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Page 2: Important Safety Instructions
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS WARNING - When using electric products, basic precau- This product may be equipped with a tions should always be followed, including the following. polarized line plug (one blade wider than the other). This is a safety feature. If you are unable to insert the plug into the outlet, contact an electri- Read all the instructions before using the cian to replace your obsolete outlet. - Page 3 __ __ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __ __ Registration Card Serial Number You can now Register online at www.lowrey.com, click ‘Register’ Your Full Name (Please Print) Address City, State, Zip Email...
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Page 7: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Let’s Get Started ....1 Styles ......24 •... - Page 8 Graphic Mixer ....40 • Feature Page 7 Lower Sound Effects ... .50 •...
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Page 9: Let's Get Started
Let’s Get Started! 1. Power Turn the Prelude ON by pressing the long red POWER button down. This button is located on the left side of the lower keyboard. This button will light as will sever- al other buttons on the button panel. Touch and hold the red button for just a moment to turn the power off. -
Page 10: Expression Pedal
to Minimum Volume 4. Expression Pedal allows the player to add expression (changes Expression Pedal in the volume level) to their music. Pressing the pedal all the way down is maximum volume. Pressing the pedal all the way back is minimum volume. -
Page 11: Display Contrast
6. The EASY Button TRADITIONAL Like every Lowrey, there are two ways of playing the Prelude: No “Easy-Play” features. You are free to use your hands on the keyboards and your feet on the pedals as you wish. For example, playing one note on the lower keyboard gives you exactly that: one note! You can use for many, many more sounds. -
Page 12: Sound System
9. Music Rack Extender Below the gold-colored Lowrey logo, at the top of the organ, is a slot into which the music rack extender may be inserted. The music rack extender is designed to hold your sheet music or music books closer to you. - Page 13 2. Grasp the music rack extender by each end so that the metal mounting flange faces away from you. The metal flange will be inserted in the mounting slot. Metal Mounting Flange Metal Mounting Flange 3. You will notice that the two corners of the metal flange are bent down slightly. The bent corners will clamp the base into the cabinet.
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Page 14: Presets
PRESETS Pistons PREVIEW: The Presets section demonstrates the ease of operation and how to sound good right away using the numerous preset features found on the Prelude. The type of Preset active at any one time: Piston, Style Setup, Bank, Category Preset, will be displayed at the bottom of the Color Display. Pistons Pressing any one of these buttons will cancel the existing sound and will create a different musical... -
Page 15: Categories
Banks are programmable, so you can save your own sound setups In addition to the registrations placed in the buttons by BANK Lowrey, you have the option of changing and saving your own registration creations using the button. MEMORIZE Banks See the section “Customizing the Banks,”and “Resetting the Banks.”... -
Page 16: Song Setups
Song Setups In the event need a quick style and style setup combi- nation for a specific song title, check the SONG database in your Prelude. SETUP gives you a selection of 200 titles from SONG SETUP which to choose. Each title is preset with an appro- priate style and a beautiful registration for the melody. -
Page 17: Feature
3. Decide where you want to save your registration (Bank Letter and PISTON Number). Press that Letter button and then press that Number button. The screen will display the Letter and Number you have selected. For example, if you pressed the Bank button will read as illustrated COLOR DISPLAY... -
Page 18: Rename Banks
Rename Bank feature can be used to put your own RENAME BANK descriptive name on your customized , and display BANKS them on the COLOR DISPLAY 1. Press and hold the button. FEATURE (CLEAR) 2. Press and release either the button. -
Page 19: Resetting The Banks
The organ features a USB data port that can be used to store a great number of custom Banks permanently on your Lowrey memory stick. The memory stick storage feature is highlighted in the “How To Use The Memory Stick Section.”... -
Page 20: Music Recorder
FORMATTING A MEMORY STICK Confirm A new memory stick, other than the one labeled ‘Lowrey’ that was supplied with the instrument, must be formatted one time before it can be used. Once formatted, the memory stick can be used repeatedly for Music Recordings and saving Banks in your Prelude. -
Page 21: Recording A Song On The Memory Stick
MEMORY STICK USB DATA PORT a. Swing open the protective metal covering on the Lowrey-supplied memory stick, exposing the receptacle end of the memory stick. b. Insert the memory stick, label side facing up, into the USB DATA PORT c. -
Page 22: Record Control
When in use, these two buttons display one of three colors: Red, Green or Yellow. Each color indicates a different condition. When a button is flashing red that particular track is ready to record. RED: When a button is solid green that particular track has been recorded. GREEN: A button flashes green after the procedure has been done. -
Page 23: Merge Record
<< >> 2. Use the buttons to locate and select a particular song from among many stored on the << >> memory stick. Pressing either button causes the screen to display the first six song titles on the memory stick. Select the title on the screen that you wish to playback by pressing either of the <<... -
Page 24: Merge Record-Erase Track
MERGE RECORD/REPLACE RECORD-ERASE TRACK recorded portions of your recorded songs. MEMORY STICK PLAYBACK The Prelude will playback memory sticks recorded by you and others on your Lowrey Prelude. Follow these steps to playback music from a compatible memory stick. 1. Insert the... -
Page 25: Feature
Press the button to highlight the func- SELECT CONTROL tion, on the screen. Press either button to display SCROLL the different functions associated with the USB MEMORY STICK The Control functions associated with the USB Memory Stick are: - To place presets saved on a memory stick back into the organ so you may use them, use LOAD PRESETS the load presets function. -
Page 26: Save Presets
SAVE PRESETS 1. Insert the memory stick on which you wish to SAVE presets into the USB PORT 2. Press the button. FEATURE (CLEAR) 3. Press the top button to display the SCROLL screen. 4. Press the 5. Press the top button to highlight the button to display the SELECT... - Page 27 You may, however, name any preset group later by using the feature. RENAME PRESETS You may name individual Banks at any time using the feature. RENAME BANKS It is best to create your own title for your saved presets. It will be easier to keep track of them later as you create other groups of presets.
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Page 28: Load Presets
LOAD PRESETS 1. Insert the memory stick on which you saved presets into the USB PORT 2. Press the button. FEATURE (CLEAR) 3. If not already displayed, press the top button SCROLL to display the screen. 4. Press the button to highlight the SELECT CONTROL section of the screen. -
Page 29: Delete Presets
DELETE PRESETS 1. Insert the memory stick on which you saved presets into the USB PORT 2. Press the button. FEATURE (CLEAR) 3. If not already displayed, press the top button SCROLL to display the screen. 4. Press the button to highlight the SELECT CONTROL section of the screen. -
Page 30: Delete Song
DELETE SONG 1. With highlighted on the CONTROL: DELETE SONG screen, press the button to highlight the SELECT FILE section of the screen. NAME 2. Press either button to display the song title SCROLL you wish to delete from the memory stick. 3. -
Page 31: Rename Song
feature allows you to copy one or more of your own Prelude recordings onto another mem- COPY SONG ory stick to share with another Prelude owner. It also allows you to change the order of the songs you record- ed on the memory stick to your liking. RENAME SONG 1. -
Page 32: Styles
Styles Styles Panel Lights Orch Auto Bass Drums Tempo 8 Beat 16 Beat Gospel Orch Plus Memory More Quiet Drum Drums Alter Intro Start Volume Piano Guitar Time Swing Country Latin Ethnic Classical Style Variation Only Ending Stop Fill Down Beat provides the player with 72 fully-orchestrated accompaniments. -
Page 33: More
Press any one of the 18 style buttons, for example . The first variation of that style, variation 0, CLASSICAL MORE will be active. The name of the style will appear on the color display. SYMPHONIC More The Prelude has 72 styles. The button expands the 18 styles buttons on the MORE panel to the total of 72. -
Page 34: Intro/Ending
TOUCH BAR INTRO / ENDING Intro Ending button adds a professional sounding introduction and ending to INTRO/ENDING each of the 72 styles. Press a style button, then press the INTRO/ENDING button. The yellow light in the purple STYLE SETUP button has turned to red indicating the ENTIRE organ is ready to go. Play the first chord of the song to start the introduction playing. -
Page 35: Start Stop
TEMPO AUTO BASS 1 & 2 Auto Bass is the Lowrey easy-play feature that plays the bass pedals for AUTO BASS you. It gives you a choice of two dynamic bass patterns for each style. buttons add variety and make playing the organ easy and fun. To play the bass pedals on AUTO BASS your own just go ahead and play them. -
Page 36: Locks
LOCK Lock Below the is a small section titled . The but- COLOR DISPLAY LOCK LOCK Tempo Accomp tons enable you to “lock” certain settings on the organ so that they do not change, even if you select different presets or features that would normally change that setting. -
Page 37: Memory
(bass sound) play for you. is Lowrey’s chord recognition system that has the unique ability to respond to different methods of forming lower keyboard chords. MCS will reply whether you form one and two finger MCS chords or if you play multi-fingered chords. -
Page 38: Minor Chord
(Cm, Fm, Gm, B m, F#m, etc.) Any Minor chord can be played with the “traditional” three MINOR CHORD: notes or with two notes. An easy-play (MCS) minor chord requires two notes. The first note matches the letter name of the desired chord (just like a Major chord). To determine the second note, count UP (to the right) three consecutive notes or keys. -
Page 39: No Chord (N.c.)
When a style is playing there are three ways to achieve a No Chord, printed N.C. in music. NO CHORD (N.C.): 1. Play a group of three, four, or five consecutive keys at the same time on the lower keyboard, as illustrated below. -
Page 40: Organ
Organ Bass Upper Lower Bass Sustain Lower Genius Flute 16 Bass 16 Vocal Ensemble Flute 8 Bass 8 Flute 5-1/3 Strings 8 Pedal Genius Flute 4 Lower Sustain Flute 2 Flute 8 Flute 4 Chapel Organ Pipe Organ Upper Sustain Strings 16 Strings 8 BASS... -
Page 41: Upper Buttons
LOWER SUSTAIN: FLUTE STRINGS 8 VOCAL ENSEMBLE buttons. The traditional organ sounds that produce the “Sweet Lowrey Sound.” These buttons offer FLUTES 8, 4: UPPER Flute (organ) sounds, alone or in combination, with the other sounds. UPPER Flute... -
Page 42: Sustain
SUSTAIN Sustain causes a sound to slowly fade away after the keys are released. Without sustain, the sound of the key stops immediately upon release. The sustain feature covers (lower BASS SUSTAIN LOWER SUSTAIN keyboard) and (upper keyboard). UPPER SUSTAIN The sustain length is adjustable and has a numeric value from 0 (no sustain) to 100 (maximum sustain). -
Page 43: Orchestral & Solo
Orchestral & Solo In addition to the beautiful organ, strings and vocal sound, found in the organ section, the Prelude features hundreds of authentic instrumental sounds! These sounds can be played alone or in combination with the organ sounds. Orchestral Solo Upper Electric... -
Page 44: Transpose
TRANSPOSE Transpose At the touch of a button, moves the pitch of the sound up or TRANSPOSE down. The two transpose buttons are located to the right of the color display. The left button, The right button, , is Pressing both TRANSPOSE TRANSPOSE UP TRANSPOSE... -
Page 45: Glide/Sustain
GLIDE & SUSTAIN on the has two facto- LEFT FOOT SWITCH VOLUME PEDAL ry set functions that will affect certain orchestral and solo sounds GLIDE SUSTAIN The Prelude assigns either the effect, depend- GLIDE SUSTAIN ing on the sound selected. For example, a piano sound will sus- tain when this left foot switch is activated. -
Page 46: Upper On-Orchestral
Upper Upper , and the solo Upper The orchestral UPPER ON ORCH TO LWR LEFT On and activate the feature and SOLO TO LWR RIGHT KEYBOARD SPLIT determine which sounds are played to the right of the split point. Some Orch Orch. -
Page 47: Upper Octave
The buttons control the overall volume level of SOLO VOLUME the solo sounds. The volume level for each sound is preset from the Lowrey Upper Octave factory. The numerous presets also set the volume levels for you. Orch & Solo To raise the volume, press the top button. -
Page 48: Graphic Mixer
Volume section contains buttons that control the volume levels for certain sections of your GRAPHIC MIXER Lowrey, plus the reverberation effect. Turning the organ on or pressing the button sets all levels to RESET the “Power-Up” setting. Any changes made in this section can be saved to a . -
Page 49: Flute Vibra Trem
4 Part below the lowest note you are playing. Many of the presets on the Prelude utilize these harmony features. is a Lowrey all-time favorite! takes all the (left hand) notes you are playing on the lower keyboard DUET (MCS or Traditional) and adds them below the melody note you are playing on the upper keyboard. -
Page 50: Foot Switches
feature will create harmonies using sounds from any section, and in any combination: upper, HARMONY orchestral and solo. Pressing the button or turning the organ off will return the harmony section to the “Power-Up” set- RESET ting. Harmony settings can be saved to a BANK Important: AOC The upper sounds (... -
Page 51: Touch Bar
Touch Bar is the black strip below the lower TOUCH BAR keyboard. The touch bar can be used to activate feature when a style is playing. A selec- FILL TOUCH BAR tion of five functions may be assigned to the touch bar. -
Page 52: Feature Pages
Feature Pages There are viewable on the . Each feature page contains a PREVIEW: 17 FEATURE PAGES COLOR DISPLAY different category of features and controls. You may never use all of the features that will be shown in this section. Using the various presets, described at the beginning of this book, will automatically activate many NAVIGATION of them for you. -
Page 53: Scroll Buttons
Press the button. It will light up and the FEATURE (CLEAR) first will be displayed. Press the top FEATURE PAGE button one time to view the second feature page. SCROLL Each time you press the top scroll button the next feature page is displayed. -
Page 54: Delete Song
THE USB MEMORY STICK THAT WAS SUPPLIED WITH YOUR PRELUDE DOES NOT REQUIRE FORMATTING. FORMATTING ERASES ANY ITEMS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY SAVED ON A MEMORY STICK. Remove unwanted songs saved on the USB memory stick. DELETE SONG: Make a copy of a song saved on the USB memory stick to the same stick or a different COPY SONG: stick. -
Page 55: Sustain Length
3. Sustain Length - SHORTCUT=FEATURE + EITHER GREEN SUSTAIN BUTTON OR THE ORANGE BASS SUSTAIN BUTTON PREVIEW: provides five areas in which the sustain effect may be adjusted: SUSTAIN LENGTH FEATURE PAGE : Adjust the amount of sustain on upper flutes. UPPER FLUTES Adjust the amount of sustain on upper strings and vocal ensemble. -
Page 56: Feature
4. Orch Effects - SHORTCUT=FEATURE + ANY RED ORCH SOUND BUTTON (NOT GENIUS) PREVIEW: provides five different animation effects that may be applied to orchestral ORCH EFFECTS FEATURE PAGE sounds: AUTO PAN TREMULANT PHASER CHORUS ROTARY OFF. All orch effects are preset from the factory and may never need to be adjusted to fully enjoy the Prelude. When the need arises to adjust the effects follow these steps. -
Page 57: Feature
5. Solo Effects - SHORTCUT=FEATURE + ANY BLUE SOLO SOUND BUTTON (NOT GENIUS) PREVIEW: provides six different animation effects that may be applied to solo sounds: SOLO EFFECTS FEATURE PAGE DELAY AUTO PAN TREMULANT PHASER CHORUS ROTARY OFF. All solo effects are preset from the factory and may never need to be adjusted to fully enjoy the Prelude. When the need arises to adjust the effects follow these steps. -
Page 58: Aoc
6. AOC - SHORTCUT=FEATURE + AOC BUTTON PREVIEW: provides two different setting for the harmony feature: AOC FEATURE PAGE AUTO AOC AOC ALL plus a (volume) control. HARMONY LEVEL AOC settings are preset from the factory and may never need to be adjusted to fully enjoy the Prelude. When the need arises to adjust the effects follow these steps. -
Page 59: Keyed Drums
Press the lighted button to implement the selections/settings made and return to the FEATURE(CLEAR) screen. POWER-UP 8. Keyed Drums PREVIEW: provides two different drum kits that can be played on the lower keyboard. KEYED DRUMS FEATURE PAGE Drum kits are groups of percussion sounds selected for a particular style of music. Keyed Drums are played on the lower keyboard, to the right of the keyboard split. -
Page 60: Edit Genius
10. Edit Genius - SHORTCUT=FEATURE + ANY GENIUS BUTTON PREVIEW: gives you the ability to change (edit) the sounds. EDIT GENIUS FEATURE PAGE GENIUS Genius sound settings are preset from the factory and may never need to be adjusted to fully enjoy the Prelude. -
Page 61: Controllers
ORCHESTRAL REPEAT SOLO REPEAT •Press the button to highlight the •Press the button twice to highlight the SELECT SELECT section of the screen. section of the screen. ORCHESTRAL SOLO •Press either button to display the •Press either button to display the SCROLL SCROLL settings:... -
Page 62: Rename Presets
•When the Setting selected is , an additional section of SOUND EFX the screen appears labeled SOUND •Press the button to highlight the Sound section. SELECT •Press the either button repeatedly to view the many SCROLL different sound effects available. Press the lighted button to implement the selec- FEATURE(CLEAR) -
Page 63: Next Preset
14. Next Preset PREVIEW: activates the feature that enables you to move from one preset to another NEXT PRESET FEATURE PAGE without having to actually press a preset button. Presets can be selected by pressing the right foot switch. •Press the Feature (Clear) button and then press the bottom button repeatedly to highlight SCROLL FEATURE: NEXT PRESET... -
Page 64: Set Split
-Light Show 1 leaves the visible on the screen. FEATURE PAGE -Light Show 2 hides the feature page and shows ‘ ’ and ‘ .’ LOWREY PRELUDE •To stop either light show press either button. SCROLL Press the lighted button to implement the selections/settings made and return to the FEATURE(CLEAR) screen. -
Page 65: Connections
CONNECTIONS MIDI, AUX IN, AUX OUT and VIDEO connections are located on a panel on the back side of the Prelude. You never need to use these connections to fully enjoy playing the Lowrey Prelude. MIDI IN, OUT, THRU: These are the connections used for connecting other MIDI equipped devices to your organ. Any MIDI equipped device’s manual will describe connection and operation. -
Page 66: Style List
Styles Button More Name 8 Beat 1 8 - Beat Standard 8 - Beat Combo 8 - Beat Folk 8 - Beat Rock Piano 6 / 8 Piano Pop Piano Piano Offering Country Piano 8 Beat 2 8 - Beat Mellow Smooth Piano 4 / 4 Soft Gospel 8 - Beat Lite... -
Page 67: Genius Voice List
GENIUS Voice List Genius Voice Name Genius Voice Name Genius Voice Name Accordion Ens: Big Band Organ: Baroque Accordion: Lyric Ens: Orch. Reeds Organ: Bass Pipe Accordion: Musette Ens: Trom.+ OctTrpt Organ: Bombarde Animal: Cat Ethereal Organ: Church Animal: Dog Fiddle Organ: Full Pipes Bag Pipe... - Page 68 Genius Voice Name Genius Voice Name Genius Voice Name Sax: Alto Test-Sound Vocal: Bah (Dao) Theremin Sax: Alto Dynamic Vocal: Doo Timpani Sax: Alto Mellow Vocal: Doo (Dao) Sax: Baritone Timpani: Rolling Vocal: La Sax: New Years Trombone Vocal: Ooo Sax: Tenor - 50’s Trombone: Muted Vocal: Wah...
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Page 69: Mcs Chord Chart
Chord Chart The chart below illustrates how to form certain chords on the lower keyboard using MCS: CHORD MAJOR MINOR MIN 7th MAJ 7th SUS 4th MIN 7th 5 (2 notes) (1 note) (2 notes) (2 notes) (3 notes) (3 notes) (2 notes) (3 notes) (4 notes) -
Page 70: Song Setup List
Song Set Up List A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Eternal Father, Strong to Save Abide With Me Everlasting God Above All Every Time I Feel the Spirit Ancient Words Fairest Lord Jesus All Creatures of Our God and King Faith of Our Fathers All Glory, Laud, and Honor For the Beauty of the Earth... - Page 71 I Saw the Light Open My Eyes, That I May See I Stand In Awe Open Our Eyes, Lord I Surrender All Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord I Will Praise Him Our God Reigns I'd Rather Have Jesus Our Great Saviour I'll Fly Away Praise Him! Praise Him!
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Page 72: Warranty Statement
Additional expenses of explaining features and organ operation not included. Lowrey shall not be responsible for any warranties offered in addition to this warranty. Lowrey shall not be liable for and excludes incidental or consequential damages which may be incurred. Implied warranties are limited to the expressed warranty. - Page 73 GROUNDING/EARTHING INSTRUCTIONS This product must be grounded/Earther. If it should malfunction or breakdown, grounding/earthing provides a path of least resistance for electric current to reduce the risk of electric shock. This product is equipped with a cord having an equip- ment-grounding/earthing conductor and a grounding/earthing plug.
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