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Kawai K5000S Init Patch With Sine Wave

In the wake of updating my Kawai K5000S to the last operating system version I got the inspiration to make an init patch of my own to act as a starting point for creating sounds.

With six sources per voice, and a filter and LFO for each source, the Kawai K5000 can be a formidable synth even without using additive synthesis. There is a good selection of PCM waves, also traditional subtractive waveforms as cyclic waves.

The traditional synth waveforms (and lots, lots more) can be constructed using additive synthesis, so as a starting point I'd like to show you how to create the simplest possible additive sound—the sine wave.

For a sine wave, you only need one harmonic, the first harmonic, or fundamental. By setting the amplitude level of the fundamental to full, and setting all the other harmonic amplitude levels to zero, you get just the pure sine tone.

You can download the sine wave init patch as a System Exclusive file, for transferring it over to your K5000 with a suitable application like SysEx Librarian on macOS, or MIDI-OX or my own Sixten System Exclusive Manager for Windows.

Note that since Kawai K5000S patches have the location embedded, this patch will only go to D080 unless you edit the location as described in the post about the LFO.store Kawai K5000S patches.

Video

I made a video of the creation of this patch on the brand new DigitalSynth.net YouTube channel.

Quick instructions

Before you can save any of your patches you need to turn off system memory protection on the K5000. Press SYSTEM, then L3, and select Protect = OFF.

As a starting point you can select any unused factory patch. After the system update (which initialized the patches to factory presets) there were plenty of those in the D bank. I selected patch D080, because there are 40 factory patches in bank D.

Select your patch and press EDIT.

Press R1 for Additive. You will most likely get a message: "This is a PCM Wave. Change the wave type to additive?". Press F8 for YES.

Press L1 for "Harmonic Level (DHL)".

Press F2 to activate S1 (source 1).

Press L1 for "Common". Ensure that the harmonic group is set to LO. Press EXIT

Press L2 for "Harmonic Level Edit".

Press R4 for harmonic selection. Ensure that SOFT is selected.

Press R1 to select which harmonics to edit. Select All.

Press R3 to adjust harmonic levels. Turn the dial counter-clockwise until all harnonic levels are zero.

Press R1 and select Each. This will allow to adjust individual harmonics.

Press R2 and select harmonic number 1.

Press R3 and turn the dial clockwise until the harmonic level reaches the value 127.

Press R4 and select the LOUD harmonics.

Press R1 and select All.

Press R3 and turn the dial counter-clockwise until all harnonic levels are zero.

Press R1 and select Each.

Press R2 and select harmonic number 1.

Press R3 and turn the dial clockwise until the harmonic level reaches the value 127.

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