Hi-
I'm new here and I hope some of the experienced users will be so kind to share their wisdom.
Although I know how a pipe organ works (did some diy setup and repair on an old and abandoned church organ as a youth), I'm not an organ expert and frankly, I would like to get away without becoming one. I'm a composer and recordist and for my current project I want church organ as the main instrument sound. Google pointed me to Hauptwerk, I installed it last weekend and voila! here I am. For the time being, I need it just for this one song and the 300+ pages of the pdf manual are a little intimidating. Not sure if I'll ever will be using it again so I hope I'll get away with some assistance from this forum instead of studying the entire manual and trying it all out in detail.
Tech stuff: fairly new quad core PC with lots of RAM, running Win7/64, Sonar X1 Producer is the audio host. I spent some time cursing until I had actual sound coming out of the setup but it's working now. Basically, I can play Hauptwerk through my MIDI keyboard as well as through recorded MIDI parts in Sonar. What's confusing me is the interaction of the manuals/stops and how the switches work. First off, probably dumb question, the labels of the switches below the manuals are impossible to decipher; same with the images in the pdf manual -- where can I find the info on what switch does what?
Second, I had two stops of the Great engaged and none of the Swell but there was sound coming out of the organ when playing the swell. How come? All of the below-the-manual switches where off so I assume no Great to Swell or the other way around was active. Also, at one point it seemed that the organ was behaving very odd and I quit and re-started and that was gone. Are there stability issues known?
All right, here is what I want to achieve. I've got a song where I want to replace all the instrument tracks of the demo with organ, plus there is one vocal track. Within Sonar I want to use three MIDI tracks using different channels to control Pedal, Great, and Swell of Hauptwerk. I need a sparse registration throughout the song that doesn't change until the last section of the song where I would add a stop or two for a fuller sound. There are counterpart (to the vocal) instrument parts that are covered by ebow electric guitar in the demo and I want to use some kind of Swell registration to account for it. Finally, pedal will come in at some point in the song. All sound changes should be done with MIDI.
I assume all this is possible, no? It doesn't sound too ambitious to me. As I said at the beginning of this post, this is the first and maybe the last of my songs with church organ so it would be very kind of you folks to help me out instead of uttering the usual RTFM!
Thanks in advance,
wolf
http://www.wolfmusic.eu
I'm new here and I hope some of the experienced users will be so kind to share their wisdom.
Although I know how a pipe organ works (did some diy setup and repair on an old and abandoned church organ as a youth), I'm not an organ expert and frankly, I would like to get away without becoming one. I'm a composer and recordist and for my current project I want church organ as the main instrument sound. Google pointed me to Hauptwerk, I installed it last weekend and voila! here I am. For the time being, I need it just for this one song and the 300+ pages of the pdf manual are a little intimidating. Not sure if I'll ever will be using it again so I hope I'll get away with some assistance from this forum instead of studying the entire manual and trying it all out in detail.
Tech stuff: fairly new quad core PC with lots of RAM, running Win7/64, Sonar X1 Producer is the audio host. I spent some time cursing until I had actual sound coming out of the setup but it's working now. Basically, I can play Hauptwerk through my MIDI keyboard as well as through recorded MIDI parts in Sonar. What's confusing me is the interaction of the manuals/stops and how the switches work. First off, probably dumb question, the labels of the switches below the manuals are impossible to decipher; same with the images in the pdf manual -- where can I find the info on what switch does what?
Second, I had two stops of the Great engaged and none of the Swell but there was sound coming out of the organ when playing the swell. How come? All of the below-the-manual switches where off so I assume no Great to Swell or the other way around was active. Also, at one point it seemed that the organ was behaving very odd and I quit and re-started and that was gone. Are there stability issues known?
All right, here is what I want to achieve. I've got a song where I want to replace all the instrument tracks of the demo with organ, plus there is one vocal track. Within Sonar I want to use three MIDI tracks using different channels to control Pedal, Great, and Swell of Hauptwerk. I need a sparse registration throughout the song that doesn't change until the last section of the song where I would add a stop or two for a fuller sound. There are counterpart (to the vocal) instrument parts that are covered by ebow electric guitar in the demo and I want to use some kind of Swell registration to account for it. Finally, pedal will come in at some point in the song. All sound changes should be done with MIDI.
I assume all this is possible, no? It doesn't sound too ambitious to me. As I said at the beginning of this post, this is the first and maybe the last of my songs with church organ so it would be very kind of you folks to help me out instead of uttering the usual RTFM!
Thanks in advance,
wolf
http://www.wolfmusic.eu