Hi,
I've been using Hauptwerk for about a year now (very very pleased; changed my life, you might say). I play on the Trost Organ (a fairly big Baroque organ, very lovely, but an unfortunate pedal range) and the Walcker organ (a Romantic behemoth) and I just acquired the Rotterdam Laurenskerk organ (a very big and versatile organ that I intend to use for Messiaen especially (and Bach's toccata and fuga in F with the high pedal notes )). I noticed some performance issues with the Walcker organ (I've had it for half a year) when I played a full tutti, but it was mostly ok (as a workaround I disabled the sub-couplers). I play with head-phones on and play with two small speakers maybe twice a year when my mother comes to visit (no Messiaen then ).
When I tried to load the Laurens organ, Hauptwerk informed me that I did not have enough memory. I assume it meant RAM and not disk-space as there I should have plenty. Indeed I have 16GB of RAM and I now read that 23.5GB would be required. Then again the Walcker worked reasonably well and apparently required 19.9GB.
I should say that I have no interest in getting a state of the art computer with big memory and all that, unless it is absolutely necessary. A small sacrifice in realism would be preferred to a big memory upgrade. Computers are not part of the hobby for me. It's just that you cannot play a real organ with the headphones on (well, you could, but the neighbours would still complain).
My question is: do I need an upgrade, or is there some workaround? And if I need an upgrade, what is the minimal thing I have to do? It's a basic question, but I know very little about this stuff (when I write RAM it might seem like I know what that means, but I haven't a clue. ) Thanks in advance for any advice (this forum has been amazing on that front!)
I've been using Hauptwerk for about a year now (very very pleased; changed my life, you might say). I play on the Trost Organ (a fairly big Baroque organ, very lovely, but an unfortunate pedal range) and the Walcker organ (a Romantic behemoth) and I just acquired the Rotterdam Laurenskerk organ (a very big and versatile organ that I intend to use for Messiaen especially (and Bach's toccata and fuga in F with the high pedal notes )). I noticed some performance issues with the Walcker organ (I've had it for half a year) when I played a full tutti, but it was mostly ok (as a workaround I disabled the sub-couplers). I play with head-phones on and play with two small speakers maybe twice a year when my mother comes to visit (no Messiaen then ).
When I tried to load the Laurens organ, Hauptwerk informed me that I did not have enough memory. I assume it meant RAM and not disk-space as there I should have plenty. Indeed I have 16GB of RAM and I now read that 23.5GB would be required. Then again the Walcker worked reasonably well and apparently required 19.9GB.
I should say that I have no interest in getting a state of the art computer with big memory and all that, unless it is absolutely necessary. A small sacrifice in realism would be preferred to a big memory upgrade. Computers are not part of the hobby for me. It's just that you cannot play a real organ with the headphones on (well, you could, but the neighbours would still complain).
My question is: do I need an upgrade, or is there some workaround? And if I need an upgrade, what is the minimal thing I have to do? It's a basic question, but I know very little about this stuff (when I write RAM it might seem like I know what that means, but I haven't a clue. ) Thanks in advance for any advice (this forum has been amazing on that front!)