Hi!
In St Maximin last week we were privileged to have been able to play on both the real organ (WOW !!! AMAZING !!! ) as well as two Hauptwerk implementations of the instrument - which were seriously impressive and useful, even if not being quite the same
However, two things spoiled the show as far as Hauptwerk was concerned for me as well as for another student on the course - the first was that on fast passages of complexity, the system could not keep up and cut out - not a problem for Couperin but would be for Widor - and the second was having to fiddle with a mouse to choose stops. It would be nice also to be able to arrange the stops in the manner of the original console - but that's another issue.
THe forth thing was Vista - which took an age to load and to shut down.
I happened to walk into a high street shop last week and noticed a Hewlett Packard offering which looked really ideal . . .
HP TX2-1020 Laptop
AMD Turion x2 Ultra Dual Core ZM-84 (2.3GHz)
2 GB + 2GB Memory (I think the one I saw was 3GB memory)
400 Gb Hard Drive
12.1" WXGA LED BV Touchsmart Screen
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Card
64 bit display cache memory
THe display could be reversed so presumably one could have the touch screen visible all the time set with Hauptwerk to load automagically. Could one get XP drivers for the touchscreen? Would this machine be man enough for Hauptwerk and what would one need for MIDI and sound?
No doubt there are other such machines coming along - the prospect of Hauptwerk looks promising . ..
Best wishes
David P
In St Maximin last week we were privileged to have been able to play on both the real organ (WOW !!! AMAZING !!! ) as well as two Hauptwerk implementations of the instrument - which were seriously impressive and useful, even if not being quite the same
However, two things spoiled the show as far as Hauptwerk was concerned for me as well as for another student on the course - the first was that on fast passages of complexity, the system could not keep up and cut out - not a problem for Couperin but would be for Widor - and the second was having to fiddle with a mouse to choose stops. It would be nice also to be able to arrange the stops in the manner of the original console - but that's another issue.
THe forth thing was Vista - which took an age to load and to shut down.
I happened to walk into a high street shop last week and noticed a Hewlett Packard offering which looked really ideal . . .
HP TX2-1020 Laptop
AMD Turion x2 Ultra Dual Core ZM-84 (2.3GHz)
2 GB + 2GB Memory (I think the one I saw was 3GB memory)
400 Gb Hard Drive
12.1" WXGA LED BV Touchsmart Screen
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Card
64 bit display cache memory
THe display could be reversed so presumably one could have the touch screen visible all the time set with Hauptwerk to load automagically. Could one get XP drivers for the touchscreen? Would this machine be man enough for Hauptwerk and what would one need for MIDI and sound?
No doubt there are other such machines coming along - the prospect of Hauptwerk looks promising . ..
Best wishes
David P
http://www.organmatters.co.uk
David Pinnegar, B.Sc., A.R.C.S.
David Pinnegar, B.Sc., A.R.C.S.