Third Party Optional Components
- Apple II computer or nearly any compact Macintosh computer (Macintosh 512 up to Macintosh IIci) computer using Mac OS version 6 (documented). A later model Macintosh with the proper interfacing hardware (GeoPort) and Mac OS 7 - 9.2 (and perhaps later OS's) has been proven to work.
- MacAttach software for use in uploading/downloading information to/from the K250 using an Apple/Macintosh computer through Kurzweil software version 5.0 (this was superseded by QLS, which was available optionally by Kurzweil Music Systems).
- Sweetwater Sound Block SW800 - a.k.a. "Sweetwater Orchestral Sound Block" (adds an additional 54 non-destructive ROM sounds).
- Sweetwater Sound Block SW900 - a.k.a. "Sweetwater Contemporary Sound Block" (adds an additional 52 non-destructive ROM sounds).
- Various sampled sounds were available via the "Sweetwater network" that Sweetwater Sound established in the mid to late 1980s for the purpose of creating and swapping user-created sounds. Some of those sounds were incorporated on the Sweetwater SW800 and SW900 Sound Blocks.
- Sweetwater Sound K250 Editor Librarian software. Required QLS and a separate MIDI interface from the K250 to the Apple/Macintosh computer.
- Kurzweil Quick Load System (QLS) for PC's - (Note: Information about the following is not well known to the author of this article.) Latest known version is version 1.0 and it is not known if a later version was made for the PC. It is interesting to note Kurzweil Music Systems did not create QLS for the PC even though their name is on the label of the QLS 5ΒΌ" floppy disk. (It is not known to the author of this article the company that created QLS for the PC). It is not definitively known which PC platforms or operating systems this will operate on, even though it is suspected it will work on 286 and 386 computers using some early form of DOS. Like the Apple/Macintosh version it is used for uploading/downloading information to/from the Kurzweil K250 and working with that data. Data could also be viewed and/or manipulated using other third party software. A DB-9 serial interface on the PC is required.
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