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The Original Mavericks of PCM Synthesis

Inspired by the first ROMplers, the K250 and K1000

155 presets deliver shimmering vintage-digital tones

Use presets as starting points for your own patch design

Included in

The Original Mavericks of PCM Synthesis

Inspired by the first ROMplers, the K250 and K1000

155 presets deliver shimmering vintage-digital tones

Use presets as starting points for your own patch design

INSPIRATION

INSTRUMENT

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SPECS

$49

INSPIRATION

INSTRUMENT

LISTEN

SPECS

$49

Inspiration

The First True ROMpler

The first keyboard to deliver sampled waveforms via oscillator, the K250, was a joint effort carried out with legendary musician Stevie Wonder, the founder of ARP - Alan Pearlman, and prolific synthesizer artisan Bob Moog, among others.

Able to produce brilliant acoustic sounds without the use of disk drives, the K250 was the world's first ROMpler. Boasting an impressive 24 voices of polyphony and a beastly 88-note weighted keyboard, the K250 was designed with performance in mind. Following in its success the K1000 was released with a sportier 76-note keybed. It offered extra portability and sounds at the expense of a simplified front panel.

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Instrument

Preserving the Spirit, Expanding the Palette

In making U1250 we decided to tackle both the K250 and the K1000, programming a wide range of sounds including acoustic and electric pianos, bells, mallets, drums, percussion, guitar, bass, pads, wind, brass and other orchestral instruments. The sounds in U1250 evoke a nostalgic vintage vibe thanks to the character of early digital sampling implemented in these instruments. The hardware was tediously multi-sampled to create an authentic playing experience and dynamic sound that feels and acts like the real thing.

All the sounds in U1250 can be serve as immediate inspiration, or starting-points for your own sound design. Built-in amplitude ADSR, multimode filter with ADSR, stereo unison, legato, noise oscillator, quick modwheel mapping, modulators, and high-quality effects from UVI allow you to quickly adapt a sound to your needs to radically warp it into something completely new.

Two studio icons of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s impart a special sound and history, and through U1250 a new life as a modern instrument with an uncompromising vintage-digital flavor.

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Licensing:

3 activations per license on any combination of machines or iLok dongles

What you get:

Size:	1.38 GB (FLAC lossless encoding, was 3.9 GB in WAV)
Content:	155 Presets, 5,600 Samples
Sample Resolution:	44.1 kHz. Recording at 88.2 kHz

System requirements:

Runs in UVI Workstation version 3.0.8, and Falcon version 2.0.3
iLok account (free, dongle not required)
Internet connection for the license activation
Supported Operating Systems:
- - MacOS 10.14 Mojave to macOS 26 Tahoe
- - Windows 10 to Windows 11 (64-bit)
2GB of disk space
Hard Drive: 7,200 rpm recommended or Solid State Drive (SSD)
4 GB RAM

Compatibility:

Supported Formats:	Audio Units, AAX, VST, VST3, Stand-alone
Tested and certified in:	Digital Performer 8+, Pro Tools 2019+, Logic Pro X+, Cubase 7+, Nuendo 6+, Ableton Live 8+, Studio One 2+, Garage Band 6+, Maschine 1+, Tracktion 4+, Vienna Ensemble Pro 5+, Reaper 4+, Sonar X3+, MainStage 3, MuLab 5.5+, FL Studio, Bitwig 1+, Reason 9.5+, Ability 1+

U1250 Manual Soundbank Installation Guide

Kurzweiler, K250 and K1000 are trademarks of their respective owners. UVI is not affiliated or endorsed by any entities listed here.