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Page 1: ...o Classic Organ 538 i548 Owner s Manual...

Page 2: ...ions should always be followed including the following 1 Read these instructions 2 Keep these instructions 3 Heed all warnings 4 Follow all instructions 5 Do not use this apparatus near water 6 Clean...

Page 3: ...permission of Rodgers Instruments LLC RODGERS INSTRUMENTS LLC 1300 N E 25th Avenue Hillsboro Oregon 97124 USA 503 648 4181 www rodgersinstruments com RODGERS IN CANADA 5480 Parkwood Way Richmond B C...

Page 4: ...mable material coins pins or liquids of any kind water soft drinks etc to penetrate the unit 013 In households with small children an adult should pro vide supervision until the child is capable of fo...

Page 5: ...carefully all the while keeping it level Make sure to have a firm grip to protect yourself from injury and the instrument from damage Check to make sure the screw securing the unit to the stand have...

Page 6: ...alcohol nail polish spray cans etc near the unit Swiftly wipe away any liquid that spills on the unit using a dry soft cloth Do not allow objects to remain on top of the keyboard or pedal board This c...

Page 7: ...ome and count in 26 Deleting songs 27 4 Other functions 28 Console display and controls 28 Accessing organ control functions 28 Setting the display s contrast and brightness 29 Quick Menu parameters 3...

Page 8: ...divisional memories 55 Loading the general and divisional memories 55 Loading general or MIDI parameter sets 56 Restoring the factory default memory settings 57 7 Care and maintenance 60 8 Miscellane...

Page 9: ...he push of a button With remarkable flexibility and superior sound the 538 i548 is a perfect choice for any home concert or worship setting Thanks to advanced modeling techniques almost all sonic aspe...

Page 10: ...ght of the display SWELL to the left Note All Quick Menu parameters refer to the divisions as Pedal Manual I and Manual II Manual I represents the GREAT manual Manual II refers to the SWELL manual SWE...

Page 11: ...rgan s front 4 Connect the D Sub plug to the pedalboard taking care to it the right way see above 5 Ask one person to stand behind the 538 i548 and to gently pull the D Sub cable towards the rear whil...

Page 12: ...essary Switching the 538 i548 on and off To switch the organ on 1 Open the rolltop by sliding it towards the rear of the 538 i548 2 Press the top part of the POWER ON switch to the left of the lower m...

Page 13: ...unds from another location in the room by starting a demo song and then walking around There are several demo songs stored inside your instrument These songs cannot be changed 1 Press the QUICK MENU p...

Page 14: ...f of the tilt tab until it lights and release To disengage a coupler 2 Press the top half of the tilt tab It will go dark MELODY coupler One of the most popular organ registrations utilizes a melody v...

Page 15: ...e of the MELODY range 1 Hold SET while pressing the BASS or MELODY coupler it flashes 2 Press the desired key 1 25 on manual I the lower manual or manual II upper manual Note This setting cannot be sa...

Page 16: ...manual i e division under which they are located There are five such memories per division The memories of manual I can be set to include the registration of the PEDAL division See page 18 for how to...

Page 17: ...ving settings to a divisional memory 1 Select the desired stops and couplers for the manual whose settings you want to store This can be the upper MAN II or lower MAN I manual 2 Press and hold the SET...

Page 18: ...stops couplers and MIDI settings on the PEDAL and MANUAL I divisions at once or you could use a MANUAL I piston to change manual I s registration alone At the factory the MANUAL I pistons 1 5 are con...

Page 19: ...nts Move the pedal all the way up Press 0 all tabs go dark Press CRESCENDO so that it lights Press the pedal down and note how the tab indica tors and the sound change Tremulants Tremulants create a c...

Page 20: ...ranks the Roman numeral following the name denotes the number of ranks contained in the mixture For example a Mixture IV tab contains four ranks of Principal pipes The Flute family consists of stops t...

Page 21: ...with a number of other flute stops a great diversity of solo color can be achieved by using various combinations of stops See the following table for common solo registrations utilizing mutations Lar...

Page 22: ...arge number of orchestral voices accessible through these tabs The orchestral voices can be played in isolation or together with organ stops See the list at the end of this manual for the available or...

Page 23: ...of the song 7 Press the piston to return to the beginning of the song 8 Press yet again to listen to your recording If you like your recording remember to save it see below If you want to redo it retu...

Page 24: ...ory can only hold one song If it already contains one the following warning is displayed 9 Press the piston to save your new song and replace the previous one which will be lost If you wish to keep th...

Page 25: ...elect knob to select the Song Recorder entry 3 Press the QUICK MENU piston to confirm your choice Note If you select the wrong entry you can return to the pre vious level by briefly pressing the EXIT...

Page 26: ...des a versatile metronome function You can adjust the volume or beat of the metronome and specify when the metronome should sound There is also a REC Count In function that can be set to count down on...

Page 27: ...elete USB Song with the Select knob 5 Confirm your choice by pressing QUICK MENU If the following is displayed connect your USB storage device to the 538 i548 s USB port and press the QUICK MENU pisto...

Page 28: ...ibed in more detail Accessing organ control functions Most console functions can be accessed in the following way 1 Press QUICK MENU 2 Use the Select knob to select a menu heading The following menu s...

Page 29: ...characters and icons are almost as dark as the background 127 means that the background is almost as light as the characters Select the settings you find most comfortable 7 Use the Select knob to choo...

Page 30: ...cked A 440 Adjustable Manual Only Expression Division Manual II Manual II Manual I Manual II Pedal All Low Value Normal ppp pppp Memory Bank Set Locked Unlocked Divisional Piston Set Manual I Manual I...

Page 31: ...8 0 Low Freq Freq 50 80 100 150 200 250 300 400 Hz Gain 15 15 dB EQ Switch Set On Off EQ Gain Value 15 15 dB EQ Level Value 0 127 SONG RECORDER Select Song Internal Memory One internal song USB Memor...

Page 32: ...evice ID 1 17 32 Stop Change Receive Off Stops Pistons Stops Pistons Send Off Stops Pistons Stops Pistons ORCHEST SETTING Pedal Instr Acoustic Bass Contrabbasso Cello St Orch Br Pizzicato Bassoon Tuba...

Page 33: ...now two parameters you can set you need to use the data entry wheel to change the Tune setting and the Select knob to change the Transpose value if necessary These two parameters can be changed withou...

Page 34: ...chestral voices accessible through tabs labeled ORCH MIDI PEDAL ORCH MIDI MAN I or ORCH MIDI MAN II These orchestral voices are listed below The orchestral voices can be played alone or together with...

Page 35: ...ge see the list above 7 Use the data entry wheel to select the sound 8 Use the Select knob to select another parameter you want to set The possibilities are Vol volume Vel velocity and FtSw footswitch...

Page 36: ...h several options 6 Use the data entry wheel to select the desired Room Size The possibilities are Small Hall Small Church Room Stage Medium Hall Medium Church Large Church Cathedral 7 If you also wan...

Page 37: ...s when performing 15th through 17th century repertoire Pythagorean Pythagoras 582 500 B C was a brilliant Greek theorist and mathematician The Pythagorean temperament is characterized by pure fifths a...

Page 38: ...ift slightly from their original pitches Reed pipes are especially prone to drift in tuning because of cyclic temperature variations The Random Tuning feature causes random notes to receive a small am...

Page 39: ...ions or regional preferences This can be done either manually by programming the voicing parameters yourself see the separate Installation Manual or simply by selecting another stop configuration In t...

Page 40: ...rs you can use one of the following parameters to correct that The quickest way is usually to single out the division whose volume needs correcting and to change only that Otherwise you may end up spe...

Page 41: ...T piston to return to the main page Other AUDIO CONTROL parameters The 538 i548 s Audio Control environment contains a lot more parameters than are discussed here They can be selected in the same way...

Page 42: ...EXIT piston to return to the main page The General Parameters settings are now saved and will be retained when the organ is turned off Formatting a USB storage device The 538 i548 allows you to save a...

Page 43: ...our computer first to check and or copy contents 6 If you are absolutely positive about formatting the USB storage device press the piston Press EXIT to abort the operation Formatting the USB storage...

Page 44: ...s on an external MIDI source Enabling MIDI To set an ORCH MIDI tab as a MIDI coupler 1 Hold down the SET piston and press the upper half of the ORCH MIDI coupler that is assigned to the division whose...

Page 45: ...entry wheel to set the required MIDI channel number 8 Save your settings if you wish to keep them See page 54 9 Press and hold the EXIT piston to return to the main page Note The MANUAL I MIDI couple...

Page 46: ...ng MIDI on p 44 2 Press and hold the SET piston 3 Press the upper half of the desired ORCH MIDI tab PEDAL MAN I or MAN II It flashes to signal that a MIDI setting can be made If you press the ORCH MID...

Page 47: ...f the fingers Velocity control can be individually selected for each ORCH MIDI tab To summarize Fixed Velocity 1 127 The keyboard sends a fixed value between 1 and 127 Keyboard velocity Kbd The keyboa...

Page 48: ...ected by movement of the expression shoe only new notes played will respond to changes in the shoe position Instruments controlled by couplers set in EXP mode will typically be much louder when the ex...

Page 49: ...normally This is the default setting When a division is in the Local Off condition the stops and keyboard or pedals of the selected division are disconnected from the internal local sounds This can b...

Page 50: ...o the main page Expression The MIDI language specifies two separate messages for setting the level of a tone Expression CC11 and Volume CC07 It is possible to send either of these messages on a MIDI c...

Page 51: ...ransmission or reception of information for one or more organ divisions When controlling the 538 i548 from an external MIDI keyboard sending note information from the keyboard to the organ on a Master...

Page 52: ...to use pistons to control registrations at both locations when a certain piston is pressed on the Master console the same piston is selected at the Slave console To set up both consoles so that pisto...

Page 53: ...stem Exclusive Stop Control messages This ID number can be used to allow independent control over multiple organ consoles connected via MIDI or to facilitate storing multiple sets of registration info...

Page 54: ...7 Confirm your choice by pressing QUICK MENU Note The 538 i548 has one MIDI parameter memory whose contents will be overwritten the next time you save your MIDI settings That is why you also have the...

Page 55: ...i548 s USB port below the data entry wheel If you forget to do this the following message appears when you execute step 8 8 Confirm your choice by pressing QUICK MENU Now you can name your Memory Set...

Page 56: ...ternal memory Again it would be a good idea to save the settings currently contained in the 538 i548 s internal memory to a USB storage device before proceeding 1 Press QUICK MENU 2 Use the Select kno...

Page 57: ...e pages 42 54 and 55 1 Briefly press QUICK MENU 2 Use the Select knob to select Memory Setup 3 Confirm your choice by pressing QUICK MENU This takes you to a lower level with several options 4 Use the...

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Page 60: ...fore the next coat is applied A final catalytic process protective coat makes the Rodgers console impermeable to many harmful substances The resulting finish is lasting and easy to keep looking beauti...

Page 61: ...ng with the subcommand byte and ending with the checksum byte are added the lower 7 bits of the result will be all zeroes The following messages are used by Rodgers as of the introduction of models 53...

Page 62: ...s will be zero and the entire map 35 bytes will be transmitted It is possible though to send only part of the map beginning with the byte indicated by this value Data bytes dd dd The data bytes repres...

Page 63: ...t Data Entry Volume Panpot Expression Hold 1 Sostenuto Soft Effect 1 Depth Effect 3 Depth NRPN LSB MSB RPN LSB MSB Program Change True O 1 8 21 25 Progr Number 1 128 System Exclusive O 2 O 2 System Co...

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Page 67: ...r television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or reloca...

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