Roland VK-8 - Manual (Page 23)

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Playing the Organ
About the Organ Voice
The organ voice has three parts: “upper,” “lower,” and “pedal.”
When you play the keyboard of the VK-8, the sound of the Upper part will be heard.
You can also play the VK-8 in the following ways.
• Divide the keyboard of the VK-8 into two zones, and play the sound of
the Upper organ part in the right-hand zone, and the sound of the
Lower organ part in the left-hand zone (p. 38).
• Connect an external keyboard, and play the sound of the Upper organ
part on the VK-8’s keyboard, and the sound of the Lower organ part on
the external keyboard (p. 59).
• Connect an external pedal keyboard, and play the sound of the Upper
organ part on the VK-8, and the sound of the Pedal organ part on the
pedal keyboard (p. 59).
The sounds of the Upper, Lower, and Pedal parts of an organ voice can be edited
using the harmonic bars.
fig.01-13
1
Press either the HARMONIC BAR PART [UPPER] button, [LOWER]
button, or [PEDAL] button to select the part whose sound you want to
edit.
2
Press the [H-BAR MANUAL] button to make its indicator light.
When the [H-BAR MANUAL] button’s indicator is dark, the harmonic bar settings
will be the harmonic bar settings of the organ voice of the selected preset (p. 22, 45).
3
Move the harmonic bars to edit the sound (p. 24).
A sound you’ve edited can be saved as a preset (p. 45).
Button Part
HARMONIC BAR PART [UPPER] Button Upper Part
HARMONIC BAR PART [LOWER] Button Lower Part
HARMONIC BAR PART [PEDAL] Button Pedal Part
To hear the sound of the
Lower part, you can either
select Split (p. 38) and play the
sound of the Lower part in the
left-hand zone of the keyboard,
or connect an external
keyboard (p. 59). To hear the
sound of the pedal part,
connect an external pedal
keyboard (p. 59).