I'm in the very early stages of looking at the CODM - ultimately what I'd like to do is assemble a custom organ based on the Caen dry samples (which I own) with the addition of a couple of celestes and perhaps a few of the dry ranks from other organs which are available as free samples (probably a foolhardy undertaking)...
The visuals of the user interface aren't important to me at this stage.
Is it correct to say that I begin by saving a copy of the simplest St Annes custom .xml and then edit each rank, stop and stop rank table to point towards the Caen samples that I want to use ? (of course additional entries will also be required, as the new organ will have more stops than the st annes)
Is it also fair to say that Hauptwerk's native registration tools can take care of all the general & divisional pistons and coupling duties, hence rendering the relevant tables in the custom .xml redundant (in other words, can I leave out the <coupler> tables completely ?
Needless to say I'm looking for functionality here, rather than historical accuracy - I have no need for ventils or any such period controls.
I'd imagine that almost no-one starts typing a custom .xml from scratch, do they ?
The visuals of the user interface aren't important to me at this stage.
Is it correct to say that I begin by saving a copy of the simplest St Annes custom .xml and then edit each rank, stop and stop rank table to point towards the Caen samples that I want to use ? (of course additional entries will also be required, as the new organ will have more stops than the st annes)
Is it also fair to say that Hauptwerk's native registration tools can take care of all the general & divisional pistons and coupling duties, hence rendering the relevant tables in the custom .xml redundant (in other words, can I leave out the <coupler> tables completely ?
Needless to say I'm looking for functionality here, rather than historical accuracy - I have no need for ventils or any such period controls.
I'd imagine that almost no-one starts typing a custom .xml from scratch, do they ?