Sounds; Keyboard And Controllers - Kurzweil Forte Musician's Manual

Introducing the Forte
Forte also includes our fully featured Kurzweil KB3 ToneReal™ organ simulator designed to
emulate classic tone wheel organs like the Hammond B3, as well as Farfisa and Vox organs.
The Forte is also a very capable MIDI controller ideally suited to controlling additional
sound modules and as input to a sequencer.

Sounds

• New German & Japanese Grand Pianos
• Rhodes ('73 and '77) and Wurlitzer electric pianos, Clavinet D6 (rhythm and treble
pickups) and French Harpsichord (five dispositions)
• New Orchestral Percussion: Celeste, Bells, Glockenspiel, Chimes, and Crotales (hit
and bowed)
• Selected sounds from our acclaimed PC3/Artis series & Kore64 expansion
• 16GB ROM used with our highly acclaimed FX Engine.
• KB3 ToneReal™ organ simulations with 9 sliders as drawbars
• 309 Factory Programs divided into 20 Categories
• 1024 User IDs to save your own Programs
• 149 Factory Multis
• 1024 User IDs to save your own Multis
• MP3 player audio input jack
• Full 128 voices of polyphony

Keyboard and Controllers

The Forte has an 88-key fully-weighted hammer action keyboard that provides you with
a piano-like feel without adding excessive weight to the instrument. The array of physical
controllers includes:
• 9 assignable sliders (with LED ladders)
• 9 switches (assignable/zone mutes/KB3 control)
• A pitch wheel
• A modulation wheel
• 1 Variation switch
• 1 Tap Tempo switch
• 2 Transpose switches
• Monopressure (Aftertouch)
• 3 jacks on the rear panel for switch pedals: SW1 (Sustain), SW2 & SW3
• 2 jacks on the rear panel for optional continuous controller pedals: CC1 (Volume) &
CC2
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