User Manual

Introducing Artis
Reading this guide with the Artis7
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Chapter 1
Introducing Artis
Congratulations on your purchase of the Kurzweil Artis® Stage Piano!
This manual will help you get acquainted with your new instrument. Be sure to keep the
manual on hand as you continue to familiarize yourself with the features and functions of
the Artis.
Reading this guide with the Artis7
This Getting Started Guide is designed to cover both the Artis and Artis7 Stage Pianos. Both
instruments share common features and the term “Artis” is used to cover a description of
both instruments. Where there are differences, we use the name “Artis7” to help instruct
owners of that instrument.
Main Features
The Artis Stage Piano is the beginning of the next generation of Kurzweil’s professional
performance instruments. It boasts hundreds of excellent preset sounds (including a new
German Grand Piano) already on-board and ready to be played with 128 voice polyphony.
Artis also includes our fully featured Kurzweil KB3 organ simulator (from our PC3 Series)
designed to emulate classic tone wheel organs like the Hammond B3.
The Artis is also a very capable MIDI controller ideally suited for controlling additional
sound modules and as input to a sequencer.