Nils Schneider has released free Nils' K1v Kawai K1 emulation for Windows, Mac and Linux.

[cclarry]

Get it here

https://www.nilsschneider.de/wp/nils-k1v/?fbclid=IwAR2rB9eZdoNDPtvo-gLLiLiCdbJLmMy7we8bgEpNvBxhRPYJq7adGpeO4HA

[msmcleod]

I've still got both a K1 & K1R - this is a pretty accurate emulation.

Pity it doesn't do Multi-mode tho - some of the stacked sounds were pretty good 

 

[kevin H]

I really like this emulation.  Crazy that’s it’s free and now officially approved by kawai which is pretty cool for the developer.  Definitely worthy of a donation. Who knows maybe he’ll do multi-mode someday

He tracks his progress/journey in his blog if you like that kind of thing. 
 

https://www.nilsschneider.de/wp/category/private-programming/kawaik1emulation/

[paulo]

 

It's what Larry Shelby would have wanted.........?

 

[Xoo]

16 hours ago, msmcleod said:

I've still got both a K1 & K1R - this is a pretty accurate emulation.

Pity it doesn't do Multi-mode tho - some of the stacked sounds were pretty good 

 

Can you not just fudge this with multiple instances either in separate tracks or something like BlueCat's Patchwork?  More tedious, for sure...

[msmcleod]

12 minutes ago, Kevin Perry said:

Can you not just fudge this with multiple instances either in separate tracks or something like BlueCat's Patchwork?  More tedious, for sure...

I guess so, but AFAIK you can't import the multi patches from a sysex file... so using my existing sounds will be tricky. I'd have to export them as individual patches, then mess around with the volume balance & panning manually.

[Xoo]

Ah - fair point.