Kurzweil Forte SE - Portamento Rate

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When applying portamento to multi-sampled sounds (Acoustic Guitar, for example), the
Forte SE will play more than one sample root as the pitch glides from the starting pitch
to the ending pitch. is may cause a small click at each sample root transition. You can
eliminate clicks by using the Mono Sample XFade parameter below.
Portamento Rate
e setting for Portamento rate determines how fast the current note glides from starting
pitch to ending pitch. e value of this parameter tells you how many seconds the note takes
to glide one semitone toward the ending pitch. At a setting of 12 keys/second, for example,
the pitch would glide an octave every second. e list of values is nonlinear; that is, the
increments get larger as you scroll to higher values.
Attack Portamento
is parameter toggles between two types of portamento. When set to On, the Forte SE
remembers the starting pitch so you don’t have to hold a note on to achieve portamento. e
pitch always glides to each new note from the previously triggered note. When set to O, the
pitch will glide to the most recently triggered note only when the previous note is still on (in
other words, you must use legato ngering).
Mono Sample XFade
When applying portamento to multi-sampled sounds (Acoustic Guitar, for example), the
Forte SE will play more than one sample root as the pitch glides from the starting pitch
to the ending pitch. is may cause a small click at each sample root transition. You can
eliminate clicks by setting the Mono Sample XFade parameter to On. When the Mono
Sample XFade parameter is set to On, the Forte SE performs a crossfade at each sample root
transition to eliminate clicks.
Globals
is is another toggle, which aects LFO2, ASR2, FUNs 2 and 4. When o, these three
control sources are local; they aect each individual note in the layers that use them as a
control source. ey begin operating each time a note in that layer is triggered.
When the Globals parameter is set to On, these control sources become global, that is
they aect every note in every layer of the current program, they’re not specic to any one
layer. When these control sources are global, they begin operating as soon as the program
is selected. When Globals are on, LFO2, ASR2, and FUNs 2 and 4 will appear on their
respective pages preceded by the letter G to indicate that they’re global.