[rodgersorgan] Re: Drum sets/kits
- From: Arlene Jutting <ajutting@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:50:25 -0500
Thanks, Noel. I was having trouble with the chart among other things so
I greatly appreciate the help and the suggested registrations. My
request for help was so "buried" in the rest of my e-mail, I thought
maybe no one saw it. Will try your suggestions as soon as I get to
church. I'm not one of the fortunate ones who has an organ at home.
Thanks again, Arlene
Noel Heinze wrote:
>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
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