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  • Page 1 Rodgers 790C Owner’s Manual Copyright Rodgers Instruments LLC...

  • Page 2: Safety Instructions

    Do not use this instrument near water i.e. near a When setting up with other instruments or peripherals, swimming pool or a damp/wet room. follow the procedures in accordance with Rodgers’ owner’s manual. Use of this instrument, either alone or in combination...

  • Page 3: Fcc Notice

    FCC NOTICE Radio and Television Interference Rodgers 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 4: Notice To Users

    Richmond, B.C. V6V 2M4 (604) 270-6332 ©Copyright 1999. Rodgers Instruments LLC, a member of the Roland Group. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. QuickMenu™, Rodgers®, Rodgers Classic Organs®, Digital Dynamic Wind™, Dimensional Sound Modeling®, Parallel Digital Imaging®, Voice Palette™, DVM™, PDI™, TrueChimes™, and Trillium™...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Console Division, Combination Memory and Piston Locations..........2 Console Display and Menus...................... 2 Combination Action with Four Memory Levels ............... 3 Setting the pistons ....................... 4 790C User Menu Items ......................5 790C MIDI Menu Items......................5 790C Headphone User Menu ....................6 Couplers ............................ 6 Reversibles ..........................
  • Page 6 Saving MIDI Settings on a Combination Piston ............... 16 Saving a Combination Memory ....................17 MIDI Connections........................18 RODGERS 790C STOP SPECIFICATION ................19 RODGERS 790C CONSOLE DIMENSIONS................20 MEMORY 1 PRESET REGISTRATIONS................21 Memory 1 General Preset Registrations.................. 21 Explanations and Suggestions...................
  • Page 7 Deleting Combination Settings ....................23 CARE AND MAINTENANCE ....................24 Console and Pedalboard ......................24 Keyboards and Stop Tabs......................24 Pipes on Pipe-Augmented Instruments ................... 24...
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  • Page 9: Introduction

    Rodgers. Parallel Digital Imaging (PDI™), Rodgers’ proprietary software-based technology that revolutionized the digital organ world, permits each note of every stop of the Rodgers 790C to be individually tuned, leveled and voiced after installation, just like an organ with wind-blown pipes.

  • Page 10: Features

    To get started, here is a tour of the basic operations of the Rodgers 790C: Turn On/Turn Off To turn the organ on, press the top part of the rocker switch in the left panel. RODGERS 790C CLASSIC ORGAN or your personalized greeting appears in the console display. The organ performs a self diagnostic test of its systems within a few seconds.

  • Page 11: Combination Action With Four Memory Levels

    Press General Cancel to return to the Transposer display. Combination Action with Four Memory Levels The Rodgers 790C 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.

  • Page 12: Setting The Pistons

    Swell Divisional Pistons 1 - 5 Great Divisional Pistons 1 - 5 General Pedal Pistons 1 - 10 Divisional Pistons 1- 5 General Pistons 6 - 10 General Pistons 1 - 5 Figure 2. Piston Locations Setting the pistons 1. Select an unlocked memory by pressing M2, M3 or M4. Note: Memory M1 contains factory settings and is not user accessible.

  • Page 13: 790C User Menu Items

    790C User Menu Items Press and Hold SET, Turn SELECT Knob Counterclockwise TRANSPOSER 4b thru 4# VOICE PALETTE MENU  Off -31.25 THRU 6.25 dB 790C MIDI Menu Items Press and Hold SET, Turn SELECT Knob Clockwise TRANSPOSER 1 thru 16...

  • Page 14: 790C Headphone User Menu

    -14.00 thru 14.00 dB Couplers The Rodgers 790C has intermanual couplers that 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...

  • Page 15: Reversibles

    Press the piston to turn on, and press again to turn off. All reversible pistons light when engaged. Expression Shoes The Rodgers 790C has two expression shoes. The left expression shoe controls the voices in the Great and Pedal divisions, and the right expression shoe controls the voices in the Swell division. See Figure 3.

  • Page 16: Tutti

    There is a lighted Crescendo/Tutti indicator located on the stop rail to the far right. There are eight lighted green segments to indicate the progressive stages of the Crescendo as the pedal is pressed. Tutti There are times when a full organ registration is needed immediately. Press the TUTTI piston to access the Tutti combination.

  • Page 17: Transposer

    Note: To select menu items other than the Transposer, first press and hold SET and then turn the Select knob. Voice Palette ™ Many of the speaking stops on the Rodgers 790C can play additional voices that are selectable through the Voice Palette menu. These voices are: DIVISION TILT TAB...

  • Page 18: Accessing The Voice Palette

    6. Rotate the Alpha dial to set the desired value. Auxiliary Inputs The Rodgers 790C 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 19: Adjusting Auxiliary Inputs

    There is no specific channel assignment (left or right) given to these divisions. Pipes Off/Ancillary On If the Rodgers 790C is equipped with pipe ranks, certain stops control pipe voices and other stops control digitally sampled voices. There are two pistons affecting the pipe stops of all divisions simultaneously: ANC ON and PIPES OFF.

  • Page 20: Midi (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)

    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. Two MIDI sounds can be played simultaneously from the Great, Swell and Pedal divisions.

  • Page 21: Roland Gs Standard Support

    4. Release SET to play the sound being previewed. 5. To preview another MIDI sound, press and hold SET and press another key to select another program change number. 6. Press the MIDI coupler piston or General Cancel to exit the MIDI set mode. When in the MIDI set mode, you may select a different program change number by turning the Select knob until the cursor in the console display is over the program change number.

  • Page 22: Midi Sounds In Combination Pistons

    The velocity can be individually selected on each MIDI coupler piston, and these settings can then be saved on combination pistons. The three types of MIDI note velocity on the Rodgers 790C are Fixed Velocity, Expression Velocity, and Keyboard Velocity.

  • Page 23: Setting Expression Velocity

    2. Turn the Select knob clockwise (right) until the cursor moves to the second menu screen and is positioned in the Velocity field (VEL). 3. Rotate the Alpha dial to select the desired velocity value (2-127). 4. Press either the flashing MIDI coupler piston or General Cancel to exit. Setting Expression Velocity This velocity is controlled by the expression shoes and is not affected by the attack of the keys.

  • Page 24: Midi Channel Assignment

    4. Press either the flashing MIDI coupler piston or General Cancel to exit. MIDI Channel Assignment Using the Rodgers 790C 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 25: Saving A Combination Memory

    Velocity (VEL) * This channel is different for each MIDI coupler piston. Note: See the MIDI channel list on page 12. Saving a Combination Memory The contents of any combination memory may be saved into a MIDI sequencer and later reloaded into the organ.

  • Page 26: Midi Connections

    MIDI Connections Always connect a sequencer to the Sequencer IN/OUT ports on the organ. The sequencer must not be in Soft Thru mode. Any other MIDI instruments or keyboards should use the ports labeled MIDI.

  • Page 27: Rodgers 790C Stop Specification

    RODGERS 790C STOP SPECIFICATION Voice Palette stop names are listed in ( ) GREAT SWELL 8' Diapason (8’ Principal) 16' Bourdon Doux 8' Harmonic Flute (8’ Rohrflöte) 8' Geigen (8’ Viole) 8' Gemshorn 8' Viole Celeste II 8' Flûte Celeste II (8’ Erzähler Celeste II) 8' Bourdon 4' Octave (4’...

  • Page 28: Rodgers 790C Console Dimensions

    RODGERS 790C CONSOLE DIMENSIONS RODGERS 751/790/795 TOP VIEW BACK VIEW 1485.9mm [58.5"] 463.0mm [18.2"] 762.3mm 1481.3mm [30.0"] [58.4"] 1253.6mm [49.4"] 355.6mm [14.0"] 1489.0 mm [58.6"] 1204.9mm [47.5"] 759.2mm [29.9"] FRONT VIEW 396.2mm 812.8mm [15.6"] [32.0"] SIDE VIEW PEDAL SWELL GREAT GENERAL 405.1mm...

  • Page 29: Memory 1 Preset Registrations

    MEMORY 1 PRESET REGISTRATIONS Memory 1 General Preset Registrations Piston Pedal Swell Great Prelude and General 1 Bourdon Doux 16', Gt. to Viole Celeste II Erzähler Celeste II soft choir Ped. accompaniment General 2 Bourdon Doux 16', Viole 8', Viole Celeste II Harmonic Flute 8' Gedackt 8' General 3...

  • Page 30: Memory 1 Divisional Preset Registrations

    Memory 1 Divisional Preset Registrations Piston Pedal Swell Great Divisional1 Bourdon Doux 16', Gedackt 8' Bourdon 8', Nazard 2 2/3', Harmonic Flute 8', Tremulant Tremulant Divisional 2 Pedal 1 + Subbass 16', Bourdon 8', Nazard 2 2/3', Harmonic Flute 8', Spitzflöte Octave 8' Tierce 1 3/5' Divisional 3...

  • Page 31: Combination Memory Settings

    COMBINATION MEMORY SETTINGS The Rodgers 790C is shipped from the factory with default settings on combination memory 1. Registrations on M1 are locked. M2, M3, and M4 are available for new settings. If settings in M2, M3, or M4 combination memory must be deleted, this can be accomplished with the following procedure.

  • Page 32: 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 33 Rodgers Model: 790C MIDI Implementation Chart Version: 1.0 Function Transmitted Recognized Remarks Basic Default: 1-3, 12-14 *1 12-14 *1 12=Gt 13=Sw 14=Ped Channel Changed: 1-16 MIDI GT A only Default: Mode 3 Mode 3 Mode Messages: Altered: *************** *************** Note...
  • Page 35 Index accessing MIDI, 13 crescendo/Tutti indicator, 8 Alpha dial, 3 deleting memory settings, 24 ancillary on, 11 display attack quality, 15 console and menus, 2 auxiliary inputs Divisional presets, 23 adjusting, 11 divisionals, 3 bank number electromagnetic interference notice, iii setting, 14 expressing Swell, 7 basic operations, 2...
  • Page 36 MIDI, 5 previewing MIDI sounds, 13 user, 5 program change, 14 MIDI reversible pistons, 7 accessing, 13 Rodgers website, 1 MIDI channels safety, ii assigning, 17 Select knob, 3 MIDI menu items, 5 selecting a MIDI sound, 13 MIDI settings...
  • Page 37 8 shutdown timer unenclosed, 7 automatic, 12 User menu items, 5 single-shoe expression, 7 velocity stereo headphone jack, 10 MIDI note, 15 stop specification, 20 Voice Palette, 10 sustain switch, 17 accessing, 10 Swell website expressing, 7 Rodgers, 1...
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