Have any prog band used regular home organ

Yes, M-10 is the one. Mine has some custom settings that my friend installed including a note repeater. I like to use the rhythm sections on the later Casios for making recordings. You can blend different rhythms and run them through phase shifter, compressor, reverb etc and get some interesting sounds.

The Casio keyboard sounds were purely electronic up until about the early 90s when their sounds became more sample based. I prefer the early electronic ones, but the CTK 630 (mid-90s) has some really cool features in the rhythm section that never appeared in any subsequent models.

I also wanted to hang my Casio from a guitar so I could do keyboard-guitar battles by myself, sort of as a joke, but never got around to it.

Edited by Easy Money - July 18 2023 at 05:18

I have the first Casio model ever made, I knew someone who worked for them. I also have many different models down through the years. Its interesting how they changed over time.
I have one that proclaims it has "Pulse Code Modulation". I also have the one you are showing that did short eight bit samples. It was sold at Macys of all places.

Edited by Easy Money - July 17 2023 at 19:56

Yes I know about the ARP Quartet and the Crumar Orchestrator, although just from hearing / reading about them. The Quartet was another deal ARP made with the Italian Siel to market the Siel Orchestra with the ARP name, same as what they did with the String Ensemble made by the Dutch Eminent-Solina.

Easy Money wrote: ^ That would be my guess based on the information that you have provided. The Lowery Symphoniser that I played on at the music store was a sort of short lived high end Lowrey organ that had a string symphoniser as an add on to the organ.

Emerson rolled around on stage with a Hammond L100. That was a pretty common home organ. We had one sitting in our living room growing up.

The String Ensemble was first made by the Dutch company Eminent-Solina, and then ARP made a deal with them to sell it with the name ARP. Thanks to the commercial network of ARP the most successful version was the ARP one.

This was the Lowrey-Freeman Symphoniser of 1974, it could well be that Lowrey released also an organ including the strings synth as an add-on.

Edited by Gerinski - July 15 2023 at 18:12

^ There was a high end Lowery organ I would play on at a music store in Dallas called a Symphoniser.
I believe the symphoniser part was sort of an add on to the organ, and it sounded very much like synth strings.
This was still a Lowrey organ, it had the cheesy rhythm machine, auto acccompaniment and everything. It was the most expensive Lowrey in the shop.

Edited by Easy Money - July 15 2023 at 11:26

Edited by Hrychu - July 14 2023 at 12:20