Roland VK-8 Musical Instrument User Manual


 
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Playing Other Tones
Assigning Organ Sounds and Other
Tones Across the Keyboard (Split)
When the Organ Voice and Other Tones are layered together, you can press the
[SPLIT] button to divide the keyboard into two zones, splitting the organ voice.
The organ voice will sound the Upper part in the right-hand zone, and the Lower
part in the left-hand zone. Other Tones will be layered with the Upper part.
1 Select a preset organ voice (p. 22), or use the harmonic bars and other
knobs and buttons to create the desired organ sound.
2 Press the [PRESET] button, extinguishing its indicator.
3 Press one of the buttons from [1] through [8] to select an Other Tone.
The selected Other Tone will sound together with the organ voice.
4 Press the [SPLIT] button.
The organ voice will be divided into upper and lower. The Other Tone will sound in
the upper area.
fig.01-43-1
Playing the Other Tone in the upper, and the organ voice in the
lower part
5 Press the HARMONIC BAR PART [UPPER] button to make its indicator
light.
6 Press the harmonic bars inward until you can no longer see the numbers.
7 Get the indicators for the PERCUSSION [SECOND] button and
PERCUSSION [THIRD] button to go out (off).
The lower part of the organ voice will sound in the lower area, and only the Other
Tone will sound in the upper area.
fig.01-43-2
Organ Upper PartOrgan Lower Part
OTHER TONES
Split Point
You can change the part that
plays the Other Tones (p. 57).
Organ Lower Part
OTHER TONES
Split Point