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5. THE VOLUMES SECTION
5.1. DESCRIPTION
At the farthest left of front panel, you can find the volumes section (VOLUMES),
shown in the figure below.
As already seen in the previous chapters, the instrument allows you to play up to
three parts on the keyboard at the same time: they are called 1ST, 2ND and MANUAL
BASS, and they can be associated to the extension of the keyboard in different ways,
as you can see more widely on Chapter 3. At the same time, you can start up one of the
automatic accompaniment styles, or alternatively, you can play a MIDI song that the
recorder reads from the floppy disk in real time.
The volumes section allows to check the level of the parts associated to the
keyboard and of these played by the recorder; actually, shifting the sliders of the
volumes section you set the instrument audio outputs mix.
5.2. HOW DOES THE VOLUMES SECTION WORK
The first slider on the left (MASTER) sets the instrument master volume: if this is
on the lowest position you won't hear any output sound, neither on the line outputs
(LINE OUT), nor on the headphones outputs (PHONES).
The slider nearby (STYLE/SONG) sets the level of the whole accompaniment, or
of the song played by the recorder. The COMP./MANUAL key, placed just below, allows
to specify if the accompaniment is to be played with a pre-defined style level
(COMPUTED), or with the one set on the associated sliders (MANUAL). Using the
MANUAL mode (button LED off) you may change the level of each section of the
accompaniment (DRUM, BASS, ACC.1, ACC.2, ACC.3), using the related slider. On the
contrary, moving the slider with the button LED on, i.e., in the COMPUTED mode, there
won't be any immediate effect.
