Forte 2 is a live performance workstation for virtual instruments, offering more control and convenience than a traditional rack of hardware sound modules. forte is optimized for the stage, with low latency audio, vast MIDI routing capabilities, and unique live performance features.

Features:

• Low Latency Multiple Instrument Hosting: Play up to 32 virtual instruments live with mixing and routing to multiple audio outputs.
• Intuitive User Interface: If you've seen a rack of hardware sound modules, forte will look familiar to you
• Performance Automation: Recall virtual instruments settings and MIDI routing instantly with remote controlled "Scenes".
• Advanced MIDI Routing and Filtering:
  - Flexible MIDI routing and filtering. Map any MIDI channel to one or more other channels, with each 'map' containing unique filtering and CC routing settings.
  - MIDI control of audio effect plugins.
  - MIDI Clock tempo synchronization.
  - MIDI output from plugins is available as a virtual MIDI input to other plugins.

• Audio Effects: Add audio effects to audio inputs, instruments or audio buss outputs. MIDI control of effect parameters.
• Audio Thru: Using the brainspawn Audio Input plugin, process live audio input through audio effects with very low latency.
• Virtual Set List: Configurable SceneView displays the set of upcoming Songs/Scenes in large font, multiple line Scene descriptions for storing notes per-Scene, and can display a custom background picture per-Scene, allowing elaborate 'cheat' sheets to be displayed per-Scene.
• No-Touch Features: auto-start on boot up, auto-recovery, remote control, SceneView and other features eliminate the need to use the keyboard and mouse during performance.
• Control Surface Support: Control your performance with Frontier Design TranzPort or Mackie Control. Even define your own control surfaces for powerful customizations.
• Easily Adapt to Changing Hardware: A powerful wizard helps you load a rack on different hardware when your rig changes.

Forte 2 is available in two editions:

• Performer Edition provides everything you need to play VST instruments on stage.
• Producer Edition provides additional features to enable moving between multiple computers and different hardware setups. Producer Edition includes EHCo for MIDI output and a site license for multi-computer installation.

New in v2.1

• NEW - Dramatically faster startup.
• NEW - Improved performance reduces dropouts, especially on scene changes.
• NEW - Diagnostic display counts MIDI input and output events and audio dropouts.
• NEW - Create and store configuration manifests to help diagnose changes in your rig.
• NEW - Plugin Manager allows you to scan VSTs, manage VST folders, mark plugin DLLs to ignore, and find out why a plugin was ignored.
• NEW - You can now add or remove plugins via the Plugin Manager without restarting Forte.
• NEW - VST Plugin Crash Handler helps pinpoint problems with specific plugins.
• NEW - Simplified Plugin Preferences.
• NEW - Improved safe mode startup launches plugin manager and audio options.
• NEW - Changed some default accelerator key assignments on the numerical keypad to work more easily with large numbers of scenes.
• Changed wording of copy command to "Copy an existing instrument module using replacement instrument" for clarity.
• Fixed a problem with Control Surface Update Mute.
• Fixed ability to double click on a rack file and open it. If Forte is running, it will close the current rack file and open the requested one.
• Fixed an issue where changing scenes via MIDI CC (e.g. a pedal) would allow those CCs to pass through to the plugins.
• Fixed an issue with exporting racks to Forte 1.6 where the rack files became very large.
• Fixed an issue where MIDI sync tempo was not correctly stored and recalled in rack files.
• Fixed an issue with MIDI key range training working incorrectly when used with transpose.