Digital Cymbal

video upload by George Benton

"I took an MKS50240 Top Octave Synthesizer IC (TOS) and copying from a Lowrey Organ circuit from the 80's made a Digital Cymbal noise Generator.
Lowrey D350. The MKS50240 is obsolete as far as I know. If anyone can source them put it in the comments. I hope to do a part 2 when finished."

Kind of like the EML Polybox.

JVC & Lowrey Keyboards KB-500 KB-700 Micro Genie

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Note these are from supporting member, Loscha.

The are listed for parts. Note the smokey transparent music stands, that also act as front panel covers when not in use, on each of them.

"Of Note: all of these keyboards have the smoke grey plastic music stands, and they don't have the tabs broken off!!!!! These are quite rare in any condition as they fall off if you carry the keyboard at an awkward angle, and can shatter.

Despite my vague notes here about the keyboards partial functionality, the only one I can be sure of is that the KB-700 actually was making good noise, accompaniment played, voices switched, etc.

Updated to add: the winner of the auction will receive the KB-500 service manual via email. I had to purchase this separately.

NO RETURNS ACCEPTED -- THESE ARE SOLD AS IS, AS STANDING.
JVC KB-500 White Keys - no sound, doesn't power up
JVC KB-500 Black Case Silver Keys - no sound, doesn't power up
JVC KB-700 - this one works except for tempo slider.
Lowrey Micro Genie V-120 "Mach Plus" (rebadged JVC KB-700) only a few keys worked a few times, I think the drums worked however
Lowrey Micro Genie V-105 with MIDI - doesn't turn on at all. Has a cute little cartridge that stores the accompaniment patterns.

These are collection ONLY from Neill St Carlton, Melbourne, Australia."

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Custom DIY Lowery Organ Bass Pedals Midi Controller

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"This is a custom made foot pedal midi controller. It was created using original Lowery organ bass pedals.

It functions much like your average midi controller keyboard, but specifically tailored to the needs of live foot controls. For example, it has a hold feature which holds the last pressed note only until you press the next note, allowing you to play it much like a bass guitar but with one foot. With its midi capability you can trigger samples, loops, and easily change the octave/patch on the fly. Compared to the Nord or other bulk manufactured options, this is an opportunity to own a one of a kind epic that performs just as well for a fraction of the cost."

Lowrey L2 WANDERING GENIE Organ Demo

Published on Oct 17, 2011 PunchandJudyDuo

"A demo video featuring the portable Lowrey Wandering Genie Model L2 organ! Dig that FUNKY SPY-PUNK sound!"

Ethereal cheesy organ

Published on Sep 22, 2016 100 Things I Do

"I was looking for some new atmospheric sounds to use on a track and thought I would do a very quick clip to share. I'm still working on this weekends also.

$20 Lowery Wandering Genie Organ going into a wold of delay, reverb and some pitch shifting to create a much more unique sound. The top end still needs some taming but low in a track it would work really nice"

Lowrey Genie meets Microbrute, Minilogue, Mother, Vahlhalla

Published on Feb 21, 2016 Earmonkey Music

"I found this little organ at the swap meet yesterday for $35. Brought it home, Played its cheesiness for a while (I"ll post my Little Mermaid jam later....I'm not kidding), and then introduced it to the big boys. Shove this thing through some Valhalla Ubermod and Shimmer (big plug for those FX plugins here), and you have a beautiful sounding thing indeed. The volume pedal on the organ allows you do to the swelling pads. The "repeat" feature on the organ gives you kind of an LFO of sorts in that it will retrigger a preset. I kind of messed with that in here and varied the speed of the repeat. It almost goes into the audio range....too bad it doesn't quite make it. Anyway, the Microbrute you can see, and the Minilogue and Mother 32 are synced via my Beatstep Pro playing a simple sequence that comes in a few minutes into the thing. But I think this goes to show that you don't need a Prophet 6 to make nice music. Though, if anyone out there wants to send me a Prophet 6, I'm game."

MAGNIFICENT LOWREY GX-225

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Some major organ bling for you. Look at those colored light switches! Just look at it! This one is from the 90s so I'm guessing it is all digital. There is a "Genius PCM Digital Stereo Rhythm" label on it, and it has MIDI. But those lights! All ready to get your Sleestak crystal groove on.

From the listing:

"MAGNIFICENT LOWREY GX-225, VERY HIGH TECH early 1990'S STEREO ORGAN Synthesizer

SHOWN HERE IN AS FOUND AND NOT POLISHED STATE, The Organ has been serviced and is ready to use ($175)

THE GX SERIES SOLD FOR AROUND $15,000..... IT IS WORKING AND SOUNDS AMAZING
UPGRADABLE WITH THE INSERTION OF A CARTRIDGE, Many different available out there

Capable of Emulating Lowrey "The Virtuoso", Leslie, WowWow, and various background beat settings, including Marimba Repeat setting, as used on the Who song "Baba O'Riley."

Included 1 cartridge, pedal array, organ, no bench or manuals

MINOR COSMETICS are the only issues. common with wood furniture. The pedals show no wear demonstrating low use on this magnificent piece."

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Lowrey V-100 Micro Genie modifications circuit bend hacks

Published on Apr 8, 2015 thenormanconquest

"this keyboard is related to or also known as these keyboards-
Lowrey-
V-60
V-100
V-120
V-125

JVC-
KB-300
KB-303
KB-500
KB-700
KB-600
KB-800
KB-808

I modified this synth to be a powerhouse with individual outputs for kick, snare, hats, toms, arpeggios, bass, magic chords, and some other special things."

A joygasmically ballztastic synthy blues shred jam on nine keyboards!

Published on Jun 4, 2013

"More music on umop.com/parallax.htm

The blues was not meant to evolve into this. It was not meant for a scrawny, ashen man-child idiotically kanoodling in his air-conditioned man-cave filled with rare, blinkety-blinking Japanese noiseboxes. But it's 2013 and this is just what it's come to!

Sorry I haven't uploaded any movies in a while. Or maybe I should say YOU'RE WELCOME if it's going to be this kind of thing, eh? I really would like a vacation from this person that I've become. Sometimes I wish I was more like a cool bass-player type dude with big arms & knows how to work on cars. Or maybe not even a musician at all... maybe just a ranch hand from Wyoming who knows fourteen different types of hay. And can bale the shit out of any of them.

Why am I still typing"

Note the CustomSynth white Roland JD-800 & JX-3P

Extremely Rare 3 Manual LOWREY G-7000 Organ Synthesizer

via this auction
"This organ sold new for about $32,000

Auction includes Organ, Pedalboard, Nice Padded Bench, Owners Manual, Two "Style" cartridges [Variety 1 & Contempo 2] plus Two Lowrey Song books as pictured.

The organ has beautiful full sound with flutes and string sounds that Lowery organs are famous for via traditional organ stop tabs that are lighted plus a plethora of synthesized orchestral voices via lighted push buttons. The organ has a gorgeous, room-filling sound, from a host of built-in speakers including a very realistic Leslie rotating speaker simulator. Features GALORE!!

~THINK OF THIS ORGAN AS A GIANT PRESET SYNTHESIZER MONSTER!~

Built in Rhythms and auto accompaniment features makes this organ a breeze to play and learn on. Split-voicing function on lower keyboard gives you even more performance options - like having a phantom 4th keyboard/manual. Designed for both the beginner and advanced organist. Excellent for advanced players as well as the organ can be played as a typical organ without automatic features as well. This thing looks real cool when light up in a dimly lit room - My wife says it looks like a futuristic jukebox on steroids! Cabinet is in good condition with typical scratch/dents here-and-there and slight surface marring on left-side. Has tambour, wooden roll-top for when the organ is not being used. Lights and indicators on the back rail push-button control panel are working and lighted LCD display is in good condition and easy-to-read. Alesis Reverb. Lighted graphic mixer for balancing the organ voices /sounds to your liking. I brought this organ from an older gentleman's estate for conversion to a virtual theatre pipe organ and MIDI controller for external MIDI synthesizer modules because of the three full sized keyboards and pedalboard and its MIDI capabilities but decided to go in another direction. All functions on the organ were working fine when purchased but now the upper keyboard doesn't work as it should which I suspect was the result of moving the organ [movers placed it on its back when it was transported]. I don't have a local organ tech but have been in touch with a few organ techs on-line who said that the problem is most likely due to a loose circuit board that got disturbed during the move [not guaranteed that this is the problem, just a suggestion]. As it wasn't a concern of mine, I didn't pursue repairing the sound function as I was intending using it for its MIDI capabilities and creating a HUGE MONSTER Synthesizer & Virtual Pipe Organ. [However, if you want to use this organ with the internal voices, I wanted you to be aware of this and that the upper keyboard section will need attention].

The organ is heavy - about 300-350 +/- lbs."

via the Lowrey story pdf on Lowrey.com:
"1989 - Lowrey has brought forth the G-7000, the largest regular production home organ in the world, featuring three 61-note keyboards and 25 console pedals. The G-7000 represents the culmination of the Genius Series and uses the full compliment of Lowrey easy-play features. Digital Genius voicing is introduced, by far the most authentic- sounding musical voices available."

SOPHISTICATED LOWREY MX 1 CONSOLE SYNTHESIZER/ORGAN

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Anyone know more about these?
via wikizic: "This is a wonderful sounding organ with alot of features and tons of high quality sounds. it weighs 350 pounds has two fully polyphonic 49-note keyboards and 18 pedals, six amplifires driving two 6*9 chorus speakers, one main 8" speaker, two 8" flute speakers and one 10" bass speaker. It has several drum rhythms, automated accompaniment, classic pipe organ and contemporary sounds. It has a great arpegiator and even a synthesizer with filter and resonance and ADSR control. Its alot of fun to play and has tons of excellent sounds representing woodwinds, brass, bass, strings, synth, percussion, chimes, vibes, flute stops, vox humana.. etc."

Note the seller also has a full console Wurlitzer listed.

Sonic Reality Studios

click here for a video walkthrough of the studio on Keyboard Magazine online. Check out the custom Oberheim SEM racks.

In the third video they talk about the Lowrey organ used in The' Who's Baba O'riley. They mention that some thought the gated sequence effect in the track was done with a synth but was actually all the Lowrey organ, specifically the Marimba effect. Do not confuse this with The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again below which was processed by the EMS VC3S.


YouTube via analoghell. previously posted
"Pete Townsend talks about the famous intro sound and how he did it. From the "Classic Albums" TV series."

Ray Whitaker # 2

YouTube via w7zbs. Ray and Carl at the Musicade. From the zany world of organs. Note the reference to an ARP synthesizer in the scanned description below.
"Carl Manor At The MUSICADE
Playing "SMALL WORLD"

via Heino und Jerry im Uber Space where you'll find more images and info. via fabio

Mr. Roboto by Styx, performed on giant '70 Lowrey organ

YouTube via hamsterdunce
"More music on umop.com!

Add a popular '80s song with an unpopular '70s organ that weighs over 400 lbs., with a few '60 tiki mugs, and what do you get? More timelessly delicious cheese than the entire state of Wisonsin, for starters. Enjoy without apologies."

Lowrey Prestige

via Califaudio

I think I'll break the synth only rule for this shot. Kawazy!!

How High The Moon

YouTube via HD7100
"My crazy arrangement of How High The Moon played on the Lowrey GX365 synthesizer."

Lowrey LSM-1

images at this auction
"This module was made by the Lowrey Organ company. It has some very unusual sounds and also some unique twists on sounds more common. This module is very rare and does not show up on eBay too often.
SPECS AND FEATURE LIST:
*250 PROGRAMS (200 Single / 50 Combination) -
*5-PART MULTI-TIMBREL (Up to 4 Programs & 1 Drum Part) -
*30 BUILT-IN DRUM PATTERNS -
*16 VOICE POLYPHONY -
*TRANSPOSE -
*4 SPLIT OPTIONS: Up To 4 Zone / DUAL / LAYER / MIX -
*VELOCITY / PRESSURE / MODULATION / VOLUME / HOLD / PITCH BEND -
*MIDI IN / OUT / THRU -

HERE ARE A FEW OF THE 250 SOUNDS:
*THICK ORGAN -
*DISTORTION CHORD SOLO -
*SYNTHESIZER SOLO -
*BELL SOUND WITH STEREO EFFECT -
*CLAVINET WITH BASS LAYERED IN LOW RANGE -
*STEREO PAN FLUTE -
*ANALOG SOUND COLLECTION -
*STEREO WINE GLASS -
*SPACEY CLASSICAL -
*OLD HORROR MOVIE -
*OLD OUT OF TUNE PIANO -
*MANY, MANY,MANY, MORE