Roland VK-8 About the Organ Voice, Press the H-BAR Manual button to make its indicator light

Playing the Organ

About the Organ Voice

The organ voice has three parts: “upper,” “lower,” and “pedal.”

When you play the keyboard of the VK-8, the sound of the Upper part will be heard. You can also play the VK-8 in the following ways.

•Divide the keyboard of the VK-8 into two zones, and play the sound of the Upper organ part in the right-hand zone, and the sound of the Lower organ part in the left-hand zone (p. 38).

•Connect an external keyboard, and play the sound of the Upper organ part on the VK-8’s keyboard, and the sound of the Lower organ part on the external keyboard (p. 59).

•Connect an external pedal keyboard, and play the sound of the Upper organ part on the VK-8, and the sound of the Pedal organ part on the pedal keyboard (p. 59).

The sounds of the Upper, Lower, and Pedal parts of an organ voice can be edited

using the harmonic bars.

1 Press either the HARMONIC BAR PART [UPPER] button, [LOWER]

button, or [PEDAL] button to select the part whose sound you want to

edit.

Button	Part
HARMONIC BAR PART [UPPER] Button	Upper Part
HARMONIC BAR PART [LOWER] Button	Lower Part
HARMONIC BAR PART [PEDAL] Button	Pedal Part

2 Press the [H-BAR MANUAL] button to make its indicator light.

When the [H-BAR MANUAL] button’s indicator is dark, the harmonic bar settings will be the harmonic bar settings of the organ voice of the selected preset (p. 22, 45).

3 Move the harmonic bars to edit the sound (p. 24).

A sound you’ve edited can be saved as a preset (p. 45).

To hear the sound of the Lower part, you can either select Split (p. 38) and play the sound of the Lower part in the left-hand zone of the keyboard, or connect an external keyboard (p. 59). To hear the sound of the pedal part, connect an external pedal keyboard (p. 59).

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