Kurzweil Micro Piano Module

In short - a great-sounding module with Kurzweil sampled sounds, mostly pianos, digital pianos and strings. I have the preset sounds and effects printed and taped to the top, they can easily be removed. You will need a controller or other keyboard to play the sounds, anything with MIDI will work. I used it with my KX88 controller (also for sale) for a fantastic live-piano setup. The MicroPiano is an elegantly unprepossessing unit: half rack width, with a simple, minimalist front panel, it features a couple of knobs (on/off/volume and data entry) and five buttons. These are labelled Tuning (+/‑50 cents), Transpose (24 semitones up or down), Channel (1‑16), Effects (for selecting one of 16 preset effects) and Program, for selecting one of the 32 on‑board sounds, or Programs as Kurzweil call them. The simple three‑character LED display is clear enough for the task at hand; it even includes a MIDI activity light. The Micro offers a creditable 32‑note polyphony, expandable to 64 notes by linking to a second unit. While many of the Micro's samples come from Kurzweil's K2000 library, there is a lot of new material, particularly, it seems, amongst the acoustic pianos. The complement of 32 Programs includes seven acoustic pianos, four electric grands, six electric pianos, five organs (of the Hammond variety) and five strings. In addition, there is a selection of layers (acoustic or electric piano and strings, piano and organ, for example) and something called Slow Digital Pad — this is an excellent moody and ethereal pad