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Playing Other Tones

Assigning Organ Sounds and Other
Tones Across the Keyboard (Split)

When the Organ Voice and Other Tones are layered together, you can press the

[SPLIT] button to divide the keyboard into two zones, splitting the organ voice.

The organ voice will sound the Upper part in the right-hand zone, and the Lower

part in the left-hand zone. Other Tones will be layered with the Upper part.

Select a preset organ voice (p. 22), or use the harmonic bars and other

knobs and buttons to create the desired organ sound.

Press the [PRESET] button, extinguishing its indicator.

Press one of the buttons from [1] through [8] to select an Other Tone.

The selected Other Tone will sound together with the organ voice.

Press the [SPLIT] button.

The organ voice will be divided into upper and lower. The Other Tone will sound in

the upper area.

fig.01-43-1

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Playing the Other Tone in the upper, and the organ voice in the
lower part

Press the HARMONIC BAR PART [UPPER] button to make its indicator

light.

Press the harmonic bars inward until you can no longer see the numbers.

Get the indicators for the PERCUSSION [SECOND] button and

PERCUSSION [THIRD] button to go out (off).

The lower part of the organ voice will sound in the lower area, and only the Other

Tone will sound in the upper area.

fig.01-43-2

Organ Upper Part

Organ Lower Part

OTHER TONES

Split Point

You can change the part that

plays the Other Tones (p. 57).

Organ Lower Part

OTHER TONES

Split Point

Summary of Contents for VK-8

Page 1: ...d by your new unit owner s manual should be read in its entirety The manual should be saved and kept on hand as a convenient reference Conventions Used in This Manual Button names are enclosed in square brackets e g REVERB button Fractional harmonic bars p 24 are expressed like this 1 1 3 2 2 3 1 8 means that you should press one of the buttons from 1 through 8 The dark lit blinking status of an i...

Page 2: ... prong are provided for your safety When the provided plug does not fit into your outlet consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet WARNING IMPORTANT As the colours of the wires in the mains lead of this apparatus may not correspond with the coloured markings identifying the terminals in your plug proceed as follows The wire which is coloured GREEN AND YELLOW must be connected t...

Page 3: ...lifier and headphones or speakers may be capable of producing sound levels that could cause permanent hearing loss Do not operate for a long period of time at a high volume level or at a level that is uncomfortable If you experience any hearing loss or ringing in the ears you should immediately stop using the unit and consult an audiologist 011 Do not allow any objects e g flammable material coins...

Page 4: ... dry soft cloth 101a The unit should be located so that its location or position does not interfere with its proper venti lation 101c This VK 8 for use only with Roland stand KS 12 Use with other stands is capable of resulting in instability causing possible injury 102b Always grasp only the plug on the power supply cord when plugging into or unplugging from an outlet or this unit 104 Try to preve...

Page 5: ...e Excessive heat can deform or discolor the unit 355b When moved from one location to another where the temperature and or humidity is very different water droplets condensation may form inside the unit Damage or malfunction may result if you attempt to use the unit in this condition Therefore before using the unit you must allow it to stand for several hours until the condensation has completely ...

Page 6: ...nic Bars 24 Changing the Organ Sound Wheel Type Leakage Level 27 Adding Crispness to the Sound Percussion 28 Adding Modulation to the Sound Vibrato and Chorus 31 Using the COSM Rotary Speaker Effect Rotary Sound 32 Changing the Amp Type Amp Type Overdrive Tone 33 Using the D BEAM Controller to Produce Common Organ Effects 34 Adjusting the Sensitivity of the D Beam Controller 36 Adding Ambience Rev...

Page 7: ...nal MIDI Device 58 Changing the function of the MIDI IN connectors SUB KEYBOARD FUNCTION 58 Using the VK 8 with a Dual Keyboard 59 Connecting a Pedal Keyboard 59 Using an External Sequencer to Record and Play Back 60 Saving VK 8 Settings on an External Sequencer Bulk Dump 61 Loading Back Data That s Been Saved on an External Sequencer 61 Connecting a Rotary Speaker 62 Troubleshooting 63 Error Indi...

Page 8: ...8 MEMO ...

Page 9: ...mp Simulator and other elements vital to creating a great organ sound can be edited directly and intuitively from the front panel just as if you were adjusting the sound on a guitar amp Natural Wood Cabinet The cabinet is built of wood echoing the construction of traditional tone wheel organs The side panels feature beautifully finished natural wood that will gain luster with years of use Built in...

Page 10: ...LIFIER 9 OVERDRIVE knob Adjust the depth of overdrive p 33 10 AMPLIFIER button Switches the frequency response and cabinet resonance of the virtual amp p 33 11 TONE knob Adjust the tonal character of the organ voice p 33 REVERB 12 REVERB LEVEL knob Adjust the depth of reverb p 37 13 REVERB button Select the type of reverb p 37 OTHER TONES 14 SPLIT button Divide the keyboard into two halves and ass...

Page 11: ... 25 Harmonic Bar These bars create the sound of the organ voice You can modify the tone in real time as you play p 24 HARMONIC BAR PART These buttons select the part whose settings the harmonic bars will affect 26 PEDAL button When the harmonic bars are moved the sound of the Pedal part will change p 23 27 LOWER button When the harmonic bars are moved the sound of the Lower part will change p 23 2...

Page 12: ... An external MIDI device can be connected here to receive MIDI data transmitted from the VK 8 p 60 p 61 37 HOLD PEDAL jack A pedal switch can be connected here While you press the pedal the organ voice or other voice you are playing will be sustained p 18 42 38 EXPRESSION PEDAL jack An expression pedal EV 5 or EV 7 sold separately can be connected here p 18 p 39 39 CONTROL PEDAL jack Accepts conne...

Page 13: ... play you can specify either the second SECOND or third THIRD partial as the pitch of the percussion sound and you can decrease the percussion volume SOFT or lengthen its decay SLOW The percussion on tone wheel organs is of a type called single trigger meaning that percussion was not applied to all the notes that were played but only to the note that was pressed first If you release the currently ...

Page 14: ...rmonics of the harmonic bars could be sounded by all 61 keys of a tone wheel organ However if this were the case the upper range would be unpleasantly screechy and the lower range would be excessively low and muddy sounding For this reason fold back is used on the VK 8 to produce a well balanced sound Amp Type Rotary Overdrive Tone By using a rotary speaker with a tone wheel organ you can create m...

Page 15: ...t affect the entire VK 8 are referred to as system memory Preset memory Settings that are stored independently for each preset number such as harmonic bar and panel settings are called preset memory There are a total of 64 preset memories and each of them can be edited ...

Page 16: ...Connect supplied power cable to the VK 8 and plug the other end into a power outlet fig 01 01 AC Outlet AC Inlet NOTE Be sure to use the supplied power cable NOTE To prevent malfunction and or damage to speakers or other devices always turn down the volume and turn off the power on all devices before making any connections ...

Page 17: ...dio Set Powered Amplifier Mixer Audio cable Headphones Monitor Speaker In order to take full advantage of the VK 8 s performance we recommend using a stereo amp speaker system If you are using a mono system make the connections to the OUTPUT L MONO jack Audio cables and headphones are not included You will need to provide these separately About a OUTPUT jacks The VK 8 s OUTPUT jacks support both b...

Page 18: ...al or pedal switch to the rear panel EXPRESSION PEDAL jack HOLD PEDAL jack or CONTROL PEDAL jack fig 01 06 MIDI OUT MIDI OUT PEDAL IN PK 5 PK 7 NOTE The power switch of your MIDI pedal keyboard unit must be turned on before the power switch of the VK 8 When you turn off the power first turn off the power of the VK 8 and then turn off the power of your MIDI pedal keyboard If the SUB KEYBOARD FUNCTI...

Page 19: ...connected equipment is turned to the minimum position Any sound data you have created has been saved 2 Turn off the power of the equipment connected to the VK 8 3 Press the lower portion of the VK 8 s POWER switch to turn off the power fig 01 07 NOTE Once the connections have been completed turn on power to your various devices in the order specified By turning on devices in the wrong order you ri...

Page 20: ...IC BAR PART UPPER LOWER PEDAL buttons until all of the panel indicators light All settings will be restored to what they were when the instrument first left the factory Once the Factory Reset has been completed all panel indicators will light for several seconds fig 01 07 NOTE When you perform the Factory Reset operation all the data you created will be lost from the VK 8 s internal memory If the ...

Page 21: ...it Demo mode Demo Song Number Song Name Copyright 1 Blue Forest 2002 Roland Corporation 2 Sunset Blvd 2002 Roland Corporation 3 Medical Fact 2002 Tatsuya Nishiwaki 4 Let s Get Ready to Praise 2002 Roland Corporation 5 Make Holy 2002 Roland Corporation 6 Sister Mum 2002 Roland Corporation 1 2 3 4 Before you press the PRESET button you can press a button 1 6 to select the song from which demo song p...

Page 22: ...1 through 8 to select the bank number 3 Press one of the buttons from 1 through 8 to select a preset number The indicator of the number button you ve selected will light 4 Play the keyboard to hear the sound you selected 1 2 3 If you want to select a preset from the same bank step 2 is not necessary While you are pressing the BANK button the indicator of the selected bank will light Example Switch...

Page 23: ...the Upper Lower and Pedal parts of an organ voice can be edited using the harmonic bars fig 01 13 1 Press either the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER button LOWER button or PEDAL button to select the part whose sound you want to edit 2 Press the H BAR MANUAL button to make its indicator light When the H BAR MANUAL button s indicator is dark the harmonic bar settings will be the harmonic bar settings of the...

Page 24: ...ow you to rapidly set the bars to the desired setting If you push a harmonic bar inward until no number is visible its volume will be 0 and no sound will be heard If you pull a harmonic bar all the way out the volume will be at the maximum A sine wave pure tone of differing pitch is assigned to each of the harmonic bars and you can create a variety of sounds by mixing these sine waves fig 01 15 75...

Page 25: ... important role in creating the tone The 8 pitch is the basic pitch of the sound and the sound is created based on this 8 pitch The pitches of the harmonic bars are related as follows fig 01 16 16 8 4 2 1 51 3 22 3 13 5 11 3 one octave below 5th root 8th 12th 15th 17th 19th 22nd 8 When the middle C C4 note is pressed each harmonic bar will sound the following notes ...

Page 26: ...e low footages will be folded back for low notes Folding back the high frequency portion prevents the high frequency sounds from being unpleasantly shrill and folding back the low frequency portion prevents the sound from becoming muddy On the VK 8 faithfully simulates this characteristic As you can see from the relation of the pitches the 5 1 3 pitch is unique in that it is not arranged in order ...

Page 27: ...note that was pressed was slightly contaminated by audio signals from tone wheels not related to that note Formerly this was seen as a problem but today this idiosyncrasy is considered an important element of the distinctive sound of a vintage organ Tone Wheel type Selects the type of tone wheel fig 01 17 1 Press the TONE WHEEL button to select the type of tone wheel Each time you press the TONE W...

Page 28: ...cussion on off THIRD Third Percussion button This button switches Third Percussion on off Button Explanation Lit ON Percussion will sound at the same pitch as the 4 harmonic bar Dark OFF Second percussion will not sound Button Explanation Lit ON Percussion will sound at the same pitch as the 2 2 3 har monic bar Dark OFF Third percussion will not sound Percussion can be added only to the upper part...

Page 29: ...organ sound specified by the harmonic bars will become lower This reproduces the behavior of tone wheel organs If the organ volume decreases when you turn the SOFT button off you can make settings p 52 You can also specify the percussion volumes that will be selected by the Percussion Normal Soft settings p 51 Normal Percussion Soft Percussion Time Volume of the harmonic bars will decreases Volume...

Page 30: ...d It was applied only to notes which were played simultaneously from a condition where no notes were being played When notes were played legato smoothly and connectedly percussion was applied only to the first played note When notes were played staccato articulating each note separately percussion was applied to all notes This method is referred to as single trigger algorithm and is a very importa...

Page 31: ...US knob to switch the type of vibrato or chorus effect The indicator of the selected vibrato or chorus effect type will light Three types of vibrato and three types of chorus are provided a total of six types V 1 V 2 V 3 This applies vibrato pitch modulation Increasing the value will produce a deeper effect C 1 C 2 C 3 This applies chorus to add depth and spaciousness to the sound Increasing the v...

Page 32: ... be come faster Button Explanation Lit ON The rotary speaker will be applied Dark OFF The rotary speaker effect will not be applied When a rotary speaker is connected to the ROTARY TONE CABINET jack on the rear panel the rotary effect is not applied and the SLOW FAST button BRAKE button and ROTARY SOUND ON button function as follows ROTARY SOUND ON Button Disabled when a rotary speaker is connecte...

Page 33: ...on effect will be at maximum Rotate fully left No effect Changing Sound Characters You can adjust the tonal character of the organ voice 3 Turn the TONE knob to adjust the tonal character Counterclockwise rotation The organ voice becomes fatter Clockwise rotation The organ voice becomes brighter Type Explanation TYPE I Characteristics of the most frequently used rotary speakers TYPE II Characteris...

Page 34: ...the rotary will switch to FAST ROTARY SPEED The rotary effect will switch between slow and fast each time you position your hand over the D Beam controller RING MODULATOR When you position your hand over the D Beam controller the ring modulator will be applied p 35 As you bring your hand closer to the D Beam controller the ring modulator depth will change TONE WHEEL BRAKE Moving your hand over the...

Page 35: ... the fact that when a ring modulation circuit is constructed as analog circuitry the circuit is shaped like a ring circle Stopping the rotation of the tone wheels Wheel Brake It is possible to stop the rotation of the tone wheels of the organ This produces an unexpected result whereby the pitch of the organ voice gradually falls until the sound ceases entirely The technique of stopping the tone wh...

Page 36: ...t the D Beam will not function in a location where there is a large amount of infrared light Automatically adjusting the sensitivity of the D Beam controller 1 While holding down the D BEAM ON button press the VIBRATO AND CHORUS ON button The sensitivity of the D Beam controller will be adjusted automatically The D Beam indicators will show the D Beam sensitivity Manually adjusting the sensitivity...

Page 37: ...witched each time you press the REVERB button Type Explanation ROOM Simulates the reverberation of a room HALL Simulates the reverb of a large concert hall CHURCH Simulates the reverberation of a church SPRING Simulates the reverberation of a spring reverb unit p 35 1 2 If the SPRING REVERB SHOCK function is assigned to the D Beam controller or the control pedal be aware that excessively high reve...

Page 38: ...per organ part and the left hand keyboard zone will play the Lower organ part 2 To cancel the Split press the SPLIT button once again extinguishing the indicator Changing the Split Point You can change the location Split Point at which the keyboard will be divided 1 Hold down the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER and PEDAL buttons and press the SPLIT button 2 Press the key that you want to specify as the sp...

Page 39: ... types of Active Expression settings Applying the Active Expression Function to the Organ Voice When you step on the expression pedal lightly the Other Tones will sound Depress the pedal further to get the footage of the harmonic bars to gradually change 1 Hold down the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER and PEDAL buttons and press the PERCUSSION SLOW button Applying the Active Expression Function to the Oth...

Page 40: ...l You can select any one of these functions by switching the indicator of the PRESET button between lit dark states The following parameters are assigned to each button PRESET button s indicator is dark Button Parameter Page 1 ROTARY SLOW FAST The rotary speaker effect can be switched between slow and fast This will have the same effect as the SLOW FAST button 2 ROTARY SPEED The speed of the rotar...

Page 41: ...ge the function that is assigned to the D BEAM controller the function that is as signed to the control pedal will also change Button Parameter Page 1 CRESCENDO As you depress the pedal connected to the EXPRESSION PEDAL jack the vol ume of all harmonic bars will gradually become louder When the pedal is fully depressed the volume will be as speci fied by the harmonic bars and the rota ry will be i...

Page 42: ... while pressing the pedal will be sustained This is the same function as the damper pedal of a piano fig 01 40 DP 2 NOTE For some type of pedal switch the action you obtain when the pedal is pressed will be the opposite of what you intend In this case change the polarity of the pedal p 56 You can also set it so the Hold Pedal function will apply only to OTHER TONES p 57 ...

Page 43: ...the desired organ sound 2 Press the PRESET button extinguishing its indicator 3 Press one of the buttons from 1 through 8 to select an Other Tone The selected Other Tone will sound together with the organ voice fig 01 41 4 Turn the OTHER TONES LEVEL knob to adjust the volume of the OTHER TONES Button Tone 1 PIANO 2 ELECTRIC PIANO 1 3 ELECTRIC PIANO 2 4 STRINGS 5 JAZZ SCAT 6 CHOIR 7 SYNTH Synthesiz...

Page 44: ...o select an Other Tone The selected Other Tone will sound together with the organ voice 4 Press the SPLIT button The organ voice will be divided into upper and lower The Other Tone will sound in the upper area fig 01 43 1 Playing the Other Tone in the upper and the organ voice in the lower part 5 Press the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER button to make its indicator light 6 Press the harmonic bars inward ...

Page 45: ...on ROTARY SLOW FAST button TONE WHEEL button LEAKAGE knob AMPLIFIER button OVERDRIVE knob TONE knob REVERB button REVERB LEVEL knob PERCUSSION SECOND button PERCUSSION THIRD button PERCUSSION SOFT button PERCUSSION SLOW button VIBRATO AND CHORUS ON button VIBRATO AND CHORUS knob D BEAM ON button D BEAM button SPLIT button OTHER TONES 1 8 button OTHER TONES LEVEL knob Effects and other settings p 5...

Page 46: ... light 2 Hold down the BANK button and press one of the buttons from 1 through 8 to select the bank of the copy source preset 3 Press one of the buttons from 1 through 8 to select the number of the copy source preset The indicator of the number button you selected will light Selecting the copy destination preset 4 Hold down the WRITE button and BANK button and press one of the buttons from 1 throu...

Page 47: ...the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER and PEDAL buttons and press the button The indicators of the 1 8 buttons will blink The button will be a different button depending on the edit mode that you want to set For details follow the procedure for each edit mode 2 Press one of the buttons from 1 through 8 to select the parameter that you want to edit If there are more than eight parameters you can access all o...

Page 48: ...rs are dark and ON when they are all lit This will be ON when the VIBRATO AND CHORUS knob is turned to the right and OFF when turned to the left When you press the VIBRATO AND CHORUS ON button this will return to the default setting When the setting is 5 0 5 6 0 5 100 0 100 or 3 0 3 The lit location of the D Beam Type indicator shows the approximate value When the value is 0 the center D Beam Type...

Page 49: ...djust the setting of another parameter press the appropriate button from 1 through 8 to select the parameter and turn the VIBRATO AND CHORUS knob to adjust the setting When you want to stop editing press the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER button 5 Press the WRITE button to finalize the settings of the rotary related parameters Parameter settings will be saved While the parameters are being saved the indi...

Page 50: ... SLOW FAST button but also the rate at which the BRAKE button will stop or resume rotation ROTARY WOOFER SPREAD 0 10 Specify the spaciousness of the low range speaker woofer Specifies the left right spread of the rotary speaker Increasing this value will increase the sense of stereo ROTARY TWEETER SPREAD 0 10 Specify the spaciousness of the high range speaker tweeter Specifies the left right sprea...

Page 51: ...ease the volume of percussion PERCUSSION NORMAL LEVEL 0 15 Sets the percussion volume when percussion is set to Normal the SOFT button s indicator is dark Increasing this value will increase the volume of percussion PERCUSSION SLOW TIME 0 127 Sets the speed at which the percussion sound will decay when percussion is set to Slow the SLOW button s indicator is lit Increasing this value causes the pe...

Page 52: ...s indicator lighted 3 Turn the VIBRATO AND CHORUS knob to adjust the setting If you press the VIBRATO AND CHORUS ON button the setting will return to its initial value On tone wheel organs turning the percussion on would lower the overall volume specified by the harmonic bars This is because the percussion on tone wheel organs was designed not to impair the volume balance of the entire organ The V...

Page 53: ...a that is being transmitted from the external device or break up the exclusive data into smaller units MIDI SOUND CONTROLLERS SWITCH ON OFF This specifies whether Harmonic Bar data will be received using sound controller MIDI messages Turn the VIBRATO AND CHORUS knob to the right to turn this on or to the left to turn it off At the factory settings this is turned on MIDI GENERAL CONTOROLLERS SWITC...

Page 54: ...Sets the MIDI channel on which data will be transmitted and received for the upper organ voice LOWER ORGAN MIDI CH Lower Organ MIDI Channel 1 16 Initial setting 3 ch Sets the MIDI channel on which data will be transmitted and received for the lower organ voice PEDAL ORAGN MIDI CH Pedal Organ MIDI Channel 1 16 Initial setting 2 ch Sets the MIDI channel on which data will be transmitted and received...

Page 55: ...he setting If you press the VIBRATO AND CHORUS ON button the setting will return to its initial value 4 If you want to edit another parameter press the appropriate button from 1 through 7 to select the parameter and turn the VIBRATO AND CHORUS knob to adjust the setting When you want to stop editing press the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER button 5 Press the WRITE button to finalize the settings of these...

Page 56: ...gs 1 Hold down the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER and PEDAL buttons and press the PRESET button The indicators of buttons 1 5 will blink 2 Press one of the 1 5 buttons to select the parameter that you want to edit There are five effect related parameters The following parameters are assigned to each button 3 Turn the VIBRATO AND CHORUS knob to adjust the setting If you press the VIBRATO AND CHORUS ON but...

Page 57: ...EDAL buttons and press the SPLIT button The indicators of buttons 1 3 will blink 2 Press one of the 1 3 buttons to select the part that will play OTHER TONES If you press the VIBRATO AND CHORUS ON button the setting will return to its initial value When you want to stop editing press the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER button 3 Press the WRITE button to confirm selection of the part that will play OTHER T...

Page 58: ...d the sound of the Pedal part from a device connected to the PEDAL IN connector without having to set the MIDI transmit channel of the external device to match the VK 8 When the SUB KEYBOARD FUNCTION is off Changing the function of the MIDI IN connectors SUB KEYBOARD FUNCTION 1 Hold down the HARMONIC BAR PART UPPER LOWER PEDAL buttons and press the REVERB button The indicators of buttons 1 8 will ...

Page 59: ...d the Lower Part will sound when you play the external keyboard At the factory settings the Sub Keyboard Function is turned on Connecting a Pedal Keyboard You can connect a pedal keyboard and play the Pedal Part of the VK 8 fig 03 03 1 Turn off the power of the VK 8 and the pedal keyboard that you want to connect 2 Use a commercially available MIDI cable to connect the MIDI OUT connector of your p...

Page 60: ...onnect the VK 8 s MIDI KEYBOARD IN or MIDI PEDAL IN connector to the sequencer s MIDI OUT connector 3 Turn on the power of the external sequencer and the VK 8 4 Turn off the Thru function of your sequencer This allows you to listen to the sound while you record Turn off Thru function so every note doesn t get sounded twice once as the result of the performance data that directly conveys keyboard i...

Page 61: ...your sequencer 7 Press the VIBRATO AND CHORUS button to begin saving the settings While the settings are being saved the D BEAM type indicators will light in succession starting from the bottom When the save has been completed all indicators of the D Beam Type will blink 8 Press the ROTARY SOUND BRAKE button 9 Stop recording on your sequencer Loading Back Data That s Been Saved on an External Sequ...

Page 62: ...nob ROTARY SLOW FAST button will switch the rotational speed of the connected rotary speaker ROTARY BRAKE button will temporarily stop the rotation of the connected speaker To resume rotation press ROTARY BRAKE button again or press ROTARY SLOW FAST button NOTE The rotary speaker effect of the organ voice will also be applied to the audio signal that is output from the ROTARY TONE CABINET connecto...

Page 63: ...n p 53 Organ voices cannot be heard All harmonic bars are pushed all the way inward Pull out the harmonic bars p 24 The wheel brake is activated Release the wheel brake using the foot switch D Beam p 34 p 40 OTHER TONES cannot be heard Volume is too low Volume of the Other Tones is too low Turn the OTHER TONES LEVEL knob clockwise to increase the vol ume of the Other Tones p 43 The control pedal h...

Page 64: ...rake to the control pedal p 41 Ring Modulator is applied to the or gan voice Operate the control pedal or the D Beam to defeat the ring modulator p 35 Overdrive is not applied Overdrive level is too low Turn the OVERDRIVE knob to ad just the depth of overdrive p 33 The expression pedal has been rocked toward the front While carefully monitoring the vol ume depress the toe of the pedal p 39 Overdri...

Page 65: ...cking back onto the heel of the control pedal or moving your hand away from the D Beam will cause the rotary to return to SLOW p 34 p 40 Hold pedal or control pedal oper ation is reversed The control pedal s polarity is re versed Depending on the type of pedal switch or expression pedal it may have the opposite operation when depressed Switch the polarity of the control pedal p 56 D Beam sensitivi...

Page 66: ...content of backup memory has been returned to the condition it was in originally when the unit left the factory In most cases this occurs when the power was turned off while data was being written into memory During normal operation All indicators light for several seconds Cause 1 A MIDI cable was disconnected or broken Action Make sure that the MIDI cable is connected correctly Cause 2 A large am...

Page 67: ...T 3 1 88 8000 000 83 8000 000 82 3rd SOFT FAST C 3 SLOW 3 2 88 8800 000 83 8000 000 82 3rd SOFT FAST C 1 SLOW 3 3 80 0000 888 83 8000 000 82 OFF C 3 FAST 3 4 88 8000 000 83 8000 000 82 3rd SOFT FAST OFF SLOW 3 5 80 0000 888 83 8000 000 82 OFF C 3 FAST 3 6 88 8000 000 83 8000 000 82 3rd SOFT FAST C 1 SLOW 3 7 81 8151 608 00 0503 000 82 OFF C 2 SLOW 3 8 84 8500 008 00 0806 000 82 OFF OFF SLOW 4 1 80...

Page 68: ...80 0000 888 83 8000 000 82 OFF C 3 FAST 7 4 88 8000 000 83 8000 000 82 3rd SOFT FAST OFF SLOW 7 5 80 0000 888 83 8000 000 82 OFF C 3 FAST 7 6 88 8000 000 83 8000 000 82 3rd SOFT FAST C 1 SLOW 7 7 81 8151 608 00 0503 000 82 OFF C 2 SLOW 7 8 84 8500 008 00 0806 000 82 OFF OFF SLOW 8 1 80 7050 404 00 8500 000 54 OFF V 3 SLOW 8 2 80 3700 000 00 8500 000 54 OFF V 3 BRAKE 8 3 00 3800 460 00 8800 000 84 ...

Page 69: ... SHOCK MIDI CH MIDI SOUND CONTROLLERS SWITCH MIDI GENERL CONTROLLERS SWITCH MIDI PROGRAM CHANGE SWITCH Equalizer and other settings EQ BASS EQ MIDDLE EQ TREBLE MASTER TUNE KEY TRANSPOSE FOOT CONTROL POLARITY HOLD PEDAL POLARITY D BEAM SENSITIVITY CONTROL PEDAL ASSIGN Parameters that are stored in a preset Effect and other setting REVERB TIME OTHER TONES CHORUS LEVEL OTHER TONES OCTAVE SHIFT HOLD P...

Page 70: ...ick Metronome Bell Acoustic Bass Drum Bass Drum 1 Side Stick Acoustic Snare Hand Clap Electric Snare Low Floor Tom Closed Hi hat EXC1 High Floor Tom Pedal Hi hat EXC1 Low Tom Open Hi hat EXC1 Low Mid Tom High Mid Tom Crash Cymbal 1 High Tom Ride Cymbal 1 Chinese Cymbal Ride Bell Tambourine Splash Cymbal Cowbell Crash Cymbal 2 Vibra slap Ride Cymbal 2 High Bongo Low Bongo Mute Hi Conga Open Hi Cong...

Page 71: ...h 1 ch 16 vv expression 00H 7FH 0 127 If you want to control all of the Organ Parts transmit data on the channel specified by the CONTROL MIDI CH setting factory setting channel 1 It is not possible to separately control each part of the Organ Part When the SUB KEYBOARD FUNCTION p 58 is ON this has the same function as an expression pedal connected to the VK 8 s EXPRESSION PEDAL jack General Purpo...

Page 72: ... channel 4 Preset numbers will be switched when SUB KEYBOARD FUNCTION p 58 is ON Pitch Bend Change Status 2nd byte 3rd byte EnH llH mmH n MIDI channel number 0H FH ch 1 ch 16 mm ll Pitch Bend value 00 00H 40 00H 7F 7FH 8192 0 8191 Received only for the Other Tones Part Channel Mode messages All Sound Off Controller number 120 Status 2nd byte 3rd byte BnH 78H 00H n MIDI channel number 0H FH ch 1 ch...

Page 73: ...fied by CONTROL MIDI CH p 54 Messages related to individual Organ parts are transmitted on the channels specified by UPPER LOWER PEDAL ORGAN MIDI CH p 54 Messages related to the Other Tones part are transmitted on the channel specified by OTHER TONES MIDI CH p 54 Channel Voice Messages Note off Status 2nd byte 3rd byte 8nH kkH vvH n MIDI channel number 0H FH ch 1 ch 16 kk note number 1EH 65H 30 10...

Page 74: ... checksum F7H EOX End Of Exclusive For the address size and checksum refer to Examples of System Exclusive Messages and Calculating the Checksum p 76 Large amounts of data must be divided into packets of 128 bytes or less and transmitted at intervals of approximately 40 ms Regarding the checksum please refer to page 76 3 Parameter address map MODEL ID 00 4DH Transmission of marked address is divid...

Page 75: ...C Number 0 7 1 8 00 0A 0aaa aaaa Other Tones Level 0 127 00 0B 0000 0aaa Other Tones Octave Shift 61 67 3 3 00 0C 0000 00aa Other Tones Assign 0 2 UPPER LOWER PEDAL 00 00 00 0D Total Size Preset Organ Offset Address Description 00 00 0000 aaaa Upper Harmonic Bar 16 0 8 00 01 0000 aaaa Upper Harmonic Bar 5 1 3 0 8 00 02 0000 aaaa Upper Harmonic Bar 8 0 8 00 03 0000 aaaa Upper Harmonic Bar 4 0 8 00 ...

Page 76: ...mples of Actual MIDI Messages Example1 93 3E 5F 9n is the Note On status and n is the MIDI channel number Since 3H 3 3EH 62 and 5FH 95 this is a Note On message of MIDI CH 4 note number 62 note name D4 and velocity 95 Example2 C0 25 CnH is the Program Change status and n is the MIDI channel number Since 0H 0 and 25H 37 this is a Program Change message of MIDI CH 1 Program number 38 Examples of Sys...

Page 77: ...ion Data entry Volume Panpot Expression General purpose controller 1 General purpose controller 2 Sound controller General purpose controller 5 General purpose controller 6 Hold 1 RPN LSB MSB 1 The messages will be received as messages for sub keyboard part regardless of their channel number 2 Only OTHER TONES part 3 When OTHER TONES is assigned to KEYBOARD IN or PEDAL IN jack the message of the O...

Page 78: ...troller D BEAM ON button D BEAM button AMPLIFIER OVERDRIVE knob AMPLIFIER button TONE knob REVERB REVERB LEVEL knob REVERB button OTHER TONES PIANO button ELECTRIC PIANO 1 button ELECTRIC PIANO 2 button STRINGS button JAZZ SCAT button CHOIR button SYNTH button BRASS button OTHER TONES LEVEL knob PRESET WRITE button BANK button PRESET button 1 8 buttons PERCUSSION SECOND button THIRD button SOFT bu...

Page 79: ...DAL ASSIGN 57 HOLD PEDAL POLARITY 56 K Key Click 13 KEY TRANSPOSE 55 L Layer 43 Leakage Level 27 Leakage Noise 27 LOCAL CONTROL 53 Lower Organ MIDI Channel 54 Lower Part 38 M MASTER TUNE 55 Master Volume 19 Memory 15 MIDI 58 MIDI Channel 54 58 MIDI GENERAL CONTOROLLERS SWITCH 53 MIDI PROGRAM CHANGE SWITCH 53 MIDI SOUND CONTROLLERS SWITCH 53 MIDI THRU 53 O OFF CLICK LEVEL 51 ON CLICK LEVEL 51 Organ...

Page 80: ... ROTARY WOOFER LEVEL 50 ROTARY WOOFER RISE TIME 50 ROTARY WOOFER SPEED FAST 50 ROTARY WOOFER SPEED SLOW 50 ROTARY WOOFER SPREAD 50 S Second Percussion 28 Single Trigger Algorithm 30 Slow Percussion 30 Soft Percussion 29 Split 38 44 Split Point 38 Spring Reverb Shock 35 Spring Shock MIDI Channel 54 SUB KEYBOARD FUNCTION 58 System Memory 15 T Third Percussion 28 Tone 14 33 Tone Wheel 13 Tone wheel 2...

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Page 82: ...Equipment Ltd 17 Diagorou Street Nicosia CYPRUS TEL 022 66 9426 DENMARK Roland Scandinavia A S Nordhavnsvej 7 Postbox 880 DK 2100 Copenhagen DENMARK TEL 3916 6200 FRANCE Roland France SA 4 Rue Paul Henri SPAAK Parc de l Esplanade F 77 462 St Thibault Lagny Cedex FRANCE TEL 01 600 73 500 FINLAND Roland Scandinavia As Filial Finland Elannontie 5 FIN 01510 Vantaa FINLAND TEL 0 9 68 24 020 GERMANY Rol...

Page 83: ...io communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or 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 relocate the receiving antenna Incre...

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