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Viscount Concerto III - Operating Manual
3. CENTRAL CONTROL UNIT
The central unit which controls all the Concerto III’s internal functions is located above the third
manual, behind the retracting panel.
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1. Display:
display of 40 characters on two lines for display of all the video pages relating to the
organ’s functions.
2. Menu selection buttons:
these buttons allow you to select the four main display function
menus, as follows:
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[VOICES]:
voice loading, sorting and volume control and labelling of the stops (chap.
4).
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[DISK]:
functions relating to the floppy disks and the files they contain (chap. 5).
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[MIDI & UTILITY]:
settings of the MIDI, manuals, Piston Combine and display
contrast (chap. 6).
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[SET-UP]:
setting of the equalizer, Tremolants and Reverb (chap. 7).
3. Sequencer:
this section contains the buttons of the multi-track sequencer of your Viscount
Concerto III (chap. 8).
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[RECORD]:
button for starting a recording session (point 8.1).
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[PLAY]:
this button allows playback of the MIDI sequences recorded (point 8.2).
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[METRONOME]:
press quickly to activate the audio metronome; press for a few
moments to recall the metronome setting video page (point. 8.3).
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[TIME-SIGN]:
press during recording to set the current Time Signature. Press during
playback to display the Time Signature of the MIDI sequence loaded (point. 8.4).
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[QUANTIZE]:
recalls the quantizing function (point. 8.5).
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[EDIT]:
display the menu of the functions for modifying the MIDI sequence loaded
(point. 8.6).
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[START-STOP]:
starts / stop recording or playback of the MIDI sequence.