There are a few things about the
SPLIT POINT that had me really baffled. But I think I have sussed them out now.
1. The first Split Point (and often the only one) is the one for the STYLE and the LEFT HAND VOICE.
This is more often than not put at F#2 for both. But you can also set up a second Split Point higher up and have an R3 voice playing to the right of that to the top of the keyboard .. and R1 and R2 will play together below that, down to the first Split Point.
But if you have not selected a voice for R3, then R1 and R2 run right up to the top of the keyboard.
I
had thought that R1 and R2 would only play
up to that R3 split point I had set and wouldn't encroach into R3's space.
So that caught me by surprise.
2. After setting up the above so I could jump between two voices as in the video in the previous post (this is something I can do on my AR80 organ by setting the Upper Manual and the Lower Manual with two different voices .. and it's much easier to jump from one sound to the other on an organ than on a keyboard!) I then had a problem when I wanted to have
all three voices playing
together. Having set up a voice for R3, as soon as I brought it in it would only play to the right of that second split point .. and then only on it's own.
Took a couple of phone calls to discover how to get all three to play together (thanks Jon D).
You move that top R3 Split Point all the way to the left until it is in the same place as the STYLE and LEFT HAND VOICE split point. Then R1, R2 and R3 will all play together.3. Another problem I had. Having set the Split Point up to now play R1, R2 and R3 together, when I pressed the REGISTRATION MEMORY button to go back to my previous Registration with R3 playing on it's own in the top part of the keyboard, that had been overridden by what I had just done, and R3 was running up/down the whole keyboard
with R1 & R2.
And another thing. The example above was a case of trying to save two
different Split Points into two
different REGISTRATION MEMORY buttons in the one REGISTRATION MEMORY BANK. I know that when you press
MEMORY a box comes up asking you which of the many things you want the Registration Memory to save .. and
Split Point is not one of them!And even when I set up an existing REGISTRATION MEMORY BANK for a completely different song I found that the Split Points were set up as I had last had them. This made me think that I would have to re-set the split points for a particular song every time I wanted to play it.
Another chat with people who know about these things, and Jon D asked me what was set up in my
PARAMETER LOCK.
Parameter Lock? This is where you tell the keyboard what things you don't want to find have been changed when you turn your keyboard ON.So thought I had better check.
Press
FUNCTION.
Then
UTILITY. Press the down-arrow on the left until
PARAMETER LOCK is highlighted.
And there it is, plain to see.
SPLIT POINT is ticked .. so I'm telling the keyboard, "Whatever I have the SPLIT POINT set at, keep it like that."
Jon said I should 'untick' all those boxes apart from
MASTER EQ, so that is what I have done.
It now turns out that my REGISTRATIO MEMORY
did SAVE where I had put my Split Points, and when I went back to that Registration I had the Split Points set up as below when pressing
one REGISTRATION MEMORY button (so I had my R3 playing in the top section of the keyboard, and R1 and R2 playing together below it):
.. and when I pressed
another REGISTRATION MEMORY button I had R1, R2 and R3 all playing together for the whole length of the keyboard down to the STYLE and LEFT HAND VOICE Split Point.
So my
REGISTRATION MEMORY does remember where I have set my
SPLIT POINTS, even if it's in a different place in two different REGISTRATION MEMORY buttons in the
same REGISTRATION BANK.
So long as
SPLIT POINT is not ticked in
PARAMETER LOCK.