Kawai K5

Multimode Patch Editor

Warning: This patch editor is untested and likely may exhibit some errors. I no longer have a K5 and so cannot verify it. Please let me know what you find.

This editor will work with the Kawai K5 and Kawai K5m.

Communicating with Edisyn

Turn of memory protect. Set your K5 to transmit and receive <SYSTEM> MIDI on the same channel as you've set up Edisyn (perhaps channel 1?), and likewise to transmit and receive <EXCLUSIVE> MIDI on that same channel.

About Patch MID-12

The Kawai K5 has no sysex command which would enable Edisyn to send a patch to its temporary memory. However this is important to enable merging, nudging, hill-climbing, randomization, etc. One way to get around this is to send individual parameters one by one. However the K5 has a great deal of parameters, so this approach is simply too slow.

So instead of sending a patch to temporary memory, Edisyn writes the patch to patch number MID-12 (the very last one). This will erase and overwrite this patch and basically treat it as a scratch area.

By    Sean Luke
Thanks to Aleksandr Glubochanskiy (glubaster@gmail.com) for his help in development of this patch editor.
Date    February 2020