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5.1.6. The Bass Manual section
One of the great things about the Compact Deluxe is that it contains bass and treble sections
on the same keyboard, meaning you can play two different parts from a single keyboard if
you like. Or, you can disable the bass section and play the upper register across the whole
keyboard. The bass manual can be used instead of having a bass guitar player since the
tone can be made to sound big and heavy. Additionally, the Farfisa V's Advanced features
let you use the left side of the keyboard as a secondary organ part (a "lower manual") with
completely different waveforms to add weight to the overall organ part. See
section [p.63]
for more on this.
♪The most famous example of a band where the keyboard player played bass with his left hand was
the Doors (although Ray Manzarek used a Fender Rhodes keyboard bass for the left hand, and a Vox
Continental or Gibson organ for the right). The Farfisa Combo Compacts featured a multipin connector
underneath for connecting an optional 13-note bass pedal assembly so the organist could play bass
notes with their feet.
Starting from the left hand side the controls for the Bass Manual are as follows:
The BASS MANUAL volume control lets you set the level of the bass keys. Turned
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all the way to the right (counter-clockwise,"2:00" position) the bass keys are
almost silent (-21 dB), and to the left (clockwise,"10:00"), they are at maximum
volume (+12 dB). This is a useful control because the bass part has a different
character to the treble and so you may not want them to be at the same volume.
This control is a good candidate for mapping to a hardware MIDI controller so
you can alter it from your MIDI keyboard during performance.
The GRY KEYS SEL button has two positions.
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In the upper position (TREB) the grey keys on the keyboard will
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operate the treble notes (the organ voices from either the MTB or
Treble stops) and not the bass notes, extending the range of the treble
part. The third octave light (the one to the furthest right) will go out
and the other two will be lit, showing that only the lowest octave is set
to trigger the bass notes.
In the BASS position, this switch causes the grey notes to play the
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bass tones. The middle red light will go out and the top red light will
go on to show that the black and grey notes are now assigned to the
bass part – two octaves. Again you may want to assign a MIDI control
to this switch as it can help you to dynamically reassign zones of the
keyboard while performing.
The Bass Tone
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