Viscount Prestige Organs User Manual

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Advanced Manual - Viscount
Prestige
CONTENTS
1. Important notes ........................................................................................................................... 3
1.1 Looking after the product ....................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Notes on floppy disks ............................................................................................................. 3
1.3 Notes about the manual .......................................................................................................... 4
2. Control central unit .................................................................................................................... 5
3. Switching on and Main video page ........................................................................................... 7
4. Functions for controlling the organ’s voices ............................................................................ 8
4.1 Regulating the voice volumes ................................................................................................8
4.2 Regulating the sound generation parameters ......................................................................... 9
4.3 Selecting and regulating the Orchestra voices ..................................................................... 14
Selecting the voice ......................................................................................................................................... 14
Setting the parameters ................................................................................................................................... 14
Saving voices and parameters in the memories ............................................................................................. 15
5. Organ general settings .............................................................................................................. 16
5.1 Setting the tremolos .............................................................................................................. 17
5.2 Selecting the type of reverb .................................................................................................. 18
Organ version equipped with AFC reverb unit.............................................................................................. 19
5.3 Keyboards general settings................................................................................................... 20
5.4 Setting the equalizer ............................................................................................................. 21
5.5 How the memories work ...................................................................................................... 22
5.6 Setting the Antiphonal outputs ............................................................................................. 23
Antiphonal output connection examples ....................................................................................................... 25
6. Setting up the MIDI interface and audio outputs ................................................................. 27
6.1 Regulating the display contrast ............................................................................................ 27
6.2 Setting the audio signals on the rear outputs ....................................................................... 27
Volumes ......................................................................................................................................................... 28
Delay times .................................................................................................................................................... 29
Equalizers ...................................................................................................................................................... 30
6.3 MIDI functions ..................................................................................................................... 31
What MIDI is ................................................................................................................................................. 31
The Prestige MIDI settings............................................................................................................................ 32
Selecting the channels ................................................................................................................................... 33
Setting the filters ........................................................................................................................................... 35
Program Change message transmission ........................................................................................................ 36
Setting the MIDI velocity .............................................................................................................................. 37
MIDI note code transposition ........................................................................................................................ 38
6.4 Setting the rear audio outputs ............................................................................................... 38
Short introduction to the wind-chests of pipe organs .................................................................................... 39
Simulating wind-chests with the Prestige ..................................................................................................... 41

Viscount Prestige Organs Specifications

General

Brand	Viscount
Model	Prestige Organs
Category	Musical Instrument
Language	English