Extremely good condition with original power supply and box. Functions perfectly and doesn’t seem to have been used at all.
This is a very unique and somewhat rare synth. I’d keep it but I don’t have the space.
Pickup in portage park
(Photos incoming)
Description from reverb:
The Kawai PH50is a strange beast unlike any other keyboard synth in its class. It has 16 note polyphony with 200 tone patches and 50 combinations. The sounds are straight from the 8-bit encoded Kawai K1 synthesizer. Being a home version of the K1, it will have a grainier encoding of those sounds with more aliasing in the higher register when combined with the pitch bend. The joystick controls pitch up, down, vibrato, and halves key velocity.
Where it really shines is its 30 different combinations that include unique and useful layers, splits, chords and 4 part multi-timbral sequencer. Some examples are detuned layers, transposed layers, transposed splits. You can layer up to 4 different sounds in a variety of useful ways and the sounds are incredible as single patches to begin with. Many of the sounds include patches from the rare sound cards Kawai released.
The great thing of this instrument is that its sound bank is in no way GM compatible but instead includes tons of unusual (partly algorithmic) effect sounds. These include beside normal instrument timbres many of the typical modern, sample based hollywood horror and SF movie sound effects with much reverb, breathy atmospheric timbres and distant roaring or rumbling bass noises. Many sounds are even named after movies (e.g. "terminater", "halloween", "predatory", "poltergeist", "karate kid"). Other sounds were likely named after pop/ rock musicians those I mostly don't know (e.g. "flex solo", "felix solo", "chick solo", "jan's solo", "deep purple"). The sound bank also includes many breathy Fairlight CMI style choirs and nice Hammond organ timbres as well as some percussion stuff.
FEATURES:
• 49 fullsize keys
• 2 built-in speakers (wannabe stereo, a bit thin sounding)
• Polyphony 8 notes (6 with rhythm)
• 200 preset sounds (including some drum kits and effect patterns)
• 30 preset rhythms {8 beat 1..3, synth pop, rock, metal 1..2, 50's rock, 50's rock, ballad, e. pop, e. 8 beat, 16 beat 1..2, disco, funk 1..2, rap, jazz pop, echo, shuffle, slow rock, swing, jazz waltz, bounce, bossanova, samba, country, reggae, street kids}
• Split/ layer sounds ("combinations", made from up to 4 preset sounds with individually adjustable • Volume using 30 "forms" as templates, 50 memories)
• 3 digit LED display (indicates numbers and cryptic flashing status info)
• Wavetable sound generator: all sounds based on 2(?) layered medium resolution samples with partly very complex algorithmic envelopes. Apparently each sound channel can only have the stereo panning position left, mid or right, since normally the left keyboard half plays strictly through the left speaker and vice versa. Up to 4 preset sounds can be layered.
• Battery backed- up memory (stores selected sound & rhythm, 50 "combination" settings & other status stuff, using a separate lithium battery)
• Jacks for AC- adapter, headphones, line out, MIDI in/ out