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 12 offers. With the Mark 12, 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 12's disk drive, you don't have to wait while a song loads from a disk - the Mark 12 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 152!

Now Anyone Can Play the Mark 152i

This exclusive feature means exactly what it says: ANYONE can play. The Mark 152i 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 152i.

The Mark 152i features an easy to use 16-track recorder/sequencer. The Mark 152i'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

The Mark 152i'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 152i'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 150, the Mark 152i 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.

The Head of Our Mark Series Family

As the Flagship of Kurzweil's Mark Series and in keeping with our desire to present a continuous line of quality digital instruments, all sequences, song disks, style disk and SoundByte libraries created for or on the Mark 10, Mark 150, and Mark 150 Plus will work perfectly on the Mark 152i.

An Outstanding Audio System

Both Kurzweil and our Mark Series have a long-standing reputation for superb audio quality. In the Mark 152i, our dedication to perfection is taken to its greatest extent, with the combination of our acclaimed sounds and our most sophisticated audio system. The Mark 152i literally fills the room with rich, beautiful, instrumental sounds.

The audio system features seven independent amplifiers and speakers, custom-designed to emulate a real acoustic grand piano - with the lid open or closed - so effectively that it is almost impossible for listeners to believe that they are not hearing an acoustic instrument.

The Mark 152i also features transposition and tuning functions; continuous volume, bass and treble controls; and two headphone jacks.

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.
   
• 200 watt quad amplification system (1x80 watts for 12" sub-woofer, 2x20 watts for 6.5" mid-range, 2x20 watts for 5" midrange, 2x20 watts for 1" 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
   
• 3 pedals (sustain, sostenuto, soft)
   
• Sliding key cover and moveable music rack.
   
• Pitch Bend ribbon
   
• Matching bench.
   
• Dimensions: (H x W x D) 39.75" x 58.25" x 59"
   
• Weight: 512 lbs.