Selecting And Playing Sounds; Selecting A Sound; Selecting The Scene; Using Controllers - Vox CONTINENTAL-73 Owner's Manual

Selecting and Playing Sounds 1. Selecting a sound
Selecting and Playing
Sounds

1. Selecting a sound

The VOX Continental features four sound parts, ORGAN, E.
PIANO, PIANO and KEY/LAYER. You can select a variation
for each part to play.
1
Press a part select button
to turn on the part you
wish to play. (the button
will light)
Pressing down two part
select buttons at the
same time (the button
will light) will allow you
to play a layered sound
with both parts (for
instance, piano and strings together).
2
Turn the LEVEL knobs to adjust the volume of each sound
part.
Use the master control VOLUME knob to adjust the overall
volume.
ORGAN Part
2
Variation
number
4
Type
buttons
3
3
Press the type buttons for each sound part to select the
sound type.
The LED on the respective button will light when the type
is on.
For example, the types that can be selected for the ORGAN
part are shown below.
CX-3: Tonewheel organ
VOX: transistor organ
COMPACT: transistor organ
See the pages listed below for other parts.
E. PIANO part (See page 14)
PIANO part (See page 14)
KEY/LAYER part (See page 14)
4
Press the VARIATION ,  buttons to select the variation.
The variation number will be shown in the VARIATION
display.
Note: Changing parts or variations will have no effect on the
settings in EFFECTS control, or on the octave or transpose
settings.
8
En-
1
Part select
buttons
KEY/
E.PIANO PIANO
LAYER

2. Selecting the scene

Scenes are used to store your favorite variations or effect
settings and instantly recall them. There are 16 scenes (4 scenes
× 4 banks).
Tip: Each scene is already set by factory default, but you can
overwrite them.
1
Press the BANK ,  buttons to select a bank (from A to
D). (The LEDs on banks A–D will light)
SCENE BANK 1
buttons
2
Press a button from SCENE 1–4 to select a scene (from 1 to
4).
The saved scene will be recalled, allowing you to play the
sound.
Note: If you change the part variation, effect, octave and other
settings, the currently selected SCENE button will blink. Press
the blinking SCENE button to undo the changes and revert to
the saved state.
Note: For details on how to save a scene, see page 11. Scenes
do not contain EQ or other settings.

3. Using controllers

Touch sensors
On the ORGAN part, the touch sensors are used to adjust the
drawbars. On the KEY/LAYER part, the touch sensors adjust
the filter, EG and LFO.
The overall audio output characteristics are adjusted using the
nine-band equalizer.
Adjusting the organ drawbars
1
Turn the ORGAN part select button on.
2
Use the type button to select the ORGAN type.
Note: The drawbar operations will differ with each organ
type. (See page 15)
Select the variation that will be the starting point for
adjusting the drawbars, as necessary. Use the VARIATION
,  buttons to select. The drawbar settings will switch to
the settings that are saved for that variation.
3
Press the UPPER/LOWER button to switch between
playing either UPPER (upper part of the keyboard) or
LOWER (lower part of the keyboard).
The button will go dark for UPPER, and the button will
light for LOWER.
Note: The UPPER/LOWER button can be used when the
organ type is CX-3 or VOX.
Tip: Refer to page 20 for how to create a split or how to
control an external MIDI keyboard as LOWER.
4
Select ORGAN using the CONTROL button.
Tip: The drawbar names for each ORGAN type (CX-3,
VOX and COMPACT) are shown above each touch sensor.
(See the upper right side of the following diagram.)
2
SCENE 1–4
buttons