Roland VK-8 owner manual Problem Check Solution, Click is heard when you press/re, Lease a key

Troubleshooting

Problem	Check	Solution	Page
	On a tone wheel organ, a slight
	“blip” noise is heard when you press
	or release a key. Initially, this was
Click is heard when you press/re-	considered a defect, but as organs	The volume of the click can be ad-
	with this characteristic came to be
		justed with “ON CLICK LEVEL”	p. 51
lease a key	used in a wide range of music, it
		and “OFF CLICK LEVEL.”
	grew to be considered part of the
	sound. The VK-8 faithfully simu-
	lates this key click noise, which is
	characteristic of tone wheel organs.
	Tuning is incorrect.	Adjust the reference pitch.	p. 55
	Key Transpose (transposition) is in	Either cancel Key Transpose, or	p. 55
	effect.	change its setting.
	Glide has been assigned to the con-
	trol pedal.	Either connect a foot switch or con-
	If Glide is assigned when no foot	trol pedal to the CONTROL PEDAL	p. 40
	switch or control pedal is connected	jack, or assign a function other than
Pitch is incorrect	to the CONTROL PEDAL jack, the	Glide to the control pedal.
	pitch may be incorrect.
	Wheel Brake is assigned to the con-
	trol pedal.	Either connect a foot switch or con-
	If Wheel Brake is assigned when no	trol pedal to the CONTROL PEDAL	p. 41
	foot switch or control pedal is con-	jack, or assign a function other than
	nected to the CONTROL PEDAL	Wheel Brake to the control pedal.
	jack, the pitch may be incorrect.
	Ring Modulator is applied to the or-	Operate the control pedal or the D	p. 35
	gan voice.	Beam to defeat the ring modulator.
	Overdrive level is too low.	Turn the [OVERDRIVE] knob to ad-	p. 33
		just the depth of overdrive.
Overdrive is not applied	The expression pedal has been	While carefully monitoring the vol-	p. 39
	rocked toward the front.	ume, depress the toe of the pedal.
	Overdrive will not be applied to the	This is not malfunction.	- - -
	Other Tones.
Reverb is not applied	Reverb level is too low.	Turn the REVERB [LEVEL] knob	p. 37
		clockwise to adjust the reverb level.
	The ROTARY SOUND [ON] button	Press the ROTARY SOUND [ON]	p. 32
	is turned off (dark).	button to turn it on (lit).
Rotary effect is not applied		Either turn the [BRAKE] button off
	The [BRAKE] button is on (lit).	(dark) or press the [SLOW/FAST]	p. 32
		button, so that the brake will be re-
		leased, and rotary will be applied.
		Either select a different channel for
	This is already specified as the MIDI	the other part that is using that chan-
		nel and then make the desired set-	p. 54
	channel of another part.
		ting, or select a MIDI channel that no
Can’t set the MIDI channel		other part is using.
	You are attempting to set the MIDI	It is not possible to set the MIDI
	channel of the Other Tones, Drum,
		channel of the Other Tones, Drum,
	or spring shock to the MIDI channel		p. 54
		or spring shock to the same channel
	that has been specified as the Con-
		as the Control MIDI Channel.
	trol MIDI Channel.

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