UVI Kawai Vintage Legacy, Kawai synth and drum machine classics revived

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UVI Kawai Vintage Legacy brings five Kawai Synthesizer and drum machine classics as multi-sampled virtual instruments back.

Digital synths are as much a part of history as analog synths. And there were a lot of exciting digital synths. Korg Wavestation, Yamaha DX-7, Roland D-50…. the most famous.

Not a big synth player today anymore, but Kawai used to have a large portfolio of special digital synths. These are back now in a new form. The French sample specialist UVI has multi-sampled various Kawai synths and drum machines from the past and created five virtual instruments.

UVI Kawai Vintage Legacy

UVI Kawai Vintage Legacy

Kawai Vintage Legacy features five independent virtual instruments stackable in a monster multi-instruments with four customizable synth layers and a drum module. All five instruments are based on multi-sampled vintage Kawai synthesizers and drum machines. It includes sounds from the K1, K3, K4, K5, R100, XD5, and more.

The bundle consists of a synth and drum section with a total of 28.75 GB (FLAC lossless encoding, was 62.55 GB in WAV). Synth instruments K1u, K3u, K4u, and K5u all offer deeply editable UIs, offering ADSR over amplitude and a multimode filter, creative effects, and a powerful arpeggiator

Then, the drum module, R100u, includes factory sounds from the R100, XD5 and comes outfitted with a sequencer and pattern library. The R100 used was outfitted with additional customized EPROMs, loaded with a selection of acoustic and modern electronic sounds, expanding the range of sonic capabilities while retaining the lo-fi character of the vintage hardware.

UVI Kawai Vintage Legacy

The bundle includes a sizable preset library with over 1,000 layers sampled from hardware and 1,400 hand-crafted presets. Plus, there are a wide range of compelling ensemble presets for the multi-instrument and drum kits.

Users will find plenty of ready-to-go sounds and inspirational starting points, and for those who don’t mind getting their hands dirty – every patch is fully-editable, allowing everything from subtle changes to radical reformations.

First Impression

The five virtual instruments are not an accurate emulation but offer many authentic, tweakable sounds. If you want ready-to-use Kawai sounds, you’ll get your money’s worth here.

UVI Kawai Vintage Legacy is available now with a special introductory price of $89/89€ through May 8th, 2023 (reg. $149/149€).

More information here: UVI 

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1 Comment

  1. I should preface this comment by pointing out that I do really like UVI’s products. I have the Quadra Traveler plugin and it’s transformed my compositions. I can’t get enough of it! However I have to say I was rather disappointed by at least some of the Kawai Legacy recreations. I’ve owned a K1 in the past and I still have a K4r, and the Legacy sounds don’t really compare. The K4r’s sounds are a lot more dynamic and mutable and have some great, dramatic aftertouch effects, all of which which is woefully lacking in the UVI K4. I was originally planning to dump my K4r in favor of this product but now I’m hanging onto it. I can’t speak to the quality of the other instruments, having never owned any of them.

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