Roland VK-8 Dividing the Keyboard Split, Changing the Split Point, Lower Part Upper Part

Playing the Organ

Dividing the Keyboard (Split)

You can divide the keyboard into two zones, and assign the upper part sound of the organ voice to the right-hand zone, and the lower part sound of the organ voice to the left-hand zone.

This is called “split,” and the location at which the keyboard is divided is called the “split point.” The split point is included in the Upper part.

Split Point

Lower Part Upper Part

At the factory settings, the split point is set to “C4” (middle C).

1, 2

1 Press the [SPLIT] button to make its indicator light.

The keyboard will be divided into two zones.

The right-hand keyboard zone will play the Upper organ part, and the left-hand keyboard zone will play the Lower organ part.

2 To cancel the Split, press the [SPLIT] button once again, extinguishing

the indicator.

■Changing the Split Point

You can change the location (Split Point) at which the keyboard will be divided.

1 Hold down the HARMONIC BAR PART [UPPER] and [PEDAL] buttons and press the [SPLIT] button.

2 Press the key that you want to specify as the split point.

3 Press the [WRITE] button to finalize the split point.

The split point will be set.

You are free to change the split point.

When you hold down the

HARMONIC BAR PART [UPPER] and [PEDAL] buttons and press the [SPLIT] button, the [SPLIT] button and the [1]–

[3]buttons will blink. At this time, press one of the [1]–[3] buttons to select the part that will play Other Tones (p. 57).

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