The Organ Forum

One of the churches I play for has a 3-manual Lowrey G-7000 organ, which supports both Genius cartridges and ROM Voice Cards for the top (synthesizer) manual.  Does anyone have, or know where I can find, ROM Voice Cards for this organ?  Thanks.

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Jerry

You'll be very lucky to find a Lowrey card, but try signing up for the Lowrey Forum Yahoo group and asking there. The top manual of that organ is in fact an inbuilt Kawai K1 synth, and you can get cards on eBay for them. Probably all sorts of weird synth sounds on them.I used to produce two cards that would work very well on the G700, and I may still have the master files to create them, but you'd need to have the DC16 RAM cards, and they are even rarer. Once people have them, they keep them! The other problem is that I can't just email the files. I would if I could but the disk format Kawai used was proprietary and you have to use their Q80 sequencer and K1 synth to produce the cards.

Best of luck

Andy G

 

 

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It's not what you play, it's not how you play. It's the fact that you're playing that counts.

Andy,

 Thanks for the info; I appreciate the expertise and knowledge behind it.  I'll keep looking for a card or two.

You might be interested to know that one of the reasons I bought this organ (off eBay) for the church was that (in addition to its variety of built-in voices) it had MIDI ports.  I have connected it to a laptop running Jim Henry's MidiTzer software ( http://www.virtualorgan.com/ ) and can add theatre organ voices to this three-manual organ.  These voices are VERY nice for a variety of seasonal playing (Christmas, patriotic, Easter, etc.).  In addition to regular church music I play occasional public concerts there and the shift to theatre voices always produces a lot of interest in the audience.

Thanks again for your reply, 

Jerry

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Jerry