Studiologic Numa Organ 2 Usato User manual
Operation Manual
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Version 1.2
Manuale di Istruzione
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Operation Manual
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Safety Instructions
Important Safety Instructions
Please read the entire manual. It contains all the information you
need to use this unit.
Please follow the instructions in the manual. The warranty
will be void if unauthorized work is carried out on the instrument. Only accessories specied by the manufacturer should
be used with this unit. Use the unit only as specied in this
manual.
DANGER!
Risk of electric shock.
Do not open the chassis. There are no user serviceable parts inside.
The unit should only be serviced by qualied service sta.
Mains
Before connecting the unit to the main power supply, please check
if the power supply is suitable for the instrument. The unit can be
powered with 100 – 240VAC. The unit is secured by a 250V-500mA F
type fuse. Replace the fuse with one of the same type and value. The
position of the fuse can be found at page 10.
This unit must be earthed.
Do not use a damaged power cord.
Humidity
To reduce the risk of re or electric shock, do not expose the unit
to rain or moisture. Never place containers with liquid on the unit.
Do not use the unit near water, eg swimming pool, bathtub or wet
basement.
If the unit is moved from a cold place to a warm room, condensation
may occur inside. To avoid any damage please allow the unit to reach
the room temperature before switching on.
Installation
Always use a stable rack/stand to place the keyboard on. Please be
aware of its size and weight.
Cleaning / Maintenance
Never use any abrasive detergent, which may damage the
surface. We recommend a slightly moist micro-bre cloth.
Packaging
Please keep all packaging and use it to protect the instrument during
transportation, eg if service is required.
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Table of contents
Safety Instructions
Your new Numa Organ 2
What‘s behind Numa Organ 2
Tone Wheel Organ Models
Acoustic & Electronic Organ Sounds
External Rotary Speaker and amplier
Connection / Back view
Control panel
Volume
How functions are shown in this manual
Operation / Drawbars
Drawbars
How the manual and drawbars are related
Extension with other manuals
Operation
Pitch Wheel
Rotary / Modulation Wheel
Chorus / Vibrato
Split
Split point
Transpose
Edit functions
Percussion
Eects (Reverb, Drive, Key Click, Leakage)
EQ / Volume
Dynamic TOUCH / MIDI
Preset Selection
Preset Store
Sound Selection
Preset Upload & Download
External Rotary Speaker Cabinet
System Update
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MIDI
MIDI connection
Keyboard extension
Control the Numa Organ 2 via MIDI
Use the Numa Organ 2 as MIDI masterkeyboard
MIDI parameters recording
Troubleshooting
Declarations
Appendix
MIDI Implementation Chart
Specications / dimensions
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Your new Numa Organ 2
Thank you very much for choosing the Numa Organ 2. You have obtained a state-of-the-art
instrument made by the renowned manufacturer Studiologic.
Get inspired by the new Numa Organ 2! Its Physical Modelling synthesis is the most authentic
revival of the sound of an electromechanical tone wheel organ. But the Numa Organ 2 is much more. We
recommend you to read the entire manual carefully to take full advantage of all the functions of your new
instrument.
An overview of the features of the Numa Organ 2:
What‘s behind Numa Organ 2
Tone Wheel Organ Models
Model B
The Numa Organ 2 sound models have been designed to give a
wide variety of sounds, derived from the analysis of the main characters of some of the most popular organ sounds, allowing to build
combinations using the drawbars and all the available post processing eects (Vibrato, Chorus, Rotary, Reverb, Drive, Click, Leakage).
The Numa Organ 2 performs as a clone of some Tone Wheel Organs,
and captures some characters of old Acoustic & Electronic-Analogue Organs by keeping the full exibility of using any customized
mixing, editing functions and controls.
(To select and store the Sound Models, please refer to pag. 18)
These 3 dierent models (selected by the G/A/B keys of the Preset
octave) are referred to 3 dierent kind of original instrument’s levels
and tone balance; the sound was slightly (or noticeable) dierent
not only from one model to another but also considering the year
of construction, the age of the circuitry and some subtle changes
in the analogue components of the original vintage instruments.
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Model B is considered the most popular reference, with a very balanced sound, rich bass and clean treble texture, ideal for Jazz Music
and all kind of applications, where the overall balance is needed.
While the C and A models are theoretically identical, excluding the
building period, age and maintenance status, dierences could be
found also in the instruments and this B model is free of too particular deviations from the original factory set up and original sound
specications.
Model A is another popular reference, with the same tone generator of Model B, but with a built in amplication system and some
changes in the circuitry that could make its sound warmer than
other instruments of the same kind (a built in Reverb was also
available). The balance of the Numa Organ model A is dierent
from the model B and C and it has a natural loudness, less middle
frequencies.
Tone Wheel Organ Models
Model A
Model C/G, as most of tone wheel big organs, originally shared the
same kind of tone generator; models not very popular are the G series instruments, also designed with a Classical approach and layout.
The Numa Organ 2 A/B/C Sound Models have been selected to give
alternative timbres to create an innite variety of tone wheel sounds,
further made dierent by the post-processor controls stored in each
Preset. Some other internal parameters are slightly dierent in the
various models, like the Vibrato/Chorus eect and other subtle nuances, giving a total exibility when creating sounds for any kind of
Music.
Model C/G
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Acoustic & Electronic Organ Sounds
Classic Organ Diapason
Electronic Analog
Organ Model D
This sound model allows to create sounds with a classical timbre,
thanks to its harmonic spectrum that emulates the typical timbre of
the main Principal-diapason pipes; the option to store all the eects
in each Preset allows to adapt these controls to this sound, that normally is associated with a noticeable Reverb and zero Drive/Click/
Leakage levels.
Electronic Analog
Organ Model V
Many sounds of vintage Electronic Organs were based on simple
tone generators creating Square waves (with odd harmonics only)
summed and ltered in various ways; this model creates a mellow
square wave with a very typical clarinet-like sound, smoothed to be
summed in any drawbars settings.
This model recreates the typical sound of the most famous vintage
electronic organ, played by leading bands, that was controlled by
drawbars almost like the tone wheel organs (with a dierent setup).
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Many electronic organs had tabs (instead of drawbars) with various sounds on dierent pitches, to be mixed in combinations. This
F model recreates one of their most rich sound, a kind of smooth
“sawtooh synthesized” harmonic spectrum, dierent and complementary to the other models, that could generate thousands of
combinations with the drawbars and all available eects, including
Rotary, Vibrato & Chorus, and all other controls storable in any Preset.
Acoustic & Electronic Organ Sounds
Electronic Organ
Model F
You can also connect an external Rotary Speaker cabinet to your
Numa Organ 2. Use the buttons of the Numa Organ 2 to switch the
external Rotary Speaker on and o, and control the rotary speed
with the modulation wheel.
Additionally you can use a separate direct out to play the Numa
Organ 2 over other ampliers.
External Rotary Speaker and
amplier
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Connection / Back view
Rotary Speaker
Cabinet, Page 19
Direct-out
Page 10
Power connection
Sustain / Expression pedals
Audio out L/R
Audio out L/R
Page 10
Stereo audio in • Level
Page 10
Hold • Expression
Page 10
Headphone out 1/2
Page 10
USB 1 • Mini USB 2
Page 10
MIDI In•Out•Thru
Page 20
Fuse
Page 4, 10
Mains • Power
Page 4, 10
Use the power cord supplied with the device to connect the Numa
Organ 2 to the power socket. Switch the unit on by using the power
button next to the power socket.
Connect the optional sustain / hold Studiologic pedals VFP1 or
PS100 at the socket labelled Hold.
Connect the optional volume / expression Studiologic pedals FP50
or VP25 at the socket labelled Expression.
Note: If you would like to use other pedals, please refer to the required
specications on page 49.
Connect the audio outputs Left and Right with the inputs of your
mixing desk or amplier, etc.
Direct out
Headphones
Stereo audio in / Level
USB 1
Mini USB 2
MIDI
Rotary Speaker Cabinet
Use the separate direct out to play the Numa Organ 2 over other
ampliers. The direct output does not oer the Leslie® simulation
sound (direct sound including Chorus and Vibrato).
Plug in your headphone(s) to one of the headphone outputs. You
can use up to two headphones at the same time.
You can plug in external audio devices, such as mp3-players for
playback or MIDI sound modules, at the audio input. The Level
knob near the jack on the back of the Numa Organ 2 is for adjusting
the input level.
For MIDI data transmission via USB, connect the Numa Organ 2 to
your computer with a USB cable. The rst time you switch the Numa
Organ 2 on, it will be recognised by your computer automatically as
a MIDI device and the appropriate driver will be installed by the OS
(class compliant).
This USB port is also dedicated to panel function updates.
The mini USB connector is dedicated to update the rmware of the
Sound Engine and to load new sound models into the insrtument.
Please refer to page 20.
Please refer to page 19.
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Control panel
Pitch / Modulation /
Rotary
Page 14
Presets/ Sound Models
Recall / store / Sound
Page 17,18
Chorus • Vibrato
2 x 3 variations
Page 14
Drawbars
for Upper, Lower, Pedal
Page 12,13
Split • Transpose •Tune
Keyboard functions
Page 15
Percussion
Page 16
When you use the Numa Organ 2 for the rst time, we recommend
you to turn the Volume knob on the Output section to not more
than half way between 0 and Full. While you are playing you can
adjust the volume as you choose. Adjusting the Volume knob
eects all audio and headphone outputs at the same time.
Eects
Reverb, Drive, Click,
Leakage, Page 16
Volume
dynamic TOUCH/[MIDI]
Page 17
EQ / Volume
Output section
Page 16
CAUTION:
To prevent hearing damage you should – as with all audio devices
– avoid using the Numa Organ 2 at high volume for long periods.
All operation buttons are marked in bold italics in this manual
(eg Leakage).
In classic organs, the keyboard is called a manual. We will use that
term for the Numa Organ 2 too. The Numa Organ 2 can be played
with three manuals:
Upper manual (Upper)
Lower manual (Lower)
Bass-Pedalboard (Pedal)
You will nd tips and further information in text passages marked by the
Studiologic logo.
How functions are shown in this
manual
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Operation / Drawbars
• Drawbars
Drawbars
Drawbars are a characteristic control of a tone wheel organ.
In the text the drawbars of the Numa Organ 2 are indicated by coloured highlighted digits as shown below.
• Upper
• Lower
• Pedal
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
The drawbars can be used to create a wide range of sounds of the
Numa Organ 2.
Each drawbar represents a dierent harmonic related to the 8‘ stop
of a pipe organ (the 3rd drawbar) which is also called “native pitch“.
Drawbar
Feet
Harmonic
related to 8‘
Harmonic
related to 16‘
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1/3
16‘ 5
- - 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8.
1. 3. - - - - - - -
‘ 8‘ 4‘ 2
2/3
‘ 2‘ 1
3/5
‘ 1
1/3
‘ 1‘
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Note: The labelling of the drawbars in feet derives from pipe organs, where
it represents the length of the pipes. For the 8‘ stop of a pipe organ the pipe
of the note C is exactly 8 feet long (=2,4m).
The colouring of the drawbars is very intuituive:
Brown drawbars add frequencies below the native pitch. They are
also used to adjust the timbre for Pedal. White drawbars are related
in octaves to each other, where the 3rd drawbar (native pitch) represents the fundamental. Finally the black drawbars add fths and
a major third to the timbre.
When a drawbar is pushed all the way in (until you can‘t
see any digit), its harmonic is absent from the timbre. The
maximum volume for the drawbar is achieved, when you
see the digit 8. There are seven more volume positions in
between to add the harmonics of each drawbar to the timbre.
• Drawbars
Operation / Drawbars
At each push of a key all nine harmonics of this particular key are
generated. The drawbars simply adjust the levels among them. Thus
you can change the timbre while keys are pressed.
Note: Located under every single key of an original tone wheel organ were
nine contacts, which were all closed at the same time by pressing the key.
A bus system then regulated the volume for each contact via each of the
nine drawbars.
With your Numa Organ 2 you can play three dierent sections at
the same time. To do this you may connect another MIDI keyboard
and a MIDI pedal board to the Numa Organ 2 (refer to page XX), or
split the manual of the Numa Organ 2 into two zones (refer to Split
on page XX).
Use the buttons Upper, Lower and Pedal to assign the drawbars
control to each section. The active button will light up.
Upper: The drawbars control the sound of the whole manual or, in
Split mode, of the upper manual.
Lower: The drawbars control the sound of an optional additional
keyboard or, in Split mode, of the lower manual.
Pedal: The drawbars control the sound of an optional additional
bass pedal board or, in Split mode, of the lower manual, if Pedal to
Lower is activated.
Special Drawbar setting for Pedal:
To adjust the timbre for Pedal you can only use the drawbars
1 and 2.
Drawbar 1 controls a special sound based on the 16‘ harmonic, while
drawbar 2 now adjusts the 8‘ harmonic!
For Upper and Lower all nine drawbars are accessible as
previously described.
How the manual and drawbars
are related
Extension with other
manuals / keyboards
Upper
Drawbar
Feet
Lower
Drawbar
Feet
Pedal
Drawbar
Feet
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
16‘ 5
1/3
‘ 8‘ 4‘ 2
2/3
‘ 2‘ 1
3/5
‘ 1
1/3
‘ 1‘
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
16‘ 5
1/3
‘ 8‘ 4‘ 2
2/3
‘ 2‘ 1
3/5
‘ 1
1/3
‘ 1‘
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
16‘ 8‘ - - - - - - -
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Operation
• Pitch • Rotary / Modulation
• Chorus / Vibrato
Pitch Wheel
Rotary / Modulation Wheel
(Rotary Speaker Simulation)
To vary the pitch while playing by ±2 semitones, use the Pitch
wheel on the left. The wheel is self centering and it will go back to
its center position after being released.
Press the On/O button next to the Modulation / Rotary wheel
to switch the internal Rotary Speaker eect on. The On/O button
lights up.
Use the Modulation / Rotary wheel to adjust the speed of the
rotor. There are three states available: At the leftmost position
of the Modulation / Rotary wheel, the rotor runs slow. At the
centre position the rotor slows down and stops, but the sound is still
played back by the Rotary Speaker simulation. This state is called
“Brake“. By turning the Modulation / Rotary wheel to the right, the
simulated rotor spins fast.
If you would like to switch o the Rotary Speaker simulation, press
On/O again. The lit button will turn o.
You can also change the Rotary Speaker speed with an attached
Sustain pedal.
If the Rotary wheel is set to the positions Slow or Fast, you alter
the Rotary speed with the Sustain pedal from slow to fast and vice
verse. If the Rotary wheel‘s position is Brake, the Sustain pedal
alters the Rotary speed from Brake to Fast.
Chorus / Vibrato
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Note: You can also use the Modulation / Rotary wheel, the On/O
button and an attached Sustain pedal to control an external Rotary-
Cabinet. Please refer to page XX.
With the big Vibrato And Chorus knob you can choose from 3 Vibrato or 3 Chorus eect settings.
To assign the eect to a manual, press Upper and/or Lower. You
can assign the eect to the upper and lower manual at the same
time or just to one manual. The button(s) will light up. Press Upper
and/or Lower again, to deactivate the eect for the particular
manual.
Note: You can connect a second keyboard and an additional bass pedal
board to the Numa Organ 2, or use the Split function, to play two manuals
at the same time with the Numa Organ 2 keyboard. Please refer to pages
XX and XX respectively.
• Split • Split point
Operation
• Transpose •Edit
Press Split to activate this function. The Split button will light up
and the manual is splitted in two zones. Press Upper to adjust the
sound of the upper zone. Press Lower to assign the drawbars to the
lower zone.
In addition, you can also assign to the left zone of the keyboard the
pedal manual, by pressing Pedal to Lower. The button will light up.
To control the sound press Pedal in the drawbar section.
Use the Oct Up button to transpose the lower keyboard zone by
one octave up. The Oct Up button will light up.
To deactivate one of the functions above, just press the corresponding button again.
To adjust the split point, press and hold the On/O button of the
split section for a few seconds. Using the keyboard (or Value +/-),
select the highest note of the lower split zone.
If you have to play in a demanding key, you can simplify this task by
transposing the keyboard (eg from F sharp by minus one semitone
to F).
To transpose in steps of a semi-tone, press Transpose+/-. If any
transposition is activated either Transpose+ or Transpose- will
light up.
The Transposition setting will be kept until the main power is switched o.
Split
Playing two sounds in dierent keyboard zones is called split
Split point
Transpose
To enter the Edit functions press and hold both buttons Transpose+
and Transpose- for a few seconds; both buttons will start to blink.
Tune: you can tune your Numa Organ 2 with values from -99 to +99
cents. The tuning can be adjusted using Drawbar 1 for values from
-99 to 0 cents and Drawbar 2 for values from 0 to +99 cents.
Percussion Decay and Level: drawbar 8 controls the Decay and
Drawbar 9 controls the level.
Hum: Drawbar 7 controls the quantity of hum noise that reproduces a typical eect of vintage tonewheels instruments.
Press either Transpose+ or Transpose- again to keep the
adjustment and quit the tuning mode. The tune setting will be kept
until Numa Organ 2‘s power is switched o.
Edit functions
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