Rodgers W-5000, User Manual

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Chapter 3
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ADVANCED PERFORMANCE FEATURES
Now that you've had a little hands-on experience, you should have a good understanding of the W-5000's
basic operation. In this chapter, however, we'll move on to describe some of the instrument's more advanced
features.
TONE MAPPING
The W-5000 contains three 'Tone Maps' (collections or arrangements of sounds): Organ, Synth and PR-300.
The Organ Tone map contains the Classic Organ Tones. You select this map automatically whenever you
press one of the Organ buttons. The Synth map contains most of the other instrument sounds (Pianos, Guitars
etc.) and the PR-300 map contains the sounds found in Rodgers' PR-300 sequencer/sound module. (There is
a fair degree of overlap of sounds in the Synth and
PR-300 Tone maps and this has to do with compatibility with other Rodgers and Roland products should
they be used in conjunction with the W-5000.) (The sounds in the three Tone maps are presented starting on
page 142.)
As described earlier in the section about Synth Tones, it is possible to assign any Tone in the W-5000 to any
Tone button on the front panel. So although every button comes with a pre-assigned Tone, you can, if you
like, custom configure the entire instrument to your liking!
The Tone select buttons are marked with general instrument categories like Piano, Organ and Guitar for
example. If you look at the UPPER Tone select section for a moment, you'll notice that there are three Piano
buttons (for example). Well, the W-5000 contains some 30 different piano-type sounds, including acoustic
and electric varieties, and even harpsichord and clavinet! How do you go about selecting those different
sounds and how do you assign them to the various buttons?! Good questions! Let's take a look.
TONE SELECTION AND MAPPING
In simple terms, within each Tone Map (Organ, Synth and PR-300) sounds in the W-5000 are organized by
Program Number (abbreviated as 'Prg' in the LCD) and Bank Number ('Bnk'):