Product Description
General Music (GEM) SK880 World Keyboard
Complete with power cord and padded carrying case
This keyboard came to us as part of the inventory we purchased from a closed music store and what a nice surprise. This is our first experience with this model but, hopefully, won't be our last. It is in very good condition both cosmetically and functionally with everything that we could figure out how to test in good working order. Some functions were beyond our ability to test so they remain untested and it gets a brief battery discharged warning at startup but all of the sounds seem to be installed and functional. It's very heavy so shipping is expensive.
KEYBOARD Keyboard features pitch bend and modulation, a unusual trackball and quite obsolete 3 "1/2 DD and HD floppy disk drive and two stereo headphone outputs. LCD screen of 320 x 240 pixels with nice readability.
At the rear connectors: four separate audio outputs, 2 MIDI In, 2 Out and 2 Thru (sorry!), Four sockets for pedals , two microphone inputs, two other lines and finally two video outputs - operational with the optional audio / video card - in analog SVHS format (both PAL / NTSC.
Sound, sample and RAM
SOUND 64 voices polyphony, the SK88 has 8 MB of sounds in ROM (rompler technology) and 600 sounds classified into sixteen groups (piano, guitar, synth, bass, etc.). Each category is then divided into sixteen banks of eight sounds. The first is dedicated to General MID and the others are specific to the GEM keyboard. Also locations are available to save your own sound
SAMPLE / RAM Sounds can be processed by 64 programmable digital filters (low pass, high pass, bandpass, parametric ...). In addition, samples from other machines such as the GEM WX, WK and the S series, the Kurzweil K2000, the Akai S1000 can be loaded inside the device; also Wave (PC), AIFF (Macintosh) and classic (but sluggish) MIDI Sample Dump Standard. RAM memory with a capacity of 2 MB expanded with SIMM modules up to 32 MB maximum. In addition, an optional 2.5 "internal IDE hard drive (max 500 MB)
