First electronic musical instrument which produced sound from sampled sounds compressed in ROM
Kurzweil K250 (1984)
The Kurzweil K250, manufactured by Kurzweil Music Systems, was an early electronic musical instrument which produced sound from sampled sounds compressed in ROM, faster than common mass storage such as a disk drive. Acoustic sounds from brass, percussion, string and woodwind instruments as well as sounds created using waveforms from oscillators were utilized. Designed for professional musicians, it was invented by Raymond Kurzweil, founder of Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc., Kurzweil Music Systems and Kurzweil Educational Systems with consultation from Stevie Wonder; Lyle Mays, an American jazz pianist; Alan R. Pearlman, founder of ARP Instruments Inc.; and Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
The KurzweilK250, manufactured by Kurzweil Music Systems, was an early electronic musical instrument which produced sound from sampled sounds compressed...
of the KurzweilK250. Kurzweil has joined the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a cryonics company. In the event of his declared death, Kurzweil plans to...
January 2007 appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems. The company launched the K250 synthesizer/sampler in 1984:...
a KurzweilK250, and became known for his custom K250 sound library and programming skills as well as his upgrade kits. Sweetwater became a Kurzweil dealer...
Synthesizer, later to become the New England Digital Corp's Synclavier. The KurzweilK250, first produced in 1983, was also a successful polyphonic digital music...
included a Roland MKS20 digital piano, a Kurzweil 250RMX (the rack-mounted version of the famous KurzweilK250 synthesizer), a Roland S550 sampler, a Lexicon...
in his home and named it Sweetwater Sound. In 1985, he purchased a KurzweilK250 keyboard for use in the studio and commissioned an engineer to reverse...
"One Vision".[citation needed] The song's introduction was done with a KurzweilK250 synthesizer. Mack acknowledged that lead singer Freddie Mercury wanted...
Kurzweil himself are interspersed among the actual songs on the album. The KurzweilK250 keyboard, one of his inventions, was utilized throughout the recording...
1984 First music synthesizer (KurzweilK250) capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments Kurzweil Music Systems 1984 Amiga computer...
250,000. The success of the D-50 and M1 was riding on the back of the KurzweilK250, which first applied this technology well in 1984. This machine was...
Hitchcock – vocals Graham Russell – guitar, vocals Jeff Bova – keyboards, KurzweilK250 programming Eddie Martinez – guitars, backing vocals Chris P. Rice –...
The Beach Boys Bruce Johnston – lead (verses) and backing vocals, KurzweilK250 Mike Love – backing vocals Carl Wilson – lead (chorus) and backing vocals...
sequencer driving a fully loaded KurzweilK250 that had been enhanced with some extra proprietary orchestral sounds. The K250 sampler, a virtual orchestra...
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