Roland RD-700 owner manual Simulating the Creation of Organ, Tones Tone Wheel Mode, What Are Feet?

Detailed Settings for Each Function ([EDIT])

Simulating the Creation of Organ		While the Tone Wheel screen is displayed, the TONE
Tones (Tone Wheel Mode)		SELECT buttons provide for selection among Tone
		Wheels 1–10.
When any of the “Tone Wheel 1–10” Tones is selected for any	5. When the PART LEVEL sliders are moved, the harmonic
		bars move in the display, and the tone changes.
of the Local Parts (UPPER1, UPPER2, LOWER), you can
		By pressing the PART SWITCH buttons on and off, you
perform in “Tone Wheel mode,” in which the creation of
		can adjust the sounds for other Feet.
organ sounds is simulated.
		If the cursor is moved to the value at the bottom of the
An organ features nine “harmonic bars” that can be drawn in
		screen, you can adjust the sounds for Feet with [DEC/
and out, and by using the bars in different combinations of
		NO] and [INC/YES].
positions, a variety of different tones can be created.
Different “Feet” are assigned to each bar, with the pitches of	6. Press CURSOR [			]/[	] to move the cursor to
the sounds being determined by these “Feet.”		<Perc> and press [DEC/NO] or [INC/YES] to change
You can simulate the creation of tones using the harmonic		the value.
bars by assigning Feet to the PART LEVEL sliders.		Perc (Percussion) adds an attack-type sound to the
While there are only four PART LEVEL sliders, you can		beginning of the note to give the sound more crispness.
switch the Feet setting by turning the PART SWITCH		The attack sound changes according to the value.
buttons on and off, thus allowing you to assign eight Feet	NOTE
settings to the sliders.
	The Percussion is applied only to the UPPER1 Tone.
What Are “Feet?”
		Settings			Description
Feet basically refers to the lengths of pipe used in pipe
organs. The length of pipe used to produce the reference	OFF		No percussion is added.
pitch (the fundamental) for the keyboard is eight feet.	2nd		Percussion sounds at a pitch one octave
Reducing the pipe to half its length produces a pitch one			above that of the key pressed.
octave higher; conversely, doubling the pipe length
	3rd		Percussion sounds at a pitch an octave and
creates a pitch one octave lower. Therefore, a pipe
			a fifth above that of the key pressed.
producing a pitch one octave below that of the reference
	Slow		The percussion’s attenuation time is length-
of 8’ (eight feet) would be 16’; for one octave above the
			ened. This softens the sense of attack.
reference, the pipe would be 4’, and to take the pitch up
			The percussive sound will decay more
yet another octave it would be shortened to 2’.
	Fast		quickly. This gives more of a sense of attack
1. Bring up the Tone screen (p. 32).			for a sharp sound.
If the Tone screen is not currently displayed, press
[EDIT] or [MIDI TX] so that the indicator is turned off.	The settings changed here are stored to each Tone.
2. In the Tone screen, select an [ORGAN] “Tone Wheel 1–	Even when you exit from Tone Wheel mode, you can press
	[ORGAN] to select the Tone with the changed settings.
10” Tone for one of the Parts.
3. Press the CURSOR [ ] button.	Changing the Undulation of the Organ
The following Tone Wheel screen appears.	Tone (Rotary Effect)
This Tone Wheel screen appears only when a Tone	While the Tone Wheel screen is displayed, you can change
Wheel Tone is selected for one of the Parts in the Tone	the undulation rate of the Rotary effect with the Pitch Bend
screen.	lever.
fig.05-10	The Rotary effect is an effect that recreates the sound of the
	rotating speakers used to augment the sound of an organ.
	The Rotary effect is set to alternately rotate more rapidly or
	slowly when the Pitch Bend lever is moved to the left and
	right; the direction is not fixed.
4. Press a TONE SELECT button to select one of the Tone
	This Pitch Bend Lever setting is effective only in the Tone
Wheels from 1 through 10.
	Wheel screen.

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