–Adjusting the Volume of the Traps page 13 Trap Select page 13 –Trap List page 13 –Setting the Trap Select Tabs page 13 Rodgers Mood Enhancement™ page 14 –Mood Enhancement List page 13 –Adjusting the Volume of the Mood Enhancement page 14...
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Manual Sound Effects page 14 –Adjusting the Volume of the Manual Sound Effects page 15 –Manual Sound Effects Chart page 16 Transposer page 17 Tuning Control page 17 –Locking and Unlocking the Master Tuning page 17 –Adjusting the Pitch page 17 Console Lamp Dimmer page 18 Digital Dynamic Wind™...
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–Enabling or Disabling a MIDI Master Channel page 33 MIDI Stop Changes page 34 –Selecting MIDI Stop Change Settings page 34 –Using Pistons to Control a Second Rodgers Console page 35 MIDI Local Control page 35 –Enabling or Disabling MIDI Local Control page 35...
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–Selecting a New Folder on the Card page 40 Locking/Unlocking a Personal Memory Card page 41 Using a Personal Memory Card on other Rodgers Organs page 41 Reinitializing a Personal Memory Card page 41 Replacing the Personal Memory Card Battery...
Rodgers Theatre 360 is truly in a class by itself. This manual will help with the exploration of the expansive capabilities and the variety of features and functions offered by this incomparable instrument.
Display. 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/TEMPO 120”. The Rodgers Theatre 360 is ready to play. To turn the power off, press the lower part of the rocker switch and release after 1-2 seconds.
COMBINATION ACTION WITH FOUR MEMORY LEVELS The Rodgers Theatre 360 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.
Release the memory select tab. The memory is now locked. CONSOLE DISPLAY AND MENUS The Rodgers Theatre 360 is equipped with a two-line Console Display window located in the right panel. This display indicates the Transposer and Tempo 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.
360 User Menu Items Hold SET, turn SELECT knob counterclockwise. TRANSPOSER ² TRANSPOSER 4b thru 7# TEMPO ² ² ² TUNING A= ² ² ² .² MAIN I "VOICE PALETTE" MENU 20 thru 250 MAIN II (SEE VOICE PALETTE SECTION) 427.7 thru 453.0 TUBA (±...
360 MIDI Menu Items Hold SET, turn SELECT knob clockwise. AC A TRANSPOSER ² AC B TEMPO ² GT A GT B 1 thru 16 SO A (AC A ONLY) SO B MIDI ² ² ² CH ² PD A PGM=²...
360 User (Headphone) Menu Items Hold SET, turn SELECT knob counterclockwise. TRANSPOSER ² TRANSPOSER 4b thru 7# TEMPO ² ² ² TUNING A= ² ² ² .² MAIN I "VOICE PALETTE" MENU 20 thru 250 (SEE VOICE PALETTE SECTION) MAIN II 427.7 thru 453.0 TUBA (±...
EXPRESSION AND CRESCENDO SHOES The Rodgers Theatre 360 has two Expression Shoes. As with a real theatre pipe organ, the left Expression Shoe controls the Main chamber voices, and the right Expression Shoe controls the Solo chamber voices. When the MASTER EXPRESSION/CRESCENDO tab is lit, the Main Expression Shoe becomes a Master Expression Shoe, and the Solo Expression Shoe becomes a Crescendo Pedal.
Press and hold the SET piston, and press the MASTER/CRESCENDO EXPRESSION tab again. The tab light flashes, and the Console Display reads: C R E S C S E T M O D E S T D S T A G E 1 The stops and couplers currently set on stage one of the 63 stages in the Crescendo sequence turns on.
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. Any stop or coupler of the Solo division sounds from the highest key being played on the Great manual. This allows a solo melody and an accompaniment to be played on the same manual.
Great Sostenuto is on. ™ RODGERS RHYTHMAKER The Rodgers Rhythmaker is an easy-to-use automatic rhythm unit. The rhythm select tabs are located in the group of black tabs to the far left on the back rail. They light when they are engaged.
TRAPS The Theatre 360 includes a variety of traps located on the stop rail. The Accompaniment has Snare Drum, Tambourine, Cymbal and Trap Select; the Wood Block is the default trap for the Accompaniment Trap Select tab.
Please refer to the “Audio Save” section. Press General Cancel to exit. TRAP SELECT The Rodgers Theatre 360 has 16 additional trap instruments which can be assigned to the Pedal Trap Select tab and the Accompaniment Trap Select tab. The traps are: Side Stick Timbale...
Press General Cancel. MANUAL SOUND EFFECTS Another exclusive feature of the Theatre 360 is the manual sound effects. These effects are very useful for adding novelty and fun to the music being played. The SOUND EFFECTS piston is reversible (press to turn on; press again to turn off) and is located to the far right under the Solo manual.
The maximum volume level for the manual sound effects can be adjusted in the Console Display. ADJUSTING THE VOLUME OF THE MANUAL SOUND EFFECTS: Press and hold the SET piston. Turn the Select Knob counter clockwise (left) until the Console Display reads “SFX VOLUME”.
MANUAL SOUND EFFECTS CHART Thunder I Thunder II Rain I Rain II Wind I Wind II Seashore I Seashore II Stream I Stream II Bubble I Bubble II Big Dog Bark Dog Bark Kitty Bird T weet I Bird T weet II Tropical Bird I Tropical Bird II Horse Hoov es I...
Transposer, it is necessary to first hold SET, and then turn the Select Knob. TUNING CONTROL The Rodgers Theatre 360 can easily and quickly be tuned to a piano or musical instrument not at standard concert pitch (A=440.0). The range of the Tuning Control is one- half semitone sharp or flat.
Even though this results in significant detuning, the human ear seems to perceive instead an increase in ensemble effect. 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.
EXPRESSION RANGE ADJUSTMENTS The minimum volume of each chamber when its Expression Shoe is closed can be adjusted to suit specific musical needs or personal tastes. The “MINIMUM EXPRESSION” menu allows three settings— “NORMAL”, “ppp”, and “pppp”. The “NORMAL” setting produces the amount of expression obtained on most pipe instruments with typical swell shades.
™ VOICE PALETTE Many of the stop tabs on the Rodgers Theatre 360 can play additional voices which are ™ selectable through the Voice Palette menu. These voices are: DIVISION STOP TAB VOICE PALETTE VOICE PALETTE PEDAL: 8' Clarinet 16' English Horn...
LOCKING AND UNLOCKING THE VOICE PALETTE: Press and hold the SET piston. Turn the Select Knob counter clockwise (left). The Console Display reads: V O I C E P A L E T T E U N L O C K E D Rotate the Alpha Dial to lock the Voice Palette.
Rotate the Alpha Dial to change the tremulant rate. The adjustment values range from -9 (slow) to +9 (fast). A value of zero corresponds to the rate chosen by the voicer during tonal finishing using the exclusive Rodgers GC-8 Graphic Controller.
Rotate the Alpha Dial to set the desired value. AUXILIARY INPUTS The Rodgers Theatre 360 console 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.
Save”section. DIGITAL REVERBERATION The Rodgers Theatre 360 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.
Playing the organ from a remote MIDI keyboard or sequencer will also reset the timer. PIPES Any digital sampled rank in the Rodgers Theatre 360 may be replaced by a real wind- blown pipe rank. If a limited range of pipes are available, sampled voices from the Rodgers Theatre 360 can fill out the entire range.
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. In addition to the traditional theatre organ voices on the organ, there are 654 MIDI sounds (orchestral instruments, tuned percussions, traps and sound effects) contained in an internal Roland sound module.
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.
SETTING THE GS VARIATION (BANK NUMBER): Press and hold SET, then press a MIDI coupler piston. The piston flashes, indicating the MIDI Set Mode is active. The Console Display reads: M I D I G T A C H 1 P G M = 1 2 1 V A R = 0 Turn the Select Knob clockwise (right).
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 Theatre 360 are Fixed Velocity, Expression Velocity, and Keyboard Velocity.
Press either the flashing MIDI coupler piston or General Cancel to exit. Note: A MIDI Save may be performed to save this setting as the default. Please refer to the “MIDI Save” section. Keyboard Velocity: This setting individually senses the velocity of each note of the keyboard.
“MIDI Save” section. INTERNAL/EXTERNAL MIDI SOUND MODULES The internal MIDI sound module can be turned off when the Theatre 360 is used with an external MIDI sound module. Each MIDI coupler piston channel can be individually assigned to either internal/external or external only.
2. Turn the Select Knob clockwise (right) until the cursor moves to the channel number. 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 ACCOMP A coupler piston can be saved in the settings on a combination piston or saved permanently by performing the MIDI Save procedure.
Remember, MIDI default settings can be changed by performing a MIDI Save procedure. ENABLING/DISABLING MIDI MASTER CHANNELS The Theatre 360 reserves several MIDI channels for recording and playback of the organ using a MIDI sequencer. One channel is reserved for each division as follows:...
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 Theatre 360 via MIDI.
USING PISTONS TO CONTROL A SECOND RODGERS CONSOLE: Connect the MIDI Sequencer Output of the master console to the Sequencer Input of the slave console. On the master console, enable piston transmission by turning the Select Knob until the cursor is in the Send Field (“SEND”) of the MIDI Stop Change menu.
The number can be set to 1, or 17 through 32. Setting the ID to 1 produces Stop Control messages which are compatible with older Rodgers PDI and C-Series organs. The ID always returns to 17 when the organ is turned off.
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 saved from or restored to the memory card rather than the internal memory.
To initialize the Personal Memory Card, press and release the SET piston. This initialization process stores a small amount of information on the card which makes it recognizable as a valid 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.
Whenever a memory select piston (M1, M2, M3, or M4) is pressed, a message appears in the Console Display indicating whether the internal memory or the Personal Memory Card memory is being used. If an internal memory is accidentally copied to the Personal Memory Card, or if a memory level is to be removed on the Personal Memory Card so the internal memory can be used instead, you can delete the memory level from the Personal Memory Card.
PERSONAL MEMORY CARD FOLDERS 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 Memory Card.
USING A PERSONAL MEMORY CARD ON OTHER RODGERS ORGANS The same Personal Memory Card can be used in more than one Rodgers organ. The information on the Personal Memory Card is kept separate for each organ model. If a folder is created on a particular model, that folder will only be accessible on that same model of Rodgers organ.
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.
FACTORY DEFAULT COMBINATION SETTINGS The Rodgers Theatre 360 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: ...
SUGGESTED REGISTRATIONS Here are a few suggestions for registrations on the Great: BALLAD 1 BALLAD 2 BALLAD 3 Vox Humana 8 Tibia Clausa 16 Tibia Clausa 16 Piccolo 4 Vox Humana 16 Vox Humana 16 Vox Humana 8 Orchestral Oboe 8 Piccolo 4 Viol Celeste II 8 Vox Humana 8...
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Here are a few suggestions for registrations on the Solo: BALLAD 1 BALLAD 2 BALLAD 3 Tibia Clausa 8 Orchestral Oboe 8 Trumpet 8 Saxophone 8 Saxophone 8 * (select Vox Tuba Horn 8 Humana from VP) Tibia Clausa 8 Piccolo 4 Solo to Solo 16 BALLAD 4...
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Here are a few suggestions for registrations on the Accompaniment: BALLAD 1 BALLAD 2 BALLAD 3 Quintadena 8 Quintadena 8 Viol Celeste II 8 Concert Flute 8 Concert Flute 8 Quintadena 8 Flute 4 Harp BALLAD 4 BALLAD 5 NOVELTY Concert Flute 8 Viol Celeste 8 Viol Celeste II 8...
INSTRUMENT AND DRUM SET CHARTS The following charts contain the sounds from the internal MIDI sound module in the Theatre 360. There are two columns of numbers: the first column is the program change number; the second column is the variation (bank) number.
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FCC Notice 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.
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