"...We don't really have many sample-based workstation-type keyboards in the studio, except for the Kurzweil K2500."

The K2xxx series was also used a lot on the downward spiral. The guitar for "Hurt" is the acoustic guitar patch on the on the orchestral rom. The drums for "The Becoming" were also programed on a K2xxx series.

Autechre's hardware samplers include the likes of the Ensoniq ESR and EPS, Kurzweil K2500, Emu E-Synth, and Casio samplers like the FZ1, FZ10, SK1, SK5 and SK100. "Changing them is brilliant fun," remarks Booth about the latter three, "get the backs off them and a few bits of wire and have an amazing time. We mess around with electronics, and have loads of broken half-bits of gear lying around. I learned some things at college and can use a soldering iron."

The Kurzweil K2500 is know as "the Pink Floyd Synth" for has been used by wright since it cames out

"No, I played Kurzweil this time. As you say I often played Minimoog in the past. Or DX7."

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"No, I think it was one of the preset sounds on a copy of the ROM which was Kurzweil's accessory. Or maybe I used other sound module in the end. I can't remember how the patches were. But I don't dislike programming itself though I sometimes leave it to other people. Recently I use MARK OF THE UNICORN's Performer [a programming software for Macintosh] and a Macintosh as my main tools when I do it. However, as to the sounds of such vintage instruments as Wurlitzer's electric piano and Hammond organ or of such effects as wah wah, I use real ones more often than programmed ones. But this does not mean that I defy sound modules and sampled sounds." - Charles Shimiz, Keyboard Magazine May 1997, interview talking to Steve Winwood's upcoming Junction Seven album - http://www.stevewinwood.com/news/6052

cEvin Key uses a Kurzweil K2500 as a master keyboard at Subconscious Studios, as seen in a user-uploaded photo.

"The vocal choir part on 'Blue Monday' was sampled, and it was probably one of the first instances of someone sampling something from someone else's record. New Order originally used an Emulator II to play their samples live, but a lot of the time the Emulators wouldn't load up so the roadie would have to hit one of the legs with a hammer to start it working again — it was that kind of technology! So Steve had that part loaded up into his Kurzweil K2500."

"I bought an Akai S1000 and a Kurzweil K2500 and those became writing tools for us."

"All of those keyboards (Jeff/Roto's, and Bar's) are hooked up via MIDI to my K2500. There are three to five total keymaps per song (one for each keyboard, sometimes two on Roto's channel, and three in the case of Robots). Some of these keymaps are 32 layers deep with different up to 38 programmed sounds and samples on ONE KEYMAP. Each keymap is divided up into "zones" where these parts can be grouped strategically, and played once all the locations are memorized.

" I do have a Triton and a Kurzweil K2500, and use them for special effects and when I can get away with only using part of the keyboard, like if I want to mimic a flute or a mallet instrument or an organ. Organs aren't tuneable, and are flat, weird-sounding anyway."

In a 2016 Gearspace post, Rhys Fulber discusses his use of the Kurzweil K2500 while working on Fear Factory's album "Obsolete."

Evidently this lengthy ongoing project will involve Suzanne reverting back to her compact and bijou collection of electronic instruments, with the 88‑note Kurzweil K2500 taking centre stage as the master keyboard controller: "I used to have these very strong opinions about different manufacturers and I always said I'd never use a Kurzweil. I just didn't like the sound. Then when I moved into this house, before I had my equipment sent from New York, Joe loaned me his Kurzweil, and it won me over. I started investigating, got involved and started talking with the Kurzweil people. I found them to be a very dedicated and excellent company. I like the way they do business and where they're coming from. They really do care, and the K2500 and K2000 are both sophisticated instruments with a lot of depth. So I'm a Kurzweil convert!

This Sound On Sound article states: "Since The Drift, Scott Walker has developed a working method distinct from his albums of the '80s and '90s, which involves him creating demo sketches of his songs in the sequencer of his Kurzweil K2500 keyboard workstation."