Rodgers 790C, Owner'S Manual

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2. Turn the Select knob clockwise (right) until the cursor moves to the second menu screen and
is positioned in the Velocity field (VEL).
3. Rotate the Alpha dial to select the desired velocity value (2-127).
4. Press either the flashing MIDI coupler piston or General Cancel to exit.
Setting Expression Velocity
This velocity is controlled by the expression shoes and is not affected by the attack of the keys.
The volume (MIDI Main Volume, Control Change #7) is set to maximum when this setting is in
use.
1. Hold the SET piston, then press the MIDI coupler piston. The piston flashes. Release both
pistons.
2. Turn the Select knob clockwise (right) until the cursor moves to the second menu screen and
is positioned in the Velocity field (VEL).
3. Rotate the Alpha dial to select Expression Velocity (FM EXP).
4. Press either the flashing MIDI coupler piston or General Cancel to exit.
Setting Keyboard Velocity
This setting individually senses the velocity of each note of the keyboard. There are three
sensitivity levels that can be selected.
1. Hold the SET piston, then press the MIDI coupler piston. The piston flashes. Release both
pistons.
2. Turn the Select knob clockwise (right) until the cursor moves to the second menu screen and
is positioned in the Velocity field (VEL).
3. Rotate the Alpha dial to select Keyboard Velocity (FM KBD).
4. Turn the Select knob clockwise (right) until the cursor moves to the fourth menu screen and
is positioned in the Keyboard Velocity field (KEY VEL).
5. Rotate the Alpha dial to select the desired velocity value (LIGHT, NORMAL or HEAVY).
6. Press either the flashing MIDI coupler piston or General Cancel to exit.
The MIDI Note Velocity can be individually set for each MIDI coupler piston.
Note: The MIDI Note Velocity settings do not affect the sampled organ voices.
Octave Shift
Normally all MIDI coupler pistons play at standard pitch (middle C = note 60). The Octave Shift
setting can be set to cause any sound on a MIDI coupler piston to play one or two octaves above
or below standard pitch.
Shifting the Octave of a MIDI Sound
1. Hold the SET piston, and press the MIDI coupler piston.