User's Manual

Features of the PC4

Sounds

• FlashPlay technology utilizing 2GB of instrument samples including:

• Optimized German D and Japanese C7 Pianos, Triple Strike Piano, 73 Electric Piano,

Clavinets, Harpsichords, Celeste, Bowed and Hit Crotales, Vector Synthesis Waveforms

• Updated Rock, Synth and Orchestral sounds from Kurzweil’s SP6, PC3, and KORE64

• 13 Categories of Programs (Piano, E. Piano, Clav, Organ, Strings, Pad, Synth, Brass/Wind,

Ensemble, Hybrid, Guitar/Bass, Drum/Perc, Misc)

• 2GB of user sample memory for loading samples from WAV, AIF, P3K, and K series les

• KB3 ToneReal ™ organ simulations with 9 sliders as drawbars

• FM: Classic 6 operator FM synthesis

• KSR: Kurzweil String Resonance (piano string resonance simulation)

• Half-Damper pedal support (for piano “half pedaling” sustain techniques)

• Kurzweil’s highly acclaimed VAST Synthesis and FX engine

• More than 1000 Factory Programs divided into 13 Categories

• More than 50 Factory Multis

• More than 4000 User IDs to save your own Programs and Multis

• Audio input jacks with FX (one 1/8” stereo line-in and 1/4” stereo line-in pair)

• 256 voices of polyphony

• 16 Zone MIDI controller in Multi Mode for Splits and Layers

• 16 MIDI Tracks in Song Mode

• Arpeggiator with dedicated front panel controls (up to 16 simultaneous in Multi Mode)

Keyboard and Controllers

e PC4 has an 88-key fully-weighted hammer action keyboard that provides you with a

piano-like feel. e PC4-7 has a 76-key semi-weighted action keyboard. e array of physical

controllers includes:

• 9 assignable sliders

• 9 assignable knobs

• 10 assignable buttons

• Pitch Wheel and assignable Modulation Wheel

• Tap tempo button and tempo knob

• 2 Transpose buttons

• Monopressure (Aftertouch)

• 2 assignable switch pedal jacks (supports up to 4 switch pedals with 2 pedals per jack)

• 2 assignable CC pedal jacks

• Assignable ribbon controller jack