Kurzweil Forte - Foot Switches and Controllers; KB3 Buttons; Transpose Buttons

Features of the Forte and Forte7
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Foot Switches and Controllers
e Forte can support up to 3 Switch or Half Damper pedals as well as 2 Continuous
Controller (CC) pedals. By default the Switch pedals control Sustain, Sostenuto, and Soft
Pedal. e CC pedals control expression (program volume) and wah (if applicable) by
default. Each pedal can also be assigned to a dierent function per Program or per Multi
zone, or a Global mode pedal override can be set to change the default pedal functions for all
Programs/Multis.
KB3 Buttons
For KB3 Programs, these buttons manipulate the KB3 sound, as per the blue labels below
the button. When the LED of the button is red, the KB3 function is active.
Transpose Buttons
e Transpose and Variation buttons are located at the very end of the left side of the Forte
keyboard, just above the Pitch & Modulation Wheels.
e Transpose buttons can be used to change the tuning of notes played on the Forte
keyboard in semitones (ST), also known as half steps. is is a convenient way to change the
key of a song without learning to play it in a dierent key. e Transpose buttons are located
to the left of the keyboard, above the Pitch and Mod Wheels. e Transpose buttons also
transpose MIDI notes sent to the USB and MIDI out ports.
Press the Transpose - or + buttons to transpose the Forte keyboard down or up by one
semitone. e top line of the display shows the current transposition value. Pressing both
Transpose - and + simultaneously will reset the transposition to 0. To transpose up and down
by octave intervals (12 ST), press the OCTAVE- and OCTAVE+ soft buttons underneath
the display.
e maximum transposition value possible is +/–36 semitones.