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digitailor on Sept 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fixing a 30-year-old Roland synthesizer bug

Didn’t know that: hard to believe they managed to pull off additive synthesis on an 8096. That’s impressive

I had a later Kawai K5000 which added short PCM samples for attack transients. That thing was crazy, foolishly gave it away more than a decade ago

pinewurst on Sept 12, 2022 | [–]

I received a final software update from Kawai and had to open it to install the EPROMs, which is how I saw it. It was a very cool synth - very high quality feeling.

squarefoot on Sept 13, 2022 | [–]

I also had a K5000 and was so stupid to sell it over a decade ago; no way to find one again now at less than 5 times that money.

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