Kurzweil Forte - General Parameters

The Effects Chain Editor
Effects Parameters
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e descriptions here do not include all of the parameters associated with every eect, and
some eects may not have some of the parameters described here for their category. A more
complete reference, with every eect and the meaning and range of every parameter, arranged
in the order they appear on the screen, can be found in the KSP8 Algorithm Reference Guide
on the Kurzweil website, www.kurzweil.com.
General Parameters
ere are a number of parameters that are common to all or almost all eects, and we’ll deal
with those rst.
Wet/Dry balances the levels of the processed and unprocessed signals output from the eect.
Wet represents the processed signal, while dry represents the unprocessed signal. e range
is 0% wet (the signal is unprocessed) through 100% wet (no dry signal is present). Values
between 0% and 100% blend the two signals, for example, at 20% the output signal is
20% wet (processed) and 80% dry (unprocessed.) A setting of 50% wet means the dry and
processed signals are roughly equal in level. In some eects, separate Wet/Dry parameters
are provided for the Left and Right input channels. In some cases, this parameters can have
negative values, which indicate that the Wet signal is polarity-inverted.
When an eect with the Wet/Dry parameter is used in Chain that has been selected as an
Aux eect, Wet/Dry is automatically set to 100% wet and cannot be adjusted. is is because
when using an Aux eect, the dry signal is already eectively at 100% on the main audio bus
(not routed through the Aux eect.) In this case, turning up the Aux send level will blend the
100% wet signal (from the Aux bus) with the dry signal on the main audio bus.
Out Gain sets the gain at the output of an eect.
In/Out enables or disables the eect. You can think of it as a Wet/Dry parameter with only
two
HF Damping (high frequency damping) is the cuto (-3 dB) frequency of a 6dB/octave
lowpass lter that’s inserted before the processor. High frequencies above the set cuto
frequency will be ltered out. In the case of processors where multiple iterations of the signal
are heard, such as in a delay, each iteration of the signal will pass through the lter, and will
therefore be duller.
XCouple (Cross Couple). In stereo eects, this controls how much of any signal being
fed back is going to the channel opposite to the one where it rst appeared. At 100%, all
feedback from signals at the left input goes to the right channel and vice versa, causing a
“spreading” or in the case of delay lines, a “ping-pong” eect. At 0%, fed-back signals stay
with the channel they came in on.