Soft Buttons On The Main Page - Kurzweil FORTE SE Musician's Manual

Track Channels
Each track has a MIDI Channel that it uses to receive and transmit data. By default, tracks 1–16 of
a new song are assigned to Channels 1–16 respectively, although a track can play or record on
any channel and the same channel can be used for more than one track. Keep in mind, however,
that only one program can be assigned to a channel at a time, so if you have more than one track
assigned to the same channel, they'll play the same program—the one on the higher-numbered
track, since that's the most recent Program Change command received on that channel.

Soft Buttons on the MAIN Page

This section contains descriptions of the functions of the function soft buttons, that is, the buttons
with labels not in all-caps. As with all other modes, the soft buttons in Song Mode that have
labels in all-caps call up different pages. See the following sections for descriptions on how these
pages work.
The Rec, Play, and Stop Soft Buttons
NOTE: These buttons are similar to the transport controls on a tape deck. Some of those decks require you
to press Play and Record simultaneously to begin recording. The Forte SE's transport buttons aren't like
that, however. It's important that you press only one of these soft buttons at a time to insure proper
recording start points, and to always be sure of the current sequencer status.
The Rec soft button changes the Song Status to REC. READY if the current Song Status is
STOPPED. If the current Song Status is PLAYING, it will be switched to RECORDING when you
press Rec.
The Play soft button plays back any recorded data when pressed while the song status is
STOPPED. Playback will begin from the bar and beat specified in the Locate parameter. When the
Song Status is REC READY, pressing the Play soft button will begin recording.
The Play soft button functions as a Pause button, but only when the Song Status is PLAYING or
RECORDING. Pressing Play while the song is playing will stop the playback, and the location
remains at the current bar and beat, allowing you to continue from that location by pressing Play
again.
Pressing Pause while recording will stop the recording process as if you had pressed Stop.
The Stop soft button halts the playback or recording, and resets the song's location to either the
default Bar 1, Beat 1 value, or to whatever location you defined with the Locate parameter. If the
location is defined as something other than Bar 1, Beat 1, press Stop twice to reset to 1:1.
Pressing Stop when the Song Status is RECORDING will always prompt the "Save changes to
this song?" dialog (described below), and provides you with the opportunity to listen to the new
song and compare it with the old, previously saved, song before answering Yes or No.
Additionally you can control the Record and Play/Stop functions from any external sequencer
that sends MIDI Machine Control (MMC) messages. To receive MMC messages, the Global Mode
User Type parameter must be set to Advanced, and the Recv MMC parameter on the Global
Mode MIDI page must be set to On.
Important Note About External Sequencers:
If you are triggering Forte SE sounds from an external sequencer that sends MMC messages,
either turn off outgoing MMC on the external sequencer, or make sure the Recv MMC parameter
on the Global Mode MIDI page is set to Off. If this is not done, you will simultaneously trigger
the Forte SE from the external sequencer and from the currently selected song in Song mode.
Song Mode and the Song Editor
Song Mode: The MAIN Page
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