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3.31.2018

Beatles' Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds Lowrey Organ Sound (using VST)

So, I scoured the internet and couldn't find any decent Lowrey organ emulation... or really any suggestions on how to approximate the unusual plucked/synthy organ sound The Beatles used on the song; so I decided to try myself, and since I got pretty close I thought someone else might find this useful...
This is using the programs: VSTHost and the ScP5 vst (Prophet 5 emulator) with preset 7 'harpiscord' as the starting base. The delay doesn't get quite precise enough so if you want it exactly correct you'll have to turn it off and add it yourself using another program. The rest of the switches are rather difficult to fine tune so you'll have to spend about a half hour tweaking the sound to your liking. It's not perfect, but about as close as you're gonna get using a free virtual instrument synth. Enjoy!

If you'd like the fxb preset file for VSTHost, I can probably send it to you.
Brettwarren85@gmail.com