K1dump is a program that takes complete patch dump files (64 SINGLES and 32 MULTIS) from the Kawai K-1 synthesizer, and prints them out in a human readable form. This program does not do any MIDI action. Getting the data from the K1 to the computer is therefore your own problem. This program serves several major purposes: it gives those of us without a MIDI computer setup the ability to see and enter (by hand) other people's patches (such as the Kawai patch library). It also lets you make hard-copy backups of your patch libraries, for those who are paranoid about their diskettes. It lets you see ALL the parameters of a patch at the same time. Handy for understanding why patches sound the way they do. It also has a mode where it'll just print the patch names found in the dump file. You can generate quick-reference cards with it. The code is essentially a subset of Edward Hall's K1 patch editor for the PC. (Anonymous ftp to ucsd.edu to get it.) There's nothing particularly OS dependent in this code. I've compiled it on a Unix system, but there's no reason it shouldn't run on a PC, or whatever. Enjoy. John Bradley - University of Pennsylvania - bradley@cis.upenn.edu March 29, 1989