Is there an Ultimate Instrument?
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 2:48 pm
Dear Forum Members,
I would like to wish you all and your loved ones a Happy Festive Season.
When I decided to buy a Hauptwerk license, I thought that St. Anne sample set would be sufficient and that I won't need to buy other sample sets.
Two weeks later, I ended up buying a bunch of sample sets with the thinking that those 5 sample sets should be good enough to play any Pipe Organ music. But I was mistaking for the second time as I ended up buying more sample sets; that of course in addition to downloading a bunch of free sample sets that other Hauptwerk members has shared.
That said, it looks like we are in a search for the Ultimate or Dream instrument if I may say. I am sure though that a good organist can make wonders even with an instrument with limited capabilities relying on two important factors: His playing technic and stops combinations.
Today, instead of buying more sample sets, I am starting to think CODM as this is a tool that the developer has gratefully offered to users so that they can go ahead and build instruments to their liking and needs.
As I am new to this, I have a number of questions that I would like to share with you and I appreciate your replies and recommendations:
- Can all sample sets available in the market be used in CODM. If no, how do we define if a sample set can be used?
- Is there a limitation to the number of sample sets one can use to produce a CODM?
- Is there a limitation to the number of stops in a CODM?
- Will the CODM sound as realistic and vibrant as the sample sets used to build it? To what extend revoicing and retuning is possible?
- I read in a number of posts that Hauptwerk CODM can be time consuming and may be difficult, are there any other softwares or applications that could be used instead?
I appeciate your replies and comments.
Kind regards,
Wadih
I would like to wish you all and your loved ones a Happy Festive Season.
When I decided to buy a Hauptwerk license, I thought that St. Anne sample set would be sufficient and that I won't need to buy other sample sets.
Two weeks later, I ended up buying a bunch of sample sets with the thinking that those 5 sample sets should be good enough to play any Pipe Organ music. But I was mistaking for the second time as I ended up buying more sample sets; that of course in addition to downloading a bunch of free sample sets that other Hauptwerk members has shared.
That said, it looks like we are in a search for the Ultimate or Dream instrument if I may say. I am sure though that a good organist can make wonders even with an instrument with limited capabilities relying on two important factors: His playing technic and stops combinations.
Today, instead of buying more sample sets, I am starting to think CODM as this is a tool that the developer has gratefully offered to users so that they can go ahead and build instruments to their liking and needs.
As I am new to this, I have a number of questions that I would like to share with you and I appreciate your replies and recommendations:
- Can all sample sets available in the market be used in CODM. If no, how do we define if a sample set can be used?
- Is there a limitation to the number of sample sets one can use to produce a CODM?
- Is there a limitation to the number of stops in a CODM?
- Will the CODM sound as realistic and vibrant as the sample sets used to build it? To what extend revoicing and retuning is possible?
- I read in a number of posts that Hauptwerk CODM can be time consuming and may be difficult, are there any other softwares or applications that could be used instead?
I appeciate your replies and comments.
Kind regards,
Wadih