Version 0.6 has following new or additional features:

• send bank
• cancel option for bank send or receive
• copy/insert more than one patches
• better flipping function for patches
• simpler access to the K5 intern and extern bank without creating bank
• easy transfer to/from a workbench to intern/extern single/multi bank for combining own card combinations
• automatic file extension addition
• better file filter for extensions
• working (if it does) with Windows, Linux
• better access to opened working windows
• 'is online' icon for the K5
• flickering lights :) for indicating the transfer between the K5 and the computer
• adjustable different request delay for reducing timing problems for singles and multis separately
• better midi input/output watcher for watching the bits and bytes of the K5 ;)
• remove/clear patch sets a patch to formatted K5 single or multi
• midi keyboard for playing and selecting patches
• no drag and drop
• no dialog box questions like "today is monday i wanna [go to work] [stay in bed] [leave Kfuenf Control] [don't know]"
• midi file player (only with SUN JAVA J2SE 5.0 or J2SE 5.0 JRE)
• running with Windows and probably Linux

The available Kfuenf Control version 0.6 - 20041215 only runs with SUN JAVA J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 5.0 JRE and it does only work complete with SUN JAVA J2SE 5.0 / JRE or higher!
Download  J2SE 5.0 from SUN.

The Kfuenf Control version 0.6 is tested with Linux on Redhat Linux 9 and Fedora Core 2 and with WindowsXP SP1 an ordenary SB16 soundcard and an M-Audio Midisport 2x2.

At the end of this page there is a brief instruction for getting/sending data with the librarian if you have timing problems that cannot be fixed with the delay parameters or you have problems that remains from having not K5 OS V1.2 .

Kfuenf Control Version 0.6 - 20041215 download for Windows and Linux

The installation is easy:

1. Windows or Linux users install SUN JAVA J2SE 5.0 or J2SE 5.0 JRE from Sun download site  SUN JAVA DOWNLOAD SITE
   
2. download the
   Kfuenf Control Version 0.6 - 20041215 download for Windows and Linux
   and store it into an empty directory.
   
   and additionally the Linux users may use linuxdevices
   (Linux users can add additional mididevices to the linuxdevices file if the needed device
   name is not listed)
   
   into an empty directory.
   
   You may find it helpful to have look at the readme before you start
   the application.


3. doubleclick the kfuenfcontrol06.jar or kfuenfcontrol06_142.jar
   or
   open a commandline terminal and change to the directory where the kfuenfcontrol06.jar or
   kfuenfcontrol06_142.jar ( probably linuxdevices for Linux users) reside
   enter:
   
   java -jar kfuenfcontrol06.jar ( or kfuenfcontrol06_142.jar)
   
   and press return.


4. now the Kfuenf Control should launch.


5. first you should open the
   Midi->Settings
   Dialog and choose the input/output directory and the
   Midi Settings. Then save if you want to.
   


6. To use the communication to the Kawai K5 select
   Midi->Open Midi Devices.
   
   
   It is possible to use the Kfuenf Control without connection to K5
   to organize and manage patches, banks and libraries without
   bankloader functionality of transferring from or to your Kawai K5.
   

Things should be possible with this release 0.6 - 041215:

Create, manipulate, load and save single libraries,
multi and single banks/patches.


Sending and receiving selected patches or complete banks.

Renaming patches.
Simple data comparison of patches.
Viewing patches data.
Viewing data in edit mode
a.s.o.


Things that are open and unfinished yet:

Editing patches
Qualified patch comparison
Combining single patch to form a multi patch

With this release you can use the manual send functionality of the Kawai K5 on the midi display page, but the patches will only be stored, if the correct corresponding intern/extern single/multi bank patch window is open and topped, if it not opened it is possible that the Kfuenf Control does not work properly!

Kfuenf Control Version 0.6 - 20041215 download for Windows and Linux

A brief short introduction for getting and sending patches from/to Kawai K5 using the librarian

Warning:

    SAVE YOUR ORIGINAL PATCHES ON A BACKUP DISK/MEDIA AND MAKE SOME BACKUP COPIES of them on
    another media, if something is going wrong and you cannot get your original Patches back i
    cannot do anything for you. EVERYTHING YOU DO IS ON YOUR OWN RISK, i am only describing the
    way i use the Librarian and it does work on my Computer (unless some people use it and it
    works) there is no warranty that is does correctly run on others. If you are in doubt about
    what you are doing, better contact other K5 users that are familiar with standard MIDI
    Products like Cakewalk a.s.o. for example at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/k5synth/
    there are many K5 users that are able and very competend and experienced to explain how to
    use a K5 with such Standard MIDI Programs.

Second Warning:

    Multi Patches ever belonging to the Single Patches they are build on(read the K5 Manual from
    

    for further information), so if you do not have a backup or copy of the Single Patches they
    are build on, you will not get going the Multi Patches like you expect.

A. Get your K5 correctly running:
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A1. Switch off your K5 if it was switched on before and wait a little while
A2. Switch on your K5
A3. Press the button MIDI on your K5
A4. On the left side of the windows your K5 LCD should show
    the <SYSTEM> headline. With your cursor buttons move to the
    TRS tab. With the dial change it to: TRS=1
    Then move to the RCV Tab and change it to RCV=1.
A5. On the right side of the windows your K5 LCD should show
    the <EXCLUSIVE> headline, with your cursor buttons move to the
    TRS tab. Usually they are set to TRS=-- after turning on the K5
    with the dial change it to: TRS=ON
    Then move to the RCV=-- Tab and change it to RCV=ON.

    Only MIDI Channel 1 is working at the moment!

B. Now get the Librarian running:
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B0. Download the file kfuenfcontrol06.jar (Kfuenf Control Version 20041215 0.6)
    Links are on top of this site.

B1. Start Kfuenf Control (librarian).
B2. Goto Midi->Settings
B3. Choose the correct Midi input/output
B4. ->Save your settings
B5. Midi->Open Midi Devices
    A dialog should show you the successfully opened devices names

Then you should backup your own patches that came with your K5 (don't blame me if they are gone, if
you haven't backup'd them). Only if you do not have Rom version 1.2 or having timing or other
problems you should proceed with the following.If you don't have timing problems or
Rom version 1.2 or higher PROCEED WITH SECTION G.

C. BACKUP SINGLES, THE UNUSUAL WAY: Backup your original single patches using the librarian with
   active sending mode (only use this if you have timing problems or Rom version <> 1.2,
   all others should use the way that is described below in section G. ):

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C1. Choose K5->Intern Single, then the Intern Single Bank View should be shown.
C2. Now go back to your K5 which should show already the MIDI window due to the settings you have
    done mentioned already in step A.
C3. With the cursor buttons move down the MIDI window until the PATCH to the right side of <DUMP>
    starts blinking.
    If it is showing the word BLOCK use the INCREMENT DIAL of your K5 and change it to PATCH.
C4. Now you can start sending the patches your K5 is equipped with and backup them one by one.
C5. Move to the right using the cursor buttons and the SIA- 1 EXEC? starts to blink now
C6. Now do the steps C7. to C9. for your 48 single patches until you have send all your original
    patches to the computer.

C7. Dial the increment dial clockwise and subsequently to the name of the patch position
    (the first is SIA- 1) the 'SURE?' question starts to blink.
C8. Dial the increment dial clockwise again and after the patch transmission to the librarian has
    finished the LCD shows "Transmit completed" for a limited time.
C9. Choose the next patch by pressing on of the buttons 1-12 and/or A-D for the group.
    Do that for every of the 48 single patches.

C10. For sending intern patches to the computer BEWARE you must have the "Intern Single Bank" View
     opened and selected if you haven't the transmission will surely fail.

C11. After finishining the transmission of your own patches,
     SAVE YOUR ORIGINAL PATCHES ON YOUR DISK AND MAKE SOME BACKUP COPIES of them on another media,
     if something is going wrong and you cannot get your original patches back i cannot
     do anything for you.
     Everything you do is on your own risk, i am only describing the way i use the librarian and it
     does work on my computer there is no warranty that is does correctly run on others.

D. SAVE YOUR SINGLE PATCHES:
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D1. Now turn back to your computer. You have the librarian selected, and the "Intern Single Bank"
    View is selected (if it is not in that position and you cannot see the names of your patches,
    you will save anything but not your patches).
    Save the whole single bank by pressing 'right mouse button' and choose 'save' or File->Save,
    choose a filename and save your intern single bank.

D2. Usually i use the fileextension .sk5 for a bank or .k5s for a single patch, if you use them
    it will be filtered by the file selection box for a better overview.

D3. The sysex data of the K5 patches are saved in raw format like it is send by a K5, when two
    Kawai K5 are connected together for dumping patch data to each other like it is shown on
    page 38 of the original K5/K5m owners manual that can be downloaded at
    http://www.kawaius-tsd.com/pages/synth_om.html.
    The filelength of a single bank always is 47664 bytes, that are 993 bytes for each of the
    48 single patches.

D4. You can save a single patch, by selecting one patch at the "Intern Single Bank" table and then
    File->View or 'right mouse button' and from the context menue choose 'View'. Then you can have
    a look at the patches data in hex data format (sorry, you cannot edit it - please wait for the
    editor, coming spring 2005) and you can save or load single patches using File->Save or
    File->Load or from the popup menue. After that it is possible to send it to the K5.
    The filelength of a single patch is always 993 bytes. This raw sysex data chunk can be send by
    every MIDI tool that is able to dump sysex data to the K5, but it will always be send to the
    same position it was saved from the librarian, e.g. if the patch has been located at the
    "Intern Single Bank" View  at position A-5 then if it is saved, sysex data will be send to
    a K5 with another Midi tool it will be send to A-5 (without modifying).

D5. Testing the transmission from librarian to K5, you should make sure that you are able to send
    back the patches from the librarian to the K5. The easyest way to do that is: after you have
    finished the section D. edit one letter of a patchname at the K5 that you have transmitted.
    Then write the changed patch it to the internal singles (according to the description of patch
    editing of the K5 manual).
    Now, at the LCD of the K5, change to the overview window, where you can look the modified patch
    name e.g. 'THE KPX' (the modified name of the 'THE KP') together with all the other patch names
    of that group e.g. A.
    Then use the librarian to send the original patch back to the K5. The name of the
    patch should change back to the original name of that patch, for the example it should be set
    back to 'THE KP'. If that does not happen, you do have problems with your sysex
    transmission/receive settings at your computer or at the K5.
    YOU SHOULD FIX THAT FIRST BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING ELSE.
    If you cannot fix the problems, do not use the librarian for further manipulations.
    If you do so, as i said already, you do it on your own risk. Again the hint, if you
    are in doubt, please use a professional midi tool, which gives a warranty for it's usage.
    If it is, as we estimated, set back to the original patchname, then it should be ok, and you
    should be able to send back the original patches to the K5.

Only if you do not have Rom version 1.2 or having timing problems you should proceed with the
following.
If you don't have timing problems or Rom version 1.2 or higher PROCEED WITH SECTION G.

E. BACKUP MULTIES, THE UNUSUAL WAY: Backup your original multi patches using the librarian with
   active sending mode (only use this if you have timing problems or Rom version <> 1.2,
   all others should use the way that is described below in section G. ):
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E1. Choose K5->Intern Multi, then the Intern Multi Bank View should be shown.
E2. Now go back to your K5 which should show already the MIDI window due to the settings you have
    done mentioned already in step A.
E3. With the cursor buttons move down the MIDI window until the PATCH to the right side of <DUMP>
    starts blinking.
    If it is showing the word BLOCK use the INCREMENT DIAL of your K5 and change it to PATCH.
E4. Now you can start sending the patches your K5 is equipped with and backup them one by one.
E5. Move to the right using the cursor buttons and the MIA- 1 EXEC? starts to blink now
E6. Now do the steps E7. to E9. for your 48 single patches until you have send all your original
    patches to the computer.

E7. Dial the increment dial clockwise and subsequently to the name of the patch position
    (the first is MIA- 1) the 'SURE?' question starts to blink.
E8. Dial the increment dial clockwise again and after the patch transmission to the librarian has
    finished the LCD shows "Transmit completed" for a limited time.
E9. Choose the next patch by pressing on of the buttons 1-12 and/or A-D for the group.
    Do that for every of the 48 single patches.

E10. For sending intern patches to the computer BEWARE you must have the "Intern Multi Bank" View
     opened and selected if you haven't the transmission will surely fail.

E11. After finishining the transmission of your own patches,
     SAVE YOUR ORIGINAL PATCHES ON YOUR DISK AND MAKE SOME BACKUP COPIES
     of them on another media, if something is going wrong and you cannot get your original patches
     back i cannot do anything for you.
     Everything you do is on your own risk, i am only describing the way i use the librarian and
     it does work on my computer there is no warranty that is does correctly run on others.


F. SAVE YOUR MULTI PATCHES:
----------------------------
F1. Now turn back to your computer. You have the librarian selected, and the "Intern Multi Bank"
    view is selected (if it is not in that position and you cannot see the names of your patches,
    you will save anything but not your patches).
    Save the whole multi bank by pressing 'right mouse button' and choose 'save' or File->Save,
    choose a filename and save your intern multi bank.

F2. Usually i use the fileextension .sk5 for a bank or .k5s for a multi patch, if you use them it
    will be filtered by the file selection box for a better overview.

F3. The sysex data of the K5 patches are saved in raw format like it is send by a K5, when two
    Kawai K5 are connected together for dumping patch data to each other like it is shown on
    page 38 of the original K5/K5m owners manual that can be downloaded at
    http://www.kawaius-tsd.com/pages/synth_om.html.
    The filelength of a multi bank is always 17328 bytes, that are 361 bytes for each of the 48
    multi patches.

F4. You can save a multi patch, by selecting one patch at the 'Multi int' table and then File->Edit
    or 'right mouse button' and from the context menue choose 'Edit'. Then you can have a look at
    the patches data in hex data format (sorry, you cannot edit it - please wait for the editor)
    and you can save or load multi patches using File->Save or File->Load or from the contextual
    menue. After that it is possible to send it to the K5.
    The filelength of a multi patch is always 361 bytes. This raw sysex data chunk can be send by
    every MIDI tool that is able to dump sysex data to the K5, but it will always be send to the
    same position it was saved from the librarian, e.g. if the patch has been located at the
    "Intern Multi Bank" at position A-5 then if it is saved, sysex data will be send to a K5 with
    another Midi tool it will be send to A-5 (without modifying).

F5. Testing the transmission from librarian to K5, you should make sure that you are able to send
    back the patches from the librarian to the K5. The easyest way to do that is: after you have
    finished the section F. edit one letter of a patchname at the K5 that you have transmitted.
    Then write the changed patch it to the internal multis, according to the description of patch
    editing of the K5 manual.
    Now, at the LCD of the K5, change to the overview window, where you can look the modified patch
    name e.g. 'ELPIANOX' (the modified name of the 'ELPIANO') together with all the other patch
    names of that group e.g. A. Then use the librarian to send the original patch back to the K5.
    The name of the patch should change back to the original name of that patch, for the example
    it should be set back to 'ELPIANO'. If that does not happen, you do have problems with your
    sysex transmission/receive settings at your computer or at the K5.
    YOU SHOULD FIX THAT FIRST BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING ELSE.
    If you cannot fix the problems, do not use the librarian for further manipulations. If you do
    so, as i said already, you do it on your own risk. Again the hint, if you are in doubt, please
    use a professional midi tool, which gives a warranty for it's usage. If it is, as we estimated,
    set back to the original patchname, then it should be ok, and you should be able to
    send back the original patches to the K5.

F6. For the filenames it is good to choose filenames that you can see if the multis belong to your
    singles. For example if you have saved your singles in a file named:
    mysingles.sk5
    it is good when you choose for the related multis the name:
    mysingles.mk5
    it indicates that the single and multi file belong to each other.
    if you leave the filename extension untouched the Kfuenf Control adds an appropriate extension
    automatically.

G. THE NORMAL WAY: Backup your original single and multi patches using the librarian with usually
   request mode:
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G1. Do the steps 12. to 15. explained at http://www.kfuenf.org/en/librarian.html
    and then use the description D. and F. for saving them.

H. Loading other patches and sending them to the K5 with the librarian:
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H0. You can download some patches from: http://www.kfuenf.org/en/library.html and unzip them to a
    directory or use your own previous with the librarian saved patches.

H1. Assuming you have everything setup correct and the data transmission is working.

H2. You now open a system bank by K5->Intern Single, K5->Intern Multi, K5->Extern Single,
    K5->Extern Multi and then you can load your singles or multies into the bank by File->Open.
    After that you can try to send patches from the librarian to the K5.

Current versions of Kfuenf Control librarian:
Kfuenf Control Version 0.6 - 20041215 download for Windows and Linux

Older releases:
The bank loader librarian
Kfuenf ControlCenter Version 0.5 beta 20040825 download for Windows
Kfuenf ControlCenter Version 0.5 beta 20040825 download for Linux
is ready to run with  JRE1.4.2 (or higher) from SUN.
and additionally the Windows users should download kfuenfcon.dll Version 20031107
(Note for Windows XP users: THE FILE HAVE TO BE UNPACKED! YOU CANNOT START THE APPLICATION FROM THE ZIPPED FOLDER! THAT DOES NOT WORK) For Windows users there are no new features that come with this version, only the bugfix for up to 16 devices is included(thanks to Foster Clark who reported the bug).
DO NOT RUN THIS OLD RELEASES OF KFUENF CONTROLCENTER LIBRARIAN, IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE NEWEST VERSION SEND AN EMAIL WITH A BUG DESCRIPTION to developer at kfuenf dot org
This versions of ControlCenter are ALPHA VERSIONS and mswindows only.
The tested combinations at the moment is SUN JRE 1.3.1_07 or 1.3.1_08 with Windows98SE.
they do work with Java JRE 1.4.2 and Windows98SE/XP too.
Older releases: 20031107
There is a problem for all who have more than 8 MIDI devices using the librarian a bugfix for up to 16 devices:
dll version 20031107 for up to 16 MIDI devices
Older releases: 20030830
Kfuenf ControlCenter version 20030830 0.4ap1 with a fix for sending multi patches(thanks to paul for the bug report)

Older releases: 20030604
Kfuenf ControlCenter version 0.4a Download
and kfuenfcon.dll version 20030604.
Older releases run with:  JRE1.3.1 from SUN.