Page 1: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION FEATURES TURN ON/TURN OFF CONSOLE DIVISION, COMBINATION MEMORY AND PISTON LOCATIONS COMBINATION ACTION WITH FOUR MEMORY LEVELS  Unlocking a Combination Memory  Setting the Pistons  Locking a Combination Memory CONSOLE DISPLAY AND MENUS COUPLERS REVERSIBLES EXPRESSION SHOES ALL SWELLS*...
Page 2 PERSONAL MEMORY CARD FOLDERS  Selecting a New Folder on the Card LOCKING AND UNLOCKING A PERSONAL MEMORY CARD USING A PERSONAL MEMORY CARD ON OTHER RODGERS ORGANS REINITIALIZING A PERSONAL MEMORY CARD REPLACING THE PERSONAL MEMORY CARD BATTERY Rodgers 805C Stop Specification...
Page 3: Introduction
Parallel Digital Imaging (PDI™), Rodgers’ proprietary software-based technology that revolutionized the digital organ world, permits each note of every stop of the Rodgers 805C to be individually tuned, leveled and voiced after installation, just like an organ with wind-blown pipes.
Page 4 The Rodgers 805C is a wonderful example of Rodgers’ commitment to celebrate tradition while creating the future. From the first notes that sound forth from the Rodgers 805C to the endless possibilities of sound combinations developed over the years to come, we think you will agree Rodgers is indeed the sound choice! Celebrating Tradition .
Page 5: Features
Release. The organ will perform a self diagnostic test of its systems within a few seconds. When completed, the Console Display will read “TRANSPOSER 0”. The Rodgers 805C is ready to play. To turn the power off, press the lower part of the rocker switch and release after 1-2 seconds.
Page 6: Console Division, Combination Memory And Piston Locations
COMBINATION ACTION WITH FOUR MEMORY LEVELS The Rodgers 805C features a combination action easily changed by the organist from the console. The organist can pre-select registrations and make rapid changes in tone color using this advanced system. Rodgers’ microprocessor combination action is a specially refined four-memory system. This effectively multiplies the number of physical pistons on the console by four.
Page 7: Console Display And Menus
3. Release the memory piston. The memory is now locked. CONSOLE DISPLAY AND MENUS The Rodgers 805C is equipped with a two-line Console Display window located on the right below the stop rail panel. This display indicates the Transposer setting, and it can be used to alter many other settings and organist preferences including MIDI settings, Voice Palette, and Tremulant rate and depth, among many others.
Page 8 The blinking square in the Console Display, called the cursor, indicates the setting which is currently selected. Rotating the Alpha Dial will change the value of any selected setting. There are three different menus. The User Menu accesses organ and audio settings such as Voice Palette, Tremulant settings, Master Volume, and Auxiliary Input controls.
Page 9 805C User Menu Items Hold SET, turn SELECT knob counter clockwise. TRANSPOSER ² TRANSPOSER TUNING A= ² ² ² .² 4b thru 4# 427.5 thru 452.8 "VOICE PALETTE" MENU (± ½ SEMITONE) (See Voice Palette section) This menu item appears...
Page 10 805C MIDI Menu Items Hold SET, turn SELECT knob clockwise. TRANSPOSER ² GT A GT B 1 thru 16 (GT A ONLY) MIDI ² ² ² CH ² PGM=² ² ² VAR=² ² ² OFF, 1 thru 128 OFF, 0 thru 127 MIDI ²...
Page 11 805C User (Headphone) Menu Items Hold SET, turn SELECT knob counter clockwise. TRANSPOSER ² TRANSPOSER TUNING A= ² ² ² .² 4b thru 4# 427.5 thru 452.8 "VOICE PALETTE" MENU (± ½ SEMITONE) (See Voice Palette Section) This menu item appears...
Page 12: Couplers
COUPLERS The Rodgers 805C has intermanual couplers, which enable stops of one division to be played on another keyboard or pedalboard. Examples of intermanual couplers are SWELL TO GREAT 8', SWELL TO PEDAL 8' and GREAT TO PEDAL 8'. These couplers are located on the lighted tabs in the Great and Pedal divisions.
Page 13 CRESCENDO The slightly raised pedal on the right is the Crescendo shoe, which gradually adds a pre-determined selection of stops as it is pressed forward. It does not affect the stops already in use on the organ but merely adds to them. Stops added by the Crescendo do not light. There is a lighted Crescendo/Tutti indicator located on the stop rail to the far right.
Page 14: Restoring The Factory Crescendo Setting
There are two types of tremulant controls on the Rodgers 805C. The Divisional tremulants (Great and Swell) affect only the stops in the respective division. There is one General tremulant, the FLUTE II (FLT TREM II*) tremulant, which affects all manual flute stops simultaneously.
Page 15: Tutti
TUTTI There are times when a full organ registration is needed immediately. The Tutti on the Rodgers 805C can be set with any combination of stops. Press either the TUTTI piston or the TUTTI toe piston to access the Tutti combination.
Page 16: Melody Coupler
2. While continuing to hold TUTTI, rotate the Alpha Dial either direction until the Console Display reads “TUTTI LOCKED.” 3. Release TUTTI. The Tutti is locked. MELODY COUPLER The Melody Coupler (MEL) is located on a piston under the Great manual to the right. The Melody Coupler lights when it is engaged.
Page 17: Setting The Range Of The Bass Coupler
Select Knob. MASTER TUNING The Rodgers 805C can easily and quickly be tuned to a piano or musical instrument not at standard concert pitch (A=440.0). The range of the Master Tuning is one-half semitone sharp or flat. If the instrument has been augmented with pipes, the Master Tuning feature is used to bring the electronics in tune with the pipes.
Page 18: Temperaments
The Rodgers 805C offers a choice of eight temperaments: Equal, Mean-Tone, Kirnberger, Werckmeister I, Werckmeister III, Young I, Young II and Pythagorean. This selection of temperaments allows the organist to hear these historical works as their composers heard them, or to explore the application of unequal temperament to new music.
Page 19  Ancient Temperaments Pythagorean: Pythagoras (582-500 B.C.) was a brilliant Greek theorist and mathematician. The Pythagorean temperament is characterized by pure fifths and fourths. The Pythagorean theory founded a diatonic scale which served as a model throughout the Middle Ages. Mean-Tone: Mean-Tone temperament improves on the Pythagorean tuning by slightly contracting each of the four fifths needed to generate a major third.
Page 20: Digital Dynamic Wind
Rodgers’ exclusive Digital Dynamic Wind (patent pending) emulates these characteristics by modeling the behavior of pipe organ wind regulating devices and the response of pipes to a slightly unsteady wind supply.
Page 21: Random Detuning
Thus, the tuning will be a little different, as it would be with a pipe organ, each time the organ is used. The amount of Random Detuning present in the organ will be set by a Rodgers representative during final voicing.
Page 22: Voice Palette
All expression range settings are saved when the organ is turned off. ™ VOICE PALETTE Many of the speaking stops on the Rodgers 805C can play additional voices which are selectable ™ through the Voice Palette menu. These voices are:...
Page 23: Master Volume Control
The voice selections made using this procedure can be saved in General and Divisional combination pistons. All stop tabs return to their default voices as labeled when the organ is turned off. In order to save Voice Palette selections in combination pistons, the Voice Palette must first be unlocked.
Page 24: Audio Save
6. Rotate the Alpha Dial to set the desired value. AUXILIARY INPUTS The Rodgers 805C is equipped with stereo Auxiliary Input Jacks (one for the left channel and one for the right channel) located on the Connector Panel under the keydesk to the right. When using these input jacks, audio signals from other sound generating devices like synthesizers, MIDI sound modules, and tape players are mixed into the organ’s main audio system.
Page 25: Adjusting The Auxiliary Inputs
Please refer to the “Audio Save”section. DIGITAL REVERBERATION The Rodgers 805C features an internal digital reverberation system. The volume, length and type of reverberated sound can be individually changed. Any changes made to the reverberation settings from this menu are temporary and are lost when the organ is turned off, unless they are saved by performing the Audio Save procedure.
Page 26: Antiphonal On/Main Off
Swell manual to the right. PIPES Any digital sampled rank in the Rodgers 805C may be replaced by a real wind-blown pipe rank. If a limited range of pipes is available, sampled voices from the Rodgers 805C can fill out the entire range.
Page 27: Automatic Shutdown Timer
Playing the organ from a remote MIDI keyboard or sequencer will also reset the timer. MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) Rodgers organs have some of the most advanced MIDI capabilities in the world, offering a great variety of sound possibilities. These sounds are accessed by the MIDI coupler pistons located on the piston rails.
Page 28: Roland Gs Standard Support
 Previewing Various MIDI Sounds A variety of MIDI sounds may be previewed before making a selection. To listen to various MIDI sounds: Press and hold the SET piston, then press a MIDI coupler piston. The MIDI coupler piston flashes. Continue to hold SET. By continuing to hold SET, the organ will remain in the MIDI Set Mode.
Page 29: Midi Sounds In Combination Pistons
M I D I G T A C H 1 P G M = 1 2 1 V A R = 0 2. Turn the Select Knob clockwise (right). The cursor moves to the Variation Field (“VAR”) in the menu. Note: The variation numbers for sounds in the MIDI sound module are listed in the sound module instrument chart(s) provided with the sound module.
Page 30 The three types of MIDI note velocity on the Rodgers 805C are Fixed Velocity, Expression Velocity, and Keyboard Velocity. Note: On instruments with wooden keyboards, individual note velocity control is not available.
Page 31: Setting Keyboard Velocity
Please refer to the “MIDI Save” section. MIDI CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT Using the Rodgers 805C as a MIDI keyboard controller for sequencing may require channel assignment of the MIDI GT A coupler piston. All other MIDI coupler pistons transmit on fixed channels.
Page 32: Midi Save
3. Rotate the Alpha Dial to set the channel number. 4. Press either the flashing MIDI coupler piston or General Cancel to exit. The channel number for MIDI GT A coupler piston can be saved in the settings on a combination piston or saved permanently by performing the MIDI Save procedure.
Page 33: Enabling/Disabling Midi Master Channels
The use of piston Program Changes for stop control is most useful when controlling a Rodgers organ from a remote MIDI keyboard or when controlling a second Rodgers console other than a Rodgers 805C via MIDI.
Page 34 Changes 21-25 on any Master Channel will activate the organ Divisional Pistons for the division corresponding to that Master Channel.  Using Pistons to Control a Second Rodgers Console 1. Connect the MIDI Sequencer Output of the master console to the Sequencer Input of the slave console.
Page 35: Midi Local Control
When in the “OFF” position, MIDI Local Control allows the organ console to play MIDI sounds only, disabling the organ voices. When in the “ON” position, the organ will function normally. In the OFF position, organ voices can still be played by a sequencer or by a remote keyboard connected to the 805C MIDI IN jack.
Page 36: Setting The Midi Device Id
Note: If a Rodgers Personal Memory Card is inserted when recording or playing back combination memories, and the card memory is in use for the memory level being saved/restored, the memory will be...
Page 37: Midi Connections
Rodgers Personal Memory Card. At this point, the card is ready to be used for combination memory storage. A newly initialized card contains no combination memories as yet.
Page 38: Deleting A Memory From The Card
The capacity of a Rodgers Personal Memory Card is greater than that of the organ’s internal combination memory. In order to make easy use of this additional capacity, Rodgers uses the concept of memory folders. Like a file folder, a memory folder is used to store groups of information on the Personal...
Page 39: Selecting A New Folder On The Card
Memory Card. In this case, each folder can contain a copy of each console memory level, plus a copy of the Crescendo sequence, Tutti and other settings. Standard Crescendo Other settings Tutti When a Personal Memory Card is first used, it is initialized to use Folder A. This folder is used until a new folder is selected.
Page 40: Using A Personal Memory Card On Other Rodgers Organs
USING A PERSONAL MEMORY CARD ON OTHER RODGERS ORGANS The same Personal Memory Card can be used in more than one Rodgers organ with the Personal Memory Card feature. The information on the Personal Memory Card is kept separate for each organ model.
Page 41: Replacing The Personal Memory Card Battery
REPLACING THE PERSONAL MEMORY CARD BATTERY A 3-volt lithium battery (Rodgers part #1571-003 or Radio Shack part #23-160) is required for replacement. Replacement batteries can be obtained from your local Rodgers representative or at many camera stores. To replace the battery without losing the contents of the Personal Memory Card, open the battery compartment on the front edge of the card only with the card inserted in the console slot while the organ is on.
Page 42: Rodgers 805C Stop Specification
Rodgers 805C Stop Specification GREAT SWELL Violone 16' (Flauto Basso 16') Bourdon Doux 16' Principal 8' (Diapason 8') Geigen Principal 8' (Geigen Diapason 8') Rohrflöte 8' (Gemshorn 8') Bourdon 8' (Flûte Harmonique 8') Flûte Celeste II 8' (Erzähler Celeste II 8')
Page 43: Rodgers 805C Console Dimensions
RODGERS 805C CONSOLE DIMENSIONS...
Page 44: Factory Default Combination Settings
Factory Default combination Settings The Rodgers 805C is shipped from the factory with default settings on combination memories 1 and 2. Registrations on M1 and M2 can be changed, but if the original factory default settings are desired, they can be restored by performing the following procedure: ...
Page 45: Factory Default Registrations For M1 And M2
FACTORY DEFAULT REGISTRATIONS FOR M1 AND M2 The following registrations are the factory default settings on memory 1:  Memory 1 Generals PEDAL Contra Bourdon 32' Principal 16' (Contre Basse 16') Subbass 16' Bourdon Doux (SW) 16' Octave 8' Gedackt 8' Choralbass 4' (Nachthorn 4') Mixture IV Posaune 16' (Basson 16')
Page 46 (Memory 1 Generals continued): SWELL Bourdon Doux 16' Geigen Principal 8' (Geigen Diapason 8') Bourdon 8' (Flûte Harmonique 8') Viole Celeste II 8' Octave 4' Copula 4' Nazard 2 2/3' Flûte à Bec 2' Tierce 1 3/5' (Cymbale III) [Sifflöte 1'] Plein Jeu IV Contre Basson 16' (Contre Trompette 16') Trompette 8' (Trumpet 8')
Page 47: Memory 2 Generals
 Memory 2 Generals PEDAL Contra Bourdon 32' Principal 16' (Contre Basse 16') Subbass 16' Bourdon Doux (SW) 16' Octave 8' Gedackt 8' Choralbass 4' (Nachthorn 4') Mixture IV Posaune 16' (Basson 16') Trompete 8' Rohrschalmei 4' (Klarine 4') Great to Pedal 8' Swell to Pedal 8' MIDI ON PED [LP] GENERAL CONTROLS...
Page 48 (Memory 2 Generals continued): SWELL Bourdon Doux 16' Geigen Principal 8' (Geigen Diapason 8') Bourdon 8' (Flûte Harmonique 8') Viole Celeste II 8' Octave 4' Copula 4' Nazard 2 2/3' Flûte à Bec 2' Tierce 1 3/5' (Cymbale III) [Sifflöte 1'] Plein Jeu IV Contre Basson 16' (Contre Trompette 16') Trompette 8' (Trumpet 8')
Page 49: Memory 1 And 2 Divisionals
 Memory 1 and 2 Divisionals Memory 1 Memory 2 PEDAL Contra Bourdon 32' Principal 16' (Contre Basse 16') Subbass 16' Bourdon Doux (SW) 16' Octave 8' Gedackt 8' Choralbass 4' (Nachthorn 4') Mixture IV Posaune 16' (Basson 16') Trompete 8' Rohrschalmei 4' (Klarine 4') Great to Pedal 8' Swell to Pedal 8'...
Page 50 (Memory 1 and 2 Divisionals continued): Memory 1 Memory 2 SWELL Bourdon Doux 16' Geigen Principal 8' (Geigen Diapason 8') Bourdon 8' (Flûte Harmonique 8') Viole Celeste II 8' Octave 4' Copula 4' Nazard 2 2/3' Flûte à Bec 2' Tierce 1 3/5' (Cymbale III) [Sifflöte 1'] Plein Jeu IV Contre Basson 16' (Contre Trompette 16')
Page 51: Suggested Registrations
Suggested Registrations The following pages of registrations are to be used as guidelines for selecting appropriate stops to match broad suggestions given in most printed organ literature. There will be variances of registration depending upon the music, acoustics of the room and the spirit of the performance. GREAT ORGAN FLUTE STRING...
Page 52: Swell Organ
SWELL ORGAN SOFT CELESTE STRING CELESTE 8' SOLO FLUTES Flûte Celeste II 8' Viole Celeste II 8' Bourdon 8' (On Great) *Bourdon 8' (Flûte Harmonique 8') CELESTE ENSEMBLE SOLO REEDS CORNET Viole Celeste II 8' Hautbois 8' Bourdon 8' *Hautbois 8' Copula 4' (Voix Humaine 8') *Trompette 8'...
Page 53: Pedal Organ
PEDAL ORGAN SOFT BASS FLUTES FOUNDATIONS mf Bourdon Doux 16' Subbass 16' Principal 16' Gedackt 8' Subbass 16' Octave 8' Choralbass 4' FOUNDATIONS f FOUNDATIONS ff FULL PEDAL I Contre Bourdon 32' Contre Bourdon 32' Contre Bourdon 32' Principal 16' Principal 16' Principal 16' Subbass 16'...
Page 54: Evangelical/Gospel Registration Suggestions
EVANGELICAL/GOSPEL REGISTRATION SUGGESTIONS For these registration suggestions, use the Flute Tremulant II, Great Tremulant and Swell Tremulant. PEDAL GREAT SWELL Subbass 16' *Rohrflöte 8' Viole Celeste II 8' Swell to Pedal 8' (Gemshorn 8') Copula 4' Swell to Great 8' PEDAL GREAT SWELL...
Page 55: Great Manual: Program Change Numbers 1 Through
GREAT MANUAL: PROGRAM CHANGE NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 61...
Page 56: Swell Manual: Program Change Numbers 62 Through 122
SWELL MANUAL: PROGRAM CHANGE NUMBERS 62 THROUGH 122...
Page 57: Pedalboard: Program Change Numbers 123 Through 128
PEDALBOARD: PROGRAM CHANGE NUMBERS 123 THROUGH 128...
Page 58: Care And Maintenance
Your new Rodgers organ is not only a fine musical instrument, but also a fine piece of custom-made furniture finished to hold its attractiveness through generations of use. Only the best woods are used, carefully checked for uniformity of grain and intensity of figure and carefully hand assembled.
Page 59: Safety Instructions
Do not use this instrument near water i.e. near a swimming pool or a damp/wet room. When setting up with other instruments or peripherals, follow the procedures in accordance with Rodgers’ owner’s manual. Use of this instrument, either alone or in combination...
Page 60: Radio And Television Interference
 Radio and Television Interference Rodgers Parallel Digital Imaging organs use and generate small amounts of radio-frequency (RF) energy. The instrument complies with the limits set for Class A computing devices. FCC Rules, Part 15, Subpart J define the limits for radio and television interference in a residential installation.
Page 61: Notice To Users
(604) 270-6332 Copyright 1993, Rodgers Instrument Corporation, a member of the Roland Group. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Rodgers Classic Organs, Parallel Digital Imaging, PDI technology and Rodgers DVM (Digital Voice Module) are trademarks of...

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