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Kurzweil | Forte 7

Description

Introducing the Kurzweil Forte®.
The most advanced keyboard to ever wear the Kurzweil logo.

SOUNDS

16 Gigabytes of All New Sounds!

16GB New, hand-selected German and vintage Japanese concert grand pianos, as well as new Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Clav, Harpsichord, Orchestral Percussion, Celeste, Glockenspiel, Chimes, Bells and Crotales along with a wide selection of sounds from the acclaimed PC3 and KORE 64™ expansion, all delivered with unprecedented expressiveness and an obsessive attention to detail.
Patented FlashPlay® Technology

Flash-Play® 

Provides the Forte® with a staggering amount of horse-power; 16 GB sample content with zero-loading time, heaping mounds of powerful DSP and ultrafast performance.
V.A.S.T. Editing

V.A.S.T.

Deep native editing? Look no further. The Forte® now grants full access to Kurzweil's legendary Variable Architecture Synthesis Technology directly from the front panel. With 32-layers per program, each offering its own signal path and a host of modular DSP tools, the Forte® offers a wealth of sound creation and modification that is truly immense.
KB3 ToneReal™ Organs

Forte KB3

Modeled after classic Hammond, Vox and Farfisa organs. Featuring all the controls you want and more, including 9 realistic drawbars. With the latest OS , KB3 is now Polyphony Free*, no longer using any of the Forte's 128 voices! 
(*does not apply to Vox/Farfisa programs)

Powerful FX Engine

Forte FX

Award-winning Reverbs, Delays, Choruses, Flangers, Phasers, Distortions, Rotary Amplifiers, Compressors and more - now all fully editable from the user-interface.
K.S.R. - Kurzweil String Resonance

Forte FX

Piano string resonance modeling for enhanced acoustic piano performance!
PERFORMANCE

76-note Italian Hammer-Action Keyboard

Forte programs

Every sound within the Forte® is perfectly matched to its 88-note fully-weighted Italian hammer-action keyboard with aftertouch.
16 Arpeggiators!

Forte Arps

Looking for a pulse? Activate up to 16 independent Arps (1 per program, 16 per Multi) and discover the new 'Step Sequencer' environment!

CONTROLS

Front Panel Master Compressor & 3-Band EQ

Forte EQ

Room too boomy? Need to add some punch? No problem. Dial it in with the Master Compressor & EQ section featuring Bass, Treble and sweepable Midrange.
23 Programmable Physical Controllers

Forte Sliders

9 Sliders (with brilliant LED ladders), 6 Switches, 2 Wheels, 3 Switch Pedal Inputs (which support half-damper for pianos), 2 Continuous Control Pedal Inputs and Aftertouch. (1 sustain/switch pedal is included).

Easy Access Controls

Forte Xpose

Dedicated -/+ Transpose, Tap Tempo and sound Variation controls conveniently located right above the Pitch/Modulation wheels.
USER INTERFACE

Widescreen Color Display

Forte LCD

Navigate the Forte 7® with a new 4.3” 480x272 widescreen color LCD display.

Sound Selection

Forte Cat

Easy Category and Program/Multi selection. Save your own preset for each Category.
Favorites Section

Forte Faves

Access your 10 Favorite sounds with ONE button press! Conveniently located right below the Forte's® display.

(With the latest OS there are now 50 Banks of 10 Favorites, providing up to 500 total favorites!)
Software Editors
BrandKurzweil
ModelForte 7
DeviceSynth
TypeKeys
Engine TypeDigital
EngineSample, Wave
Voices (max)128
Multitimbral16
Oscillators32
LFO2 Sample & Hold, Saw Up, Saw Down, Sine, Square, Triangle, Clocked, Delay
Engine DetailedV.A.S.T. 16 GB Sample ROM
Filter (VCF)2 12dB Slope (2-pole), High Pass, Low Pass, Resonance
Envelope (VCA)3 ASR
FXOver 100 complex effect chains, incorporated into programs featuring our award winning effects - reverbs, delays, chorus, flange, phaser, EQs, distortions, rotary speaker simulators, compressors, and more. 32 total FX units
Memory3072 patches and multis
Arpeggiator1-per Program, 16-per Multi
Keys76
Key typeKeys, Hammer action
VelocityY
AftertouchChannel
Audio2 Stereo out, 1 in
MidiI-O-T, USB
Produced:2016
Legend: Obvious Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator DCO Digital Controlled Oscillator
LFO Low Frequency Oscillator Sub Sub Oscillator
VCF Voltage Controlled Filter VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Velocity As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. Aftertouch Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel.
Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise.

Manuals, patches etc.

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