The Pedals - Arturia TAE VOX Continental-V User Manual

Engine The large switch toggles the engine mode between two choices: VOX and
Background Noise As analog circuits age a certain amount of instability in various components
Key Contact Age The design of the organ keyboards gives them a fair amount of character.
Another good thing to know is that you can enter Open mode simply by clicking on the top of the
organ. You can close it with a click, too, but since the top is not available you must click on the
back edge inside "the hood," just beyond the tuning controls and the other knobs.

3.4.3 The pedals

Sometimes the keyboard player needs to hold down the low end during a song. Knowing this,
the people at VOX were kind enough to offer a pedal board as an optional accessory. But the
good folks at Arturia have included it for free in VOX Continental V.
And our pedals are a lot easier to set up: Just click the Pedal button and a one-octave set of
pedals will appear. They have a dedicated set of drawbars, an octave range switch to the left
of the upper manual, and a slider called Bass Decay that controls the release time of the pedal
sound. They can be set to respond to their own MIDI channel, too, just like the upper and lower
organ manuals.
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The range of each "potentiometer" is +/- 50 cents in 0.4 cent
increments. But if you need finer resolution, right-click on your mouse
and then click and drag the tuning potentiometer (a.k.a "pot"). This
allows tuning to be done in increments as small as 0.025 cents.
Jennings. A few minor differences exist in the circuitry between the two
organ lines, resulting in a subtle distinction in the overall tone quality. You
may find you prefer one over the other, but functionally they are identical.
can give rise to a higher noise floor. VOX Continental V models even this
"undesirable" condition, but allows you to control the amount of the
background noise with this rotary knob. The range is from -90 dB
(completely sterile) to -30 dB (positively bristling with "maturity").
Each key has a separate contact for each drawbar stop, and as these
connections age the contacts age as well...and often at different rates.
This knob allows you to dial in as much of this unpredictability as you would
like, from none (0.00%) to "desperately in need of service" (100.0%). The
overall output can be very different from key to key, which could be quite
interesting in its own right or in conjunction with the effects VOX Continental
V provides.
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