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Introducing the Forte
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Chapter 1
Introducing the Forte
Congratulations on your purchase of a Kurzweil Forte® Stage Piano! Keep the manual
on hand as you continue to familiarize yourself with the features and functions of your
instrument.
Using this Guide with the Forte7
is manual is designed to cover both the Forte® and Forte®7 pianos. ese instruments share
common features and the term “Forte” is used to cover a description of both. Where there are
dierences, we use the name “Forte7” to help instruct owners of that instrument.
Main Features
e Forte Stage Piano is the most advanced keyboard to ever bear the Kurzweil logo.
Featuring Flash-Play technology and a high resolution color display, the Forte boasts
hundreds of excellent preset sounds, with a massive 16GB of ROM and 128 voice
polyphony. e Forte’s new sounds are modeled after Steinway Hamburg D and Vintage
Yamaha C7 pianos, Rhodes (‘73 and ‘77) and Wurlitzer electric pianos, Clavinet D6 (rhythm
and treble pickups) and French Harpsichord (ve dispositions).
Содержание
- Including 1
- Caution 3
- Important safety installation instructions 3
- Instructions pertaining to the risk of fire electric shock or injury to persons 3
- Radio and television interference 3
- Save these instructions 3
- Important safety instructions 4
- Kurzweil international contacts 5
- Contents 6
- Getting started 2 1 6
- Introducing the forte 1 1 6
- Features of the forte and forte7 3 1 7
- Program mode 6 1 8
- Terminology 4 1 the operating modes 5 1 8
- Program edit mode 7 1 9
- Multi mode 8 1 10
- Multi edit mode 9 1 11
- Global mode 10 1 12
- Storage mode 11 1 14
- System mode 12 1 14
- Troubleshooting 13 1 14
- Midi implementation a 1 physical specifications b 1 programs c 1 kb3 programs d 1 15
- Multis e 1 effects f 1 index i 1 15
- Chapter 1 introducing the forte 16
- Introducing the forte 16
- Main features 16
- Using this guide with the forte7 16
- Keyboard and controllers 17
- Sounds 17
- Keeping the forte forte7 up to date 18
- Pedals optional 18
- Do you have everything 19
- Music rack optional 19
- Before you start 20
- Chapter 2 getting started 20
- Getting started 20
- Setting up the forte 20
- Using the forte forte7 22
- The ac power jack 23
- The midi ports in thru out 23
- The rear panel 23
- The usb ports 23
- Basic midi hookup 24
- Connecting more sound modules 24
- The pedal jacks 26
- The sw1 sustain sw2 and sw3 jacks 26
- Connecting a half damper pedal 27
- Connecting a dual switch pedal 28
- The cc1 volume and cc2 jacks 28
- The audio jacks a b audio ouputs 29
- The headphones jack 29
- Connecting to your audio system 30
- Connecting to a computer 32
- Selecting programs 33
- Selecting programs and multis 33
- Controller info 34
- Favorites 34
- Selecting multis 34
- User programs and multis 34
- Controller conventions 35
- Forte controller conventions 35
- Generally the factory programs have the following controllers assigned 35
- Getting started 35
- If you make changes to the current program using any of the controllers sliders wheels or switches the save button s led lights to indicate that a change has been made to that program the save button is located left of the display to save a copy of the program with the changes you ve made press the save button once the save button s led begins to blink and it calls up the save dialog the save dialog allows you to choose an id number and name that will be associated with the program you are saving 35
- Program mode 35
- Saving programs 35
- 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 35
- The forte has six main modes program mode program edit multi mode multi edit global mode and storage mode 35
- Global mode 36
- Midi settings 36
- Multi edit mode 36
- Multi mode 36
- Program edit mode 36
- Splits and layers 36
- Loading from external storage 37
- Saving to external storage 37
- Storage mode 37
- System reset 37
- Updating the forte forte7 37
- Chapter 3 features of the forte and forte7 38
- Features of the forte and forte7 38
- Parameters remembered after power on 38
- Parameters reset to defaults at power on 38
- Powering up defaults 38
- All the controls for forte and forte7 both musical and navigational are on the front panel 39
- Features of the forte and forte7 39
- The front panel 39
- Modulation wheel 40
- Pitch and modulation wheels 40
- Pitch wheel 40
- Features of the forte and forte7 41
- For kb3 programs the sliders operate in a similar way to a hammond organ i e pulling the slider towards you increases the drawbar amount to help illustrate this the forte inverts the led ladders to indicate the drawbar slider position 41
- Forte controller conventions 41
- If you select a kb3 program the nine sliders act like tonewheel organ drawbars the labeling below the sliders applies to the kb3 programs indicating the drawbar registers that are modified by the slider 41
- In program mode most programs have slider a assigned to a filter or eq parameter in order to control the brightness of the sound in all programs and most multis slider i controls reverb amount while slider h usually controls a second effect such as delay echo amount the remaining sliders have different assignments depending on the selected program multi see the controller conventions diagram above for controller assignments commonly used by programs 41
- Real time control 41
- Sliders 41
- The nine sliders on the left of the front panel are assigned to control different sound parameters and effects for each program in multi mode sliders a d default to controlling volume for zones 1 4 the sliders can also send midi continuous controller values to external midi equipment each slider has a handy visual led ladder that indicates its current setting when a new program or multi is selected 41
- Led ladders 42
- Switches 42
- Zone mute volume buttons 42
- Foot switches and controllers 43
- Kb3 buttons 43
- Transpose buttons 43
- Save button 44
- Tap tempo button 44
- Variation button 44
- Compressor 45
- Master eq 45
- Master eq compressor 45
- Audio in 47
- Global button 48
- Mode buttons 48
- Multi button 48
- Program button 48
- Navigation 49
- The color lcd display 49
- Alpha wheel 50
- Channel zone buttons 50
- Previous and next value buttons 50
- Display brightness knob 51
- Kb3 led 51
- Category 52
- Category keypad 52
- Keypad 52
- Channel zone jump 53
- Double button presses 53
- Value jump 53
- Program demo 54
- Reset transposition 54
- Song demo 55
- Chapter 4 terminology 56
- Terminology 56
- Chapter 5 the operating modes 58
- Program mode 58
- The operating modes 58
- Multi mode 59
- Global mode 60
- Storage mode 61
- Functions 62
- The layer function 62
- The split function 62
- Song demo function 63
- Program demo function 64
- Multi edit mode 65
- Program edit mode 65
- About program mode 66
- Chapter 6 program mode 66
- Program mode 66
- Selecting programs 67
- Program demo 68
- The color display 69
- Alpha wheel previous and next value buttons 70
- Midi in out activity indicators 70
- Pop up messages 70
- Category buttons 71
- Value jump buttons 71
- Keypad button 72
- Choosing category default programs 73
- Choosing favorites 74
- Favorites view and favorites banks 74
- Transposition 75
- Parameter assignments 76
- Cc pedals 77
- Controller conventions 77
- Effects synthesis 77
- Forte controller conventions 77
- Generally the factory programs have the following controllers assigned 77
- Program mode parameter assignments 77
- Sw pedals 77
- Wheels variation 77
- The split function 78
- Key range 79
- Program 79
- Volume 79
- Saving a split 80
- The layer function 81
- Key range 82
- Program 82
- Volume 82
- Saving a layer 83
- Changing the midi transmit channel 84
- Changing id numbers 86
- Save user programs 86
- Naming a user program 88
- Saving a user program 89
- About program edit mode 90
- Chapter 7 program edit mode 90
- Program edit mode 90
- Alpha wheel previous and next value buttons 91
- Current page 91
- Current parameter 91
- Selecting parameters 91
- Soft button options for program edit mode 91
- The display 91
- Assign 92
- Assign symbol 92
- Enter controller 92
- Params page 93
- Program pages 93
- Control 94
- Parameter 94
- Parameter controls 94
- Program edit mode 94
- Program pages 94
- The parameter column will also display any available vast synthesis parameters for the current program and parameters for the current program s insert and auxiliary 1 and 2 effects if effects are in use all available parameters are listed 94
- This list shows the midi cc numbers associated with each controller the forte s physical controllers are highlighted in bold type this list can be helpful when changing the control for a parameter for example to set a parameter to be controlled by the zone 1 switch you can quickly select it by entering 80 for the control followed by pressing the enter button 94
- To choose an external midi cc number as a control source you can enter the number of the controller with the keypad function of the category buttons followed by the enter button or using the alpha wheel or the value buttons also the forte s physical controllers each use one of the available midi cc numbers so you must choose one of the other available cc numbers when using an external midi control source or else the parameter will also be controlled by a forte physical controller 94
- Use the control middle column to set one of the forte s physical controllers as a control source for a parameter use the alpha wheel or the value buttons to choose one of the forte s physical controllers as a control source or choose a value of none if you don t want to use a physical controller for this parameter you can also choose a value of none by entering 1 with the keypad function of the category buttons followed by the enter button 94
- Use the cursor buttons to select a parameter in the left column and use the alpha wheel value buttons or cursor up down buttons to scroll through parameters in that column effect chain parameters are named with prefixes based on their effect type either ins for parameters from insert effects or aux1 aux2 for parameters from aux effects effect chain parameters are also shown with different background colors to help visually separate insert and aux parameters 94
- Important note about selecting a control source 95
- Important note about values of none 95
- For all parameters with a value of none any values set with a physical control will not be saved when saving the program you must set the value column for that parameter to something other than none in order to set and save a value these values will remain set until changed with a controller or until a program is loaded on the current midi channel that does not have a value of none for these parameters 96
- Fx page 96
- Press the fx soft button to call up the fx page effects page use this page to apply audio effects to a program you can choose an effects chain for insert effects and an effects chain for auxiliary effects 1 and 2 96
- Program edit mode 96
- Program pages 96
- The forte s chains contain a variety of effects each chain displays icons representing the type of effects contained in the chain as well as the order of effects in the chain signal flows from left to right the forte s chains include different types of reverb chorus delay flanger phaser tremolo panner leslie distortion eq compression filter envelope following filter frequency stimulator ring modulator frequency offset pitch lfo and stereoizer 96
- Aux 1 aux 2 97
- Insert 97
- Auxiliary send parameters 98
- Output 98
- Bendrange up bendrange down 99
- Common page 99
- Program edit mode program pages 99
- The common page allows adjustment of a number of general parameters for the program 99
- Use these parameters to define how much the pitch will change when you move the pitch wheel you can set either bend parameter to bend by up to 72 half steps up or down pitch values are set in cents where 100 cents 1 half step 1 semitone 99
- With respect to each other the aux 1 and aux 2 are always in parallel that is the output of one aux chain can not be processed by the other aux chain 99
- Category 100
- Intonation map 100
- Output gain 100
- Intonation key 101
- Legato 101
- Monophonic 101
- Portamento 101
- Mono sample xfade 102
- Portamento rate 102
- About multi mode 103
- Chapter 8 multi mode 103
- Multi mode 103
- Selecting multis 104
- The color display 104
- Alpha wheel previous and next value buttons 105
- Midi in out activity indicators 105
- Pop up messages 105
- The cursor buttons 105
- Value jump buttons 105
- Category buttons 106
- Choosing favorites 107
- Favorites view and favorites banks 107
- About zones 108
- Muting zones 108
- Transposition 109
- Controller conventions 110
- Parameter assignments 110
- The split function 111
- Key range 112
- Program 112
- Volume 112
- Saving a split 113
- The layer function 114
- Key range 115
- Program 115
- Volume 115
- Saving a layer 116
- Save user multis 117
- Changing id numbers 118
- Naming a user multi 119
- Saving a user multi 120
- About multi edit mode 121
- Chapter 9 multi edit mode 121
- Multi edit mode 121
- User type advanced 122
- Changing zones 123
- Current parameter 123
- Current zone current page 123
- Selecting parameters 123
- Soft button options for multi edit mode 123
- The display 123
- Alpha wheel previous and next value buttons 124
- Assign 124
- Enter controller 125
- Zone parameters 125
- Multi edit mode overview page 126
- Overview page 126
- Program 126
- Status 126
- The overview page shows all 4 zones in an easy graphical layout the current program volume and panning position of the zone along with the state and active keyboard region can be quickly set on this page 126
- The program parameter determines the program to be loaded for the currently selected zone you can set this parameter to any forte program 1 2047 the display shows the program number and name 126
- The status parameter determines whether the currently selected zone is active or muted you can set this parameter to either of two states active or muted 126
- The value jump double button press previous and next buttons jumps to selecting the first program of each category as well as the category default program of each category if a category default program has been set 126
- Key range 127
- Volume 127
- Main page 128
- Multi edit mode main page 128
- The main page shows the current settings that are specific for the currently selected zone the top right hand corner of the display indicates the currently selected zone of a total of 4 zones 128
- Destination 129
- Note map 129
- Transpose 129
- Bankmode 131
- Channel 131
- Midibank 132
- Midiprog 132
- Bend up down st bend up down ct 133
- Entryprgchg 133
- Velmode 133
- Veloffset 133
- Velscale 133
- Velcurve 134
- Lovel hivel 135
- Controls page 136
- Multi edit mode controls page 136
- Press the controls soft button to view pages where you can set parameters for each of the forte physical controllers broadly speaking the forte has switch controllers such as buttons and foot switches and continuous controllers such as the wheels sliders and foot controllers switch and continuous controllers have different parameters available to them on the controls page which are described below 136
- Switch controllers 136
- You can select any of the forte s physical controllers by moving the cursor to the controller parameter and using either the alpha wheel or value buttons to scroll the list alternatively you can also position the cursor in the controller parameter hold down the enter button and move the controller you wish to edit 136
- Controller 137
- Forte switch controllers 137
- Entry state 138
- Off value 138
- On value 138
- Exit state 139
- Key1 key8 139
- Velocity 139
- Continuous controllers 140
- Destination 140
- Cc pedal 1 slider d 141
- Cc pedal 2 slider e 141
- Controller 141
- Controllers 141
- Controls page 141
- First use the channel zone buttons to the left of the display to select the desired zone that you wish to assign a controller for next on the controls page use the cursor buttons to select the controller field hold the enter button on the alphanumeric pad and then move any of the forte s physical controllers this will select that controller and display its available parameters you can also scroll through the list of controllers on the control page by selecting the controller field with the cursor buttons and using the alpha wheel or the value buttons to scroll through the list if a pedal is selected which has a pedal override enabled in global mode a message global pedal override is enabled will display when that pedal is viewed to remind you that the global mode pedal override settings are being used instead of the multi mode pedal settings 141
- Forte continuous 141
- Mod wheel slider a 141
- Multi edit mode 141
- Pitchdown slider c 141
- Pitchup slider b 141
- Pressure slider f 141
- Select a continuous controller from the list above the continuous controller parameters are described below 141
- Slider g 141
- Slider h 141
- Slider i 141
- The controller parameter allows you to assign any of the forte s physical controllers sliders switches mod and pitch wheels foot switches and expression pedals to control a program specific parameter or midi controller number for the currently selected zone 141
- Entry position 143
- Exit value 143
- Commonly you will want to assign a physical controller in a multi to control the same program parameter that it controlled in program mode in the destination parameter list destinations that are assigned to parameters for the program of the current zone will show the program parameter name in place of the standard controller destination name select one of these destinations to control an assigned program parameter 144
- Controlling program parameter assignments from multi mode 144
- Destination 144
- Multi edit mode controls page 144
- The contoller destination list 144
- The destination parameter determines the midi cc controller number that a physical controller will send to the program in the currently selected zone by default these cc messages are also sent to the midi out and usb ports on the channel of that zone 144
- The list of cc controller numbers below shows the default assignments for each destination programs respond to some of these ccs for standard midi functions like volume and panning other external midi gear sound modules computer software may respond to standard midi cc messages as well 144
- The table below contains the available values for the midi cc continuous controller destinations the forte s physical controllers can send midi values to these destinations in order to control the parameters of forte programs multis forte system parameters or external midi equipment 144
- Use the destination parameter to assign the forte physical controllers sliders pedals switches mod wheel etc to control program parameters or send midi continuous controller messages ccs to external midi gear if a cc number is assigned to a parameter in the program of the current zone the parameter name will be listed in the destination list in place of that cc number 144
- Controls page 145
- Multi edit mode 145
- Multi edit mode controls page 146
- Enable 147
- Fx page 147
- Aux fx channel 148
- Aux1 aux2 148
- Aux1 override aux2 override 148
- Clock source 149
- Common page 149
- About auxiliary effects 150
- Kb3 channel 150
- Save and delete user multis 150
- About global mode 151
- Chapter 10 global mode 151
- Global mode 151
- Selecting and editing parameters 152
- Global mode main1 page 153
- Main1 page 153
- The main1 page in global mode allows you to set up how effects are applied tuning and the way things are displayed on the forte lcd display 153
- The transpose parameter allows you to tune the pitch of the unit in semitones 153
- The tuning parameter allows you to fine tune the unit in cents one cent is one hundredth of a semitone 100 cents comprise a semitone you can select any tuning from 100 cents to 100 cents by default this parameter is set to 0 153
- Transpose 153
- Auto power off 154
- Display 154
- Fx mode 154
- Show controllers 154
- Audio input 155
- Audio out s m 155
- Clock source 155
- Out pair b mode 155
- Power off time 155
- Global mode main2 page 156
- Main2 page 156
- Multi controllers 156
- The main2 page in global mode allows you to set up the feel and response of the forte keyboard to your playing style the intonation key of music as well as how pianos and drums respond 156
- When a multi is selected this parameter determines how the sliders respond to movement when set to instant moving a slider will result in the assigned parameter immediately jumping to the slider position with some parameters an abrupt change to the sound may be undesirable in this case set this parameter to passentry and the slider will only become active when the slider is moved past the multi entry value this results in smooth changes to the sound 156
- Pressure map 157
- Velocity map 157
- Global mode main2 page 158
- However many different intonation intervals have evolved over the centuries and across cultures and instruments so equal temperament will not sound appropriate for certain styles of music the forte supplies you with 18 different factory intonation maps which are useful for a range of different styles you can further customize each map or create your own by editing a map see editing intonation maps below each of these maps defines different intervals between each of the semitones in a single octave used for all octaves by setting pitch offsets for each note in cents 158
- Intonation map 158
- Like many instruments before the adaptation of equal temperament most of these intonation maps were designed to sound best in one specific key though some may have historically been in a different key all of the forte s factory intonation maps are set to root note c by default you can change the root key of the current intonation map by using the int key parameter see the intonation key int key section below 158
- Most modern western music uses what is known as equal temperament this means that the interval between each semitone of the 12 tone octave is precisely the same as every other semitone 158
- Editing intonation maps 159
- Int key intonation key 159
- Drum remap 160
- Pedal noise 160
- User type 160
- Cc pedal overrides 161
- Switch pedal overrides 161
- By default kb3 organ programs have the slow fast speed control for the rotary speaker effect assigned to the variation button and the sustain pedal sw1 the rotary override parameter allows you set the sustain pedal to function as sustain for all kb3 programs instead of rotary slow fast the variation button will always control the rotary speed regardless of this parameter s setting 162
- Global mode midi page 162
- In multi edit mode if a pedal is selected which has a pedal override enabled in global mode a message global pedal override is enabled will display when that pedal is viewed to remind you that the global mode pedal override settings are being used instead of the multi mode pedal settings 162
- Midi page 162
- Rotary override 162
- The forte can transmit and receive midi via its midi ports and usb the midi page in global mode allows you to configure how this will be handled 162
- Destination 163
- Bank select 164
- Change multis 164
- Prgchangemode 164
- Localkbdchan local keyboard channel 165
- Program mode 165
- Multi mode 166
- Sysex id 166
- Midi out and midi in 167
- Tools page 167
- Voices 168
- Delete page 171
- Reset page 172
- Reset forte to its factory state hard reset 173
- Reset global mode parameters only soft reset 173
- About storage mode 175
- Chapter 11 storage mode 175
- Storage mode 175
- Directories 176
- Storage mode common features 176
- Common dialogues 177
- The select directory dialogue 177
- The file name new directory dialogue 178
- The store page 179
- Pressing store 180
- Store advanced 180
- Store all 180
- The load page 181
- Pressing load 182
- Example using load 183
- Overwrite 183
- Ovwrte 183
- Parent 183
- Compatible files 184
- Chapter 12 system mode 185
- System mode 185
- Run forte 186
- System update 187
- Install using a usb flash drive 188
- Install using a computer tablet 191
- Run diagnostics 194
- System reset 195
- System utilities 197
- Format flash 198
- Display diag 200
- Install module 200
- Restore older 200
- Chapter 13 troubleshooting 201
- Common problems 201
- Maintenance 201
- Power problems 201
- Troubleshooting 201
- Audio problems 202
- Display brightness 202
- Midi problems 205
- Pedal problems 206
- Switch pedal problems 206
- Diagnostics 207
- If none of the above 207
- Restoring factory defaults 207
- Service centers 207
- Appendix a midi implementation 208
- Midi implementation 208
- Appendix b physical specification 209
- Physical specifications 209
- Appendix c programs 210
- Id e piano id e piano id e piano 210
- Id piano id piano 210
- Object version 1 0 0 210
- Programs 210
- Id clav id clav 211
- Id leads id leads 211
- Id organ id organ 211
- Programs 211
- Id pads id pads 212
- Programs 212
- Strings id strings 212
- Synth bass id synth bass 212
- Synths id synths 212
- Bass id bass 213
- Brass id brass 213
- Ensemble 213
- Guitar id guitar 213
- Programs 213
- Winds id winds 213
- Id drums id drums 214
- Id mallets id mallets 214
- Id percussion id percussion 214
- Id voices id voices 214
- Programs 214
- Id hybrid 215
- Id miscellaneous 215
- Programs 215
- Appendix d kb3 programs 216
- First some history 216
- Introducing kb3 programs 216
- Kb3 improvements in the forte 216
- Kb3 programs 216
- Chor vib 217
- Chorus vibrato 217
- Drawbars 217
- Kb3 mode buttons 217
- On off 217
- Chorus vibrato depth 218
- Keyclick 218
- Percussion 218
- Percussion decay f s 218
- Percussion loud soft 218
- Percussion on off 218
- Percussion pitch h l 218
- Variation 219
- Appendix e multis 220
- Gospel b3 pno id multi id multi 220
- Multis 220
- Object version 1 0 0 220
- Id multi id multi id multi 221
- Multis 221
- Appendix f effects 222
- Effects 222
- Www kurzweil com 244
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