Kurzweil PC88MX For Sale

KURZWEIL PC88MX KEYBOARD/WORKSTATION FOR SALE

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To all my musician friends and colleagues, and everyone else - I am selling my trusty Kurzweil PC88mx keyboard. I have had it for 16 years and it has been a brilliant instrument which has been gigged all over the place, from the Edinburgh Festival to the Royal Albert Hall. I’ve upgraded to a new Kurzweil and I just don’t need to keep this one any longer.

The keyboard is in good condition and works/plays fine. There are some great sounds on it. It would suit someone with a studio/home studio setup, someone in a band, a pit player or someone who needs a full size 88-note weighted action keyboard to use at home (you will need an amp/speakers though).

There are few small surface scratches on the body of the keyboard from general use. There are no slow/sticky keys, but one key is a bit light and springy. One Zone selector button has a loose electrical connection underneath it - this doesn’t affect the general use of the instrument much and could easily be repaired.

The keyboard was valued at around £2200 in 1997 (including the extra installed expansion board) - I don’t want a lot of money for it, but I feel £400 would be a fair price and is still great value. Sold as seen - you can of course come to see the keyboard to try it out.

Below is a list of all the main features and specs. There’s an album of photos lower down on this page to look at the keyboard from different angles.

Features:

The PC88 is a self-contained portable piano that features quick and intuitive access to 64 (and optionally more) internal sounds derived from Kurzweil’s renowned ROM samples. It can produce up to 64-note polyphony in full stereo (with the installed expansion board), and lets you layer up to 4 sounds at once. Built-in reverb and chorus are also provided, and there’s a sophisticated on-board arpeggiator for composing, performing.

Thirty-two versatile MIDI Setups are provided to let you start making great music immediately.You can also use these Setups as templates, or create new Setups from the Internal Voices (up to 128 Setups in total).

The PC88 is a high-quality MIDI keyboard controller, with 88-key weighted action, adjustable velocity and pressure (aftertouch) curves, two programmable on-boardwheels, four sliders, three buttons, and jacks for two footswitches and four continuous control pedals. Data on four independent MIDI channels can be sent simultaneously, using four different “zones”, each of which has its own key range — which can overlap with any others —and its own controller definitions, as well as the ability to be muted or soloed instantly. Other features allow merging and remapping of incoming MIDI data (listening on all 16 channels), and the ability to go instantaneously from one complex setup to another.

Finally, the PC88 is a versatile multitimbral instrument that can be used to complement any MIDI setup. With the installed plug-in VGM (Voice/GM expansion) board, the PC88 becomes a top-of-the-line General MIDI instrument, for use in education, multimedia production, games, and other exciting applications. In addition to expanding the PC88’s complement of sounds to match the General MIDI spec, the VGM board adds 12 sets of drum and percussion sounds, and doubles the PC88’s maximum polyphony to 64 notes.

Specs

Type: Synth/Master-keyboard/keyboard/
Synthesis Type: Digital Accoustic simulation