Hello Jos/Marc,
Then I would like to propose that as an enhancement request. Ideally, you would just click and drag a stop from one division to another on the console screen.
We should especially be able to copy ranks between divisions. This would enormously enhance the possibilities even of a fairly small organ. It means for example that if you have a 2-manual organ with plenum and reeds only on one of the manuals, you can still enable plenum on one manual and (part of the) plenum + reeds on the other.
Also, per-rank octave and suboctave options would be very attractive.
I'm certain this is not a novel idea, the only thing is that you should not need the CODM complexities for that. So just another potential reason to look forward to Hauptwerk 5
One thing I did contemplate in this (and it would be an awesome enhancement option), is the idea mentioned here of some way of easily being able to select whatever stop a person wants and choose what division you want it in. Adding / borrowing stops from one division to another could also be interesting. An easy way of creating your own 200 stop organ!
How slick would that be?
For some this might be viewed as somewhat of a scrapping of the original instrument, but I'm not all that much of a rigid purist if it's something that maybe works better for me or better helps me play a certain repertoire of music, so I wouldn't lose any sleep over it as long as I can restore it to original.
Maybe like we can right click on the manuals or pedal now to auto-detect, in this case you right click on the stop and along with the auto-detect and voicing menus that currently pop up, there would also be a menu allowing you to go in and choose which division you want the stop in, if you just want to add it to the division, copy it to another division and keep it in it's original division as well, etc, etc. Is this possible or something that could easily be implemented?
Those aren't things that can be done in general, sorry. An organ definition can be extremely complex and defines many, many properties of the way the pipes, stops, ranks, wind system, tremulants, enclosures, etc. are connected and interact.
Whilst with some simple cases one rank could theoretically be swapped for another, there are a lot of sample sets that are much more complex, designed to model detailed behaviour and interaction of the various elements.
If you want to design or customise your own organ specification then you need to use the CODM - it's designed specifically for that purpose.
We do have logged as a longer-term enhancement request that we'd like to have a nice, easy graphical drag-and-drop-style interface for designing your own CODM organs, but Hauptwerk doesn't yet have that, so it currently involves editing XML files.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.