Vox CONTINENTAL-61, Owner'S Manual

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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

1

4

3

2

Type

buttons

Variation

number

Part

ORGAN

E.PIANO

PIANO

KEY/

LAYER

SCENE BANK 

 buttons

SCENE 1–4
buttons

1

2