Allen Organ Company Historique III Owner's Manual

The Allen Organ operating software contains many settings that are user-programmable. Each programmable setting can be adjusted via the Console Controller. These programmable settings are divided up into many window functions. To advance the Console Controller's display to the next window function, locate and press the CURSOR button until the blinking CURSOR is positioned over the abbreviation “MEM” in the display. Once the cursor is positioned, slowly turn the ROTARY DIAL clockwise, the display will advance to the next window function. When th ...

possible for these MIDI devices to have as many as (128 X 128 X 2 = 32,768 voices/sounds) 128 voices/sounds in each of the 128 BANK Numbers, in each of the High and Low Banks. Most MIDI devices do not use all of the locations available. It would be very expensive as well as difficult to remember the address for each sound location. There are also MIDI devices that offer only General MIDI sounds/voices. These General MIDI devices may operate using High Bank or Low Bank, but only the sub-group Ø Bank Number is ...

CAPTURE MEMORY refers to all of the piston registrations on all available memories, piston configuration settings, plus all MIDI settings as well as MIDI program changes. With this operation, the organist can copy and save all of this stored information to a digital MIDI sequencer. Advance to the 'CAPTURE MEMORY SAVE' window function (see Section A-2). Set your sequencer to the record mode and begin recording as you normally would. Press and hold the MEMORY button in the Console Controller. While holding MEMORY, press Ge ...

For more than sixty years--practically the entire history of electronic organs-- Allen Organ Company has built the finest organs that technology would allow. In 1939, Allen built and marketed the world’s first electronic oscillator organ. The tone generators for this instrument used two hundred forty-four vacuum tubes, contained about five thousand components, and weighed nearly three hundred pounds. Even with all this equipment, the specification included relatively few stops. By 1959, Allen had replaced vacuum tubes in oscillator organs with transistors. Thousands ...

the piston number that is pressed. General Pistons will send program changes 1-5 on MIDI Channel 8, the organ’s General Piston control the channel. USER Mode: In this mode the organ is capable of sending any program change number on any piston that will select voices, change banks, or change program or “patch” numbers on another MIDI device. Any MIDI program change number from 1 through 128 can be assigned to any General Piston (blank or no digit may also be selected). Any MIDI bank switch number bet ...

Advance to the ‘RE-INITIALIZE’ window function (see Section A-2). The window will display... Certain functions can be restored to the original factory settings. They are: The Piston Configuration re-initialization includes all the Configure Piston settings. The MIDI Settings re-initialization includes all MIDI program change mapping. The Capture Memory re-initialization will reset the last available capture memory to factory default registrations (if applicable). Each of these functions can be restored individually. To select the factory s ...

the particular stop. Organs can produce notes of different pitches from a single playing key. When this sound corresponds to the actual pitch of the played key, the stop is referred to as being of 8’ (eight foot) pitch; therefore, when an 8’ stop is selected and Middle C is depressed, the pitch heard is Middle C. If the sounds are an octave higher, it is called 4’ or octave pitch. If two octaves higher, it is called 2’ pitch. A stop sounding three oc ...

The term MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI has been adopted by the music industry as a standard means of communication between digital musical devices enabling devices of different types and manufacturers to communicate. MIDI by itself will not make a sound. It is not necessary to understand all of the technical aspects of MIDI in order to take advantage of the benefits it offers. It is important to explore the potential MIDI holds for musicians, as well as the various MIDI applications available today. Types of MIDI Dev ...