User Guide / Owners Manual

ARTURIA – VOX Continental V – USER MANUAL 41
Key Contact Age: The design of the organ keyboards gives them a fair amount
of character. Each key has a separate contact for each drawbar stop, and as
these connections age the contacts age as well…and often at different rates.
This knob allows you to dial in as much of this unpredictability as you would like,
from none (0.00%) to “desperately in need of service” (100.0%). The overall
output can be very different from key to key, which could be quite interesting
in its own right or in conjunction with the effects VOX Continental V provides.
Another good thing to know is that you can enter Open mode simply by
clicking on the top of the organ. You can close it with a click, too, but since
the top is not available you must click on the back edge inside “the hood,” just
beyond the tuning controls and the other knobs.
3.7 The pedals
Sometimes the keyboard player needs to hold down the low end during a
song. Knowing this, the people at VOX were kind enough to offer a pedal
board as an optional accessory. But the good folks at Arturia have included it
for free in VOX Continental V.
And our pedals are a lot easier to set up. They have a dedicated set of
drawbars, an octave range switch to the left of the upper manual, and a slider
called Bass Decay that controls the release time of the pedal sound. They can
be set to respond to their own MIDI channel, too, just like the upper and lower
organ manuals.
You can also click on the top of the pedals, or on the floor where they should
be, and the pedals will appear or be stowed away.
Note: when the pedals have been retracted their MIDI channel will no longer
respond to incoming data. The lowest octave of the lower manual will play the
bass sound instead on its MIDI channel.