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2 Voice Sections
3. Selecting Additional Voices – Dotted Buttons
and User Voices
The EL-27 Electone has a variety of voices from which you can choose – far greater than what is
immediately apparent from the front panel controls. You've already learned in the section above how to
select the different voices that are available in the Voice Menu display of each panel voice. The Electone
also has dotted buttons in each voice section, giving you convenient access to any voice.
Selecting Voices From the Dotted Buttons
Each voice section has one or two dotted buttons, found on the right side of
each voice section. These dotted buttons function as "wild card" Voice Menu
selectors; any internal voices can be selected from these buttons.
The dotted buttons have the following basic uses:
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For playing any voice of the Voice Menus from any of the keyboards
or Pedalboard.
You can play on the Upper keyboard, for example, voices from the twenty-
two Voice Menu pages (including User), and not be limited to only the twelve
buttons (equivalent to twelve Voice Menu pages) that make up the Upper
Voice section. Another advantage to this feature is that when the normally
monophonic (one note) Lead and Pedal voices are assigned to the Upper or
Lower keyboard voice sections, they can be played polyphonically. The
opposite is also the case: Upper or Lower voices assigned to the Lead or
Pedal sections will be monophonic.
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For having three different voices from the same Voice Menu page
available for selection in the same song.
For example, you can assign one of the voices to a dotted button in the
Upper Keyboard Voice section, the second voice to the other dotted button
in the same section, and the third one on the Voice Menu.
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For storing voices from a Voice Disk.
