Pianos - Grand Piano

Mark 12i is our "flagship" Digital Ensemble, offering 325 incredibly realistic sounds, and more than 64 fully automated style accompaniments.

The Mark 12i's powerful stereo sound system features SRS surround sound. The Mark 12i comes in a variety of real wood finishes and looks beautiful in any home.

Many New Sounds and Styles
In addition to SRS, the Mark 12i includes 325 unequaled sampled sounds that maintain the Kurzweil tradition of the finest sound quality in the industry. The Mark 12i features a superb Concert Grand Piano; new French Horns; snare drum with brushes; harmon-muted trumpet; arpeggiated or solo harp; pizzicato strings; banjo; nylon string guitar and hundreds more sounds on which the best composers and arrangers in the music business rely.

In addition, the Mark 12i offers 64 user-editable auto-accompaniment styles. We hired some of the best arrangers working today to create the most realistic sounding styles on ANY digital instrument. These styles are undoubtedly the finest Kurzweil has ever produced. We've made it so easy to use that Mark 12i owners can even create their own styles.

Unique, Exciting Features
The Mark12's display provides easy-to-read, "no jargon" text, with intuitive menu choices. Its a snap to use everything the Mark 12i offers. With the Mark 12i, it's easy to find the sound you want. Simply push a button to get to your favorite instrument, or press the "menu select" button for a list of sounds related to the category you've chosen. And with the Mark 12i's disk drive, you don't have to wait while a song loads from a disk - the Mark 12i can read a song directly from the disk and play it - like a CD player. And just like a CD player, you can play songs in order or randomly shuffle-play them. The Mark12's innovative Edu-Games feature encourages everyone to have fun by sharpening their skills while learning important musical concepts. Edu-Games include harmonic, melodic and rhythmic ear training games. There is also a scale tester and chord dictionary which helps you learn your scales and chords. This is a $400 additional software package not available anywhere else. We built it into the Mark 12i for you!


All Marki Series instruments offer Kurzweil's most advanced digital ensemble technology including 325 incredibly realistic sounds, automated accompaniments and 16 tracks 16 songs of digital recording. A disk drive built right into the front panel allows you to save and share your creations as well as load in more sounds, styles and songs from Kurzweil's extensive disk library. High powered multi-channel audio systems and SRS surround processing ensure a powerful, enveloping 3D sound without the use of external speakers.

Now Anyone Can Play the Mark 112i

This exclusive feature means exactly what it says: ANYONE can play. The Mark 112i makes every note sound right. Use Anyone Can Play with auto-accompaniments; or Kurzweil's Interactive Music Disk Collection. With Anyone Can Play, even a non-musician can get full enjoyment from the Mark 112i.

The Mark 112i features an easy to use 16-track recorder/sequencer. The Mark 112i's Flash ROM insures against system obsolescence. As Kurzweil develops new and better software,

Flash ROM offers you permanent system upgrades- AND THEY'RE FREE.

Unique Programmable Drawbar Organ
Mark 12i's Drawbar Organ feature enables you to program and save your own custom organ registrations. Unlike other instruments which limit you to a fixed number of organ presets, the Mark 12i's organ is limitless.

Beautiful Real Wood Finishes
If you are a church musician or jazz player, this is the digital ensemble instrument for you. Like the highly successful Mark 10, the Mark 12i is available in a variety of Real Wood Finishes to complement any decor. The cabinet and audio system have been custom co-designed with world-renowned Boston Acoustics to provide the finest sounding digital ensemble you have ever heard.

Specifications:
325 Selectable Sounds include 21 pianos (acoustic, rock, and ragtime), 10 electric pianos, 3 harpsichords, 9 pipe organs, 10 jazz and rock organs, 3 clavichords, 2 celestes, 16 basses (acoustic, electric, and synth), 9 acoustic guitars, 3 banjos, 16 jazz and rock guitars, 20 string sections, 8 choirs, 2 solo violins, viola, 2 cellos, contrabass, 12 flutes, 4 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 2 oboes, english horn, 5 trumpets, 2 trombones, 2 french horns, 2 tubas, 11 brass sections, soprano sax, 2 alto saxes, 2 tenor saxes, 2 baritone saxes, 4 vibraphones, 3 marimbas, 6 other mallet instruments, accordion, harmonica, bells, plus a wide variety of ethic/world instruments, synth brass, ensembles, orchestral ensembles, pads, leads, synth effects, and sound effects. Additionally, over 100 jazz, rock, and latin percussion instruments are accessible in 17 selectable keyboard arrangements.

Any 2 sounds may be layered and their relative volumes adjusted.

Any sound can be split with one of 4 basses (acoustic, electric, and synth), plus two "custom" (user-definable) sounds.

User selectable split point.

Independent octave transposition of each side of split over a +/- 5 octave range.

Split and Layer functions can be combined.

880 Reverb and Effects Combinations

Reverb: 19 different settings - Room, Stage, Hall, and Space, with 4-5 variations of each type.

Effects: 43 different settings - Chorus, Rotary, Echo, and Special, with 7-14 variations of each type

General MIDI mode for playing GM sequences.

Auto Accompaniment: 64 preset musical styles. Categories include Big Band, Jazz, Classical, Show Tunes, Gospel/World, March/Polka, Latin, Country, Rock/R&B, Pop, Dance, and Special. Each category offers 3 or more choices

Introduction, Basic, variation, Fills, and Ending for each style.

Flash ROM allows for updating of the Operating System via disk. Operating Systems can be downloaded at no charge.

Up to 7 additional new styles can be loaded from disk. Information on these styles can be found on our Mark Series Disk Information page.

Independent volume and mute controls for accompaniment (drums, bass, and three accompaniment parts).

Basic, Advanced, Chord Inversion, and Full Keyboard recognition modes, plus chord hold feature.

Anyone Can Play Mode - allows you to play any note on the keyboard and have it sound correctly in harmony with the chord you play in your left hand.

Harmony feature - adds a full chord to every note you play in your right hand using the correct harmonies, based on the chord you play in your left hand.

Arpeggiator - takes chords you play on the keyboard and automatically turns them into arpeggios. Many different adjustable parameters allow you to specify what type of arpeggio is created.

Drawbar Organ Mode - This special software simulation of a Drawbar organ allows you to program and save your own organ settings. Features all the standard settings found on a typical Drawbar organ, including 9 different partials, percussion, and keyclick.

Recorder/Sequencer: Stores up to 16 songs, 16 tracks per song.

Punch-In, Loop, Merge, and Quantize functions.

Internal/External Sync for hook up with other sequencers.

Records and plays back auto-accompaniment performances.

Can play Standard MIDI Files and can read and convert disks from Yamaha PianoSoft and Disk Orchestra Libraries, plus PianoDisc Music Library.

Disk Drive: 1.4 meg floppy drive for loading and saving songs, styles, and sounds.

9 Panel Storage Memories store and recall complete front panel settings.

Edu-Games - This special feature has several different interactive games that are both educational and fun to play. They are designed to help you develop basic musical skills

Premium Audio System, jointly designed with Boston Acoustics.

130 Watt Biamplification system (2x50 watts for 6.5" woofers, 2x15 watts for 1" dome tweeters).

Volume, treble, and bass sliders.

Headphone jack, two RCA audio in and four RCA audio out jacks (2 switched by headphone and 2 unswitched).

88 note weighted two piece action

32 voice polyphony MIDI In, Out and Thru jacks. Complete MIDI implementation. 16 channel multitimbral.

Full Transposition; Tuning Adjust +/- 50 cents

Finishes: Ebony,Mahogany Red, and Mahogany Brown Polish; Mediterranean Oak and French Cherry Satin.
3 pedals (sustain, sostenuto, soft)
Sliding key cover and moveable music rack.
Pitch Bend ribbon
Matching bench.
Dimensions: (H x W x D) 33.25" x 56.5" x 22.25"
Weight: 199 lbs.