Kurzweil products are well supported by the musical community. In addition to a large number of developers selling products for various Kurzweil instruments, a large number of devoted users have created an unprecedented amount of their own support information on the Internet, Additionally, many users offer downloadable sounds and samples to other Kurzweil users. Come join the Kurzweil Community!
Links to Independent Information Sources
The links presented here will take you to other Web sites and resources which contain information on Kurzweil instruments, especially the K2000/K2500/K2600. If you have information on other sites that may be of interest to visitors, please let us know.
Awave
Awave is a PC shareware program that can read a wide variety of sample and audio formats and convert them into other formats. Both .KRZ and .K25 files are supported. Click here to go to Awave.
Brian Cowell
Brian Cowell's web page features many files to download, from his Kurve-Station Project. In addition, Sweetwater Sound hosts a page containing the Brian Cowell Collection. Please click here to go to Brian Cowell's page.
CD-Extract
CD-Extract is a nifty utility for the PC which imports and exports various sample formats, including the Kurzweil format. Click here to go to CD-Extract.
Center for Electronic and Computer Music
The Center for Electronic and Computer Music, at the Indiana University School of Music, has a page of various reference documents, including several articles on the K2000 and PC88. Click here for various documents from the Center for Electronic and Computer Music.
Claude Lassonde's K200 Download Page
Click here for Claude Lassonde's K200 Download page.
Genelec
Kurzweil Soundware Engineers use Genelec speakers for monitoring purposes during the creation of our samples and voicing of our instruments. Click here to go to the site.
InsMaker
InsMaker is a freeware Windows program from Fumph Electronic Music and Software, which generates Cakewalk instrument definition files. It retrieves the patch names via sysex and generates a complete INS file including drum maps for any drum programs. Click here to go to InsMaker.
Josef Rabitz's K2000 Page
Click here to go to Josef Rabitz's K2000 Page.
K200/K2500 Launchpad
One of the best sources of independent reference information, maintained by Tony Palermo. Click here go to go the site.
K2x00 CD-ROM Image Maker
K2x00 CD-ROM Image Maker is a freeware program for the PC, created by Bernard Perbal, which allows you to create a disk image file. Click here for K2x00 CD-ROM Image Maker.
Kurzsee
Kurzsee is a PC program created by Steve Mac, similar to the K2500 Companion. It is also freeware.
Palancar Wares
Please click here to go to Palancar Waves.
Puppeteer's Katacombs
The Puppeteer's Katacombs offers a couple of tutorials on using clock based control sources.
Ravenware Music
Ravenware Music offers the K2500 Companion, a Mac freeware editor/librarian program, along with additional sounds and utilities for download, plus other helpful information. Click here to go to the site.
Sound Subscriptions
Sound Subscriptions offers a subscription service in which they send you new programs for your K2000 on a monthly basis. Feedback from users is that these are top quality sounds. Please click here for Sound Subscriptions.
Sweetwater Sound
Sweetwater Sound also hosts the Complete K2000/K2500, which offers a wealth of practical information on these instruments. Samples are available for downloading from the Website. In addition, Sweetwater's FTP Site has many files available for download. Please click here to go to the site.
The Sonik Site
The Sonik Site has web-based forums for discussion on Kurzweil and other related topics, along with additional information.
V.A.S.T. Programmers Challenge
The V.A.S.T. Programmers Challenge was a semi-regular contest run by K2000 users, designed to encourage creative V.A.S.T. programming. Although this site no longer has current contests, you will find many files from previous winners that you can download. New contests are being sponsored on the Sonik site. Click here to go to the site.
VAST Programmer
VASTprogrammer is a Java program developed by Michael Warpenburg that allows users to interactively develop Setups, Programs & other types of objects on Kurzweil VAST machines.
Yash's Advanced Programming Techniques
Yash's Advanced Programming Techniques offers several useful programming tutorials. Click here to go to the site.
