Kawai K5000S Additive Synthesizer

Kawai K5000S Additive Synthesizer

Super cool synth with the most advanced arpeggiator of all time. Selling to fund another purchase, I simply have too many large keyboards taking up space. Cosmetically there are plenty of minor scrapes and small scratches, please see all photos.

*The disk drive just stopped working and the after-touch on about half of the keys are intermittent, might just need a good cleaning to get them all back.

From Vintage Synth Explorer:

Specifications:

Polyphony - 32 voices

Oscillators - Digital Additive Synthesis plus PCM samples; Harmonics: 64 per source; Waveforms: 689 (123 synth, 341 GM, 225 drums). Note: only K5000W features GM sounds

Effects - 4 effects algorithms with 32 different effects

Filter - 128-band formant filter, 24dB/oct low-pass and high-pass

LFO - 2 (one for formant filter, one can be freely routed to other destinations)

VCA - 1 ASDR per part, with key scale and velocity

Arpeg/Seq - Sequencer: 40 tracks, 40,000 note capacity (K5000W only)
Arpeggiator: 40 patterns, 8 user (K5000S and K5000R only)

Keyboard - 61 Keys with velocity and aftertouch

Memory - 200 patches, 64 performances

Control - MIDI (K5000S, K5000R: 4-part multi-timbral; K5000W: 32-part multi-timbral)

Date Produced - 1996