Abrupt end to reverb tail on St. Annes Moseley

[JPSmith]

I just noticed while playing the St. Annes Moseley organ (the only one I have so far) that when a note is released the sound decays gradually for about a second, then abruptly ends. One senses that the reverb tail has been truncated and should continue longer. I am running HW 2.10 on an Athlon 64 PC with 1gb of memory.

Is this normal for this particular sample set, or is it a function of my settings and/or relatively small amount of RAM? Do other wet sample sets provide more realistic decay of released notes?

[telemanr]

It seems to me that there just isn't very much reverb in the church. It is a rather dry acoustic.

I can assure you that with other wet samples such as the Cavaille-Coll or the Skinner or the Litomysl, the sound decays gradually and naturally over several seconds. But they in large churches/cathedrals.

Rob

[mdyde]

Hello John,

One senses that the reverb tail has been truncated and should continue longer.

That's just a shortcoming of the St. Anne's sample set. The blower was noisy and the signal-to-noise ratio in the ends of some of the release sample tails was very poor and prominent noise reduction artifacts were present, which was a major reason that some of them were trimmed fairly harshly. Also an intention was to keep memory usage as low as possible for people evaluating Hauptwerk on computers with smaller amounts of memory.

The St. Anne's sample set is by no means fantastic (and is only mono). However, it's included for free and is mainly meant just to give an idea of some of the things that Hauptwerk can do.

Best regards,
Martin.

[JPSmith]

Martin, thanks for the explanation. It's good to know I didn't have something set up incorrectly.