I purchased my Kawai K4 brand new in 1990 to use with Cubase on my Atari ST. It was my main keyboard until 1995 when I traded it in for an Alesis QS7. Fast forward to 2006, I am using Cubase on PC and am missing the K4 sounds. I grabbed a cheap K4r from eBay, loaded up all my sounds, a mix of presets and my custom patches and sampled them. I then built my instruments in Kontakt 2. Over the next 15 years I started to make my own music less and less. My computer became too old for the latest music software and my gear ended up in the attic. Late last year I got a new powerful PC and along with that came the itch to start making music again. I found David Hilowitz on YouTube which in turn led me to Pianobook and Decent Sampler. This reminded me of my K4 samples languishing somewhere on an old hard drive, so I converted them all to Decent Sampler instruments, and here they are for everyone to enjoy.

Updated 08/03/22 to fix a problem with the chorus effect that was introduced by an update to Decent Sampler.

*The samplist received permission from Kawai to upload this sample pack to Pianobook. However, the samples are not officially recognised/endorsed/licensed by Kawai, and Kawai does not provide any guarantee over the quality of their content.