[rodgersorgan] Re: Expression shoe and MIDI playback with PR 300-S


This is VERY interesting. I have had a similar situation, in that I record
the accomp. for our choir anthems in the PR-300S (which by the way, is
hooked up to an i-557) using just the PR sounds over 2,3 or4 tracks. During
early Sunday AM rehersals, everything is working just fine. Then comes the
service, where I play a combination of straight organ and organ/PR sounds,
then comes the anthem, and at the point of  the anthem, the volume of the
anthem accomp is greatly lowered. I too have found that I need to shut off
the PR during the readings before the anthem to reset everything, then the
anthem comes out fine.

I just had another mess, that I seem now to have cleared up, where I go to
record a multi-track sequence, and I "dial-up" a sound using the "Q-dial" on
the organ, then play the track into the PR. Let's say I was recording a
Piano line. I would Dial up Channel 1 Program 1 on the organ, and record the
track. Then stop the recording, hit reset to the beginning of the sequence,
and hit play. Somehow, my sequence played perfectly, but was sounding like
an Oboe or something. Then I would stop the sequencer, and play the great
manual, and it sounded with the same instrument, the Oboe or what have you,
but the program is still set to #1 which is Piano. A quick one "tick"
forward of the q-dial to change to program 2 and then back to 1 again would
reset the sound to Piano on the keyboard, but if I hit play again on the
sequencer, it would change the sound. I did the reset function that the
factory told me to use, and it seems for now to have worked, though no one
seems to know why this happened. I have had the software update done to the
I-557.

Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jaybrooks1@xxxxxxx>
To: <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: [rodgersorgan] Re: Expression shoe and MIDI playback with PR 300-S


> I have played a couple of recitals on 837s, and I regularly play a 957 in
a
> chapel and a 927 at my church.  I have run into this on all of these
> instruments when playing the organ along with orchestral sequences such as
> Hector's hymn paraphrases.  The expression shoe should NOT affect the
volume
> of PR-300 voices under normal circumstances.  However, I found that if I
had
> engaged the Gt. MIDI A piston to play PR-300 voices in real time and then
> tried to play the organ with an orchestral sequence, the PR-300 voices in
the
> sequence would then be controlled by the expression shoe.  I found myself
> powering down the organ and PR-300, and then powering back up again.  This
> would "re-set" everything and then I could play the pieces with orchestral
> sequences so that only the organ and not the PR-300 would be affected by
the
> expression shoe.
>
> In discussing this with Dan Miller, I learned that this is a software
issue
> and there is a fix.  I have had the upgrade done to my 957 and it has
worked
> perfectly since.  I will have my dealer do the same to my 927.  The
upgrade
> is available through your local Rodgers dealer.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jay Brooks
> Wilmington, NC
>
>
>

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