Product Overview
The Kurzweil Forte SE is an 88-note keyboard that follows in the excellent footsteps established by the Forte and Forte 7, allowing you to realize a high level of performance with great sound quality, dependability, and a user-friendly interface. Boasting a new sleek design and interface modifications in a new compact package, the Forte SE provides a fully-weighted Italian hammer-action keyboard with aftertouch. Its large, easy to use controllers are located in a new convenient position. The placement of the pitch/modulation wheels, variation, tap tempo and transpose switches now appear on the front panel to make the footprint as small as possible for an 88 note keyboard.
The Forte SE is the Special Edition version of the Forte stage piano with FlashPlay™, with instant access to 2 GB of memory, and featuring the German D Grand EXP Grand Piano Expansion, High Definition Japanese Grand Piano, as well as other optimized sounds from the Forte. All of these great programs can be tailored for your playing style by intuitive real-time controls and color LCD display.
Kurzweil Forte SE Features:
- Action: 88-note fully-weighted hammer-action with velocity and aftertouch sensitive keys, Fatar TP/100L
- Polyphony: 128 Voice Polyphony, dynamically allocated
- KB3 is Polyphony Free*, not using any of the Forte SE’s128 voices (*does not apply to Vox/Farfisa programs)
- Programs:
- 256 Factory Presets, Featuring these new samples
- German Grand Piano (9 foot Steinway Hamburg D)
- Vintage Japanese Grand Piano (7 foot Vintage Yamaha C7)
- '73 Rhodes Mark I, '77 Rhodes Mark I
- Wurlitzer 200A ,
- Hohner D6 Clavinet
- Several new Orchestral keyboard instruments including French Harpsichord, Celeste, Glockenspiel, Bells, Chimes, Crotales (Hits and Bowed) and Prophet VS waveforms. Plus improved KB3 Organs and programs from PC3K and KORE 64.
- 1024 User Presets
- Multis: Over 150 Factory Multis, Up to 16-Zones withQuick Split/Layer and Extensive MIDI Control (internal and external).Dedicated Zone Volume Sliders and Zone Mute Switches in every Multi.
- Sound Selection: Direct Category sound selection, including assignable Category Default Program/Multi. Our new Category system groups sounds easily without banks for quick selection.
- Favorites:
- 10 Front Panel buttons for 1-button selection of your most-used Programs and Multis. Assignments are simply made by pressing and holding a Favorite button.
- 16 Favorites Banks - Access 16 different Favorites Banks, each with 10 Favorites for total of 160 Favorites at your fingertip.
- Master Tone Controls/Compressor: Global 3 band Equalizer with sweepable midrange and a global Compressor. Dedicated front-panel controls, with Enable/Disable button (with LED).
- Effects: Hundreds of Effect Chains created in Kurzweil's most powerful workstations. The Chains are combinations of over 200 of our award-winning effects: Reverbs, Delays, Chorus, Flange, Phaser, EQs, Distortion, Rotary Simulator, Compressor, and more.32 Units of FX, twice as much as PC3/PC3K/Artis in addition to the Global FX.
- Controllers:
- 8 Zone MIDI Controller
- 1 pitch wheel
- 1 modulation wheel
- 9 front panel sliders (w/ LED ladders)
- 9 switches (assignable/zone mutes/KB3 control)
- 1 variation switch
- 2 switch pedal inputs (1 switch/sustain pedal is included)
- 1 continuous control pedal inputs
- Mono-pressure (aftertouch)
- Display: 240 x 64 pixel Monochrome LCD with front-panel contrast adjust
- Audio Outs: 2 Pair of Stereo L/R Balanced Outs, Headphone jack on the back panel
- Audio Input: Stereo 1/8" mini jack for routing external audio to the outputs
- USB: Host Port (MIDI and updates from your computer oriPad), Device Port (Supports Flash-Drive)
- External Editor: Free external editor from Sound Tower available as a Stand-Alone application, iPad, and Plug-in coming soon
- Program Demos: Every Program has self-demonstrating song assigned, accessible via the front panel
