Kawai K1m (1988) Digital Synthesizer - No Talking Demo

✓ NO effects or processes were used ✓ Recordings: Kawai K1 / K1m review by MusicRadar: It’s difficult to dissect the success of Kawai’s (opens in new tab) K1. On one hand, it offered a decidedly low-budget alternative to Roland’s (opens in new tab) D-50 - the hottest synth on the market at the time of the K1’s release. On the other, so many corners were cut that an argument could be made that it could barely be considered a synthesiser at all, as the omission of any sort of filters meant that for many owners it served merely as a collection of multi-sampled instruments – what we’d call a ‘ROMpler’ nowadays. Even then, the initial version lacked drum sounds or sequencing of any sort. And effects? Forget it. And yet the darned thing sold. And sold. And sold. Eventually, Kawai would shift 50,000 of the things - and while that was only a quarter of the number of D-50 receipts, it was no small amount. To put it in perspective, Moog only managed to