Kurzweil Artis SE 88-Key Stage Piano

Since the earliest days of digital keyboard technology, Kurzweil has been at the forefront, and the Artis Stage Piano series is an ingenious design that leverages Kurzweil’s current sampling and synthesis state-of-the-art for the performing keyboard player. Featuring Kurzweil’s stunning new German Grand, Artis' astonishing sound quality, dependability and ease-of-use help you take your performance to the next level.

Sounds
The meticulous sampling, modeling and control elements combine to make the new German 9' Grand Piano sound to be among the industry’s best, indeed, among the best in the history of grand piano emulation achievements. Within the broader piano category there are 32 incredible piano voicings in a wide variety of idioms, each of them with a tone, realism, and expression beyond what you thought possible in a stage piano. Fatar TP-100 action.

KB3 ToneReal™ Organs
Phenomenally accurate piano patches are where Kurzweil has chiefly achieved their stellar reputation, but their organ timbres are likewise among the most realistic and thrilling in the industry, even comparing favorably to organ specialty manufacturers. The Artis KB3 bank is modeled after classic Hammond, Vox and Farfisa organs, and features all the controls you want and more, including 9 realistic drawbars.

Artis programs
From classic to cutting edge, the Artis programs comprise the best sounds from the PC3K and KORE 64 collections plus Kurzweil’s NEW piano, Vintage Electric Pianos, Clavinets, Synthesizers, rich and realistic String Sections and Orchestras, Guitars, Percussion and much more.

256 Factory Multis
Whether for multitimbral functions in sequencing applications or huge, stacked layers, the Artis’ ability to deliver dense, complex and harmonically rich sounds is among its chief attractions. Layered, sublime, fearless and funky Kurzweil Artis Multis will have your inspiration up and running in no time. Up to 4 zones, split/layer, extensive MIDI control, individual zone volume and mute control.

Powerful FX Engine
Award-winning Reverbs, Delays, Choruses, Flangers, Phasers, Distortions, Rotary Amplifiers, Compressors and more. An electric piano patch only truly captures its appropriate idiomatic timbre when you send it through the expected phase shifter, or stereo tremolo effect. A light reverb enhances solo piano performance to an amazing degree, especially if the room is carpeted and not reverberant. Clean, quiet, smartly and tastefully designed, the Aris effects add the perfect “extra” to an incredible array of brilliant sounds.

Controls
Front panel 3-Band EQ withsweepable midrange
22 Programmable physical controllers
Nine sliders, 6 switches, 2 wheels
Two switch pedal inputs, 1 Continuous Control pedal input
Easy Access Transpose Buttons