Hi everyone, The group is pretty inactive... Sounds like no one has trouble with their K5! First, it's K5's 20th anniversary! (Thanks to Klaus Tzieply for ...
Hi everyone, I've got other news: there are a few updates to work on about reconditioning the K5, since our last discussion about this are as old as 2004. ...
Hi Antoine, so it's time even to talk again. Yeah, 20 Years of K5 i own my oldest since 1992. Yes, there will be an primitive editor, this year. There is only...
Hey my Backlight and Inverter still work great! (but a few of my keys are not so well, thank goodness for Midi.) I recently got a K5000s - both these boards...
Hey my Backlight and Inverter still work great! (but a few of my keys are not so well, thank goodness for Midi.) I recently got a K5000s - both these boards...
Hi Nelson, what about the brightness? I see Digikey has a similar inverter that is more powerful. If you have some time, you might want to open up the keyboard...
Yes I got a dead key (a white key) working again on my K5 last month, using the article on Klaus's site. It stopped working altogether when I put it back the...
Hi Ryan, the ROM I will send is version 1.3 for the K5, or version 1.2 for the K5m depending of which synth you have. You can see the version on the boot ...
OK, here's a summary of who I have requesting ROMs right now, please tell me if I forgot you : Lennart Temmink - K5 Robert Gage-Smith - K5m Pete (sandersp1) -...
Hey. I'd like to be included for one of those rommy thingys for my K5. A venerable classic by any means. Thanks for doing this as Kawai has informed me that ...
... OK. ... It's probably going to be PayPal. ... Now, for the final chip price, I'll calculate a few things, since I'm probably going to be buying other parts...
Oooh - put me down as a maybe for a K5M rom. I need to check which version I have, but I seem to remember it being 1.0 drfuzz ... From: antdes45@... To:...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew what features are addressed in ver 1.3 ROM for the K5 and 1.2 ROM for the K5M. I am not sure if I saw that listed in any of...
Hi, I have absolutely no idea for v1.3, but, if I remember correctly, quite a few MIDI/SysEx glitches are solved between v1.0 and v1.2. I think version 1.3 is...
I think Troy still works for Kawai in LA, he was/is the main support guy for all the kawai synth stuff, I have his email address somewhere, I'll see if I still...
Antoine, Thanks for the reply. It is good that you sent an e-mail to KOJ about it. When do you plan to upgrade your own K5? How does the ROM programmer work? ...
Welp, I finally remembered to check my K5M, and it has the 1.2 rom, so it looks like I am good - please remove me from the rom list. Thanks, drfuzz ...
... Now that you ask it, I think I should upgrade my K5s before buying the lot for everyone, to see if it works, and it would not raise the final price for...