Global Mode
TOOLS Page
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VOICES
Pressing the Voices soft button calls up the Voice Status page, which shows the Forte SE’s
128 active voice channels as you play. The Voice Status pages displays each active voice as a
solid rectangular block—for mono voices—or displays stereo pairs of voices as a > for the left
channel voice and a < for the right channel voice. Whatever symbol the page displays, when
the key of a voice is released, that voice’s symbol on the Voices Status page turns into a dot
during the release portion of that voice’s envelope. When the voice decays to silence, it is no
longer active, and the dot disappears.
The Voice Status page gives you an indication of the envelope level of each voice, though not
necessarily the volume level. Nonetheless, this can give you a valuable indication of how your
voices are being used. For example, if all or most of the voices are active, then there’s a good
chance that when voice stealing takes place an audible voice will be reallocated.
The Voices utility works a bit differently for KB3 programs. The Forte SE uses one mono
voice of polyphony for every two tone wheels in a KB3 program. When a KB3 program
is loaded in any of the Forte SE’s 16 MIDI channels (In Program or Multi Mode), a solid
rectangular block will be shown for every two tone wheels in the KB3 program, even if you’re
not playing any notes. KB3 voices are always on, and these voices remain dedicated to the
KB3 program as long as it is loaded. KB3 voices can not be stolen by VAST programs. Any
voices not dedicated to a KB3 program behave normally.
TEMPO
Press the TEMPO soft button to go to the TEMPO page (see below). When the Clock
Source parameter is set to Internal (see
), the Tempo parameter
sets the Forte SE’s System Tempo. The Tempo parameter values are in units of BPM (beats
per minute).
Note: You can also call up the TEMPO page from any other page by pressing the left and
right navigation buttons simultaneously.
