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Page 1: ...DB 5 Operating Manual DB5 ...

Page 2: ...a batnub washbowl kitchen sink in a wet basement or near a swimming pool or the like 4 This product either alone or in combination with an amplifier 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 in high volume level or at a level that is unconfortable If you experience any hearing loss or ringing...

Page 3: ...ff 53 4 Functions relating to the sound 54 4 1 What Presets and Memories are 54 4 2 How to select a Preset 54 4 3 How to select a Memory 55 4 4 Presets memorisation Factory Settings 55 4 5 Memory memorisation Factory Settings 56 4 6 Creating the sound with the Drawbars 58 4 7 Adding character to the sound 59 4 8 Adding percussion 59 4 9 Setting operation of the bass 61 4 10 Adding Click and backgr...

Page 4: ...trument tuning 73 7 4 Adjusting the display contrast 74 7 5 Assigning specific function to the pedal 74 8 Using the MIDI 77 8 1 Parameters controllable by means Control Change 77 8 2 Parameters controllable by means System Exclusive 79 9 Technical Specifications 81 44 ...

Page 5: ...unlight Never hit or apply excessive force to the display The instrument contains a buffer battery which maintains the data present in the RAM memory The lifetime of this battery is normally 3 years for replacement contact a specialist service centre and take care to transfer all programming data to a MIDI unit capable of memorising Exclusive System messages CONNECTING TO THE ELECTRICAL MAINS To a...

Page 6: ...asting time and will obtain the best performance from your instrument Codes or numbers in square brackets indicate the names of buttons sliders or trimmers on the instrument panel For example the word REVERB indicates the REVERB trimmer Illustrations and display video pages are purely guideline and may be different from those which actually appear on the LCD ...

Page 7: ...be used to set the basic features of the timbre in use Each Drawbar sets the volume of the harmonic in relation to the fundamental 8 indicated above the respective bar In this Drawbars section the sound of the UPPER manual can be adjusted 4 Drawbars for the BASS section In this section the two drawbars provided can be used to adjust the sound of the pedalboard of the BASS section of the LOWER manu...

Page 8: ...rned and confirm YES button or abort NO button the setting 4 CURSOR ï and ð buttons With these buttons the user can move the cursor around inside the video page shown on the display to the right ð button or to the left ï button 5 EXIT button The user can press this key to leave the video page shown on the display and return to the one immediately before it in the menu hierarchy 6 ENTER button This...

Page 9: ...y Reset function in which case the MEMORY LED remains constantly on 12 REVERB trimmer This trimmer regulates the quantity of the selected reverb effect With the trimmer turned fully to the left the effect in question is deactivated 13 OVERDRIVE trimmer This trimmer can be used to regulate the amount of distortion With the trimmer turned fully to the left the Overdrive effect will be eliminated 14 ...

Page 10: ...send the signal generated by the OB5 in stereo format to a remote unit such as an effects processor so that it can be processed with external effects If the receving device is monophonic use the SEND L MONO jack only 5 RETURN L MONO and R jacks These jacks can be used to receive the signal processed by a remote unit such as an effects processor to which you have sent the original OB5 signal by mea...

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Page 12: ...d at any moment by pressing the MAIN button contains the Vol field indicating the volume generated by the organ which can also be controlled by means of an expression pedal connected to the rear EXPR jack and on the line below the levels of the low frequencies Low field and the high frequencies High field The field alongside the general volume reading is used to display the memory which has been r...

Page 13: ... with the settings present before the last time it was switched off Previous programming settings made but not saved as a Memory or Preset will be irrevocably lost When carrying out operations by means of the display you can use the HOLD function allowing you to freeze the video page displayed at that time until another page is selected so that the display will not return to showing MAIN after a t...

Page 14: ...be saved The user can therefore save the Drawbar positions the specific type of effect to be used for the performance in question the instrument transposition whether or not the background noise or Click is to be active etc As for the Presets the Factory Settings function is also provided for the Memories as described in point 4 5 Saving Memory Factory Settings on page 58 4 2 HOW TO SELECT A PRESE...

Page 15: ...nstantly on to inform you that the MEMORY concerned has been loaded This booking function is of considerable importance when you are playing with a given type of sound and wish to use another set of sounds at a specific point in the piece you are performing This can be done easily by booking a given Memory and then activating it at the required point 4 4 PRESET MEMORISATION FACTORY SETTINGS If you...

Page 16: ...esets saving and Factory Setting can be carried out on individual memory locations or all memories If you wish to save the settings you have made during programming of the OB5 parameters press the MEMORY button for at least two seconds and the display will show You can use the Memory WRITE field to save your programming in the memory indicated or in another memory by scrolling through the number o...

Page 17: ...se the NO and YES switches to scroll through all 50 Memories After ENTER is pressed the display will show by which the OB5 asks you to confirm the initialisation procedure Press the EXIT button to abort the procedure or ENTER to carry out the Factory Settings operation on the Memory in question in which case the display will show to confirm that the operation has taken place If you wish to carry o...

Page 18: ...awbar concerned are set Each set of harmonic bars in our case UPPER on the left and LOWER on the right as well as the two central Drawbars for the BASS section consists of four white Drawbars three black ones and two brown The colour of the Drawbar indicates the type of harmonic naturally referred to the tempered scale white for the fundamental and second fourth and eighth harmonics octave interva...

Page 19: ...panel on the left of the manuals the display will show the menu of the same name The SCALING field is already selected so when the ENTER or SOUND button is pressed the display will show In this video page you can use the Select parameter and the VALUE buttons to select the various equalisation curves Press EXIT and the display will show the SOUND menu again 4 8 ADDING PERCUSSION Percussion a typic...

Page 20: ...n volume will be normal when SOFT is pressed the LED comes on and the percussion volume will decrease You can use the DECAY button to set the time the percussion takes to fade choosing between two alternatives When the key LED is off the decay time will be standard while if DECAY is pressed the LED comes on and the decay time will be shorter making the percussion effect shorter It is also possible...

Page 21: ...optional pedalboard connected to the PEDALBOARD jack on the rear When the LOWER manual is used to play the bass sounds it will also be possible to set the keyboard range to which this section is to be assigned The two Drawbars 16 and 8 used to create the bass sounds BASS section are between those of the UPPER and LOWER sections The display allows you to set the various operating parameters of the ...

Page 22: ...evious page and then finally the SOUND menu 4 10 ADDING THE CLICK AND BACKGROUND NOISE In this video page you can regulate the operating mode of the bass section The BassMode parameter allows you to play the bass in monophonic mode on the lower manual together with the LOWER manual Drawbars by setting it as Layer If this parameter is changed to Replace the bass will be played with the BASS section...

Page 23: ...ume of the click when the keyboard key is pressed and when it is released by means of the ReleaseClick parameter When the SOUND button is pressed again the display will show the next page where you can use the Click type parameter to select two different types of Click a more open one if the parameter is set as Bright and a more closed one if Dark is selected When the usual procedure is used to se...

Page 24: ...will not be possible to hear any effect The display can also be used to adjust two fundamental parameters of the Vibrato and Chorus effects When the EFFECTS button on the left panel is pressed the display will show the EFFECT menu for the settings relating to the effects the OB5 makes available When the VIBRATO field is selected using the ENTER or EFFECTS buttons the display will change to This vi...

Page 25: ...erb and the main parameters of the effect When the EFFECTS button is pressed the display will show the main page of the EFFECT menu Use the procedure already described to select the REV field and the display will show In this video page the REVERB parameter can be used to set the type of reverb choosing from Hall reverb of a very large room Room reverb of a medium sized room Church typical reverb ...

Page 26: ...ting a remote rotary tone cabinet to the rear ROTARY TONE CABINET jack automatically disables the internal ROTARY EFFECT You can use the ROTARY ON OFF switch on the panel on the left of the manuals to activate or deactivate the Rotary effect while the ROTARY SLOW FAST allows you to select the rotation speed fast slow of the simulated rotary tone cabinet The display parameters on the other hand ena...

Page 27: ...erating speeds of the rotary tone cabinet i e the low speed using the Slow parameter and the high speed by means of the Fast parameter In addition you can set the transitions between the two speeds the S F Slow speed to Fast speed parameter regulates the time for the passage from low to high speed Rise Time while F S Fast speed to Slow speed regulates the time for passage from the high to low spee...

Page 28: ...native to the internal ROTARY effect Thanks to its rotary speakers this type of cabinet produces a very complex combination of vibrato and tremolo which changes with every harmonic and every note of the scale When a remote rotary tone cabinet is used the internal Rotary effect will be disabled automatically Before connecting the tone cabinet connector to the ROTARY TONE CABINET jack make sure that...

Page 29: ... and types to communicate with each other by means of this clearly specified protocol of codes This makes it possible to create systems of MIDI instruments which offer much better versatility and control than can be achieved with separate instruments To make this communication possible all MIDI instruments are equipped with two or three 5 pin DIN connectors marked MIDI IN By means of this jack the...

Page 30: ...he entire system The channel messages include Note On this message is transmitted when a note is played i e when a keyboard key is pressed Each Note On message includes the following codes Note On when a key has been pressed Note Number the key and thus the relative note which has been played Velocity dynamic of the note the force with which the key had been pressed Note messages are expressed as ...

Page 31: ...type or to save them on a remote memorisation unit such as a computer or sequencer which allows them to be restored if they are accidentally lost or deleted Another function of the exclusive system messages is identification of the transmitter instrument if the receiver device requests this 7 2 SETTING MIDI FUNCTIONS As we have seen after the UTILITY button is pressed the display will show now sel...

Page 32: ...anges transmitted PG filter for the Program Changes transmitted SysEx filter for the exclusive system messages transmitted The next page will display the filters for the MIDI messages received The procedures and settings are identical to those for the previous page filters for messages being transmitted The fifth page accessed using the UTILITY button as usual allows a Program Change to be sent as...

Page 33: ...nd 18 in the example shown on the video page allows specification of the memory range on which the Bulk Dump is to be carried out In all cases once ENTER has been pressed the display will show informing you that the OB5 is sending the programming data by means of the Bulk Dump function If the procedure has been concluded successfully the display will show 7 3 INSTRUMENT TUNING The OB5 allows you t...

Page 34: ...ngle assumed or the level of light in the room where you are 7 5 ASSIGNING SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS TO THE PEDALS The connectors on the rear panel allow footswitch type pedals FOOTSW 1 and FOOTSW 2 PEDAL jacks and expression pedals EXPR PEDAL jack to be connected to the OB5 You can use the expression pedal to control the general volume of the organ while the footswitch type pedals are able to perform fu...

Page 35: ...l in the order set by means of the Footswitch Pedal Sequence Advance Presets Utility Lower Adv Lower Presets Advance Advance by one of the Presets of the Lower manual in the order set by means of the Footswitch Pedal Sequence Advance Presets Utility Memory Adv Memory Advance Advance by one of the Memories in the order set by means of the Footswitch Pedal Sequence Advance Presets Utility Next Mam u...

Page 36: ...is pressed If no Preset is selected meaning that you are playing in Drawbars manual mode the first Preset to be recalled when the pedal is pressed will be the first one in the set sequence And now let us see how to program the Memory sequence From the video page described previously select the MEMORY field and the following video page will be displayed You can press UTILITY to scroll through all f...

Page 37: ...slow speed of the Rotary effect or any remote rotary tone cabinet connected The higher the value of the Control Change in question the higher the speed always for the Slow speed 4 Rotary Fast Speed CC 15 Rotary Fast Speed value Control Change 14 can be used to regulate the slow speed of the Rotary effect or any remote rotary tone cabinet connected The higher the value of the Control Change in ques...

Page 38: ...h is selected by MIDI by means of exclusive system The higher the Control Change value the greater the modulation depth 11 Transposition CC 101 transposition of the instrument by semitones The instrument can be transposed by semitones using Control Change 101 Higher values of this Control Change raise the tuning while lower values lower it 12 Pitch CC 102 fine transposition of the instrument by hu...

Page 39: ... Defines the model 01 OB32 02 OB5 5 Command ID Indicates the type of command to be carried out in accordance with the codes 00 jump to next byte 01 operations concerning the panel hardware keys trimmers etc 02 operations concerning sounds 03 operations concerning effects 04 sounds bulk dump 05 effects bulk dump 06 bulk dump of both sections 07 bulk dump of MIDI data 08 bulk dump of the samples 09 ...

Page 40: ...lay F0 31 30 02 01 04 05 F7 Volume Drawbar 1 1 3 F0 31 3n 02 01 3C xx yy F7 Reverb Level F0 31 30 02 01 02 xx yy F7 Volume Drawbar 1 F0 31 3n 02 01 3D xx yy F7 Vibrato V1 F0 31 30 02 01 05 01 F7 Overdrive F0 31 30 02 01 01 xx yy F7 Vibrato V2 F0 31 30 02 01 05 02 F7 Rotary On F0 31 30 02 01 0E 01 F7 Vibrato V3 F0 31 30 02 01 05 03 F7 Rotary Off F0 31 30 02 01 0E 00 F7 Chorus C1 F0 31 30 02 01 05 0...

Page 41: ...x 2 lines backlit Controls Presets Drawbars Upper 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Lower 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Vibrato Chorus Upper Lower Effect selector Drawbars for Upper manual 16 5 1 3 8 4 2 2 3 2 1 3 5 1 1 3 1 Drawbars for Lower manual 16 5 1 3 8 4 2 2 3 2 1 3 5 1 1 3 1 Drawbars for Bass section 16 8 Percussion 2nd 3rd Soft Decay Power Display Mode Hold Main Value No Yes Cursor ï ð Exit Enter Sound Effects Memory Utili...

Page 42: ...Send L R Output L Mono R Headphones Rotary Tone Cabinet Ac In Power supply 117 V AC 220 V AC Finish Walnut Dimensions 1160 W x 509 D x 197 H mm not including stand Accessories User manual Power supply lead ...

Page 43: ...O O O O O O O O O X O O O O O O O O O O O O O Volume Expression Transition Time Slow Fast Transition Time Fast Slow Rotary Slow Speed Rotary Fast Speed Vibrato Speed Vibrato Depth RPN LSB MSB Transp Pitch Reverb Delay Time Reverb High Freq Delay Reg All Sounds Off All Notes Off PROGRAM CHANGE True 0 127 0 6 0 6 0 127 in Utility PG Send SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE O O SYSTEM Song Pos COMMON Song Sel Tune X X ...

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Page 45: ...tem since this version of the manual was completed The information contained in this version of the owner s manual supercedes all previous version NOTE This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital Device persuant to Part 15 if the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installati...

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