Program Mode; Controller Conventions - Kurzweil Forte Started Manual

Modes

Program Mode

The Forte also features Favorites Buttons to quickly recall your favorite sounds. The Favorites
buttons store a set of 10 Programs and/or Multis. To assign the currently selected Program or
Multi to a Favorites button, press and hold the desired Favorites button for a few seconds until
the display indicates that the Favorite has been saved. To recall a Favorite Program or Multi,
simply press one of the Favorites buttons. The Favorites buttons will work from whichever
mode you are currently in, changing to Program Mode or Multi Mode automatically if required.
Modes
The Forte has five main modes; Program Mode, Multi Mode, Multi Edit, Global Mode and
Storage Mode.
Program Mode
The Forte always powers up in Program Mode, and this is where single sounds can be played
straight from the keyboard, or multitimbrally via MIDI.

Controller Conventions

Generally the factory Programs have the following controllers assigned.
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Forte Controller Conventions
Synthesis
Variation 2 Variation 3 AmpEnv
Layer On/Off Layer On/Off Impact
Filter Freq Filter Res AmpEnv
or EQ or EQ Attack
Wheels/Variation
Var
Pitch Tremolo Amount/
Up/Down Pad Filter Freq
More
Pad/Wah
Enable
Less
Pitch Mod
Effects
Rel. Samples Trem/Vibrato Distortion/Other
On/Off LFO Shape Enable
AmpEnv AmpEnv
Decay Release
or or
Dist Amount
Release
Trem/Vib Rate Drive/Other
CC Pedals
Expression Wah
CCPed 1 CCPed 2
Mod/Chorus
Enable Delay Enable Reverb Enable
Mod Amount Delay Reverb
or Depth Amount Amount
SW Pedals
Sustain Sostenuto Soft
SW
SW SW
Ped 3
Ped 1 Ped 2
SW1 SW2 SW3