The Kawai K4 Appreciation Page

This is a set of pages for cleaning my brain about the Kawai K4. It is a vintage digital synthesizer which has considerable mindshare with me.

I have organized the information found here as a narrative. You can work through it in order, but skip the boring bits if you like.

• History
• The Synth - Explores the use of the Kawai K4 as a musical synthesizer: how it has been used in the past, and if there is a case for using it as such today.
• Patches and Banks - Assuming there is point in using the Kawai K4 as a synthesizer today, it needs some software to manage patches and banks, and also to create new ones.
• Control - Examines the use of the K4 as a MIDI controller keyboard for software synthesizers.
• Conclusions - Tries to draw ultimate (although personal) conclusions about using the K4 today.