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  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 CONTENTS 1. Important notes ........................3 1.1 Looking after the product ..................... 3 1.2 Notes on floppy disks ......................3 1.3 Notes about the manual ......................4 2. Controls and connections ......................5 2.1 The front panel ........................
  • Page 4 Prestige 20 / 40 Viscount - Quick Guide...

  • Page 5: Important Notes

    Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 1. IMPORTANT NOTES 1.1 LOOKING AFTER THE PRODUCT • Do not apply excessive force to the organ’s structures or the controls (knobs, stops, push-but- tons, etc.). • When possible, do not place the instrument close to units which generate strong interference, such as radios, TVs, computer videos, etc.

  • Page 6: Notes About The Manual

    Prestige 20 / 40 Viscount - Quick Guide 1.3 NOTES ABOUT THE MANUAL • Take good care of this manual. • This manual is an integral part of the instrument. The descriptions and illustrations in this publication are not binding.

  • Page 7: Controls And Connections

    Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 2. CONTROLS AND CONNECTIONS 2.1 THE FRONT PANEL 1. [PEDAL] stops: this section contains the voices of the pedal board and the couplers. o [Great to Pedal]: the voices of the Great will also play on the pedal board.

  • Page 8: The Left Side Panel

    Prestige 20 / 40 Viscount - Quick Guide 7. [M. BANK] selector: in order to select one of the eight memory banks for memorizing general and/or dedicated memories. Thus you will have in total 48 memories. This feature is particularly useful in case the instrument is used by more than one organist, as each will be able to save his setting in a different Memory Bank.

  • Page 9: The Controls For The Manuals Thumb Pistons

    Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 2.3 THE CONTROLS FOR THE MANUAL THUMB PISTONS PRESTIGE 20 PRESTIGE 40 1. [S] button: “Set” button which enables memory saving. To save a memory, simply press the [S] button and, keeping it pressed down, then press the button of the memory you wish to save.
  • Page 10 Prestige 20 / 40 Viscount - Quick Guide 3. Dedicated memories: (only for Prestige 40) the Prestige40 memories also include six dedicated memories for Swell (3A), Great (3B) and the pedal board (3C). In the dedicated memories it is only possible to save the set up of the section coupled to the selected memory.
  • Page 11 Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 NOTE The monophonic notes generated by the MIDI Solo are only sent on MIDI channel B. For a detailed description of the MIDI channels controlled by the organ see the “Advanced Manual”.

  • Page 12: Pedalboard Controls

    Prestige 20 / 40 Viscount - Quick Guide 2.4 PEDAL BOARD CONTROLS PRESTIGE 20 GREAT/PEDAL SWELL MAN.I / PEDAL MAN. II 1. [GREAT/PEDAL] pedal: expression pedal used to control the volume of the Great and the pedal board. 2. [SWELL] pedal: this expression pedal is used to control the volume of the Swell.

  • Page 13: Connections Underneath The Manuals

    Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 2.5 CONNECTIONS UNDERNEATH THE MANUALS 1. [HEADPHONES] socket: Jack socket to which a headphone set can be connected. With headphones connected, the organ’s internal amplification is cut off. NOTE For optimum performance from the [HEADPHONES] output it is recommended that head- phones with a minimum impedance of 16 Ω...

  • Page 14: Connections On The Rear Panel

    1. [EXT. +12V DC] connectors: these sockets can be used to obtain the +12V DC voltage needed to supply the VISCOUNT speakers connected to the [OUTPUT]. In the Prestige 40 the external boxes can be switched on and off by using the [EXT.SPK.] switch located on the left side panel.
  • Page 15 Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 o [MIC]: Microphone input for amplifying any signal coming from a microphone. o [GAIN]: trimmer for adjusting the input signal connected to the [MIC] input. EXAMPLE OF REAR OUTPUTS CONNECTIONS Powered boxes EXT.

  • Page 16: Central Control Unit

    3. CENTRAL CONTROL UNIT The drawer located under the keyshelf contains the central control unit for all the internal functions of the Prestige 20 and 40. This “Quick Guide” describes the basic functions of this system, for a detailed description of all the remaining functions and parameters please see the “Advanced Manual”.
  • Page 17 Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 Manual”. 4. VOLUMES section: these controls are used to adjust the individual volumes of the organ, as follows: o [PEDAL]: pedal board volume. o [GREAT]: volume of the Great. o [SWELL]: volume of the Swell.
  • Page 18 Prestige 20 / 40 Viscount - Quick Guide o TEMPERAMENT: this parameter provides a selection of historical temperaments from vari- ous ages and different national origin. A perfectly tuned EQUAL temperament can be selected, or alternatively the classic MEANTONE, CHAUMONT, WERCKMEISTER, KIRNBERGER, PYTHAGOREAN, VALLOTTI and KELLNER.

  • Page 19: Organ General Settings

    Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 4. ORGAN GENERAL SETTINGS Pressing the [SET-UP] button on the central panel gives access to the organ’s general settings. The page displayed is as follows: [TREMULANT] [REVERB] [KEYBOARDS SETTING] [INTERNAL EQUALIZER] containing the following selection fields: o TREMULANT: for setting the Tremulants on each manual.

  • Page 20: Selecting The Type Of Reverb

    Prestige 20 / 40 Viscount - Quick Guide As the display states, the number to the left of the “/”symbol represents the Depth, while the number to the right is the Speed. To change the values use the [CURSOR] buttons to move the cursor and the encoder [VALUE].
  • Page 21 Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 Using the KEYBOARDS INVERSION the positions of Great and Swell can be inverted. Using the [VALUE] encoder, select enable to turn it on or disable to turn it off. The status of this setting is also shown by the [K. INV.] LED on the front panel (see also par. 2.1).

  • Page 22: Recording And Playing Back Musical Performances

    5. RECORDING AND PLAYING BACK MUSICAL PERFORMANCES The Prestige 20 and 40 are equipped with a multitrack sequencer used to record, save to floppy disk and playback musical performances. The following are the basic directions for using these func- tions; a detailed description of all the sequencer functions is given in the “Advanced Manual”.

  • Page 23: Playing Back A Performance

    Quick Guide - Viscount Prestige 20 / 40 5.2 PLAYING BACK A PERFORMANCE To play back a track recorded using the sequencer, insert the floppy disk in the drive and press [PLAY]. The system will proceed to read the floppy disk:...

  • Page 24: Voice Local Off

    Prestige 20 / 40 Viscount - Quick Guide 6. VOICE LOCAL OFF Setting a voice in Local Off mode means that it will not be played by the organ’s internal sound generation system but the relative MIDI message is sent (System Exclusive) so that it can be turned on and played on a connected instrument.
  • Page 26 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART Viscount Prestige Version: 1.0 Classic Organ Date: 19/07/05 FUNCTION… TRANSMITTED RECEIVED REMARKS BASIC Default 1÷15 1÷15 CHANNEL Changed 1÷15 1÷15 MODE Default Mode 3 Mode 3 Messages ******** ******** Altered ******** ******** NOTE 30÷101 30÷101 NUMBER True Voice 36÷96...
  • Page 28 Guide Rapide – Viscount Canticus50 FR - 26...

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