The Effects Chain Editor; The Main Page - Kurzweil FORTE SE Musician's Manual

Chapter 8

The Effects Chain Editor

Pressing the Edit button while a Chain (other than 0 None) is highlighted—on any of the
various effects pages—will call up the Chain editor. From the Program editor, the program's
Insert and Aux Chains can be edited from the PROGFX and LYRFX pages. In Multi Edit
Mode, Chains selected for Aux overrides can be edited from the AUX1 and AUX2 pages.
A Chain is made up of one or more effect-boxes, with each box containing a single effect.
You can have up to 16 effect-boxes in a Chain. The settings for all of the parameters of
each effect-box are also stored within the Chain. There are 30 Mod Controls that allow for
real-time control over any parameter from any effect-box in the Chain. Per Chain Control
sources are also provided to be used as inputs to the effect Mods (two FXLFOs, two FXASRs,
and four FXFUNs.) These work similarly to the LFOs, ASRs and FUNs in Program mode,
but are only available for use with the effect Mods.

The MAIN Page

In the Chain Editor, pressing the MAIN soft button calls up the MAIN page. The MAIN
page is where you configure the length of a Chain and select the individual effects that make
up the Chain. The Chain editor MAIN page of the Chain 269 PnoEnhancRvb3 appears as
shown below:
At the top right of the display is the number of DSP units used by the currently selected
effect- box, and by the Chain as a whole. 2/5 Units indicates that the current effect-box is
using two DSP units and the Chain is using a total of five DSP units for all of its effects
boxes. There are a total of 32 units available for all of the Chains that are currently loaded by
programs and any active Aux overrides from Multi Mode.
NOTE: In some configurations, not all 32 units are available for use with multi-unit
effects because of the way the DSP is allocated internally.
The Effects Chain Editor
The MAIN Page
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