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Chorale 3

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User Manual

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Summary of Contents for Chorale 3

Page 1: ...viscount Chorale 3 Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal Tremulant Tremulant Swell to Great GREAT SWELL PEDAL G SW ENC SWELL GREAT PEDAL User Manual Ver UK 1 0 ...

Page 2: ...uch as radiators heat registers stoves or other apparatus including amplifiers that produces heat 9 Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding type plug A polarized plug has two blades with one wider than the other A grounding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong The wider blade or the third prong are provided for your safety If the provided plug does not fit in...

Page 3: ...s volumes 16 5 1 Regulating the voices volumes 16 5 2 Replacing voices 17 5 3 Checking the stop labels 19 6 Instrument general settings 21 6 1 Setting the Tremulants 22 6 2 Selecting the type of reverb 22 6 3 Setting the equalizers 24 6 4 Signal routing on the audio outputs 25 6 5 Regulating the audio output volumes 25 6 6 General manual settings 26 6 7 PREV and NEXT piston settings 27 6 8 Combina...

Page 4: ...2 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner s Manual ...

Page 5: ...onnections ensure that the other units especially amplification and diffusion systems you are about to connect are switched off This will prevent noisy or even dangerous signal peaks Connect the net cable to an earthed socket Check that the voltage corresponds to the voltage shown on the serial number plate of the organ If the organ is to be out of use for lengthy periods disconnect the plug from ...

Page 6: ...ormation carefully sothat you obtain the best performance and will from your instrument The codes or numbers in square brackets indicate the names of the buttons sliders trimmers and connectors on the instrument For example ENTER refers to the ENTER button Illustrations and screens showed are for information purposes only and may differ from your product ...

Page 7: ...S The pistons of the adjustable combinations Tutti and other accessory functions are placed in the areas between the manuals HR 1 2 3 4 5 6 C A P S MIDI P MIDI G MIDI SW PREV NEXT ENC T Chorale 3 3 5 10 9 4 1 8 6 1 General combinations this section contains the instrument s general adjustable combinations When a combination is recalled the light of the relative stop illuminates to confirm its acti...

Page 8: ...section contains the pistons used to activate the transmission of MIDI note codes on the MIDI OUT port in the recess underneath the Great in response to the notes played on the manuals The LED of each piston displays the status of transmission on the relative MIDI channel as follows o Piston illuminated note code transmission enabled o Piston off note code transmission disabled MIDI G controls tra...

Page 9: ...l the stops tremolos and pistons under the Choir active then resets the general HRs 2 3 THE SIDE PANELS Other organ controls such as the volume controls reverb adjustment and the graphic display showing all the instrument s main setup and adjustment functions are located on the right and left of the manuals in easy reach of the organist To make use of these controls quicker and easier all the rota...

Page 10: ...ompts from the system EXIT is used to exit the screen on the display and return to the previous one or abort any prompts from the system 2 4 PEDAL BOARD CONTROLS MAN I PEDAL MAN II 1 2 1 GREAT PEDAL pedal swell pedal used to control the volume of the Great and pedal board 2 SWELL pedal you can use this swell pedal to control the volume of the Swell GREAT PEDAL SWELL N B The trimmer volume controls...

Page 11: ...ith MIDI interface The IN connector allows receipt of MIDI data generated by remote MIDI sources the OUT connector transmits the MIDI messages generated by the Chorale 3 and the THRU connector transmits the MIDI data exactly as received at the IN connector N B To obtain the best results from the HEADPHONES output phones with impedance of at least 16Ω should be used 3 INPUT connectors RCA line inpu...

Page 12: ...of the individual manuals and pedal board are routed to and adjusted on the individual outputs in accordance with the relative settings on the display for more information see points 6 4 and 6 5 L R R L R R OUTPUT 1 OUTPUT 2 1 1 OUTPUT 1 and OUTPUT2 connectors Jack line outputs carrying the organ signal in accordance with the routing set by means of the function on display With the Factory Setting...

Page 13: ...gured While this is taking place the display shows the introductory screen on which the release of the firmware installed on the instrument can always be checked After the switch on procedure is complete the main video page will be displayed containing the following display fields o MEMORY BANK this parameter can be used to select one of the eight memory banks for saving the general and or specifi...

Page 14: ...particularly unattractive in sound and was therefore treated as a dissonance However the music of the time was mainly monodic and the early forms of vocal and instrumental polyphony made a great deal of use of the interval of a fifth With the early Renaissance and the start of the great flowering of vocal polyphony the interval of a major third gradually came to be heard as consonant and not disso...

Page 15: ...he menu containing all the organ s setup functions The first video page displayed is as follows scroll the cursor downwards using the FIELD T button to display the second part of the menu The display options are o ORGAN STYLE selection of the organ s musical style o VOICES setup functions for all the organ s voices such as loading of alternative voices volume adjustment and checking of the registe...

Page 16: ...yle External Out Router External Out Router setting External Out Volume External Out Volume setting Keyboard Setting GT SW Keyboards Inversion setting Key Velocity setting Prev Next Pistons Setting Prev Next Pistons Action setting Function Stored into Pistons Tremulant Depth and Speed setting Enclosed and A P setting Couplers setting MIDI TX RX Channel Pedal channel setting Great channel setting S...

Page 17: ...ect the organ style required can be accessed by selecting the ORGAN STYLE option in the SETTING MENU After selecting a style you will need to check whether the front panel stops and registers still correspond since most of the voices will have changed especially when you select styles from different historic periods To check the voice stop correspondence recall the SOUND CHECK function described i...

Page 18: ...ning the following functions o VOICES VOLUME regulates the volume of the voices o ALTERNATIVE VOICE used to replace voices o SOUND CHECK checks the voices associated to the stops To display the function required select the relative display field using the FIELD S and FIELD T buttons and press ENTER Use the EXIT button to return to the SETTING MENU 5 1 REGULATING THE VOICE VOLUMES The VOICES VOLUME...

Page 19: ...her style is recalled the volumes will be reset to the values described in the last style recalled When the style in which the voice volumes were changed is reloaded the volumes will be reset to the latest adjustments To restore the original volumes of all the styles or one in particular recall the FACTORY SETTING function described in point 8 1 5 2 REPLACING VOICES As described at the start of th...

Page 20: ...rough all the replacement voices which are rendered audible immediately for quicker programming by just moving the cursor over the fields of the voices displayed Once you have found the voice you require press ENTER the system now provides information about the voice to be replaced in the top of the screen and the new voice in the middle and a prompt for confirmation to proceed since the new regis...

Page 21: ...ast style recalled When the style in which the voices were changed is reloaded the voices will be reset to the latest adjustments When a replacement voice is loaded it will be assigned the volume value set for the voice present on the relative stop before the change was made To restore the original voices of all the styles or one in particular recall the FACTORY SETTING function described in point...

Page 22: ...d a style or loaded replacement voices it may be necessary to change the labels of the stops since several voices will have changed and the name of the stop will no longer correspond to the name of the register and voice loaded in the memory However it is very easy to change the labels because they are just pressed into the stop Remove the label with your fingers or using a small screwdriver as sh...

Page 23: ...lowing is a short description of the various settings o TREMULANT setting of the Tremulants for each manual o REVERBERATION selection of the type of reverb required o EQUALIZER setting of the organ s internal and external equalizer o EXT OUT ROUTER routing of the manuals and pedal board on the audio outputs OUTPUT 1 and OUTPUT 2 o EXT OUT VOLUME regulates the volume of the audio outputs o KEYBOARD...

Page 24: ...tion and in the Tutti To do this saving must be enabled using the Function Stored function described in point 6 8 6 2 SELECTING THE TYPE OF REVERB Reverberation is the result of a series of sound reflections propagated inside an enclosed environment The order and value of each reflection depend to a very great extent on an a large number of factors which come into play within any one room such as ...

Page 25: ...que church o MODERN CHURCH reverb typical of a modern church o PARISH reverb typical of a church hall o CAPPELLA reverb typical of a chapel Use the VALUE and VALUE buttons to select the type of reverb and press EXIT to save the selection and return to display of the SET UP menu NOTES The organ s internal reverb also affects the input signals reaching the INPUT connectors underneath the manuals The...

Page 26: ...nu To set the internal equalizer select INT EQUALIZER and press ENTER NOTES The external equalizer settings also affect the signals supplied to the RCA OUTPUT outputs in the recess underneath the manuals The equalizers adjustment settings are also stored in the Organ Style This means that organ styles with different types of equalization may be available and that when a different style is recalled...

Page 27: ...can set the signal source section for each output as follows o PEDAL pedal board only o GREAT Great only o SWELL Swell only o PEDAL GREAT pedal board and Great o PEDAL SWELL pedal board and Swell o GREAT SWELL Great and Swell o GENERAL whole organ o REVERB ONLY reverb effect signal only As usual use the FIELD S and FIELD T buttons to move the cursor and VALUE and VALUE to adjust the values To conc...

Page 28: ...an play the Orchestral voices and transmit the MIDI notes in response to the speed at which the manual keys are pressed If the function is turned off the notes are always played with fixed dynamic equal to the MIDI value 100 To activate the two functions use the VALUE and VALUE buttons to select the value YES or select NO to deactivate them Use the FIELD S and FIELD T buttons to move the cursor an...

Page 29: ...unctions as you require press EXIT to return to display of the SET UP menu 6 8 COMBINATION SAVING SETTINGS The FUNCTION STORED INTO PISTONS function in the SET UP menu allows you to choose what you wish to save in the general combinations and the Tutti in order to further customise the organ s performance features After the FUNCTION STORED field is selected in the SETUP menu the display will show ...

Page 30: ...ransmitter instrument If these recorded data are sent back to the instrument it automatically repeats the recorded performance MIDI is able to transmit a multitude of digital data by means of just one cable and thus just one connector this is thanks to the MIDI channels There are 16 MIDI channels and in a similar way as for radio communications in which two stations can only communicate if they ar...

Page 31: ...elate to the instrument s sound generation and programming parameters The Chorale 3 uses these messages to control all the internal parameters and for switching the voices on and off REAL TIME These messages are used for the real time control of specific modules or functions of a connected instrument These messages include the Start Stop Pause Continue and Clock commands START the sequencer has st...

Page 32: ...to return to the MIDI menu and save the settings made N B It is not possible to set different reception and transmission channels for the same section MIDI channel n 16 cannot be selected since it is the system channel used for the exchange of internal codes between Viscount instruments 7 2 PROGRAM CHANGE MESSAGE TRANSMISSION The MIDI Program Change PG message allows a specific sound or program pa...

Page 33: ...ption For example the Control Change transmission filter allows you not to transmit these MIDI messages on the MIDI OUT port on all the MIDI channels controlled by the organ Similarly the reception filter cuts out the CCs received by the organ by means of the MIDI IN port on all the channels i e the CCs are not applied To set up the MIDI filters select the TX RX FILTERS field in the MIDI submenu T...

Page 34: ...ctory Setting procedure allows you to restore the factory settings of all the instrument s internal functions deleting all the changes made by the user The Chorale 3 organ also allows you to choose what you want to reset i e whether you wish to restore all the organ s settings or just the individual styles To recall this function use usual buttons to select the FACTORY SETTING option in the UTILIT...

Page 35: ...edure press the ENTER key or to abort the operation simply press EXIT Once the Factory Setting operation has been started the display will show a standby screen for the time taken to reload the factory data after which the instrument will be rebooted automatically INDIVIDUAL STYLE FACTORY SETTINGS If you wish to restore just one style as programmed by Viscount select the ORGAN STYLE ONLY option in...

Page 36: ...volumes reverb and equalizers in the selected style will be lost Now press ENTER to continue the operation or EXIT to abort Once the Factory Setting operation has been started the display will show a standby screen for the time taken to reload the factory data after which the instrument will be rebooted automatically ...

Page 37: ...elative MIDI System Exclusive message will be transmitted so that it can be turned on and played on a connected instrument To set a voice Local Off press the S Set button keep it pressed and also press the C Cancel button All the draw stops will come on and the display will show the video page To set a voice in Local Off mode press its draw stop so that its light goes out After setting the setup r...

Page 38: ...s used to the MIDI IN connector of the Chorale 3 Start the updating procedure when the organ starts to receive the data the display will show now the display will start to show a percentage of the data received At the end of the procedure the following video page is displayed when the organ is switched on if the display shows one of the following video page If the display looks like the one shown ...

Page 39: ...n point for the recycling of electrical and electronic equipment By ensuring this product is disposed of correctly you will help prevent potential negative consequences to the environment and human health which could otherwise be caused by inappropriate disposal of this product The recycling of materials will help to conserve natural resources For more detailed information about the recycling of t...

Page 40: ... Note OFF X X AFTER Key s X X TOUCH Ch s X X PITCH BENDER X X CONTROL 7 O O Volume CHANGE 11 O O Expression 120 O O All sound off 121 O O Reset All Controllers 123 O O All Notes Off PROGRAM O X CHANGE True SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE O O SYSTEM Song Pos X X COMMON Song Sel X X Tune X X SYSTEM Clock X X REAL TIME Commands X X AUX Local On Off X X MESSAGES All notes off O O Active Sense O O Reset X X NOTES Mod...

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