If this a good thing or not is for the user to decide, later models had this fixed but they are still pretty squelchy sounding.Ĭheck out a Legowelt Kawai K4 sample pack here. Digital artefacts like crackles and noise pop up at their convenience. If any synth would be a stoner this one is guilty as charged.Ī synthesis but not as sophisticated deeply programmable and more rougher on the edges. All the ingredients to stir your imagination into a porridge of granulated spaced out FAT succulent digital bliss are in your hands with this machine.Ĭapable of a broad range of colourful sweet spots from thumping fast envelope Moog-style basses, penetrating style acid to crystal harp-like analog tones to evolving dreamy hazy textures. The K4 came out in and was a cheaper alternative to the likes of the Roland D50 and Korg M1 - that it is a cheaper alternative can definitely be heard in the sound of this instrument, its more lo-fi and grungy then its contemporaries - but this is - definitely - a good thing! Whats under the hood? KAWAI K4R + Cheap Roland D-50 + VHxRR (new album is BONKERS!)įour oscillators selected from digital waves - are fed into two extremely rough digital filters with a beastly almost uncontrollable self oscillating resonance.

Kawai is now only known as a Japanese piano manufacturer but they made some classic synthesizers in the s and s.

Kawai k4 patch editor