Description
KAWAI K300 AR2 UPRIGHT PIANO (K-300 AR2)
KAWAI AURES2 (AR2)
The NEW Kawai K-300 AURES2 hybrid piano combines the exquisite touch and tone of the professional K-300 upright with Kawai’s advanced digital sounds. Enjoy layering rich strings with your acoustic piano via the exclusive soundboard speaker system.
With 90 digital sounds, a metronome with 100 drum patterns, and recording with overdub functions, the K-300 AURES2 unlocks endless creative possibilities. The muting function allows for silent practice with headphones, ensuring you won’t disturb others.
HIGHLIGHTS
■ 48″ K-300 Professional Upright Piano
■ Kawai Hybrid Sound Board amplification system featuring 4 High-Performance Transducers
■ SK-EX Rendering Piano Sound Engine with Multi-Channel Sampling
■ A modern User Interface, the PianoRemote app for iOS/Android controls operations via your smart device
■ Integrated Bluetooth MIDI and Audio wireless technology
■ Flexible Virtual Technician Function with 19 Adjustable Parameters
■ App-based Recorder (SMF/WAV/FLAC/AAC formats)
■ 256 Polyphony (max.)
CONCEPT
ANALOGUE ACTION, DIGITAL WORLD
The AURES2 hybrid instruments combine Kawai’s expert acoustic piano craftsmanship with advanced digital technologies. Built on Kawai’s award-winning upright and grand pianos with Millennium III action, these instruments offer superior playability.
AURES2 pianos can be played silently with headphones or through their acoustic soundboard, featuring a range of digital sounds that can be layered with the acoustic piano. Practice with the built-in metronome, record performances, or play along with tracks from a Bluetooth-connected smart device for a versatile musical experience.
TOUCH
GP TOUCH MUTING SYSTEM (GP TYPE ONLY)
The latest AURES2 grand piano instruments utilise Kawai’s brand-new GP Touch Muting System. This technology features a significantly improved hammer stop rail system that can accurately halt the action’s hammer movement immediately before striking the strings, without making special adjustments to let-off position or timing.
This unique design allows pianists to play AURES 2 grand pianos with the same level of effortless fluency as their standard acoustic counterparts in both normal and muted playing modes. They also enjoy a wide range of convenient and inspiring digital features.
INTEGRATED HAMMER SENSING SYSTEM
The AURES2 pianos’ precise hammer movements are measured with Kawai’s Integrated Hammer Sensing System (IHSS), which utilises high-resolution contact-less optical sensors to provide greater accuracy than conventional key-based sensor systems.
This more advanced approach reproduces the mechanical flow of the upright and grand pianos’ actions more closely, allowing the full range of dynamics to be expressed by the instrument’s powerful digital piano sound engine with natural fluency.
SOUND
Professional pianists highly covet the SK-EX and has been prominently featured at prestigious international piano competitions such as the Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Rubinstein events. With its magnificent tone and wonderfully responsive touch, the SK-EX can best be described with one word – incomparable.
FLAGSHIP DIGITAL PIANO SOUND ENGINE
The AURES2 instruments incorporate Kawai’s latest digital piano sound technologies from the highly regarded Concert Artist and Novus product lines.
When playing through headphones, pianists can enjoy the beautiful sound of the flagship Shigeru Kawai SK-EX full concert grand piano, stunningly reproduced using the advanced SK-EX Rendering sound engine.
MULTI-CHANNEL SAMPLING
The SK-EX Rendering engine’s multi-channel sampling captures the sound from different points of the Shigeru Kawai concert grand.
This modern technique not only allows a broader range of tonal characteristics to be recorded and reproduced but also improves the connection felt between the keyboard and piano sound, resulting in a more lively and authentic response to changes in dynamics.
Full Resonance Modelling
Resonance algorithms further enrich this naturally expressive Shigeru Kawai sound, which models the complex tonal interactions produced by the strings and various other parts of an acoustic piano.
SK-EX Rendering progressively generates resonances for the damper pedal and all 88 keys, allowing the AURES2’s digital piano sound to behave like an acoustic piano.
RICH SOUND SELECTION
Supplementing the beautiful acoustic piano voices, the AURES2 piano digital sound engine also features an excellent selection of additional instruments, ranging from electric pianos and drawbar or church organs to strings, human choirs, and synth pads, inviting musicians to add greater variety to their performances.
Furthermore, the Dual playing mode also allows two different sounds, such as grand piano and strings, to be layered together for a richer, more luscious tone, while the Split and Four Hands modes divide the keyboard into two independent sections with separate sounds for each. The volume balances and other settings for each playing mode can also be easily adjusted using the dedicated PianoRemote app.
FEATURES
MODERN BLUETOOTH CONNECTIVITY
Designed to meet the connectivity needs of modern pianists, AnyTimeX4 pianos feature standard USB and MIDI jacks for connecting to computers or other instruments, as well as Bluetooth® MIDI and Audio technology that allows wireless communication with supported smart devices.
Once paired to a phone, tablet, or laptop, AURES2 owners can enjoy a wide variety of exciting music-related apps that enhance their studying and playing experiences, or stream high-quality audio directly through the instruments’ headphones without the need for any cables.
PIANOREMOTE CONTROL APP
The digital features of AURES2 pianos are exclusively controlled via the Kawai PianoRemote app, available for both iOS and Android devices.
PianoRemote provides a range of functions, including sound selection and customisation via the Virtual Technician feature, performance recording and playback with an integrated metronome, and a built-in piano music library consisting of hundreds of classical pieces to enjoy – all accessible from an attractive, intuitive user interface.
EXCELLENT HEADPHONE SOUND QUALITY
The AURES2 pianos’ Spatial Headphone Sound (SHS) technology enhances the depth and realism of the instrument’s digital piano sound when listening through headphones or earphones. The player can select one of three different acoustic presets that adjust the spatial positioning of the sound, while also helping to reduce auditory fatigue when using earphones or headphones for extended periods.
In addition to featuring a premium quality headphone amplifier, AURES2 instruments also allow players to specify the type of headphones connected (Open, Semi-open, Closed, In-Ear, Canal, etc.) to ensure an optimal listening experience.
QUALITY
DEVELOPED WITH MPA SUPERVISION
To ensure that all AURES2 instruments match the premium quality and excellent playability of their standard acoustic upright and grand piano counterparts, Kawai’s R&D engineering staff worked closely with the company’s internal Master Piano Artisans (MPAs).
These extremely knowledgeable and experienced technicians supervised each stage of the AURES2 development process, to ensure that the instruments’ acoustic keyboard action remains exceptionally responsive and balanced, even when used to trigger the digital piano sound engine, and guarantee that the digital piano tonal characteristics and performance are as close as possible to that of an acoustic piano.
