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Selecting and Playing Sounds 1. Selecting a sound

Selecting and Playing

Sounds

1. Selecting a sound

The VOX Continental features four sound parts, ORGAN, E.

PIANO, PIANO and KEY/LAYER. You can select a variation

for each part to play.

1 Press a part select button

to turn on the part you

wish to play. (the button

will light)

Pressing down two part

select buttons at the

same time (the button

will light) will allow you

to play a layered sound

with both parts (for

instance, piano and strings together).

2 Turn the LEVEL knobs to adjust the volume of each sound

part.

Use the master control VOLUME knob to adjust the overall

volume.

3 Press the type buttons for each sound part to select the

sound type.

The LED on the respective button will light when the type

is on.

For example, the types that can be selected for the ORGAN

part are shown below.

CX-3: Tonewheel organ

VOX: transistor organ

COMPACT: transistor organ

See the pages listed below for other parts.

E. PIANO part (See page 14)

PIANO part (See page 14)

KEY/LAYER part (See page 14)

4 Press the VARIATION ,  buttons to select the variation.

The variation number will be shown in the VARIATION

display.

Note: Changing parts or variations will have no effect on the

settings in EFFECTS control, or on the octave or transpose

settings.

2. Selecting the scene

Scenes are used to store your favorite variations or effect

settings and instantly recall them. There are 16 scenes (4 scenes

× 4 banks).

Tip: Each scene is already set by factory default, but you can

overwrite them.

1 Press the BANK ,  buttons to select a bank (from A to

D). (The LEDs on banks A–D will light)

2 Press a button from SCENE 1–4 to select a scene (from 1 to

4).

The saved scene will be recalled, allowing you to play the

sound.

Note: If you change the part variation, effect, octave and other

settings, the currently selected SCENE button will blink. Press

the blinking SCENE button to undo the changes and revert to

the saved state.

Note: For details on how to save a scene, see page 11. Scenes

do not contain EQ or other settings.

3. Using controllers

Touch sensors

On the ORGAN part, the touch sensors are used to adjust the

drawbars. On the KEY/LAYER part, the touch sensors adjust

the filter, EG and LFO.

The overall audio output characteristics are adjusted using the

nine-band equalizer.

Adjusting the organ drawbars

1 Turn the ORGAN part select button on.

2 Use the type button to select the ORGAN type.

Note: The drawbar operations will differ with each organ

type. (See page 15)

Select the variation that will be the starting point for

adjusting the drawbars, as necessary. Use the VARIATION

,  buttons to select. The drawbar settings will switch to

the settings that are saved for that variation.

3 Press the UPPER/LOWER button to switch between

playing either UPPER (upper part of the keyboard) or

LOWER (lower part of the keyboard).

The button will go dark for UPPER, and the button will

light for LOWER.

Note: The UPPER/LOWER button can be used when the

organ type is CX-3 or VOX.

Tip: Refer to page 20 for how to create a split or how to

control an external MIDI keyboard as LOWER.

4 Select ORGAN using the CONTROL button.

Tip: The drawbar names for each ORGAN type (CX-3,

VOX and COMPACT) are shown above each touch sensor.

(See the upper right side of the following diagram.)

Part select

buttons

Type

buttons

Variation

number

Part

ORGAN E.PIANO PIANO

KEY/

LAYER

SCENE BANK

 buttons

SCENE 1–4

buttons