User Manual

Introducing Artis
Main Features
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Sounds
• New German Grand Piano
• ROM sounds from Kurzweil’s acclaimed PC3 series
• Enhanced Kore64 ROM
• Full KB3 organ simulations with 9 sliders as drawbars
• 256 Factory Programs divided into 16 Categories
• 256 User slots to save your own Programs
• 256 Factory Multis
• 256 User slots to save your own Multis
• MP3 player audio input jack
• Full 128 voices of polyphony
Keyboard and Controllers
The Artis has an 88-key fully-weighted hammer action keyboard (Artis7 has 76-key semi-
weighted keys) that provides you with a piano-like feel without adding excessive weight to
the instrument. The array of physical controllers includes:
• 9 assignable sliders
• 6 programmable switches
• A pitch wheel
• A modulation wheel
• 2 jacks on the rear panel for up to 4 optional switch pedals or 2 half damper pedals:
SW1 (Sustain) & SW2
• 1 jack on the rear panel for an optional continuous controller pedal: CC (Volume)
Pedals (Optional)
As described above, the Artis has three jacks on the rear panel for optional pedal controllers.
Two jacks for switch pedals, which are typically used to control two-state (i.e., on / off)
parameters such as sustain, sostenuto, and mute Zone. The third jack is for a continuous
control (or CC) pedal typically used to control multi-state (i.e., “continuous”) parameters
such as volume or wah.
Your Kurzweil dealer stocks the following pedals:
• FS-1 Standard box-shaped switch pedal
• KFP-1 Single piano-style switch pedal
• KFP-2S Double piano-style switch pedal unit (one stereo plug)
• CC-1 Continuous pedal