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Table of Contents Category Name is followed by the page number. MIDI, Aux In/Out Video Banks (back panel) 14, 100 Style Setups Music Rack Extender Pistons Categories Orchestral Sounds Styles Color Touch Solo Harmony 7, 69 Screen Sounds Style Lock &...
This button is located on the left side of the lower keyboard. This button will light as well as several other buttons on the Custom button panel. When you are ready to turn the Tribute off, simply touch and hold the red button for just a moment. Vibra Trem Chorus to...
4. COLOR TOUCH SCREEN Volume When you turn the instrument on, the Tribute screen, below left, evolves during startup. When the Tribute is fully powered and is ready to be played the , below right, appears.
PANEL LIGHTS Panel Lights After the Tribute is fully powered, you may adjust the intensity of the panel lights by turning the Panel Lights control knob. 6. MONITOR SPEAKERS The Tribute has two full range/high range combination monitor speakers and two tweeter speakers mounted high in the cabinet to project sound for the seated player’s benefit.
Input Output Volume Volume 9. SOUND SYSTEM Headphone & Monitor The diagram below illustrates the powerful Tribute sound system. The Tribute Sound System 4 - 6 x 9 mid range speakers Input Volume Output Volume 4 - high range tweeter speakers, within the mid...
Pedals to Lights USB Port Pedals Lower Music 10. MUSIC RACK EXTENDER- LIGHTED Below the gold-colored Lowrey logo, at the top of the organ, is a music rack extender. Custom Vibra Trem Chorus Reset Slow Celest Fast Chorus To deploy the rack, pull the wood knobs toward you. The tinted plexiglass music rack lays on the music rack shelf.
PRESETS Custom There are a variety of different presets featured on the Tribute. The type of preset active at any one time: Banks, Style Setup, Pistons, Categories will be displayed in the screen, as illustrated below. Preset Information feature displays a description of the upper...
What Is Preset 0? 10 Piston 11 Presets Tribute on gives you that setup. The same is true, as you will see, for the Banks, Categories, and Style Setups. Anytime you are using a , you can make any change you wish. For example, you may wish to adjust Preset volume levels (Graphic Mixer) or select different sounds (Orchestral, Solo, or Tabs).
Category Presets can be used with styles, as an alternative to style setups, or used alone without a style. The 132 sounds in the Tribute can not be changed. You will never lose them. CATEGORY PRESET In some cases, the preset names displayed on the will be abbreviated.
Each Bank button (A, B, C, D) holds 11 dynamic registrations. Piston Memorize Banks In addition to the registrations placed in the buttons by Lowrey, you have the option of BANK PRESET changing and saving your own registration creations using the button. MEMORIZE How to save your own registrations using the Memorize button and how to recover the original Bank Presets is found in the section Customizing A Bank Preset, page 18 and Resetting Bank Presets, page 20.
HERE IS A RECAP OF THE PRESET FEATURES Turning the Tribute on gives you a beautiful Lowrey organ sound. The Preset features are very powerful and valuable. By simply pressing one or two buttons the entire instrument is set up and ready to play. All the sounds, musical effects, and volume settings are selected and set so you can sit down and play right away.
Customizing A Bank Preset Any of the buttons ( ) can be changed from the factory registrations to those of your own Banks A - B - C - D creation. Customizing a Bank involves the lettered buttons, the numbered buttons, and the Banks Pistons...
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 23.
FORMATTING A MEMORY STICK Formatting is a process the Tribute performs so that a memory stick and the Tribute will speak the same lan- guage. A new memory stick will need to be formatted one time before it can be used. Once formatted, the memory stick can be used repeatedly for Music Recordings and saving Bank Presets.
USB Data Port c. Wait a few seconds for the memory stick to fully connect to the Tribute. 2. Set the Tribute up with the sounds and features you wish to play. Use the Presets or make your own. 3. Press the button.
A button that is solid yellow indicates the button has been pressed in order to Erase YELLOW: ERASE the contents of that particular track. The yellow color serves as a warning and gives you an opportunity to change your mind before a recording is erased. A flashing yellow button indicates there is merged or replaced data on that particular track.
<< >> 1. During playback, press and hold the button to rewind a recording or the button to move forward through a recording. To hear the recording simply release the button. Replay will continue at << >> the point in the recording when either buttons were released.
Merge Record/Replace Record-Erase Track of your recorded songs. MEMORY STICK PLAYBACK The Tribute will playback memory sticks recorded by you on your Lowrey Tribute. 1. Insert the into the Memory Stick USB Data Port 2.
These two 1/4 jacks are stereo line level inputs. They are there to let you utilize the AUX IN, RIGHT-LEFT: premium sound system on the Tribute to listen to other audio sources: tape decks, CD players, MP3 Players, iPods, etc. See on page 85.
While Saving the Presets you will be presented with a screen that allows you to place your own name on the preset group you are saving. You may elect to skip the step, in which case the Tribute names the preset group...
Press either button until the desired letter, number, or symbol appears (an the cursor location). Press Scroll , on the screen, to move the cursor to the right. Press the , on the screen, to move Right Arrow Left Arrow the cursor to the left.
5. After selecting the bank letter the screen will display choices for which bank on the organ you wish the presets (from the memory stick) to be loaded. For example, you could load from the Bank A memory stick into on the organ.
- Remove a song from the memory stick. Delete Song feature loads presets from song recordings, made on the Tribute using bank presets, Load Song Presets into the bank preset buttons for use with other songs. The feature will not capture or create presets from non- Lowrey, non- Tribute memory sticks.
Control Functions There are numerous controls on the Tribute that are preset so it is ready to play right away. You need only use the preset controls in order to fully utilize all of the features. These preset controls can be reassigned to provide you with different ways to manipulate a variety of functions.
Get things started by simply pressing a style button and playing a chord with the left hand on the lower key- board. It doesn’t matter how you play your left hand chord; traditionally or with Lowrey’s MCS. - gives you the option of playing one-finger, easy-play chords or multi-fingered, Music Chord System traditional chords.
Style Table More More More The Tribute has 96 styles. The button expands the 24 style buttons on the panel to the More total of 96. Press any one of the 24 style buttons. The first variation of that style will be active.
STYLE LIST BUTTON When you know the name of a specific style you wish to use the style screen button. Pressing this screen button displays the names of list all the styles in alphabetical order. The style names will be listed four at a time.
A TIP FROM LOWREY The Tribute not only gives you the ability to control the volume of the Drum section, it also gives you the abil- ity to Balance the drum sounds. For example, any particular drum pattern might include a snare drum and a cymbal.
Intro Ending 2 Touch Screen MINOR CHORD INTRODUCTIONS ending is playing. Many of the introductions on the Tribute are different when the style is started using a minor chord. FADE IN/OUT Fade In/Out button causes the sounds in the introduction for a style to slowly increase in Fade In/Out volume.
START STOP Start Stop Starts or stops a style. It also stops the drummer when the drums only feature is used. lights up when a style is selected. The style will not start playing until a lower Start Stop keyboard key is played or until the button is pressed.
AUTO BASS 1 & 2 Auto Bass is the Lowrey easy-play feature that plays the bass pedals for you by Auto Bass reading the chords being played by the left hand on the lower keyboard and adding the appropriate Bass notes.
HOW TO CHANGE SOUNDS AND VOLUMES IN ORCH & ORCH PLUS 1. Press any button. Style 2. Press the screen button Keypad 3. Enter the number, from the genius voice list found Genius Voice on pages 91-94. 4. Press the button.
• These changes remain until the style button is pressed off and then back on again. You can also return to the original sound by selecting a sound in the middle column and then press both buttons at the Scroll same time.
In addition to the four lock buttons, the , and volume levels in the section, plus the Bass Lower Graphic Mixer volume level, in the section, can be individually locked. Orch Plus Style & Lock 1. Set the , or volume to the desired level.
(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.
(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.
When playing Minor chords, Seventh chords or Diminished chords with MCS, the organ requires two notes be played as described above. The Tribute can enable you to play that second note of the MCS chord from another part of the organ. For example, you can change the...
Organ The Organ Section primarily details the tabs above the upper keyboard. These tabs represent the PREVIEW: traditional organ sounds found on the Lowrey Tribute. - Three tabs are labeled . A genius tab will Genius Genius: Pedal Genius, Lower Genius Upper Genius always have a sound in it.
(fill button, touch bar and right foot switch) the Tribute gives you the ability to activate this fill feature by pressing on one of these long or short pedals.
Flute Type When the buttons are not illuminated the upper and lower keyboard flute sounds are of the Lowrey type. The lights above any upper or lower keyboard flute tab (that is on) will be Pressing the...
Upper Flute Sustain Pedal Genius All sustain levels are preset from Lowrey and do not need to be changed. The sustain length is adjustable and has a numeric value from 1 (no sustain) to 100 (maximum sustain). SHORTCUTS: A. When you know the numerical amount of sustain that you want to apply to a particular tab, use the keypad screen button.
FEATURE (CLEAR) GENIUS All Sustain levels are preset on the Tribute. The word on a tab or button means that you have the option of assigning any number of sounds, from Genius , to that tab or button.
DRAWBARS The famous and unique sound of flute drawbar-type organs can be obtained with the Tribute. Lowrey’s feature allows you to control and customize the volume intensities of each individual flute, bass 16 Drawbar and bass 8 tabs. The drawbar settings are preset.
FLUTE PERC DRAWBAR DISPLAY drawbar display contains five separate drawbars: plus a Flute Perc Flutes 8, 5 1/3, 4, 2 2/3, Decay drawbar. The volume can be changed along with the amount of decay. Hold the button and press the tab to access the display.
Orchestral & Solo In addition to the beautiful organ, strings and vocal sounds of the Organ Tabs, the Tribute features hundreds of authentic instrumental sounds! These sounds can be played alone or in combination with the organ sounds. When you find a combination you like, save it to a...
Sound can glide up or down slowly (a low value number) or quickly (a high value number). Pressing the button or turning the power off will return this feature to the factory setting. Reset For more details see , page 81. Feature Page 5 - Portamento Time REPEAT feature is preset and adds an authentic repetition effect to certain...
C. The Tribute Transposer is cyclical. When you begin at C and Transpose up (pressing the button labeled with the Sharp # symbol) through all 11 steps to B the next step up will return the organ to the key of C.
KEYBOARD SPLIT turns the Tribute into a three keyboard instrument, giving the player the ability to have three Keyboard Split contrasting sounds for quick and easy registration changes. Keyboard split is activated when certain buttons in the orchestral and solo sections are turned on.
LOWER LEFT - Orchestral Orchestral Solo Upper Upper Lower Lower Left Right Lower Lower Right Octave Default lower keyboard split = A Pressing the orchestral button makes any orchestral sound selected playable on the entire lower Lower Left keyboard, when the keyboard split is not activated (orchestral and/or solo buttons not Lower Right...
UPPER ON - Solo Orchestral Solo Upper Upper Lower Lower Left Right Lower Lower Right Octave Default lower keyboard split = A Pressing the solo button, turning it on, enables two sounds - one Orchestral, and one Solo, to be Upper On playable on the upper keyboard.
Upper Octave Upper Octave UPPER OCTAVE Orch & Solo Orch & Solo Return buttons control the pitch of orchestral and solo sounds played on the upper keyboard. Upper Octave Return Return Press the left side Press the right side Upper Octave Pressing both but- Upper Octave...
How to Change the Sound in a Genius Tab or Button Each button and tab contains a preset sound. Pressing a genius button or tab activates that sound and Genius changes the screen to display the location/name of that genius sound. There are three methods for assigning different sounds to the buttons and tabs.
Graphic Mixer section provides volume Graphic Mixer Graphic Mixer level control for certain sections of the Tribute, Upper Master Reverb Bass Lower String/Vocal plus the amount of reverberation effect. All volume and reverb levels are preset and may vary among different setups.
Duet More button, which enhances lower keyboard play by making one- Easy finger chords possible. The Tribute features 15 different types of harmony from which to LOWER choose. Each harmony type is playable with just one finger. The Duet Open More organ plays all the other notes for you.
takes all the (left hand) notes you are playing on the lower keyboard (MCS or Traditional) and adds them below the melody note you are playing on the upper keyboard or lower keyboard -right of split. The only notes that may be excluded are any that are within a whole-step of the melody note being played on the upper keyboard.
styles will create harmonies using sounds from any section of the organ, and in any com- Upper Harmony bination. styles will create harmonies using sounds from the orchestral section, played on the Lower Harmony lower keyboard, to the right of the split point. Solo sounds alone will not create harmony. Pressing the button or turning the power off will return the harmony section to the power-up setting.
Genius to your songs and may easily be added to any song. Golden harp may also be used along with a style. The Tribute features eight dynamic golden harp patterns and a button for selecting a variety of sounds. Genius Golden Harp Golden harp settings are preset from the factory as a harp sound.
4. Turning off the power or pressing the button will return the organ to the factory setting. Reset ) pattern is not associated with the Virtuoso keyboard featured on the Tribute. Virtuoso Golden Harp 4 patterns produce a picking style pattern commonly heard on such instruments. The...
5. Place your right hand index finger on either black section of the , where the name Virtuoso Keyboard Virtuoso is printed. Rest the tip of your finger against the trim strip that runs along the back edge of the Virtuoso Keyboard. You will use the trim strip as a guide for your finger. 6.
3. Press the words on the screen. The display will change Touch Bar to show the touch bar control settings. 4. Press and release the red button (next to the Memorize Banks causing it to light. will read: Touch Screen Memorizing To: 5.
Press a Feature Button 1. Press and release the red button causing it to light. Memorize will read: Touch Screen Memorizing To: 2. Press the button. The will read: Custom 3 Touch Screen Memorizing To: Custom #3 3. Press the upper button located over on the right side of the control panel.
The factory setting for the glide function is one-half step. Using the glide lowers the pitch of the note a half step. Releasing the switch glides the sound back up to the original pitch. The Tribute has the capability of selecting different glide lengths.
RIGHT FOOT SWITCH The right foot switch is factory preset to activate the feature. It activates a brief fill-in when Fill/Golden Harp a style is playing. When golden harp is playing, pressing the right foot switch silences golden harp until the switch is released.
Pedal notes played, or auto bass notes, are displayed on the screen. 1.Place the Tribute in its desired location. 2.If the organ is placed on deep pile carpeting or on uneven flooring adjustments to the cabinet glides Color Touch Screen of the organ will be required for stability and proper bass pedal activation.
Touch Screen There are 11 feature pages of controls and features on the Tribute. Pressing the Feature (Clear) button displays the first of these 11 feature pages, or the last page you were on before return- ing to the power up screen.
Feature Page 1 Provides four control categories: : Changes the volume level and/or balance Levels (Balance) of various sections. Changes the pitch of various sounds. Tuning: Changes how long it takes certain sounds to Sustain Lengths: fade away. Changes which sections of sounds will produce harmony AOC: notes when using AOC-type harmonies.
Some of the 15 categories have volume control buttons on the panel. For example, Note: Levels (Balance) there are buttons in the orchestral section. These buttons control the overall volume of the Orch Volume orchestral sounds. The categories, on the screen can be used to adjust the volume levels Orch 1 Orch 2 of each orchestral sound, making one more prominent that the other, when two are being used at the same...
3. Sustain Lengths - Shortcut=FEATURE + Any Green Sustain Tab This feature allows you to individually change the sustain lengths in certain sections of the organ. - the Upper Flute Sustain tab. Upper Flutes (U Stg Vocal) - the String/Vocal Sustain tab in the Upper section. Upper Strings/Vocal - the Lower Flute Sustain tab.
Feature Page 2 Customize the volume intensity of each flute sound in each of three sections of the organ: Upper Drawbars - Shortcut=FEATURE + Any Upper Flute Tab Controls the nine Flute tabs for the upper keyboard. (Flute Perc. is separately controlled). Ped/Lower Drawbars - Shortcut=FEATURE + Any Lower Flute or Controls the Bass 16 &...
Feature Page 3 There are three choices. The choic- Sound Effects and Drum Sounds es determine where and how the sound effects and drum sounds are played and how to change the preset settings. The white and black keys at the right end Lower Sound Effects: of the lower keyboard can be used to play sounds from the sound effects &...
You could assign a sound effect to one of the long or short foot pedals. A sound effect can be assigned to any one of the five controllers. •Touch Bar •Left Foot Switch •Right Foot Switch •Long (Natural) Foot Pedal •Short (Black) Foot Pedal Any sound effects setting can be saved to a .
Feature Page 4 Access four categories of control. Adds animation or an effect to existing sounds. Effects: Lets you change the Octave, Vibrato, or Edit Genius Sounds: Sustain of a Genius sound. Change the character of certain sounds. Sound Shaper: Increase or decrease the length of time a Fade In/Out: Fade In...
2. Edit Genius Sounds -Shortcut=FEATURE + Any below listed Genius Button Change (edit) the sounds of the genius sections: - The orchestral genius 1 button. Orch Genius 1 - The orchestral genius 2 button. Orch Genius 2 Remember, when any two orchestral sounds are used at the same time, one of the buttons will be lighted constantly (Orch 1) and the second will blink on and off (Orch 2).
3. Sound Shaper Every sound in the Tribute has been tuned by Lowrey audio professionals to produce the best instrumental sounds possible. You need never change any of the sounds in the organ. The Sound Shaper feature provides limited sound editing capabilities, if you wish to use them.
1. Glide Settings The default setting is to lower the sound one-half step and then glide back up. Use this feature to change the distance and speed of the glide effect. There are seven settings (distances): Glide Lowers the sound one half step below tune (factory preset). Normal: Lowers the sound twelve half steps (One Octave).
3. Portamento Time - Shortcut=Feature+the portamento Button is preset. The feature allows you change the amount of glide time between notes. Portamento Time Press the words on the screen. controls apprears. • Portamento Time Solo 1 Solo 2 effect may be turned on and off independently by pressing the screen buttons.
A rectangle appears around the active preset name. • Change presets by pressing one of the preset buttons or touching the desired preset name on the screen. • The same selection method may be used for • Pistons, Categories Banks Style Setups Press the lighted button to return to the...
Feature Page 7 Controls four feature categories. - Changes the preset location of the keyboard split point Set Splits on the lower keyboard and pedals. - Displays the notes being played on the Keyboard Screen keyboards and pedals. - Play the bass sounds from the lower keyboard. Keyed Bass button also activates the feature.
The name of the chord being played or the name of the style being • played (from USB Tribute song data). When a song is playing from a USB with Tribute song data, the notes • being played will be indicated.
Feature Page 8 Controls two feature categories: How the Expression Pedal will affect the Auxiliary In Aux In: sounds. 1. Aux in. (Auxiliary in) Adds touch sensitivity to the keys. Dynamic Keying: controls the volume of the organ when using the Aux In Aux In (Auxiliary Input) jacks, located on the rear panel of the organ.
Feature Page 9 Controls three feature categories. -Assign different controls to the touch bar. Touch Bar -Assign different controls to the foot switches. Foot Switches -Assign different controls to the pedals. Pedal Natural/Black 1. Touch Bar 2. Foot Switches 3. Pedal Natural/Black The method for assigning different functions to the five Controllers are similar.
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C on the lower keyboard and play a natural bass pedal to form the C Minor chord. Any changes can be saved into a . Pressing the button or turning the power off will return Bank Preset Reset this section to default settings. Tribute Owner’s Guide Feature Pages...
Feature Page 10 Controls three feature categories: Select from among 10 reverb types. Reverb: Select and assign MIDI channels. MIDI: 1. Reverb Return settings to factory defaults. Reset: - Shortcut=Feature +either reverb level button Select from 10 types of Reverb Press the word on the screen.
USB song data when the organ is turned on. Auto Play A USB with Tribute song data must be inserted in USB Data Port. Press the lighted button to return to the screen.
This chosen theme will be applied to all screens displayed in the Feature/Clear Color Video Out Touch Screen - Outputs any Tribute screen image to a television. Normal - Outputs the Tribute logo screen image. Tribute Logo Connect a television (...
Sound Effects & Drums Voice List SFX Voice Name SFX Voice Name SFX Voice Name No Sound-Silence Door Bell Rain Applause Explosion Rooster Bass String Slap Finger Cymbal Scratch Bell Tree Flute Key Click Scream Birds Footsteps 1 Seagull Boink Footsteps 2 Seagulls Bubble...
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SFX Voice Name SFX Voice Name SFX Voice Name Cymbal, Crash Low Snare Drum 3 Bass Drum 2 Cymbal, Orch. Hi Snare Drum, Accent Bass Drum 3 Snare Drum, High 1 Bass Drum, Jazz Cymbal, Orch. Low Cymbal, Roll Snare Drum, High 2 Bass Drum, Low Cymbal, Splash Snare Drum, Loud...
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 (1 note) (2 notes) (2 notes) (2 notes) (3 notes) (3 notes) (2 notes) (3 notes) (4 notes)
Styles Button MORE Name 8 Beat 1 8-Beat Folk 8-Beat Combo 8-Beat Rock 8-Beat Standard Piano 1 Pop Piano 6/8 Piano Piano Offering Country Piano Swing 1 Basic Swing Smooth Swing Jimmy Swing Jazz Orchestra 8 Beat 2 Smooth Piano 4/4 8-Beat Mellow Soft Gospel 8-Beat Lite...
Song Setup List A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Come, Now Is the Time to Worship Abide With Me Come, Thou Almight King Above All Come, Thou Fount Ancient Words Crown Him with Many Crowns All Creatures of Our God and King Days of Elijah All Glory, Laud, and Honor Deep River...
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He Lives Just as I Am He Touched Me Lead on, O King Eternal Heaven Came Down Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Here I Am to Worship Lord I Lift Your Name On High Higher Ground Love Divine, All Loves Excelling His Name Is Wonderful Love Lifted Me Holy Ground...
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Softly and Tenderly Thy Word Is a Lamp Unto My Feet Solid Rock Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus Stand Up for Jesus To God Be the Glory Standing on the Promises Trading My Sorrows Such Love Trust and Obey Sweet By &...
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GROUNDING/EARTHING INSTRUCTIONS This product must be grounded/Earthed. 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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