Features and screenshots

The Specification of the Instrument

The Compass

The original compass of the manuals is 4 octaves without the lowest C#, D#, F#, G#. The pedal compass is 18 tones. The extension of the manuals and the pedal is offered in another ODF: the manuals extend to 4 and half octaves (up to F), the pedal has 27 tones (up to D).

Sample Quality

The samples are offered in plain (user editable) wave format in 24bit/48kHz quality, multiple releases, occasional multiple attack samples are used. No encryption. The reverberation time is up to 4 seconds. The sample set is presented in 4 different versions:

• Wet - direct and diffuse: two different stereo recordings available, diferring by the ratio of the direct versus reflected sound. The direct version offers more details of the pipe speech, the diffuse one offers more spaciality (reverberation).
  • RAM requirements (approximately equal for both versions):
    • 16-bit loaded (all other features enabled): 2.156 MB
    • 20-bit : 3.044 MB
    • 24-bit : 3.920 MB - the full organ may be loaded below 4 GB of RAM in the highest sample quality.
• Surround: the surround recording uses 4 independent channels for each virtual pipe (for each sample). The sound of the organ pipes is captured by the "front" microphones, the church response by the "rear" microphones. The 4 channels are extracted from the recording amd assembled to the sample set. The two front channels are used to supply the sound of the organ to the front speakers, while the 2 other channels offer the response of the church. You can use these two channels to feed your surround (rear) speakers. Please note, that at least 4 speakers are needed to reproduce the multi-channel audio.
  • RAM requirements:
    • 14-bit loaded (all other features enabled): 3.255 MB
    • 16-bit : 4.130 mB
    • 24-bit : 7.450 (the full instrument may be loaded into 8 GB of RAM in the highest sample quality.)
• Dry: the samples offer the mono recorded sound of individual pipes. The samples were panned into C and C# sides in Hauptwerk. This sample set may be used well in self-reverberant spaces (such as churches) or it may be mixed with the digital reverb. By the addition of digital reverb you can virtually "move" the organ into various spaces according to your need and your liking. You may try the convolution reverberation using the IR´s offered by our Hauptwerk.cz partners.
  • RAM requirements:
    • 24-bit (the highest quality loaded): 1.450 MB of RAM

Updates

Please, check the update web page for the download of minor updates and improvements of the sample set.

Screenshots

The console of the sample set reproduces faithfully the layout and the appearance of the original stops. However, for the ease of use by modern players, a second extended stop jamb was added (which may be alternatively displayed on a second LCD panel) where the drawstops were distributed according to the divisions and and also the extended stops were inserted. Finally, a few generals were added to the bottom of the extended console screen.

the console	the wind	the voicing	the extension