As AI infiltrates every aspect of our lives, who are some of the people behind this huge inflection point? In this special ...

Released in 1991, the Kurzweil K2000 was a 24-voice ‘VAST’ synth/sampler that, at the time, boasted some pretty powerful features. The K2061 and K2088 take the spirit of that instrument but ...

The synth in question is a Kurzweil K2500, released in 1996 with a Motorola 68000. Rather than directly start pulling out parts on the kitchen table, [Peter] began by doing some online research.

Released in 1991, the Kurzweil K2000 was a 24-voice ‘VAST’ synth/sampler that, at the time, boasted some pretty powerful features. Now it’s returning - sort of - in the 21st century form of the new ...

Kurzweil sold the reading-machine company to Xerox in 1980, and sold the music-synthesizer company to Young Chang, a musical-instrument company in Korea, in 1990. Since then, Kurzweil has dabbled ...

Kurzweil went on to invent optical scanners, machines that read for the blind and synthesizers. Still inventing today, Kurzweil has developed a reputation for himself from just making predictions, ...

For New York composer Wendy Carlos, the dichotomy of two cultures–the gap between the sciences and the humanities–hardly seems to exist. Playing at the keyboard of a Kurzweil synthesizer, her ...

NAMM 2025: Almost a year on from teasing a revival of its K2000 synth in the form of the new K2061 and K2088 keyboards, Kurzweil has indicated that they’re getting closer to being released ...