Kurzweil K150fs - anybody use a ][ for SMP? — #3

Post #3 by Bunsen

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Mon, 1 Mar 2010 - 22:51
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/kurzweil-k150fs-anybody-use-a-for-smp.20026/

Post

{returns from teh googles}

Wow. Just... wow. DO WANT.

http://herbert-janssen.de/k150.html

240 hardware oscillators / sine wave or one of two noise samples. Each oscillator may use its own 256 stage (loopable!) amplitude envelope. The definition of an additive spectrum / via the external SOUNDLAB software that runs on the Apple ][ (be it real or emulated on a Mac). / up to 64 [instruments] in the user RAM. / Each instrument may contain up to 64 partials which / can have any frequency, i.e. the spectrum does not have to be harmonic.

And hey, it's a 68k!

Main CPU is a 10MHz 68000

I found (and lost) one reference that the editor software connects via serial and not MIDI, so a hardware MIDI card is not needed. I note that Wendy Carlos (a huge fan of the 150 it seems) says:

Hal Chamberlin's K150FS voicing software / required an older Apple II style computer to operate within. I used a IIc+ / It's amazing what Hal was able to squeeze into a very small machine, small RAM amount, and such early hardware.

Ain't no room in a IIc for a MIDI card.