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Kurzweil Music Systems
Kurzweil Music Systems is an American company that produces electronic musical instruments. It was founded in 1982 by Stevie Wonder (musician), Ray Kurzweil (innovator) and Bruce Cichowlas (software developer). Kurzweil was a developer of reading machines for the blind, and their company used many of the technologies originally designed for reading machines, and adapted them to musical purposes. They released their first instrument, the K250 in 1983, and have continued producing new instruments ever since. The company was acquired by Young Chang in 1990. HDC acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems. Products K250 synthesizer The company launched the K250 synthesizer/sampler in 1984: while limited by today's standards and quite expensive, it was considered to be the first really successful attempt to emulate the complex sound of a grand piano. This instrument was inspired by a bet betwe ...
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Kurzweil K2000 Top
Kurzweil is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adele Kurzweil (1925–1942), Austrian Holocaust victim * Allen Kurzweil (born 1960), American writer * Arthur Kurzweil (born 1951), American genealogist, scholar of Judaism and writer * Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972), Israeli literary critic * Edith Kurzweil (1925–2016), American writer and editor * Jaroslav Kurzweil (1926–2022), Czech mathematician * Max Kurzweil (1867–1916), Austrian painter and printmaker * Ray Kurzweil (born 1948), American inventor, author and futurist ** Kurzweil Music Systems, company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces electronic musical instruments ** Kurzweil Educational Systems Kurzweil Education (formerly Kurzweil Educational Systems) is an American-based company that provides educational technology. Kurzweil Education provides literacy solutions, tools and training for those with learning differences and challenges, ..., company founded by Ray Kurzweil that p ...
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Kurzweil K2600
Kurzweil is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adele Kurzweil (1925–1942), Austrian Holocaust victim * Allen Kurzweil (born 1960), American writer * Arthur Kurzweil (born 1951), American genealogist, scholar of Judaism and writer * Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972), Israeli literary critic * Edith Kurzweil (1925–2016), American writer and editor * Jaroslav Kurzweil (1926–2022), Czech mathematician * Max Kurzweil (1867–1916), Austrian painter and printmaker * Ray Kurzweil (born 1948), American inventor, author and futurist ** Kurzweil Music Systems, company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces electronic musical instruments ** Kurzweil Educational Systems Kurzweil Education (formerly Kurzweil Educational Systems) is an American-based company that provides educational technology. Kurzweil Education provides literacy solutions, tools and training for those with learning differences and challenges, ..., company founded by Ray Kurzweil that p ...
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Kurzweil K2600, G4, & HR824
Kurzweil is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adele Kurzweil (1925–1942), Austrian Holocaust victim * Allen Kurzweil (born 1960), American writer * Arthur Kurzweil (born 1951), American genealogist, scholar of Judaism and writer * Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972), Israeli literary critic * Edith Kurzweil (1925–2016), American writer and editor * Jaroslav Kurzweil (1926–2022), Czech mathematician * Max Kurzweil (1867–1916), Austrian painter and printmaker * Ray Kurzweil (born 1948), American inventor, author and futurist ** Kurzweil Music Systems, company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces electronic musical instruments ** Kurzweil Educational Systems Kurzweil Education (formerly Kurzweil Educational Systems) is an American-based company that provides educational technology. Kurzweil Education provides literacy solutions, tools and training for those with learning differences and challenges, ..., company founded by Ray Kurzweil that p ...
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ADAT
Alesis Digital Audio Tape (ADAT) is a magnetic tape format used for the recording of eight digital audio tracks onto the same S-VHS tape used by consumer VCRs. Although it is a tape-based format, the term ''ADAT'' now refers to its successor, the Alesis ADAT HD24, which features hard disk recording rather than the traditional tape-based ADAT, which in turn is now considered obsolete. History The product was announced in January 1991 at the NAMM convention in Anaheim, California by Alesis. The first ADAT recorders shipped over a year later in February or March 1992. More audio tracks could be recorded by synchronizing up to 16 ADAT machines together, for a total of 128 tracks. While synchronization had been available in earlier machines, ADAT machines were the first to do so with sample-accurate timing, which in effect allowed a studio owner to purchase a 24-track tape machine eight tracks at a time. This capability and its comparatively low cost, originally introduced at $ ...
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S/PDIF
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a type of digital audio interface used in consumer audio equipment to output audio over relatively short distances. The signal is transmitted over either a coaxial cable (using RCA or BNC connectors) or a fiber optic cable with TOSLINK connectors. S/PDIF interconnects components in home theaters and other digital high-fidelity systems. S/PDIF is based on the AES3 interconnect standard. S/PDIF can carry two channels of uncompressed PCM audio or compressed 5.1 surround sound (such as DTS audio codec or Dolby Digital codec); it cannot support lossless surround formats that require greater bandwidth. S/PDIF is a data link layer protocol as well as a set of physical layer specifications for carrying digital audio signals over either optical or electrical cable. The name stands for Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format but is also known as Sony/Philips Digital Interface. Sony and Philips were the primary designers of S/PDIF. S/PDI ...
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Input/output
In computing, input/output (I/O, or informally io or IO) is the communication between an information processing system, such as a computer, and the outside world, possibly a human or another information processing system. Inputs are the signals or data received by the system and outputs are the signals or data sent from it. The term can also be used as part of an action; to "perform I/O" is to perform an input or output operation. are the pieces of hardware used by a human (or other system) to communicate with a computer. For instance, a keyboard or computer mouse is an input device for a computer, while monitors and printers are output devices. Devices for communication between computers, such as modems and network cards, typically perform both input and output operations. Any interaction with the system by a interactor is an input and the reaction the system responds is called the output. The designation of a device as either input or output depends on perspective. Mice a ...
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Breath Controller
A wind controller, sometimes referred to as a wind synthesizer, is an electronic wind instrument. It is usually a MIDI controller associated with one or more music synthesizers. Wind controllers are most commonly played and fingered like a woodwind instrument, usually the saxophone, with the next most common being brass fingering, particularly the trumpet. Models have been produced that play and finger like other acoustic instruments such as the recorder or the tin whistle. The most common form of wind controller uses electronic sensors to convert fingering, breath pressure, bite pressure, finger pressure, and other gesture or action information into control signals that affect musical sounds. The control signals or MIDI messages generated by the wind controller are used to control internal or external devices such as analog synthesizers or MIDI-compatible synthesizers, synth modules, softsynths, sequencers, or even non-instruments such as lighting systems. Simpler breath contro ...
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Ribbon Controller
A ribbon or riband is a thin band of material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily as decorative binding and tying. Cloth ribbons are made of natural materials such as silk, cotton, and jute and of synthetic materials, such as polyester, nylon, and polypropylene. Ribbon is used for useful, ornamental, and symbolic purposes. Cultures around the world use ribbon in their hair, around the body, and as ornament on non-human animals, buildings, and packaging. Some popular fabrics used to make ribbons are satin, organza, sheer, silk, velvet, and grosgrain. Etymology The word ribbon comes from Middle English ''ribban'' or ''riban'' from Old French ''ruban'', which is probably of Germanic origin. Cloth Along with that of tapes, fringes, and other smallwares, the manufacture of cloth ribbons forms a special department of the textile industries. The essential feature of a ribbon loom is the simultaneous weaving in one loom frame of two or more webs, g ...
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Kurzweil K2500
Kurzweil is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adele Kurzweil (1925–1942), Austrian Holocaust victim * Allen Kurzweil (born 1960), American writer * Arthur Kurzweil (born 1951), American genealogist, scholar of Judaism and writer * Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972), Israeli literary critic * Edith Kurzweil (1925–2016), American writer and editor * Jaroslav Kurzweil (1926–2022), Czech mathematician * Max Kurzweil (1867–1916), Austrian painter and printmaker * Ray Kurzweil (born 1948), American inventor, author and futurist ** Kurzweil Music Systems, company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces electronic musical instruments ** Kurzweil Educational Systems Kurzweil Education (formerly Kurzweil Educational Systems) is an American-based company that provides educational technology. Kurzweil Education provides literacy solutions, tools and training for those with learning differences and challenges, ..., company founded by Ray Kurzweil that p ...
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Kurzweil K2000R
Kurzweil is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adele Kurzweil (1925–1942), Austrian Holocaust victim * Allen Kurzweil (born 1960), American writer * Arthur Kurzweil (born 1951), American genealogist, scholar of Judaism and writer * Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972), Israeli literary critic * Edith Kurzweil (1925–2016), American writer and editor * Jaroslav Kurzweil (1926–2022), Czech mathematician * Max Kurzweil (1867–1916), Austrian painter and printmaker * Ray Kurzweil (born 1948), American inventor, author and futurist ** Kurzweil Music Systems, company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces electronic musical instruments ** Kurzweil Educational Systems Kurzweil Education (formerly Kurzweil Educational Systems) is an American-based company that provides educational technology. Kurzweil Education provides literacy solutions, tools and training for those with learning differences and challenges, ..., company founded by Ray Kurzweil that p ...
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Polyphony (instrument)
Polyphony is a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously. Instruments featuring polyphony are said to be polyphonic. Instruments that are not capable of polyphony are monophonic or paraphonic. Synthesizer Monophonic A monophonic synthesizer or ''monosynth'' is a synthesizer that produces only one note at a time, making it smaller and cheaper than a polyphonic synthesizer which can play multiple notes at once. This does not necessarily refer to a synthesizer with a single oscillator; The Minimoog, for example, has three oscillators which are settable in arbitrary intervals, but it can play only one note at a time. Well-known monosynths include the Minimoog, the Roland TB-303, the Korg Prophecy, and the Korg Monologue. Duophonic Duophonic synthesizers, such as the ARP Odyssey and Formanta Polivoks built in the 1970s and 1980s respectively, have a capability to independently play two pitches at a time. Thes ...
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