Turned out that my vibrato unit was fried. I bypassed it with an end-to-end connector. New Allens have the ability to "switch instruments" entirely, or swap out individual ranks, but only to exchange with other sound already built in. It would be interesting to see this kind of thing added again (with USB's instead of cards, of course!) Later Allen Organs with card readers would no longer store the waveform on the card, and instead only activated other voices internally.
Hi, Sorry, they aren't mine. (Not that anyone would know they disappeared..) I'd see if the church would be interested in selling duplicates, but I'm no longer the organist there. Allen Organs does actually still sell cards that they have in stock -- search their website. They're a little pricy. Keep a watch on eBay. People sometimes post them for sale on The Organ Forum.
Been a while since I played this instrument, and my own Allen doesn't have cards, but it basically goes like this: You program the stop by selecting what alterable tab you want the card to program. There is a dial, it has 4 selections - 2 for the swell, 2 for the great. The tabs don't need to be on to program them.
Used to have a very similar organ for home use. Worst organ ever, Best thing I did was get something newer. The card reader was useless to me, all the sounds sounded the exact same, and sounded nothing like the sound it said on the card..
Turned out that my vibrato unit was fried. I bypassed it with an end-to-end connector.
New Allens have the ability to "switch instruments" entirely, or swap out individual ranks, but only to exchange with other sound already built in. It would be interesting to see this kind of thing added again (with USB's instead of cards, of course!)
Later Allen Organs with card readers would no longer store the waveform on the card, and instead only activated other voices internally.
Interesting, first time I have seen card readers work!
Same here Rodney!
I didn't expect to find your comment here 9 years later!
Interesting how it chances the harmonics like on a Hammond drawbar organ
Hi,
Sorry, they aren't mine. (Not that anyone would know they disappeared..) I'd see if the church would be interested in selling duplicates, but I'm no longer the organist there. Allen Organs does actually still sell cards that they have in stock -- search their website. They're a little pricy. Keep a watch on eBay. People sometimes post them for sale on The Organ Forum.
Do you have to have the Alternate stop pulled when inserting card?
Been a while since I played this instrument, and my own Allen doesn't have cards, but it basically goes like this:
You program the stop by selecting what alterable tab you want the card to program. There is a dial, it has 4 selections - 2 for the swell, 2 for the great. The tabs don't need to be on to program them.
Used to have a very similar organ for home use. Worst organ ever, Best thing I did was get something newer. The card reader was useless to me, all the sounds sounded the exact same, and sounded nothing like the sound it said on the card..
It seems I talk like a robot sometimes, and pause a lot. Interesting.