Team DECiBEL | 14 Jan 2024 | 1.18GB
THE ORIGINAL MAVERICKS OF PCM SYNTHESIS
Inspired by the first ROMplers, the K250 and K1000
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The first keyboard to deliver sampled waveforms via oscillator, the K250, was a joint effort carried out with legendary musician Stevie Wonder, the founder of ARP – Alan Pearlman, and prolific synthesizer artisan Bob Moog, among others.
Able to produce brilliant acoustic sounds without the use of disk drives, the K250 was the world’s first ROMpler. Boasting an impressive 24 voices of polyphony and a beastly 88-note weighted keyboard, the K250 was designed with performance in mind. Following in its success the K1000 was released with a sportier 76-note keybed. It offered extra portability and sounds at the expense of a simplified front panel.