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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction to the

Gulbransen DH-200 Digital Hymnal

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1 Digital Hymnal Quick-Start Tutorial

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2 Safety Precautions - How to take good care of your hymnal.

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3 Control Locations; Front Panel

Remote Control and Hymnal Top Panel

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4 Hymnal Setup

Connecting the Power; Three-Position Stand; Battery Replacement

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5 Playing the Hymnal - Basic Operations; Power ON

Play the hymnal’s demonstration series of hymns

Selecting a hymnbook

Select, Play and Pause a Hymn

Adjust the Transposition, Tempo and Volume

Continuous Play Function

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6 Advanced Functions - Solo Parts; Metronome; Balance Parts

Changing the way a hymn is performed.

Chose the Number of Verses; Select Amen and Introduction

Change the Tempo; Inserting Beats and Change the Performance Style

Change Instrumentation; Solo a Part and Change the Sounds and Volumes

Playlist Builder [Replaces

Memory Play Setup in previous versions]

Stores 180 hymns: 12 hymns in each of 15 playlists.

14-16

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Control Descriptions

Front Panel Controls and Shift-Key Functions

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Remote Control

20-21

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8 Performance Styles - Combinations of Sounds and Arrangements

Changing the default style and orchestration.

Using the Performance Style Presets

Table: Sound Combination Preset Codes & Arrangement Preset Codes

Table: Multi-Verse and Drums Preset Codes

General MIDI Sound List

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9 Options Menu

CompactFlash Card NAV - Play music from a CompactFlash card.

Internal Hymn NAV - Play Hymns from the internal memory.

Playlist Builder

Play Parameters

Utilities

NAV Function Menu

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10 Update the Digital Hymnal

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11 Miscellaneous Items and Accessories

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12 Connecting External Devices - Amplifiers and Headphones

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13 Specifications

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14 Troubleshooting - Common questions and answers

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Index

Summary of Contents for DH-200

Page 1: ...Gulbransen Digital Hymnal OWNER S MANUAL Item DH 200 Manual OMDH200 Manual Revision 16 0 Software Version 1 60 Boot Loader 1 12 QRS Music Technologies Inc 2007 ...

Page 2: ...mentation Solo a Part and Change the Sounds and Volumes 13 Playlist Builder Replaces Memory Play Setup in previous versions Stores 180 hymns 12 hymns in each of 15 playlists 14 16 7 Control Descriptions 17 Front Panel Controls and Shift Key Functions 18 19 Remote Control 20 21 8 Performance Styles Combinations of Sounds and Arrangements 22 Changing the default style and orchestration 23 Using the ...

Page 3: ...e beat tapped into the front panel To have the Hymnal lead into a hymn with an appropriate short introduction use the INTRO command Likewise an Amen may be appended to any hymn with the AMEN function The DH 200 can also memorize a series of hymns a feature that comes in very handy when making advance preparations for the service music During the service the pre defined series of hymns can be playe...

Page 4: ...bout 3 or 4 taps to accurately estimate the tap input VOLUME Turn the volume up and down with the VOLUME controls PAUSE Temporarily stop the playback of a hymn by pushing PAUSE The hymn will be on hold until the PAUSE button is pushed again STOP Bring the hymn to a complete stop and return to the main menu by pressing STOP POWER OFF Press and hold the POWER button until the unit turns off Using th...

Page 5: ...lt Also avoid using the unit in dusty environments Do not drop the Hymnal It will break Use a soft clean cloth to wipe dirt from the main unit and the remote Never use wet or abrasive cleaners on the Hymnal Do not open the Hymnal s case and poke around There are no user serviceable parts inside POWER On Off Press Hold to Power Off 2 NAV Navigation Dial Push Enter 3 AMEN 4 PLAY PAUSE 5 INTRO STOP 6...

Page 6: ...e Release Microphone In Level Internal Speaker On Off Switch Headphone Out Audio L R Out Non Functional Future Release CompactFlash Card Reader Service Port Not yet supported Numeric Keypad Sound Select Buttons Style Preset Buttons Orchestration Buttons NOTE The Memory button cannot be used to store hymns into the Playlist Builder at this time We hope to implement this feature in a future software...

Page 7: ...cting the Power Adapter Always use the DC adapter when wall current is available To operate the Hymnal for extended periods of time or to charge the battery the 15V wall power adapter should be used To guard against overheating the wall adaptor should be unplugged when the Hymnal will not be used for several days The battery will be fully charged in four hours Connect one end to the wall the other...

Page 8: ...the POWER button to turn off the Digital Hymnal The display will go blank Turn the unit back on by pushing the POWER button again The home screen will appear Loading file from Onboard Flash Memory press 0 to bail out MST001 Style 20 3 4 88 BPM FM I Will Sing the Wondrous Story HYFRYDOL 09 04 14 AM Feb26 2007 Hymnal and hymn number When the Hymnal is playing the elements in the home screen mean Whe...

Page 9: ...l s arrangement of a particular hymn may not exactly match the version contained in your hymnal This is due to the fact that the Hymnal uses a core of approximately 2400 hymns to cover many others Therefore in some cases hymns whose arrangements differ slightly may be referred to one basic hymn Due to copyright and publisher restrictions some hymns are not available for performance on the Digital ...

Page 10: ...PLAY or INTRO 9 Turn the unit off Press and Hold the POWER button until the display will go blank If the Hymnal is plugged into the wall you will be able to turn it back on again with the remote control However if the Hymnal is running on battery power alone it can be turned on from the front panel only This is because it shuts off completely when running on the battery to avoid draining it When r...

Page 11: ...e of 99 You must adjust the volume fairly quickly after pressing the button of the part you want to adjust SOPRANO ALTO TENOR or BASS Otherwise you will be adjusting the master volume of the entire Hymnal not just the individual part You can see on the display which volume is being affected Changing the way a hymn is performed 1 Choose the number of verses you want the Hymnal to play The factory s...

Page 12: ... combination it selects is Hymn 1 Style 20 Find the Sound Combination and Arrangement Preset Code tables in the Performance Styles section of this manual Looking in the Sound Combination Preset Code table we see that the 0 in 20 will play all four parts with the Pipe Organ sound In the Arrangement Preset Code table the 2 in 20 tells the Hymnal to play the soprano and alto at pitch in the MELODY SO...

Page 13: ... 6 because it has a different sound for each part Knowing what style is in use will give you an idea of what to expect from the sound of the soloed part To hear one of the parts by itself e g alto push ACC1 ALTO on the remote followed by SOLO The soprano tenor and bass parts will be muted leaving the alto as the only part sounding To bring back the other three parts push SOLO on the remote For mor...

Page 14: ...ou make a few simple playlists using only a few hymns in each Once you have learned that go on to more complex playlists with tempo transpose and other variables You can also go back to playlists already programmed and edit them by adding or deleting entire hymns or changing details such as tempo ect To avoid confusion please note your hymn numbers on your first few playlists Building a playlist 1...

Page 15: ... your nav control go back to position in playlist click the nav control and then Advance it from 0 to number 1 Click the nav control to save that number and Then go back to number 1 above and add a second song to your playlist 7 At this point you should have playlist 0 containing 2 hymns in position 0 and 1 Using content from the compact flash card in your playlist The playlist builder allows you ...

Page 16: ...y location of the playlist 5 Use nav control and scroll to enable playlist click nav control rotate nav control And set this menu to on click nav button 6 You have just turned on the playlist mode The menu at the bottom of your display Should now show playlist mode 0 0 The words playlist mode indicate that playlist function is turned on The first 0 shown indicates you are in playlist number 0 The ...

Page 17: ...s Sound selection Yes Shift key sequence Yes Transpose Yes Yes Tempo Yes Yes Volume Yes Yes Verses Yes Yes Front Panel Access Hold and Press PLAY PAUSE Hold and Press STOP INTRO NAV Dial Options Menu no Options Menu Hold and Press AMEN See manual Hold and Press 0 Solo OFF 10 Soprano 20 Alto 30 Tenor 40 Bass Options Menu Hold and Press 1 8 for voices 1 8 respectively Options Menu Juke Box Mode Yes ...

Page 18: ...five half steps TEMPO Increases or decreases the playback tempo VOLUME Increases or decreases volume levels POWER Turns the unit on and off If the Hymnal is running on battery power alone the front panel POWER switch will be the only way to turn it on The remote s POWER switch cannot turn on a Hymnal that is running on the battery If the unit is running on battery power and sits unused for 10 minu...

Page 19: ... PLAY PAUSE Plays one verse of each of the hymns in the selected hymnbook in numerical sequence RANGE MODE Press hold then press AMEN starting hymn number ending hymn number then PLAY PAUSE Plays one verse of each of the hymns in the selected hymnbook in numerical sequence This feature is useful for playing background music At Christmas time use the Range Mode for playing the Christmas hymns hymns...

Page 20: ...nce most changes are automatically registered after five seconds pressing is only required when the change needs to be registered right away Clear Clears the current keypad entry from the display TRANSPOSE Changes the key up or down in half step increments The range of transposition is up six half steps and down five half steps TEMPO Increases or decreases the playback tempo VOLUME Increases or de...

Page 21: ...button is pushed the display indicates that the Amen function is on and an Amen is added to the end of the hymn Press the AMEN button again for No AMEM at the end of a song HYMN Steps up through the hymns one at a time in the order of the selected hymnbook DEMO Plays a factory chosen set of hymns to demonstrate the Digital Hymnal s capabilities STYLE Allows a new accompaniment style to be applied ...

Page 22: ... following three examples 1 Enter 0 to have the pipe organ play all four parts at pitch This example uses SOUND Preset code 0 Choose styles ending with 0 i e 10 100 220 if you want to play hymns using only the pipe organ sound 2 Entering the two digit style 32 has two effects The 3 in the tens place selects the arrangement with the melody up an octave the soprano and alto playing the ACC 1 Accompa...

Page 23: ...sound button and Enter MELODY SOPRANO ACC 1 ALTO ACC 2 TENOR CONTRA BASS Change the volume of a part Change the relative volume of the melody by pushing MELODY and then using the VOLUME buttons to change the melody s relative loudness in the mix among the four parts If more than five seconds elapse between pushing MELODY and using the volume controls the Hymnal will cancel the MELODY command and a...

Page 24: ... down an octave 4 _ Melody up an octave All four parts All four parts Bass down an octave 5 _ Melody up an octave All four parts Arpeggiated chords Bass down an octave 6 _ Melody in octaves All four parts Arpeggiated chords Bass in octaves 7 _ Melody in octaves All four parts All four parts Bass in octaves 8 _ Melody at pitch All four parts All four parts Bass down an octave 9 _ Organs only mode I...

Page 25: ... four parts Drums Bass down an octave 9_ _ Popular styles that use drums in the arrangement Melody instrument played at the original pitch Uses the melody Sound Preset Code Background Drums Bass Unless otherwise indicated block chords are played with the background sound 90_ Melody sound selected by lowest digit Electric piano background Electric bass 91_ Melody sound selected by lowest digit Arpe...

Page 26: ...rgan 62 Synth Brass 1 105 Banjo 20 Reed Organ 63 Synth Brass 2 106 Shamisen 21 Accordion 64 Soprano Sax 107 Koto 22 Harmonica 65 Alto Sax 108 Kalimba 23 Tango Accordion 66 Tenor Sax 109 Bag pipe 24 Acoustic Guitar nylon 67 Baritone Sax 110 Fiddle 25 Acoustic Guitar steel 68 Oboe 111 Shanai 26 Electric Guitar jazz 69 English Horn 112 Tinkle Bell 27 Electric Guitar clean 70 Bassoon 113 Agogo 28 Elec...

Page 27: ...INTRO button and rotate the NAV dial counter clockwise until only the back slashes directory name and two dots appear in the name Push the NAV button to exit to the root of the CF card Play hymns from the internal memory To exit the CompactFlash card and return to the internal hymns press the OPTIONS button twice You can also select the Internal Hymn NAV option from the Options Menu Play music fro...

Page 28: ...roll through all hymns on your CF card Push NAV dial to make Hymn choice IMPORTANT In the Playlist builder setup menu the clear current playlist will Erase the selected playlist The clear all playlists will erase all playlists Available Select Hymn or Song Options Exits select hymn or song menu and returns to the Playlist builder Screen Selects playlist number 0 through 14 for a total of 15 Select...

Page 29: ...NAV dial will select the Key of the music NAV dial will control the Tempo NAV dial will control the number of Verses played NAV dial will adjust the Fine Tuning NAV dial will select the files from the CompactFlash card NAV dial will select the hymn Returns to the Options Menu Exits to the Home Screen NAV Function Menu Home Screen Volume Control Style Select Sound Select Set Transpose Set Tempo Num...

Page 30: ...is ready to use See the Utilities Options Menu to view version information Choose Boot Loader Option add C and keys to save 0 Boot from onboard flash 1 H2_V__18 4 6 7 2 3 4 5 broken serial Bootloader Loading file from Onboard Flash Memory Press 0 to bail out Saving Main Program from Compact Flash card to permanent system memory BOOT H2_V__18 LDR this takes about a minute Important software notes P...

Page 31: ...ys remains active so that the Hymnal can be turned on with the remote control Hymn is unavailable When a hymn number is entered into the Hymnal there are two possible responses First it may say Hymn __ selected which means that it s business as usual Second it may say Hymn is not available which means that the hymn number is not contained in memory This will happen where a text without music or wi...

Page 32: ...Wedge Woofer to the Hymnal 1 Playing the Hymnal through an external amplifier Use a standard RCA stereo cable to attach the Hymnal outputs to the Auxiliary inputs of most stereo amplifiers If you have connected the Hymnal to an external amplifier you may want to switch off the internal speakers with the speaker switch 2 Listening to the Hymnal through headphones Plug headphones into the headphone ...

Page 33: ...shift key access Remote control Power Off only when running on battery power Demo Stop Intro Play Pause Numeric keypad Enter Tap A Tempo Clear Style Verses Amen Memory Sound Select eight buttons Style Preset four buttons Hymn Up Down Transpose Up Down Tempo Up Down Volume Up Down Solo Metronome Yes No are not implemented at this time Orchestration four buttons Amplifier output 12 W total 6 W per c...

Page 34: ... for at least 4 hours The display lights up but that s it Re check the wall power adapter and turn the unit off and on again Try unplugging the power cord from the Hymnal and plugging it back in after 10 seconds The display is OK but there s no sound from the internal speakers Check that the SPEAKER switch on the top of the unit is turned on It plays but it sounds bad Make sure the wall power adap...

Page 35: ...35 DH200 Manual Rev 16 0 The NAV dial is not responding correctly 1 Press Hold both C and and 1 If there s no change in the NAV operation try 2 Press Hold both C and and 2 Troubleshooting ...

Page 36: ...can I set the Hymnal to remember this style after I turn the power off Can I have it choose this style default when I turn it on A No A personalized style cannot be saved But a style selected with the style button can become the new default style if desired To make the current style the default style press STYLE 1000 ENTER The current style will be the new default style after the power is turned o...

Page 37: ... parts play pipe organ Q I like using the 200 style series because the sounds change automatically when the verses change How do I make sure that the last verse is pipe organ on all parts A The simplest way is with Style 0 which is all pipe organ The last digit of the 2_ _ Style series decreases automatically after the introduction and after each verse For example if you want 4 verses to play then...

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Page 40: ...40 DH200 Manual Rev 16 0 QRS Music Technologies Inc Gulbransen Digital Hymnal 269 Quaker Drive Seneca PA 16346 814 676 6683 814 676 9340 Fax 800 247 6557 Sales and Service www qrsmusic com ...

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