Thu Jun 29, 2017 5:52 pm
If the PTB do not want this on the forum, just remove it.
Having just read the Viscount promotional brochure through a couple of times, it seems to me that the Hymmersive is not really an organ at all or even an adequate MIDI controller console since it does not have a pedal board.
[quote From the Viscount Hymmersive brochure:]
Nowadays classic organs lovers can choose between three categories of electronic organs: Viscount’s state of the art Physis® Physical Modeling Technology, Sampled Based Organs, or Sampled Based ‘DIY’ Computer Programs. Viscount already offers a wide range of high quality products series (Unico, Sonus, Chorum, and others) accurately designed to satisfy the needs of almost all organists, institutions, and houses of worship. But in some cases, a personal computer based program, like Hauptwerk, may be considered. Unfortunately, until now, this choice has had some drawbacks.
The first is that the stop choices and commands are done by virtual buttons on touch screen that are quite uncomfortable and unnatural to the user and unpleasant to see for the listeners. Not factual
The second is because the computer, where Hautpwerk program runs, could become unstable for many reasons, sometimes causing the system to lag, or worse…crash. Imagine that occurring in the middle of a service! The Hymmersive uses the same kind of computer running Windows!
The third drawback, and often the worst, is the entire organ system, computer, manuals, and cabinet, and assembly, often done by a single person that can’t guarantee a high standard of quality control, only possible by means of an industrial manufacturing approach possible through the largest manufacturer of organs in the world, Viscount![/quote] So a hand crafted, all wood piece of furniture is poorer quality than a faux wood coated pressboard console?
If you buy a Hymmersive console you get:
1.) A plastic coated faux wood console in blonde. -
2.) OLED buttons which change with the sample set +
3.) Three simulated tracker touch, velocity sensitive keyboards and encoders (possibly Fatar) +
4.) A small PC using an i5 CPU and 16GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. (FCC Part 15 certification?) -
5.) Windows 10 CS operating system. -
6.) 6 channels of audio output -
What you must buy extra is:
1.) Hauptwerk Advanced Edition software and license key. -
2.) A pedal board compatible with the console -
3.) Sample sets that will fit within the 16GB RAM memory -
4.) Installation of sample sets by the dealer (no self install?) -
5.) Future upgrades to the Hauptwerk software, OS or BIOS available from the dealer. -
Complete Hauptwerk™ systems using real wood consoles, PC Sound Engines, Dante Audio for Home or Church. info (at) organtechnology.com http://www.organtechnology.comAuthorized Hauptwerk; Milan Digital Audio and Lavender Audio reseller.
USA and Canada shipments only.