Kurzweil 1000 series Users' Programs (Patches)

Here you will find links to downloads for programs (patches) created by or selected by users of the Kurzweil 1000 series. Where available, a description and/or a link to a program list is provided. Complete lists or descriptions would be very difficult - so a lot of browsing, dowloading and trying is in order if you are to find the great sounds included.

David Etheridge's programs
Tom Parsons Collection
Kurlewin Collection

David Etheridge's programs
Browse Davids individual files with a FTP Client at k1000.net/downloads/Programs/DEs Atari Obj Files/
These files are compilations of various programs supplied by David Etheridge. Most are in the Atari Object Mover format (.obj). The Atari Object Mover or Kurlewin can load these files and save them to your Kurzweil. Here are descriptions and download links for what David has provided.
Folder 1 (Kurz1.zip) contains a Best 1000 folder of my selection of the best sounds for GX (2), PXA (2), HX and SX modules. At the time I had 2 PXAs, 2 SXs and an HX module (this was around 2000 or so after all). The AX folder contains 2 files of AXplus sounds.
Folder 2 (Kurz2.zip) comprises my complete collection plus Objectmover v.1.The Samplers.obj folder has all the files that were on the original Atari disk -these are the SamplXX.obj files- plus basic ROM soundblock downloads from the original modules (I don't know why I left out the HX, but there you are). The 1200blok.obj is a download of the K1200 ROM library from the time I had one for review, and there are 8 PX blocks which are kurzweil originals. The HX files are Kurz originals from their ftp site, as is the KXA file. The New GX folder for some reason includes Objectmover v.2 which is from Kurz's ftp site, as is the new GX folder; these are the Mac files converted to Atari format.
Folder 3 (Kurz3.zip) contains yet another Objectmover (I think this is v.2) plus more kurz Atari ftp downloads; PX blocks for base and v.5 PX (I think the only difference is in the prog numbers), the same for SX and HX. The PX blocks are listed in the type of instrument, so should be self explanatory.
The above complete collection I uploaded to the Atari MIDI users site in three files, simply because my computer at the time couldn't handle it all in one bulk dump. It was the time, you see.... What I've tried to do is duplicate all the Mac ftp sounds for Atari, so basically they'll be the same. Any other files, such as SX3.obj are just the collections I was using at the time. Also you'll find in the Yahoo group files section conversions of the K-edit Pro 1 banks to Objectmover format, plus a couple of MIDIfile dumps of sounds I've got from other sources such as a few from Kurzweil U.K.
Folder 4 (Kurz4.zip) Here are some more from David. The 'obj' files are Atari Objectmover format. The 'mid' files are Midi file sound dumps. PXA1.obj is a small collection of sounds from Kurzweil U.K.  PXblock.obj are some of the sounds that may have been lost from the original when upgrading. SXblock.obj  are some of the sounds that may have been lost from the origianl SX when upgrading. The K1200_1-4.obj and the 12001-4.Mids are the same but in different formats and were originally on the K-edit disk. The PXAnew.mid (right click to download) is a MIDIfile of PX/A sounds that I got from Jim Crocini and (I think) has one of the sounds mentioned in the Keyboard magazine programming article that's also scanned into the files section of the User Group Yahoo site. (Note: the scanned files are TIF format - you will need an image viewer (like windows Paint) that will display them.) The other object files are assorted dumps and conversions from K-edit. Hope these are useful!

Tom Parsons Collection

These files are a compilation of many patches/programs supplied to the group by Tom Parsons. Most are in the Atari Object Mover format (.obj). The Atari Object Mover or Kurlewin can load these files. No documentation exists at this time. Until we get this better organized and a complete zip file prepared, you can browse the downloads section by clicking on the following link. (That will open a new window - Right Click on the files you want to download) downloads/Patches/DonParsonsCollection

Kurlewin Collection

These files are a compilation of some of the original RAM patches/programs supplied with various modules for the K1000 Series. These files were supplied with the original Kurle program. Many of the files with the .kur extension will require Kurlewin revision 2.0.1. Until we get this better organized and a complete zip file prepared, you can browse the downloads section by clicking on the following link. (That will open a new window - Right Click on the files you want to download) downloads/Programs/OriginalPrograms
The file Example.kur contains the demo song 'Nighnight' for version 5 of the PX. It would probably require the original programs and program lists to play correctly!