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I just purchased a used K4 and something's wrong with the LCD. I turn on the synth, and 16 solid black squares are displayed in the top row, nothing in the...
David Sagan
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Jul 3, 2007
9:58 pm
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Hi David, Does it look like the display area has been hit or damaged? LCD displays have 2 rubber strips that run between the driver board and the glass. These...
narfman96
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Jul 4, 2007
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Hi David, I could be totally wrong on this... but it may be worth a try: Replace the internal lithium memory backup battery. K4s were manufactured in the...
dlonrattam
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Jul 4, 2007
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David, Just for fun, try navigating your way through the setup menu blind, and attempt to adjust the contrast? hey, you never know?...
tomchick77
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Jul 6, 2007
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Hi All, I am selling my K4 synth, it is in mint condition with all original manuals. LCD and buttons and silk screening look new. It has never been on the...
monk
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Jul 6, 2007
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David here! So at first I was thinking replace the internal battery like Matt suggested, so I opened up the synth to check everything. Turns out the connector...
David Sagan
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Jul 6, 2007
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David If the sounds (in memory) work as you say, it might not be the battery. Anyway before you remove the battery be sure to back up the sounds by what ever...
Dennis Rowand
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Jul 6, 2007
10:24 pm
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Glad to hear that it's work. Good for you! I like when things are an easy fix or fix themselves! Deny ... From: David Sagan To: kawaisynths@yahoogroups.com ...
Dennis Rowand
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Jul 6, 2007
11:31 pm
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Hey All, I am so glad I found this group....I own a K4....We recently moved out of state and either I lost my power adapter or its packed away in some box that...
Chrissy
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Jul 16, 2007
11:17 pm
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after playing around with the Kawai K1 I came to the conclusion, that it's not really a inspiring Synth(I'm mostly using it as a midi keyboard now...). So I...
Daniel
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Jul 17, 2007
10:41 pm
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I'd like to do this to my K4 as well =o]...
Computer Controlled
larrykleinke
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Jul 17, 2007
11:44 pm
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I found another yahoo group (http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/circuitbending/?yguid=268237457) where someone bended a Kawai K1m. Maybe there someone could...
Daniel
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Jul 22, 2007
3:42 pm
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Hello from Italy, I'm new here and I subscribed to this group because I have a K1. Unfortunately I have a problem with it. When I try to edit a patch (tried...
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Aug 7, 2007
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Hi all, I'm doing an order for some ROMs on the k5synth group. I wonder if anyone is interested here as well. I can buy new ROMs and program them with the K5...
antdes45
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Aug 7, 2007
3:44 pm
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I'm taking a stab at this ...... but dose the K1 have a 'joy-stick'? I have a K1-][ and it has a joystick that I can use to rapidly jump around in the...
James Z
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Aug 8, 2007
11:18 pm
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... It does and... ... position (an area that may not have carbon built up and is dirty), and give it a try. ...this was the problem! I moved the joystick to a...
ugh_it
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Aug 9, 2007
11:33 pm
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... It does and... ... position (an area that may not have carbon built up and is dirty), and give it a try. ...this was the problem! I moved the joystick to a...
ugh_it
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Aug 10, 2007
12:48 am
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...this was the problem! I moved the joystick to a different position and everything worked again. I will try to clean it (should I use the dry or wet type of...
James Z
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Aug 10, 2007
3:21 pm
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Rubbing alcohol evaporates really fast, there's no problem in using the synth a few minutes after it was used. Also, do NOT move the joystick all around for...
Antoine DeschĂªnes
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Aug 10, 2007
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Has anyone found a way to get a decent portamento (I'm thinking ELP Lucky Man here) from a stock K1? Any other Moog type sound patches? Deny Miami...
denyrow
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Aug 11, 2007
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Ya, that sounds like some great stuff... I was a bit concerned about the 'note for audio 911 info text', but after reading it, it still sound like the right...
James Z
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Aug 16, 2007
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Hi all, I just got an XD-5 I bought a week ago. Well, everything seems to work fine, except that the RELEASE parameter does nothing at all and SUSTAIN totally...
antdes45
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Aug 16, 2007
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Looks like an OS bug... It fixed itself after I changed the MIDI parameters off and on their original settings. ... -- Antoine Deschênes Looks like an OS...
Antoine Deschênes
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Aug 17, 2007
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my 20+ year old k1 has just started going out of tune, both the tuning and octaves are changing randomly. thinking it's the battery which has never been...
jimtzu2
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Aug 21, 2007
3:35 am
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Hi, if the battery was screwed, you would lose your presets or the preset memory would get corrupt. It should not affect the synth's operation when it's turned...
Antoine Deschênes
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Aug 21, 2007
5:22 pm
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thanks, i guess i'll open it up and see what's going on inside. i only used it as a simple controller, it was never much but always stable. i'm amazed that...
jimtzu2
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Aug 22, 2007
3:34 am
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i just joined this group having recently got a k1m i see there have been sporadic discussions of adding filters to this clearly an easy option is run it into...
dantalianalysis
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Aug 23, 2007
12:41 am
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I'll try vst then... on the other hand, have you got an alesis bitrman too? I was thinking about one of these thing... how do you judge it? is it worth the 100...
somethingkillingyou
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Sep 6, 2007
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would it be a good idea if users uploaded their own bank compilations i have been thru all the k1 patches i could find from the cards archive to the user one...
dantalianalysis
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Sep 6, 2007
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i have all the modfx bar the metavox but i picked up most of them for 20 english quid or so as they were being discontinued bitrman mostly supplies distortion...
Samuel Cameron
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