St Anne's Moseley - stereo???

[Giles Kennedy]

Having thoroughly enjoyed the stereo St Anne's on HW1 it seems a pity that there wasn't enough room on the CD (?) for a true stereo version of St Anne's. Anyone miss the true stereo, or is the panned mono almost as good?

Thx for any thoughts. I'm thinking ahead to the "reduced" HW2 which may tempt me in due course ...

[ReinerS]

Hi,

actually the HW1 version was not true stereo at all, Martin's original samples are mono and he had created an artificial stereo version for HW1. Since HW2 can do this on the fly there is no need for this any more and the samples are back to mono.

So in fact, the panned mono is as good (and actually even better) than the panned mono from HW1.

Best wishes
Reiner

[Giles Kennedy]

Tx for quick reply. That's useful.

gpk

[Giles Kennedy]

So in HW 1 I could select the option to load the stereo organ in mono and pan the sound and this wouldn't degrade the quality - since the "stereo" samples are only panned mono in the first place ...?

[mdyde]

That's true. However, in Hauptwerk v1 it used more processing power to pan it in real-time than to use a stereo sample, which was why I made panned samples. Also, v1 could only pan if the sample was stereo (in order to determine the required channel amplitudes). In v2 it takes slightly less processing power to pan in real-time than to play a stereo sample and the virtual pipe position (=>pan) is defined in the organ definition file.

All the best,
Martin.

[Giles Kennedy]

Ahh, interressant!
Merci bien
gpk