Kurzweil Forte SE - Page 346

KB3 Programs
KB3 Mode Buttons
D-3
Percussion
Percussion is a characteristic feature of tone wheel organs. It’s especially useful while soloing,
since percussion adds an extra plink (actually an extra tone at a dened harmonic) to the
attack of individual notes. When you play more than one note simultaneously, only the rst
note you play will trigger the envelope of the percussion tone, though notes played shortly
afterwards will also be aected by this envelope. When you play chords, all of the notes
played simultaneously will get the percussive eect (provided percussion hasn’t already been
triggered.)
Percussion On/Off
is is where you turn the percussion eect on or o. Percussion is created by a decaying
envelope applied to one of the nine drawbars (usually the 4th drawbar for the low pitch
and the 5th drawbar for high pitch. e highest drawbar is normally stolen to generate the
percussion sound). e percussion eect is “single-triggered”, which means that once it’s
triggered, it won’t trigger again until all keys go up.
e KB3 engine in the Forte SE is capable of generating the Percussion eect without
stealing any of the drawbars, and while not authentic, is occasionally used on Forte SE
Programs.
Percussion Loud/Soft
is parameter switches between loud and soft percussion settings.
Percussion Decay F/S
is parameter switches between fast and slow percussion settings.
Percussion Pitch H/L
is parameter switches between high and low harmonic percussion settings.
KeyClick
e Key Click feature adds a decaying burst of pitched noise to the attack of notes. Unlike
the percussion, the key click is “multi-triggered”, which means that every new note will
trigger it. e parameters on this page primarily control the decay, volume, and pitch of the
key click.is button controls whether the Keyclick parameter is switched on or o.
Rotary S/F
e Rotary S/F button acts as a Slow/Fast switch for the Rotary speaker eect. By default,
the sustain pedal (SW1) also controls Rotary Slow/Fast. You can set the sustain pedal to
function as sustain for all KB3 Programs (instead of Rotary Slow/Fast) by using the Rotary
Override parameter in Global mode. You can also make dierent Rotary Slow/Fast controller
assignments for each Program or Multi by using the Parameters page in Program Edit Mode
or the Multi Switches page in Multi Edit Mode.