Owner`s manual

 ADJUSTING THE WIND STABILIZER:

1. Press and hold the SET piston.

2. Turn the Select Knob counter clockwise (left) to “WIND STABILIZER”.

3. Release SET.

4. Rotate the Alpha Dial to select “OFF”, “1/2”, or “ON”.

RANDOM DETUNING

One of the essential ingredients of a pipe organ ensemble arises from the small amount of

pitch error in each pipe. No matter how carefully an instrument is tuned, small changes in

temperature or humidity causes the pipes to drift from their original pitches. Reed pipes are

especially prone to drift over time due to “creeping” of the tuning wire with cyclic

temperature variations.

The Random Detuning feature causes selected notes to receive a small amount of

detuning. The amount of detuning is chosen at random for each note of each voice. Some

notes will not be detuned at all. The number of notes detuned and the maximum amount of

detuning are selected for each voice to mimic the behavior of an equivalent pipe set. For

instance, reeds will exhibit more pitch error than flues. Because the detuning is random, there

is no degradation of the overall temperament of the instrument and the amount of detuning is

no more than one would experience in a recently-tuned pipe instrument.

This detuning process happens each time the organ is turned on. Once computed, the

pitch of each note remains constant. Thus, the tuning will be a little different, as it would be

with a pipe organ, each time the organ is used. The amount of Random Detuning present in

the organ will be set by a Rodgers representative during final voicing.

EXPRESSION RANGE ADJUSTMENTS

The minimum volume of each division when its Expression Shoe is closed can be

adjusted to suit specific musical needs or personal tastes. The “MINIMUM EXPR:” 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. The

“ppp” setting produces a greater range than the “NORMAL” setting, and the “pppp” setting

produces the amount of expression one might expect from very heavy and thick swell shades.

The settings do not affect the sound at all when the expression shoe is open.

There are special settings of the Expression Range that can be selected when installing a

pipe/electronic combination organ. When speakers for the enclosed division (Swell) are

placed inside a pipe organ swell box, the digitally sampled electronic stops in those divisions

can sound at a constant volume by setting the Expression Range to “Unenclosed”. Then the

expression of those stops, like the pipes in the swell box, will be controlled by the swell

shades.