From Bkuris@gmail.com Mon Mar 07 08:07:47 2016
Subject:VR-760 Output hack

I recently picked up a VR-760 (2003?) at a ridiculous price for a very simple gigging rig. This keyboard may be dated but the keybed is really nice-- I spend most of my time on an A-100 so feel was really important to me. With minor tweaks to organ settings, I knew it would do the job as an organ-only board for bar gigs. But after playing around with the non-organ sounds, I knew this keyboard could cover more sonic territory if I could separate organ from non-organ outputs (organ doesn't have a pan control).

Here is a reasonable fix/hack which I thought would be useful for members to know about-- I don't recall it ever being discussed- might be useful for some other output jack challenged cloneswheels:

Non-organ output (using synth voice):
1. Use XLR outs and put a phase reverse on one output ($7 adapter or rewire cable). Feed that signal into a mixer (I use a 1U rack). With just organ voice, turn off rotary and reverb. The set volume knobs so that the monophonic organ signals cancel out. It isn't perfect but it gets really really low in the mix. Phase cancellation is fun, it is almost like magic to turn up volume and hear the sound fade away.
2. Edit voice or use MIDI pan (haven't tried this yet) to hard pan output left. Some of the MFX have pan options-- as a starter, "LIMITER" is pretty minimal.
3. This summed output is your stationary/instrument output.
4. You can add back reverb if you want (it will be a ghosted sound but maybe thats useful for ambience?)

Organ output:
1. Use the 1/4" right output for organ-only output into leslie or leslie sim. Due to panning above, Left output won't be used (and using right avoids summed mono output from just left 1/4" jack). In my case, the signal path is a speakeasy clonewheel preamp into a leslie 147.
2. You can change of the synth voice panning if you want some non-organ sound in your leslie. MFX pan can be assigned to the MFX control knob.

I haven't tried midi pan -- that might allow use of the piano voice, if not you'll need to get an SRX expansion and use sounds from that which can be routed through the MFX processor with edit control. I'm waiting for my SRX-07, might also seek out the SRX-12

At first I was put off by the lack of Left-hand bass organ tones on this keyboard, but if you set up a split with "Hefty bass" and roll down the cutoff knob, it is a killer tone and validates the entire exercise. Reminds me of groove holmes with his synth enhanced modified hammond. Totally gig-worthy IMO and no-chorus on the percussion.

-Ben