Kawai K4

Single Patch Editor

This editor will work with the Kawai K4 and the Kawai K4r.

Communicating with Edisyn

Set your K4 to receive Program Changes (RCV PGM = NORM) and Exclusive (RCV EXCL = ON). See pages 79 and 80 of the manual. You'll also probably want your send channel and receive channel to be the same. I wouldn't set the receive channel to OMNI, as this might conflict with drums.

K4 Banks

You'd think that the "A, B, C, D" buttons on the K4 designate four banks. But they don't. For purposes of sysex (and for Edisyn's purposes) the K4 only has two banks: internal and external, each with 64 patches. Edisyn designates the "A, B, C, D" as so-called groups.

Hints



Gotchas



Librarian Support

When Edisyn attempts to download the External bank, and you don't have a card in your K4, the K4 will simply ignore requests from Edisyn. This wil make it look like Edisyn is hanging: just stop the download.

Edisyn can quick-request a bank from this synthesizer via Request Bank from Synth. This is a lot faster than the patch-by-patch request method in Download Bank from Synth. So try it out.

By    Sean Luke
Date    August 2017