Hey Seq,

Kawai US will give you the latest firmware for your K4 synth. All
you need to do is contact them. They ask for a payment then they will
hold the payment until you return the old eprom. When they get the
old eprom back they refund your payment. This way they don't have
their firmware floating around the web. They also have the Service
Manual for $35US.

I'm not sure what revision the K4 keyboard is up to currently. The
K4r module has V1.4. I updated my K4r from V1.3 and didn't notice any
changes in the unit. Of course it didn't have any prolems to begin
with that I knew of. I've never heard of the K4 firmware fixing a
click or attack transient but hey who knows.

About the clicking... I have on occasion found some K4 patches that
sounded like this. After auditioning these in headphones I could hear
a fast attack transient that was actually programmed into the patch.
Through my studio monitors all I heard was a click because I didn't
have the volume cranked enough to hear the subtle details. Is this
what's going on? If you think this is not the case and you have a
malfunction you could send the patches to one of us so we can listen
for this click. I have a huge library of K4 patches and probably have
these patches. So you could just tell me what the patches are and
what bank they are from. Are these multis or singles?

I'll help out if I can, Narfman


--- In kawaisynths@yahoogroups.com, "sequins_studio" <sequins@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I recently bought a K4, I've been playing around with it and
everything
> seems OK.
>
> Except the very loud filter clicks on some patches... they truly
bother
> me.
>
> Can anything be done about that? I've heard that a firmware upgrade
> might do the trick, is that true?
>
> The K4 I have has V1.0
>
> I've seen v1.4 is the latest, does anybody have the binary code so
I
> can program a new EPROM?
>
> Regards,
> SEq. Studio.
>