[rodgersorgan] Drum sets/kits
- From: "Noel Heinze" <noel.heinze@xxxxxxx>
- To: "RodgersUsers" <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:03:02 -0400
Arlene said "I'm having trouble accessing the drum set so I can play it on the
organ. Help would be appreciated." Very well, here goes:
As you probably know, you can dial up lots of individual percussion sounds on
the PR300/300S and assign one of them to each MIDI piston, two on each manual
and two more in the pedal. When the MIDI piston/coupler is on, you will get
that sound on every key of the respective keyboard, but since there are only
two MIDI pistons per keyboard, you can only have two percussion sounds at a
time on that keyboard. The drum sets/kits allow you to have a whole battery of
percussion sounds at the same time on a manual or pedal, not just two. Each
sound is assigned to a different key, so you could have 61 different percussion
sounds on the same MIDI piston. Great idea...but which key activates which
sound?
The next-to-last page of my 300S manual, the blue page, lists the ten drum kits
on one side of this blue page, with their respective Program Change numbers,
and notes that you must use Channel 10. Pages 108-109 show what sound you'll
get on which key for each of the ten kits. Trouble is, the key numbers don't
match a 61-note keyboard like the other handy charts do...hey, Rodgers/Roland,
kindly explain how this works... meanwhile, bear in mind that C2 on the chart
is bottom C on the keyboard, C4 is middle C, etc. So, for example, if you
chose PC1 Standard set or PC33 Jazz set, you will get all the different
percussion sounds listed from C2 on up, every time you hit the key assigned to
a particular sound. If you trill on bottom D and E, you will get a snare drum
roll, etc.
Suggested registration: hold SET, press Swell MIDI A piston so it blinks, just
as you would when choosing any PR300/300S sound...dial up Program Change 49,
dial up Channel 10, dial up velocity/volume (default is 64, medium), press
Swell MIDI A again to stop it blinking. Pick your Swell stops, use Swell
Unison Off too...couple Swell to Great, pick Great and Pedal stops. Put it all
on a General piston. Play right hand on the Great, left hand on the Swell for
the percussion sounds (chords for combined sounds, rhythmic arpeggios for
one-at-a-time). You still have Swell MIDI B plus the other MIDI pistons
available for other sounds.
Have at it...hope this helps!
Noel Heinze, Asheville, NC
St. Giles Chapel, Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community
Rodgers 835B and PR300S
!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Find new MIDI music and Guides to Rodgers Organs at www.frogmusic.com
To post send messages to: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change mail delivery (digest, vacation)
go to www.frogmusic.com/rodgersmem.html
Other related posts:
