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VAST Programmer Release

Austin, TX — TangentCats, developers of music production tools for the Kurzweil K2600, K2500 and K2000 machines, announces the free availability of the beta release of VAST Programmer, a breakthrough interactive computer interface for Kurzweil K2xxx series machines. The beta release will be made available on the Sonikmatter website (details to be released soon) on Friday, July 8.

VAST Programmer (VP) is a Java program developed by Michael Warpenburg that allows users to interactively develop Setups, Programs & other types of objects on Kurzweil K2xx series machines. Users interact with the machine(s) in real-time using VP and as such can also use it as a general control user interface (UI) in a performance setting.

Highlights of VAST Programmer include:

Support of all K2xxx machines*
Support of both PC and Mac*
Real-time interactive development of Programs, Setups, etc.
Point & Click User Interface
Lightning fast browsing from page to page with a single click of the mouse
Based on the Kurzweil hardware UI paradigm; easy learning curve
Simple installation
* At the time of the beta release the only tested platforms will be K2600 and Windows XP. One of the objectives of the beta release will be to make it available for K2500/K2000 and Mac users for testing on those platforms.

A VAST Programmer release event will be hosted by Michael on the VAST Programmer forum on the evening of the release date, 9-midnight CDT, when the developer will be available to answer any questions with respect to installation issues & getting started on VP. Any other topics of interest to VP users are also welcome fare for the event. Specific information about the VAST Programmer release event can be found in this topic