Rodgers Allegiant 657, Owner'S Manual

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General Cancel
Activated stops and couplers can be cleared quickly by pressing the General Cancel piston,
(labeled ‘
0 ’) located under the Great manual on the right-hand side of the keyboard. Simply
press and release this piston to cancel a registration. Cancel can also be used to exit the menu
system. While outside the menu, holding Cancel (0) and pressing SET immediately returns all
Voice Palette selections to the power-up default. In addition, it changes the temperament back to
EQUAL and sets the MIDI coupler parameters to their power-up default.
Using Pistons to Select Registrations
By now, you may have experimented with combinations of stops and couplers and have started
to get a feel for the tremendous versatility of the 657/677. In organ terms, these combinations of
stops and couplers are referred to as
registrations .
Obviously, once you’ve found a desirable registration, you’ll want to be able to recall it quickly
and easily. This is done through the
combination action of the 657/677. With Rodgers’
powerful digital technology, you can store and recall stops, pistons and even MIDI settings.
The combination action of the 657/677 is comprised of pistons , each of which can store a
combination of stops, couplers and other settings. These pistons are located beneath the Great
manual of the organ (commonly referred to as
thumb pistons ) or on the kneeboard to the left
(677 only) and right of the expression shoes (commonly referred to as toe pistons ).
Pressing a piston with your thumb or foot will cause its stored registration to be recalled
instantly.
Your Rodgers organ has factory-set registrations on many pistons—try them!
However, each of the available pistons in the Rodgers combination action can be easily changed
to suit your particular needs and tastes. The next section introduces this extremely useful system
and illustrates how to make use of its many features.
About Pistons
The 657/677 has eight pistons, which can be configured as general or divisional pistons.
General pistons affect the entire organ, while divisional pistons affect a single division. For
example, you could use a single
general piston to recall stops, couplers and MIDI settings on
every division at once, or you could use a Swell divisional piston to change the Swell alone.
The factory default settings for pistons 1-8 are configured as General Pistons. However, the
pistons can be configured to be divisional pistons as follows:
1. Press and hold SET.
2. Rotate the select knob counter-clockwise until GEN/DIV PISTONS appears in the
display window.
The Rodgers MIDI system is covered in great detail, starting on page 35.
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