X versions. I have run it...
Try to get a midi interface that isn't using windows midi standard drivers, after that you don't have to use the 9x compatiblity mode anymore. Other than that,...
Hi all. I am getting tired of looking at my very yellow and deteriorating K5000 keybed so I am looking for a replacement. Does anyone have a spare K5000...
Hey, Bob... I can't really help ya out but... ...I'm just curious: What caused it to turn yellow and in what way is it deteriorating? I bought my K5000S new...
Wish I knew....I have well over 15 other keyboards, several older, with attached keybeds and none of those have shown this degree of aging. Besides the white...
contact fatar as they will sell you a new keybed i have had new parts for ensoniq mirage and vfx and these keyboards are 20+ years old the italian firm still...
Bpb, Actually, the black keys were manufactured with that textured satin finish and their shaping is comfortably rounded by design. For me, I think this all...
Wow, Bob! Very informative article. I'm guessing you are on to something here. I read (quickly) the entire article and had another thought. Hopefully, I...
Thanks Greg. You might be right on the rounding an I never took notice of it. I don't know what the previous owner did....maybe he left the synth out in the...
That's not as bad as I thought it might be but it still aint as pretty as "white" keys are supposed to look. Are the keys slippery or sticky at all? I am still...
Hi UCD Interesting about the acid but since the yellowing is uniform, don't think it's from that. Maybe a wrong cleaning fluid used on the keys started the...
I don't have any photos of my K5000S to post (and it's on the other side of the world at the moment), but the keys on mine are about the same colour as yours,...
Hello Bob, the Lovely kbd on the k5000s is a Fatar TP9S http://www.fatar.com/Pages/TP_9S.htm http://www.fatar.com/FOTO%20HIGH/TP_9S.jpg same as in the Virus KC...
I'm curious how you know the K5000 has this keybed? The black keys in the photo are not flat on the top, but they do look textured. Maybe Fatar recommends it...
I just noticed that the TP8S has the correct looking black keys, so maybe it is the one (and not the TP9S). Also, the TP8S cross-section view shows the white...
Hi Rohan Thanks, never had it in direct sun but who knows from the previous owner.... Bob ... From: Rohan Baker To: K5000@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,...
Hi John That's interesting and encouraging that it may not have been something I did.... My K5000S serial number is 600468....what is yours? Bob El Segundo, CA...
Thank you both for the Fatar info....I should probably contact them and ask which of their keybeds are compatible....and hopefully less than the Doepfer...
Hi Bob, Dunno the serial number on mine, and it's in storage at the moment. I do have my Polymorph with me though (keyboardless synths being much easier to...
Hello, I got my k5000s SH and the first thing i did was to open it and remove the all Kbd and clean all contacts one by one and the VEL and AT sensors too it...
Didn't think of that...or that I could call Kawai and ask them ! Bob ... From: John Mahoney To: K5000@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:01 AM ...
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