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- Page 1 Chorale 3 PEDAL SWELL GREAT Great Swell Swell Tremulant Tremulant Pedal Pedal Great GREAT / PEDAL SWELL User Manual Ver. UK - 1.0...
- Page 2 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS WARNING: READ THIS FIRST! WARNING RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN AVIS RISQUE DE CHOC ÉLECTRIQUE NE PAS OUVRIR This symbol is intended to alert the user to the This symbol is intended to alert the user to presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage”...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual INDEX 1. Important notes ..........................3 1.1 Looking after the product .......................3 1.2 Notes about the manual ........................3 2. Controls and connection ........................5 2.1 The front panel ..........................5 2.2 The manual splitter controls ......................5 2.3 The side panels ..........................7 2.4 Pedal board controls ........................8... - Page 4 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual...
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Page 5: Important Notes
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual 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-buttons, etc.). • When possible, do not place the instrument close to units which generate strong interference, such as radios, TVs, computer videos, etc. - Page 6 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual • All the trademarks referred to in this manual are the property of the respective manufacturers. • Please read all the information carefully, sothat you obtain the best performance and will from your instrument. • The codes or numbers in square brackets ([]) indicate the names of the buttons, sliders, trimmers and connectors on the instrument.
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Page 7: Controls And Connection
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual 2. CONTROLS AND CONNECTIONS 2.1 THE FRONT PANEL The front panel above the two manuals contains the stops, arranged section by section, used to activate the organ’s registers. 1. [PEDAL] section: this section contains the pedal board register stops. The following couplers are also provided: o [Great to Pedal]: the stops of the Great will also play on the pedal board. - Page 8 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual Remember that an HR setup is not modified if the stops are switched on and off by hand when a combination on the same section is selected (i.e. with the HR off). N.B. The contents of the HR are not retained when the organ is switched off.
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Page 9: The Side Panels
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual 6. [ENC] piston: pressing this piston activates the Enclosed function used to control the organ’s general volume using the swell pedal [SWELL]. N.B. When the Enclosed function is activated, the volumes of the Great and pedal board are immediately set in relation to the position of the [SWELL] swell pedal. -
Page 10: Pedal Board Controls
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual RIGHT PANEL 1. Display: graphic display of 128x64 pixels for display of all the screens relating to the organ’s functions. 2. [FIELD ] and [FIELD ] buttons: buttons used to move the cursor around within the display screens. The [FIELD ]... -
Page 11: The Connections Underneath The Manuals
The [IN] connector allows receipt of MIDI data generated by remote MIDI sources, the [OUT] connector transmits the MIDI messages generated by the Chorale 3, and the [THRU] connector transmits the MIDI data exactly as received at the [IN] connector. - Page 12 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual In the right there are two more pairs of line audio outputs. The main difference between these outputs and the ones in the recess underneath the manuals is that the latter contain the signal generated by the organ, while on the rear connectors, the signals of the individual manuals and pedal board are routed to and adjusted on the individual outputs in accordance with the relative settings on the display (for more information see points 6.4 and 6.5).
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Page 13: Main Control Unit
As described in the previous section, the right-hand panel beside the manuals contains the main control unit for all the Chorale 3’s internal functions. The organ features a large set of control functions allowing the user to customise the instrument in the most suitable way, adapting it to his or her own requirements. - Page 14 Centuries, until the early 18 Century. Here are the six temperaments available on the Chorale 3, first and foremost the MEANTONE. MEANTONE 8 pure major thirds: E flat - G / B flat - D / F - A / C - E / G - B / D - F # / A - C# / E - G.
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Page 15: An Introduction To The Instrument's Setup Functions
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual baroque composers and the works of Bach. PYTHAGOREAN In this temperament, all the fifths are natural except for the “wolf” fifth, in the interval A flat - E flat, which is greatly diminished. It dates from the Middle Ages up to the 15th century, and can therefore be used for compositions of that period. - Page 16 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual To access the submenu of your choice, select the relative display field using the [FIELD ] and [FIELD ] buttons and press [ENTER]. Use the [EXIT] button to return to the main video page. For a clearer view of the various submenus, the table below summarises the way in which all the organ’s functions are organised.
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Page 17: Organ Style
Owner’s Manual 4. ORGAN STYLE One important feature of the Chorale 3 series is the availability of different organ styles, Baroque, Romantic, French, American, plus two user-defined styles, which allow you to set the sound configuration perfectly suited to the literature you intend to perform. -
Page 18: Replacing Voices And Regulating Voices Volumes
5. REPLACING VOICES AND REGULATING VOICE VOLUMES One important new feature of the Chorale 3 series is the capability for replacing the voices initially associated to the front panel stops with other voices already provided in the organ’s internal memory. -
Page 19: Replacing Voices
8.1. 5.2 REPLACING VOICES As described at the start of this section, the Chorale 3 has an interesting, useful voice replacement function. The organ has a vast internal library of voices, comprising various variations on the original voices. - Page 20 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual while if you press the stop the display shows the screen shown below. Now use the [FIELD ] and [FIELD ] buttons to select the voice you wish to replace. After locating the cursor on the voice concerned, press [ENTER].
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Page 21: Checking The Stop Labels
Finally, press [EXIT] to exit the function. ORCHESTRAL VOICES The voice library of Chorale 3 also includes a set of orchestral voices which can be recalled by means of the ALTERNATIVE VOICE function. These orchestral voices cannot be to assigned to any stop at random. - Page 22 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual You can scroll through all the registers using the [VALUE +] and [VALUE -] buttons or by pressing the stops themselves. Once you have checked the labels of all the stops, press [EXIT] to return to display of the VOICES menu.
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Page 23: Instrument General Settings
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual 6. INSTRUMENT GENERAL SETTINGS All the organ’s general setup functions, i.e. the settings not strictly linked to the voices or the MIDI interface, are found in the SET UP submenu recalled by selecting the field of the same name on the display in the SETTING MENU. -
Page 24: Setting The Tremulants
The digital signal processors incorporated in the Chorale 3 organs are able to artificially re-create the complex reverberations that naturally occur in the types of building where pipe organs are normally installed, and thus generate the right reverb effect to complete the instruments’... - Page 25 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual To select the reverb required, select the REVERBERATION field in the SET UP menu and press [ENTER]: The types available are: o CATHEDRAL: reverb typical of a cathedral o BASILICA: reverb typical of a basilica...
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Page 26: Setting The Equalizers
Owner’s Manual 6.3 EQUALIZERS ADJUSTMENT Your Chorale 3 organ is equipped with two 5-band graphic equalizers for the sound control. There is one equalizer for controlling the signal to the internal loudspeakers and a second for the signal to the audio outputs ([OUTPUT 1] and [OUTPUT 2]). In order to display these adjustments, select EQUALIZER and press [ENTER]. -
Page 27: Signal Routing On The Audio Outputs
6.4 SIGNAL ROUTING ON THE AUDIO OUTPUTS Another useful setting available on the Chorale 3 is the option of sending the signals of the individual manuals and pedal board to one audio output or both. This allows you to simulate location of the windchests in different positions by allocating the external speakers as required. -
Page 28: General Manual Settings
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual containing the following parameters: o OUT 1: volume of output [OUTPUT 1]. o OUT 2: volume of output [OUTPUT 2]. All the levels can be set in a range of values from 1 to 32, with the following relative dB:... -
Page 29: Prev.] And [Next] Piston Settings
6.7 [PREV.] AND [NEXT] PISTON SETTINGS The Chorale 3 setup procedure allows you to set the function of the pistons used for sequential recall of the general combinations. To set these function, select the PISTONS SETTINGS field in the SET UP menu;... -
Page 30: Midi
Note Number: which key has been released; Velocity: dynamic (i.e. how fast the note was released). N.B.: A Note On message with Velocity=0 is considered equivalent to a Note Off message. The Chorale 3 sends the Note On message with Velocity=0. - Page 31 N.B. The Chorale 3 does not transmit / receive the messages described above. They are described for your information only. The Real Time messages also include the Active Sensing code, sent to keep the dialogue between two MIDI instruments alive.
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Page 32: Selecting The Channels
It is not possible to set different reception and transmission channels for the same section. MIDI channel n. 16 cannot be selected since it is the system channel used for the exchange of internal codes between Viscount instruments. 7.2 PROGRAM CHANGE MESSAGE TRANSMISSION The MIDI Program Change (PG) message allows a specific sound or program (patch) to be recalled in a connected unit. -
Page 33: Setting The Filters
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual When each value is selected, the relative PG will be transmitted automatically. If, for example, the pedal board MIDI A channel is number 3, when 20 is selected beside the “PEDAL” field, Program Change n. 20 will be transmitted on the MIDI 3 channel. -
Page 34: Utility Functions
The Factory Setting procedure allows you to restore the factory settings of all the instrument’s internal functions, deleting all the changes made by the user. The Chorale 3 organ also allows you to choose what you want to reset, i.e. whether you wish to restore all the organ’s settings or just the individual styles. - Page 35 INDIVIDUAL STYLE FACTORY SETTINGS If you wish to restore just one style as programmed by Viscount, select the ORGAN STYLE ONLY option in the Factory Setting screen. The display will show: Now use the [VALUE +] and [VALUE -] buttons to set the style you wish to restore and press [ENTER]:...
- Page 36 Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual The system will now inform you that all the changes you have made to the voices, volumes, reverb and equalizers in the selected style will be lost. Now press [ENTER] to continue the operation or [EXIT] to abort.
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Page 37: Appendix
Viscount Chorale 3 Owner’s Manual 9. APPENDIX 9.1 DEMONSTRATION SONGS The organ has a number of demonstration (demo) tracks to allow you to fully appreciate the quality its sound qualities and/or those of the changes you have made. To recall playback of the demo tracks, select the DEMO SONG option from the SETTING MENU. -
Page 38: Upgrading The Operating System
USB / MIDI interface or Joyport if a computer is used) to the [MIDI IN] connector of the Chorale 3. Start the updating procedure; when the organ starts to receive the data, the display will show : now the display will start to show a percentage of the data received. - Page 39 Disposal of old Electrical & Electronic Equipment (Applìcable throughout the European Union and other European countries with separate collection programs) Dir. 2002/95/CE, 2002/96/CE e 2003/108/CE This syrnbol, found on your product or on its packaging, indicates that this product should not be treated as household waste when you wish to dispose of it.
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