Rodgers Trillium T787, Owner'S Manual

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Antiphonal On/Main Off
The T787 contains controls which can operate an additional speaker system. If your instrument
is equipped with an antiphonal speaker setup, the
ANTIPHONAL ON tab will activate this
system. The MAIN OFF tab silences the main organ system.
An antiphonal speaker system is so named because it is normally installed a substantial distance
from the main organ. This difference in physical placement allows for a variety of effects.
For example, activating the ANT ON and MAIN OFF controls will cause the entire instrument
to be heard through the antiphonal speaker system only. Activating the ANT ON control alone
means the organ will be heard through both the main and antiphonal organs together.
It is also for the installer to change the function of these controls. Contact your authorized
Rodgers dealer for more information.
Controlling Pipes
One of the great innovations from Rodgers is the successful, elegant marriage of traditional
organ pipes and digitally sampled voices. In fact, any of the stops in the Rodgers T787 can be
programmed to control real wind-blown pipes, allowing the opportunity to expand the instrument
at any time.
If a limited range of pipes is available, digital voices from the Rodgers T787 can be used to
supplement the rank and fill out the entire range. What’s more, the organ’s software is already
prepared to control expression shades, so that expressed pipe divisions can be controlled in
conjunction with digital voices.
Contact your authorized Rodgers representative for additional information about adding pipes to
your Rodgers instrument. These additions can be done at the time of installation or years later.
Both new pipework and older pipe ranks can be incorporated successfully in most cases.
Pipes Off/Ancillary On
If the Rodgers T787 is equipped with pipe ranks, certain stops control pipe voices and other
stops control digitally sampled voices. There are two pistons affecting the pipe stops;
Ancillary On (
ANC ON ) and Pipes Off ( PIPES OFF ).
When the ANC ON piston is engaged, digital voices play from the stops which normally
control pipe voices. These digital voices are often referred to as the “Ancillary”. When the
PIPES OFF piston is engaged, the wind-blown pipe ranks are silenced.
This configuration provides tremendous flexibility in choosing a registration. When both
pistons are unlit, stops controlling pipework will play the wind-blown pipe ranks. For
example, when
ANC ON is engaged, stops normally controlling pipework will play both the
wind-blown pipe ranks and the digital Ancillary voices for those stops. When both ANC ON
and PIPES OFF are selected, only the digital Ancillary voices will be heard (the pipe voices
In the factory configuration of these controls, if MAIN OFF is engaged, ANT ON
must also be engaged or the organ will not sound.
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