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Hi,
Cannot figure out if the gimmick on keys on this song is made with a step sequencer, arpegiator or manual, I mean live....
What do you think?

Lowery Organ effect, I think. I recreate it using the delay feature of the arpeggiator on the Lead 2X. I play four chords, it repeats them three times, then I start over. That lets the drummer "float a little" on the tempo--I sync up with the drummer every two measures.

i sequence it.

Any old step sequencer should do the job just fine. It's basically a simple held chord gated or retriggered and repeated in octaves with some volume and filter accents to give it the groove. A background electric piano (Wurlitzer or similar) is played over the top of it, and a few sequenced frilly bits are added here and there. Pete Townsend is also improvising very quietly in the background until he starts playing the main riff.

Unfortunately I haven't got a keyboard in front of me right now, but it's some form of Fminor7 chord.

Here's an isolated version of the original:

In the final mix, the original basic chordal sequence is hard panned left and a heavily effected copy of it is hard panned right.

For fun, here's Pete Townsend's guitar part:

Here's someone doing a fairly good cover of the intro. Although the electric piano is much louder here than on the original, it gives you a good idea of what's possible live:

Ok, so, for the background part that redleo was talking about and according to the cover he gives us, I see what to do, I even saw that on YouTube on a live version that this part is done on a B3. But for the gimmick, I agree for the two chords payed one octave upper but how could I do that on my stage 2?
At Apresaca : I didn't download it yet to my stage 2 but you sampled the 4 chords sequence? I mean two chords lower and two chords upper? If yes, what do you do when it changes a little bit?
The guy on he cover use a sequencer on his arranger/lower keyboard?
Also, could I use my Prophet 08 to do that, I've never used the step sequencer but because it a 16x4 step sequencer, I assume that each step of the sequence could be a note and because I have 4 sequences, first could be the F, second the Ab, third the C and last the Eb right? And repeated like that with 16 steps? Am I right?
And because it seems that sometime there is some extra delay, I could use the control pedal to add some delay here and there, right?
If I could do that with my left hand on the Porphet 08, I will still have the right one to play the overpart on the C2 (my Prophet being on top of the C2...), or even using the split in the Prophet for a Wurlitzer sound?
Just let me know, I'm still confused....

Eb Eb
C C
F F
Eb Eb
C C
F F . . . . .