New Free Organ Set in Wet and Dry Versions

[Morse]

I like to experiment with CODM organs based on combinations of the various sample sets that I own. As a zero cost experiment, I have converted one of them to use only free samples so that it can be freely shared. There are a lot of good free organ sets available already, but more choices are always good.

I call it the Enigma Organ, for reasons that shall remain an enigma for now. It is based entirely on free samples, and mutations of the samples, from Gernot's Happy Birthday Organ, and Nicholas Appleton's St. Stephan's Organ. A few of the features are:
1. A large 30 stop two manual instrument with complete sets of all the basic voice families: principals, flutes, reeds, strings.
2. True four-rank mixtures on each manual formed by recording clusters of the original samples at the proper octave offsets.
3. All samples are in stereo with about three seconds of reverberation added by impulse convolution. Multiple releases are used to preserve clarity on short notes.
4. Every coupler type that seems reasonable, and a Crescendo pedal.

It's not my best CODM instrument, but I think it sounds pretty good for free.

Here is a screen shot showing the stops and couplers. Screenshot

Please note that although the organ is free, it is not strictly freeware. There are some license restrictions against commercial use. Before downloading either organ please read and agree to the following License

The organ loads to about 1.4GB of RAM, and should fully load into a clean 2GB PC. The download is 777MB here: Wet Organ Download

There is a dry version but it is only meant as a target for the reverberation convolver.

Here is a readme file for the installation as well as some information on the sample set creation. Readme file

Please see the version and hosting update below dated Jan 26, 2009

[John T.]

Hi Al,

Do you have checksums for these downloads?

Thanks...
John

[Morse]

Hi John,
I'm afraid I don't have a checksum. This is not a real web server site. I just uploaded the files to my personal web storage space on Comcast using Filezilla. If it gave me a checksum I didn't note it. I did download the wet version and successfully load it on my computer, so I know that it uploaded OK.
In fact, I'm not sure what Comcast will do if they note a lot of traffic from my personal web storage space. But I don't have any other way to offer these large files to people. Please let me know your success, or unsuccess with it.

[cedric]

Dear Al,

I downloaded both dry and wet versions (using flashget) and installed them with no problem.
They both work well on my comp.

I am using a two channels configuration for the dry version (dry signal in front of me and lexiconed signal behind) and it sounds really nice.

Many thanks for your gift.

Regards
Cedric

[cedric]

Hi,

My humble support to free sample sets :-)
I am currently working the "recit de nazard" by Clerambault, so here is a little recording on the wet enigma.
It shows only a very few stops, but it's the only thing i can play now !
registration is:
great: rohrflote8 + flute4
swell: gedackt8 + quint2-2/3
pedal: subbass16 + octavbass8 + choralbass4
No coupling

http://cedric.voisin.free.fr/organ_rec/enigma/clerambault_recit_nazard_enigma_wet.mp3

Rgds
C

[kaspencer]

Morse, I already host the Prudhoe Methodist organ for Mark Beverly, and would be willing to do the same for you if you wish - no charge at all just a few points of understanding which I'll email to you if you want to contact me.
Kenneth Spencer

[Mike 353]

I have tried to download the organ, and only get the ranks for the Great. Hauptwerk's internal unzipper refused to open the files, but I was able to open them in My Documents. What is there sounds good-how do I get the rest? Thank you, Mike

[Morse]

Hi Mike,
I was strongly urged to modify my initial post, stress that the organs are free but not freeware, and change the organ downloads to include the license information. It sounds as though you may have been downloading when I pulled the files for updating. If so, I'm sorry about that. They should be back up shortly. Please re-read my initial post and agree to the License

[pwhodges]

The Dry download is currently reporting the wrong size (about 334 MB), and so the download is incomplete. I have had the same result using IE, Opera, and Firefox.

Paul

[Morse]

Mike,
My 2nd upload of the dry organ was indeed faulty. That has been fixed. Thanks for the alert, and sorry about that.

[Johannes Sørensen]

Just to say that I have downloaded the dry version using Firefox without problems. Haven't tried with other browsers.

This evening I have installed the sample set, and it went smooth, and everything functions OK.

Thanks for making the sample set.

Best regards
Johannes

[Morse]

The Enigma Free Organ has been updated and moved to a new permanent hosting site.
By request, the sample set is now compatible with Hauptwerk version 2 as well as version 3.
The stoplist remains the same as seen in the new Screenshot

The updated organ has a more realistic convolution reverberation added directly to the samples.
A sample of the new sound is the Enigma Nimrod Demo
For something more heroic, the Saint-Saens Finale uses the Trompete en Chamade and Tuba Mirabilis.
These demos are direct from the Hauptwerk recorder with no added audio effects. (They also make it painfully obvious that I am not a professional organist!)

Improvements to the sound are listed in the new Readme file.

Ken Spencer has agreed to permanently host the sample set on his site, which also hosts the Prudhoe Methodist Organ. His download link is [here].

[kaspencer]

As Al said, his Enigma Free Organ sample set is now available on my music site (the link is on his post above).

As I envisage that his set will be quite popular (it is free, well-recorded, and a substantial organ), I will be creating mirror sites for both Al's sample set, and for Mark Beverly's Prudhoe Methodist organ sample set, during the next day or two.

Unfortunately I cannot allow more than 44kByte per second (448kbps) maximum bandwidth from that server, so two simultaneous downloads from that server very nearly take the age of the universe to complete. A second, mirror, site will alleviate that problem.

Regards to all,

EDIT of 5th February, noon GMT:
Al's sample set has generated more than 28Gb of activity in under 10 days! So as to help spread the load, until the second site is available, you may get a message of "Service Unavailable" when you attempt to download the file. This is simply to give priority to an existing download, and if you see the message, just wait for a few hours and retry.
Also, if possible we favour downloads carried out between 01:00am and noon, GMT.
I hope all that isn't too inconvenient.

EDIT of 8th February, 11:00pm GMT:
As the downloads have quietened down a little, we have removed the "single download only" restriction for the time being. We would however, appreciate it if downloads could actually be started as soon as possible after 1:00am GMT (and preferably not started after 8:00am GMT), and if a speed of 44kByte/s is not obtainable, please try another day.

Regards again,

Ken.

[micdev]

Ken,

Your site http://www.my-music.mine.nu/enigma_ss.htm is on Hautesecure ( http://hautesecure.com/index.aspx ) blacklist... is it still safe to access?

Thanks
François

[kaspencer]

Thanks for that Francois - I didn't know that the site was on the Hautesecure blacklist and I will now investigate as to why.

I am absolutely sure it is fine to access, I have checked it and can't find anything wrong. I am checking further ... incidentally I did have a SYN flood against my router, directed at that site a while back, and made adjustments to my router to reduce the impact of any future attack, and haven't had any since.

I'll keep you informed!

Ken.