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One fat VCO and sub-oscillator per voice, a silky resonant filter, a proper arpeggiator, and the killer feature that still sells it today: a lush bucket-brigade chorus, phaser and ensemble built right in. 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Instead of starting from samples, the K5000W builds every tone from up to 64 individual harmonics per source, then blends in PCM waves, runs it all through a notorious self-oscillating 24dB filter, and finishes with on-board effects, a 40-track sequencer and a disk drive. The result is a sound palette nothing else makes: glassy, metallic, evolving and gorgeously digital. 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