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Kurzweil PC361 - 61-Key Performance Controller, Synth, & Workstation Keyboard

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Kurzweil PC361 - 61-Key Performance Controller, Synth, & Workstation Keyboard
Key Features
  • Over 850 Instruments
  • World Class Orchestral Sounds
  • Includes Kurzweil's Triple Strike Piano
  • Basses, Guitars, Drums, Horns & Synths
The PC361 from Kurzweil is a 61-key performance controller, synthesizer, and workstation keyboard with over 850 instruments, effects, arpeggiators, and a built-in sequencer. It provides stunningly realistic orchestral instruments, pianos, organs, synths, drums, basses, and more. The PC361 features custom designed ASICs chips that are optimized for sound, which makes the instruments incredibly responsive and rich sounding.

For the active keyboardist playing in bands, solo performances, and in ensembles, the PC361 provides particularly good sounding vintage keys, organs, and synths. While most of the sounds are sample-based, the PC361 also performs modeling for the KVA synth and the KB3 organ. Every drawbar on its organs gets its own dedicated hardware fader. The KVA synth can layer its virtual analog tones with sampled layers for deep hybrid sounds.

You can have up to 16 insert effects in addition to the PC361's global master effects. There is a lot of flexibility in how you can chain effects together and distribute them among its 16 multitimbral channels. Any layer in a patch can send its output into any other layer's signal chain. For gigging or recording, band rehearsals or scoring a film, the PC361 offers loads of useful instruments with a user-friendly and ultimately flexible workflow.

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Kurzweil PC361 Overview

The PC361 from Kurzweil is a 61-key performance controller, synthesizer, and workstation keyboard with over 850 instruments, effects, arpeggiators, and a built-in sequencer. It provides stunningly realistic orchestral instruments, pianos, organs, synths, drums, basses, and more. The PC361 features custom designed ASICs chips that are optimized for sound, which makes the instruments incredibly responsive and rich sounding.

For the active keyboardist playing in bands, solo performances, and in ensembles, the PC361 provides particularly good sounding vintage keys, organs, and synths. While most of the sounds are sample-based, the PC361 also performs modeling for the KVA synth and the KB3 organ. Every drawbar on its organs gets its own dedicated hardware fader. The KVA synth can layer its virtual analog tones with sampled layers for deep hybrid sounds.

You can have up to 16 insert effects in addition to the PC361's global master effects. There is a lot of flexibility in how you can chain effects together and distribute them among its 16 multitimbral channels. Any layer in a patch can send its output into any other layer's signal chain. For gigging or recording, band rehearsals or scoring a film, the PC361 offers loads of useful instruments with a user-friendly and ultimately flexible workflow.

Hundreds of Amazing Sounds
In addition to our renowned Triple Strike Grand Piano, the PC361 features hundreds of new sounds; basses, drums, guitars, and synths suited for every style and taste, along with a collection of flawless vintage keyboard emulations, KB3 Mode and over 250 orchestral and string section programs
Dynamic V.A.S.T. Architecture
Improved processing power, flexibility and user-friendliness, plus the legendary VA-1 Virtual Analog Synthesizer has been seamlessly integrated our into the PC361
Custom Designed ASICs Chips
Kurzweil designs their own chips for their instruments which gives you processing power that is devoted completely to lightning fast responsiveness and rich, full sound quality
Over 850 Programs
Includes the Kurzweil Triple Strike Piano, with dozens of variations to accommodate every kind of player, as well as all of the basics: basses, guitars, drums, horns and synths, that have all been painstakingly programmed to reflect the needs of today's professional players, representing a broad selection of styles and flavors from the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and today
Classic Keys ROM Vintage Synths
Vintage emulations which sound like vintage instruments and classic recordings. Electromechanical instruments, with all of their characteristic imperfections, have been faithfully re-created, along with pedals, amps and speakers. Lush Mellotrons, growling electric pianos, and punchy Clavinets are all there at the touch of a button, programmed to sound just like those classic albums.
KB3 Mode Tonewheel Organ Simulator
Leslie effects, and banks of B3 programs, sounds from the classic Vox and Farfisa combo organs. The PC361's 9 sliders provide real-time drawbar control.
World Class Orchestral Sounds
The PC361 offers a full range of world class orchestral sounds, including the String Section ROM bank, making it ideal for film-scoring and soundtrack projects. Every type of articulation and nuance has been captured, with samples of full and divisi sections of violins, violas, cellos, and double bass. The details, the warm swells, animated pizzicatos and the sound of scraping rosin all add to the breathtaking effect of these string sections.

Kurzweil PC361 Specs

Keyboard
61-note lightly-weighted synth action with velocity and aftertouch sensitive keys
Polyphony
128 Voice Polyphony, dynamically allocated, lightning fast performance
Multitimbral
16 parts (one per MIDI channel)
Synthesis Method
Dynamic VAST: Powerful new synthesis engine, with user programmable DSP algs and routing.

VA1 Inside: anti-aliasing, power-shaped oscillators and DSP processing from Kurzweil's VA1 prototype synth, capable of delivering authentic analog emulations as well as complex new sounds.

Cascade Mode: lets the user route one layer through the DSP of any other layer within a program - up to 32 consecutive layers deep

Presets
Over 850 Factory Presets, many of which use 10-20 layers, featuring samples from the PC2 Base Sound ROM, the Orchestral, Classic Keys, General MIDI set, plus the String Section ROM Bank. Also, 64+ new KB3 programs.
Sequencer
Unlimited tracks (on import); 960 PPQ resolution. Song editing functions include both event and track-based tools like quantize, swing, remap, controller scaling and more. Controller chasing and a global "set song length" functions are also featured.
Record and Playback
Yes
User Memory
2048 locations for user created preset programs, songs and setups
Effects
16 insert effects distributed over 11 busses, two auxiliary sends and two Master Effects (saved with each song and setup); featuring over 500 effects - reverbs, delays, chorus, flange, phaser, EQs, distortions, Leslie simulators, compressors, and more.
Controllers
Pitch wheel
Modulation wheel
9 front panel sliders/drawbar controllers
10 front panel switches (momentary or toggle, software selectable)
3 switch pedal input
2 continuous control pedal inputs, mono pressure, Super Ribbon input, breath controller input. Controller values can be "captured" and stored as part of a program.
Expansion Slots
2 Sound ROM Expansion Slots
Inputs/Outputs
Analog Outputs: 4 x 1/4" balanced TRS analog (24-bit DACs)
Headphones: 1 x rear panel 1/4" headphone output
Digital Outputs: 24-bit, stereo S/PDIF featuring 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, and 192-kHz modes (externally clockable)
MIDI: In, Out, Thru (hardware switchable to copy of MIDI Out)
USB: MIDI over USB. Also allows the PC361 to load and save data directly to and from a computer as well as perform OS updates.
Storage
xD card type flash memory port. Store and load programs, OS updates, and sequences. (256Mb max, type "S" / standard format only)
Amplifier
None
Speakers
None
Display
240 x 64 angled, backlit LCD w/ dedicated back panel brightness and contrast controls
Power
Internal AC power supply
Selectable 120/240V AC operation
Dimensions
4.84 x 13.98 x 39.37" (12.3 x 35.5 x 100cm)
Weight
30.86 lbs (14 kg)
System Requirements
Mac and Windows compatible software editor

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