Preparing Your Rodgers Organ For Multi-Track Recording - Rodgers PR-300S Owner's Manual

Most MIDI keyhoards and organs are ahle to use any of the
16 MIDI channels to control MIDI devices such as the PR-300S.
Because the PR-300S is normally set to receive on channels I-
10, however, these will be the channels used for a Multi-Track
Recording.
The sounds of the Rodgers organ can also be sequenced
using the following MIDI channels:
MIDI Channel
Division
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Preparing Your Rodgers Organ for Multi-Track Recording
(1)
Turn off the Master Channels for the Great and
Pedal divisions of the organ.
This tells the organ to only send information for the
MIDI couplers when notes are pressed or the
Great/Pedal expression pedal is moved. This way,
only MIDI information for the PR-300S voices will
be recorded.
Your Rodgers organ is normally set to perform a single-pass
recording, as is covered earlier in this manual. In order to record
a Multi-Track Sequence, there are a few things which need to be
done on most Rodgers organs before recording can take place.
Please refer to the Owner's Manual for your particular organ
if you're not sure how to carry out the following procedures.
To prepare the organ for Multi-Track recording:
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Turn off Great Master
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Turn off Great Master
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Turn off Pedal Master
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Rodgers organs normally send and receive on these channels
(called "Master Channels"). For example, if notes are pressed on
the Great manual, MIDI information is generated on MIDI
channel 12, even if no stops are drawn.
Likewise, if the organ receives MIDI information on these
channels, the corresponding division of the organ will play.
A Multi-Track Recording can use a combination of the PR-
300S and organ stops; the MIDI channel used will determine
which instrument plays.
If you want to build a sequence which uses both the PR-
300S and a Rogders organ, it is best to record the organ part last.
The next example will show you how to do this.
If, for some reason, the organ part can't be recorded last,
follow the example "When the Organ Can't be Recorded Last". If
you're using a MIDI keyboard to make this recording, you can
go directly to "Deciding on Channels and Instruments".