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Chapter 1: Getting Started
DG8 REFERENCE MANUAL 27
9. Using the Cursor and the ▲ and ▼ Arrows
When interacting with the display, the sound that is underlined by the
cursor is the one that will be affected by the
▲ and ▼ arrows. You can always
keep track of where the cursor is because during normal operation, the last
sound that you select has the cursor. But if necessary, you can move the
cursor to another active segment of the display by pressing the
PLAY button.
Repeated pressing of the
PLAY button moves the cursor among the active
fields in the display. Just keep in mind that you can’t move the cursor to a
blank field. For example, in a Layer, the cursor will only move between the
PRIMARY and the LAYER sounds. In a Split, the cursor will only move between
the
PRIMARY and the SPLIT sounds. In a Split-with-Layer, the cursor will move
among all three
PRIMARY, SPLIT and LAYER sounds.
Tip: You can perform a quick reset when certain parameters are being displayed.
Pressing the ▲ and ▼ arrows together will reset the following parameters:
SET SPLIT split point resets to C2
TRANSPOSE transpose value resets to Middle C
TUNE Master Tune resets to 00
MIDI Page 4: Keyboard Scaling resets to 50
When the display is in its normal mode of displaying selected Sound Programs,
pressing the ▲ and ▼ arrows together will reset Keyboard Bank and Bass Bank
programs to “A”. Card Bank programs reset to 000.
USING THE CONTROLS
10. Level Controls
Raise or lower the
VOLUME slider to adjust the output level to a comfortable
listening volume. The
VOLUME slider adjusts the overall level for everything:
Primary sounds, Layers, Splits and Effects. But you can also use the
LEVEL
sliders to make further adjustments to the sound balance:
• Adjusting the LAYER slider changes the output of the Layer sound
relative to the Primary sound. The output level of the Primary Sound
stays constant when playing a Layer.
• Adjusting the SPLIT slider changes the output of the Bass Program or the
Card Program assigned to the lower keyboard range relative to the
Primary. The output level of the Primary Sound stays constant when
playing a Split.
• Reverb and Chorus have been pre-programmed in nearly all of the
sounds. You can raise or lower the amount of effects with the
REVERB
and CHORUS sliders.
The exception to this is the
ELECTRIC ORGAN Bank which substitutes a
rotating speaker effect instead of chorus. The
CHORUS LEVEL slider acts as
a speed control for the rotating speaker.
• Remember also that the DG8’s built-in speakers can be turned off by
using the
SPEAKER ON/OFF switch on the back panel.