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Converting Samples to Hauptwerk?

Sampling pipe organs and turning them into something you can play in Hauptwerk.
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Uwe Mahnken

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Converting Samples to Hauptwerk?

PostTue Jun 01, 2004 2:36 pm

Is there an easy way to convert samples from e.g. GIGA, Halion, Kontakt or AKAI format to Hauptwerk?
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PostWed Jun 02, 2004 12:18 am

There's no real easy way to convert the samples. You will have to make sure that each .wav file is looped and has a release marker cue point. Giga, Halion and Kontakt all use separate .wav files for the release samples. Hauptwerk does not, it uses the same file that the main sample note has with the release being a part of that (original natural release). If you want to convert a sample from Giga to Hauptwerk, you will have to copy and paste the releases into the main wave file, then give it a cue point marker where the release begins. It's really only a matter of having the time and software to do so. You then must of course create an organ definition file to load the organ into Hauptwerk. Let me know if this makes sense to you. Good luck!
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PostWed Jun 02, 2004 1:12 am

Uwe,

Another hurdle is of course that Hauptwerk requires a sample (stereo or mono) for each pipe in a rank, which few sample sets for other samplers can offer, hence it may actually be easier to resample the original sample set note by note just like you would if you sampled an acoustic organ.

If you have a sequencer and a softsampler capable of playing the sample sets you wish to convert, you will be able to do the conversion entirely within the digital domain and there should consequently be very little detoriation in sound quality.

On the midi sequencer, prepare a midi file with the required 61 note scale (with breaks in between the notes) adjust the playback speed so that each note sounds the number of seconds you wish the sample to last, hit the record button and in a few minutes you will have the raw samples for an entire rank of pipes.

Then of course the real work starts (editing the samples, looping etc.)


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PostWed Jun 02, 2004 1:38 am

Ok, thank you for the answers ... I see, it seems to be very hard work ;-)

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