Kurzweil's entry level MARK 8 Digital Ensemble, has the award winning Kurzweil sound and features you would find in a much more expensive instrument.
Start with a 32-voice, 88-note full size Digital Piano, include 32 Auto Accompaniments, a 5-Song Recorder, 5-Track Sequencer and a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive. Add 16 Effects, a 40-watt, stereo sound system, General MIDI and you have got quite a music making machine. There are 68 exciting sounds selectable from the front panel from the 150 available programs. Standard MIDI, Disk Orchestra, and Piano Disc songs can be loaded from floppy disk. This is more then a digital piano. It is an orchestra of sounds with a percussion section, back ground players and a soloist - You!. Make it as easy as you like or set it for full professional play. Either way the Mark 8 is filled with fun and the joy of making music. Available in Simulated Oak, Cherry and Black Walnut.
The 32 Auto Accompaniments can play a wide variety of musical styles and rhythm patterns so everyone can be involved in the fun. Feel the heat as you sizzle to the exotic beats of the Caribbean and Latin America with Rhumba, Samba, Bossanova, Cha Cha and Salsa. Come back to the good ol' USA with Ragtime, Country, Broadway, Gospel, R&B, and Rock & Roll. Recreate the golden age of Jazz with Big Band, Swing, Jazz Waltz, and, Dixie.
Kurzweil is famous for award winning sound quality. Our acoustic piano, electric piano, and organ sounds are truly world class, but it doesn't stop there. A grand orchestra is available for you to conduct. A stunning array of virtuoso quality solo instruments are at your command, as are entire sections of strings, brass, woodwinds, and reeds. Rich, vibrant violins, cellos, trumpets, trombones, clarinets, saxes, French horns, guitars, marimbas, accordion, harmonica, and more await your command to play.
You can combine sounds, split the keyboard, transpose, and layer sounds in many different and useful ways. Preserve your new musical masterpiece on the built-in recorder/sequencer and save your orchestration, effects, and favorite panel settings for future use. You can practice privately with headphones or fill the room with music. Just be prepared for the fun, excitement, and musical joy that only Kurzweil brings you.
Specifications:
62 Sounds selectable from the front panel include: 4 acoustic pianos (including acoustic, rock, and ragtime), 2 electric pianos, 2 harpsichords, 4 pipe organs, jazz and rock organs, 2 acoustic guitars, 2 jazz guitars, 2 rock guitars, 2 string sections, 2 choirs, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, bassoon and oboe, trumpet and trumpet section, trombone, french horn, tuba, tenor sax and sax section, 2 vibraphones, marimba and steel drums, accordion and harmonica, 2 bells, and 2 orchestras, plus a wide variety of synth brass, ensembles, keyboards, pads, leads, and synth effects. Additionally, over 80 jazz, rock, and latin percussion instruments are accessible in 6 selectable keyboard arrangements.
An additional 59 programs are accessible via MIDI program changes. Or, if the Mark 8 is placed in GM mode, all 128 GM programs are available via program change messages.
Any 2 sounds may be layered and their relative volumes adjusted.
4 Split programs include 3 basses (acoustic & electric), plus one "custom" (user-definable) setting.
User selectable split point.
Independent octave transposition of each side of split over a +/- 5 octave range.
Split and Layer functions can be combined.
16 Reverb and Effects Combinations
Reverb: Room, Stage, Hall
Effects: Chorus, Echo, Symphonic
General MIDI mode for playing GM sequences.
Auto Accompaniment: 32 preset musical styles include Bossanova, Caribbean, Cha-Cha, Rhumba, Samba, Salsa, Polka, march, Dixie, Ragtime, Broadway, Classical, Waltz1, Waltz2, Country, Western, Swing, Jazz Waltz, Big Band 1, Big Band 2, Boogie, Rock & Roll, Rock Ballad, 8 Beat 1, 8 Beat 2, 16 Beat 1, 16 Beat 2, Gospel, R&B, Funk, and Dance.
Introduction, Basic, Variation, Fills, and Ending for each style.
Up to 16 additional new styles can be loaded from disk. Information on these styles can be found on our Mark Series Disk Information page.
Independent volume and mute controls for accompaniment (drums, bass, and three accompaniment parts).
Basic, Advanced, Chord Inversion, and Full Keyboard recognition modes, plus chord hold feature.
Recorder/Sequencer: Stores up to 5 songs, 5 tracks per song.
Internal/External Sync for hook up with other sequencers.
Records and plays back auto-accompaniment performances. Can play Standard MIDI Files and can read and convert disks from Yamaha PianoSoft and Disk Orchestra Libraries, plus PianoDisc Music Library.
Disk Drive: 1.4 meg floppy drive for loading and saving songs and styles.
9 Panel Storage Memories store and recall complete front panel settings.
40 watt amplification system (2x6.5" woofers/midrange, 2x1" dome tweeters).
Volume, treble, and bass sliders.
Headphone jack, two RCA audio in and four RCA audio out jacks (2 switched by headphone and 2 unswitched).
88 note weighted action
32 voice polyphony
MIDI In, Out and Thru jacks. Complete MIDI implementation. 16 channel multitimbral.
Full Transposition; Tuning Adjust +/- 50 cents
Finishes: Oak, Cherry, and Black Walnut simulated wood