Dear all,
I am designing an Hauptwerk virtual organ for my parish church.
The nave is around 130 ft long by 50 ft wide with a vaulted ceiling 40 ft height.
The original pipe organ featured 45 stops and two consoles, one on the balcony with three keyboards and one in the nave with two keyboards and a simplified stops range. (Link to description)
The organ was completely destroyed on the 15th of November 2006 when the church's bell tower collapsed.
The church facade has been rebuilt and the church has opened to the public in 2011. The wooden organ balcony is now rebuilt, but there are no hopes of rebuilding a pipe organ. I am then designing a virtual organ to satisfy the liturgical and musical needs of our community.
The church has a steady natural reverberation that allows dry sample sets to perform their job really well. We tested ranks from the dry version of Caen’s Cavaillé-Coll (Sonus Paradisi) with two ordinary stereo Hi-Fi speakers and we were really satisfied by the quality of the result.
For the virtual organ we have budget for 12 Definitive Technology BP-9060 full range towers, with adequate amplifiers by ATI. These speakers will be positioned on a wood structure on the organ's balcony, at almost the same position as the original organ pipes. At first I will try with a single audio output group made of 6 stereo audio outputs; if necessary I will change to manual routing of ranks to subset of channels. The audio board is a MOTU 24AO.
Here comes the issue I am facing.
The choir director and the organist (who are down in the nave) need a pair of speakers near their position to help them play fast pieces and to help the choir keep proper intonation. They need two monitor speakers, or something like that.
What I had in mind is to route a mix-down of the organ's audio outputs to these two additional speakers. I would not like though to route every rank but just the pricipals or diapasons (8', 4', 2'). I think routing everything to these two speakers will produce a bad sound, what do you think?
To the best of my knowledge it is not possible to perform what I have in mind, but I hope to be proved wrong.
The only solution that comes to my mind would be having two separate audio output groups, but wouldn't this compromise the benefit of having cyclic distribution of pipes over 12 speakers?
I am very much interested in your opinion about this and about the project as a whole.
Thanks,
Mauro
I am designing an Hauptwerk virtual organ for my parish church.
The nave is around 130 ft long by 50 ft wide with a vaulted ceiling 40 ft height.
The original pipe organ featured 45 stops and two consoles, one on the balcony with three keyboards and one in the nave with two keyboards and a simplified stops range. (Link to description)
The organ was completely destroyed on the 15th of November 2006 when the church's bell tower collapsed.
The church facade has been rebuilt and the church has opened to the public in 2011. The wooden organ balcony is now rebuilt, but there are no hopes of rebuilding a pipe organ. I am then designing a virtual organ to satisfy the liturgical and musical needs of our community.
The church has a steady natural reverberation that allows dry sample sets to perform their job really well. We tested ranks from the dry version of Caen’s Cavaillé-Coll (Sonus Paradisi) with two ordinary stereo Hi-Fi speakers and we were really satisfied by the quality of the result.
For the virtual organ we have budget for 12 Definitive Technology BP-9060 full range towers, with adequate amplifiers by ATI. These speakers will be positioned on a wood structure on the organ's balcony, at almost the same position as the original organ pipes. At first I will try with a single audio output group made of 6 stereo audio outputs; if necessary I will change to manual routing of ranks to subset of channels. The audio board is a MOTU 24AO.
Here comes the issue I am facing.
The choir director and the organist (who are down in the nave) need a pair of speakers near their position to help them play fast pieces and to help the choir keep proper intonation. They need two monitor speakers, or something like that.
What I had in mind is to route a mix-down of the organ's audio outputs to these two additional speakers. I would not like though to route every rank but just the pricipals or diapasons (8', 4', 2'). I think routing everything to these two speakers will produce a bad sound, what do you think?
To the best of my knowledge it is not possible to perform what I have in mind, but I hope to be proved wrong.
The only solution that comes to my mind would be having two separate audio output groups, but wouldn't this compromise the benefit of having cyclic distribution of pipes over 12 speakers?
I am very much interested in your opinion about this and about the project as a whole.
Thanks,
Mauro