Lowrey a300 - RHYTHM PLUS ORCHESTRATION; Styles Overview and Functionality

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Holiday Classic Owner’s Guide
The RHYTHM PLUS ORCHESTRATION (STYLES) section is one of the most exciting sections on the Holiday
Classic. For convenience, we will refer to the Rhythm Plus Orchestration as simply ‘
STYLES.’ Many of
Lowrey’s most popular styles are included along with many new and exciting ones.
Each button and function for the Rhythm Plus Orchestration section is fully detailed in the following pages.
You will find that many of the buttons and functions are automatic. For example, pressing any style button,
like Gospel, Country, or Rock’N Roll, turns on the features: Rhythm Preset, Genie, Orch Plus, Auto Bass 1,
MCS, Memory, Easy, Start/Stop, and Downbeat. Just pressing one style button means the organ is ready to
be played.
What It Does:
RHYTHM PLUS ORCHESTRATION provides the player with 90 fully-orchestrated rhythm styles. Each style
features a Bass Player, a Drummer, and the rest of the Band. Imagine having a l940’s Big Band playing along
with you... or a Country Band... or perhaps a small Rock group. The style Table at the back of the book lists
all 90 styles.
How It Works:
All of this happens simply by pressing a style button and playing a chord with the left hand on the lower
keyboard. It doesn’t matter how you play your left hand chord.
Pressing a style button automatically activates other Lowrey features. One such feature is
MCS - MUSIC
CHORD SYSTEM
- which gives you the option of playing one-finger, easy-play chords or multi-fingered, tra-
ditional chords. The pedals play automatically. MCS is also activated when you press the EASY button. A
complete listing of MCS chord formations is in the back of this book.
Each style has a preset tempo (speed). Use the purple
TEMPO buttons to adjust the Tempo to a speed with
which you are comfortable. The screen will display the tempo.
Pressing a style button sets up the sounds for the lower keyboard and Bass (Pedals). What about sounds on
the upper keyboard (the melody)? Use the
RHYTHM PRESETS, GENERAL PRESETS, CATEGORY PRESETS,
or BANK PRESETS!
RHYTHM PLUS ORCHESTRATION
VARI-
ATIONS
MEMORY
MCS
ALTER
STYLE
INTRO
ENDING
1
DRUMS
ONLY
FX
START
STOP
2
DRUMS
VOLUME
TEMPO
DOWN
BEAT
PAN
EL LIGHTS
(STYLES)
FOX
TROT
COUNTRY
BIG
BAND
GOSPEL
SWIN
G
MARCH
SOFT &
EASY
BROAD
WAY
BALLAD
HAWAI-
IAN POLKA
CON-
TEMPO
ROCK’N
ROL
L
LATIN
2
RHYTHM &
BLUES
LATIN
1
WALTZ
RAG-
TIME
BASIC
GENIE
ORCH
PLUS
AUTO BASS
Rhythm Plus Orchestration