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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. This may cause a small click at each sample root transition. You can
eliminate clicks by using the
parameter below.
Portamento Rate
The setting for Portamento rate determines how fast the current note glides from starting
pitch to ending pitch. The 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. The list of values is nonlinear; that is, the
increments get larger as you scroll to higher values.
Attack Portamento
This 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. The
pitch always glides to each new note from the previously triggered note. When set to Off, 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 fingering).
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. This 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
This is another toggle, which affects LFO2, ASR2, FUNs 2 and 4. When off, these three
control sources are local; they affect each individual note in the layers that use them as a
control source. They 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 affect every note in every layer of the current program, they’re not specific 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.
