I play Hauptwerk using the midi output (and input) of my Phoenix three manual and pedal console. It is located in my study which is 155” x 130” x 97” (high). Although the Phoenix stops full operate with Hauptwerk, I use two 24” Iiyama ProLite T2452MTS-B1 touch screens to control the stops on the virtual organs I play.
The Phoenix expression pedals both provide midi signals which Hauptwerk uses, but the Phoenix console does not send piston presses as midi signals – it sends only the resulting stop changes. To enable me to make full use of the Hauptwerk combination system, I converted the Phoenix pistons to send midi signals via a Midi Boutique midi encoder.
I make use of two LCD displays to display combination system information for the active virtual organ. I added a VMeter USB/midi controller which is configured as a master volume control for each virtual organ.
The system has two Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 units to provide the sound output for the instrument and the midi interfaces to control the midi components in the system. These together, with two six channel Rotel RMB 1506 amplifiers (50 watts per channel) and a Lexicon MPX 100-X reverberation unit (are mounted in a 18u Orion data centre rack.
The sound is delivered using 10 Mission M72 speakers mounted at high level on bookshelves opposite the organ console. The sound is distributed using the Hauptwerk notes cyclic within octave, octaves and ranks cycled algorithm which spreads the sound across the five stereo channels very successfully minimising interference between notes.
I use a Paradigm PS 1000 v3 (135 watt) subwoofer fed with a full mix-down from Hauptwerk to provide a convincing bass range for the organ. I also have a pair of Eridol MA-10D powered speakers which are mounted to the left of the console in-front of the player which are fed either with the rear channel from surround sample sets or from a Hauptwerk mix-down which is passed through the Lexicon reverberation unit for dry sample sets.
I have configured the Pro 40s to deliver a headphone output (from another Hauptwerk mix-down output) and can select between headphones (AKG 701) or speakers using switches on the front panel of the Pro 40s.
The computer is a Dell Precision T3600 with a Xeon E5-1650 processor (12 logical cores) running at 3.2GHz, 64GB of main memory, 447GB SSD and 2 900GB hard disk drives; it presently runs under Windows 7 Professional (64 bit).
Power is managed using a USB attached Energenie power controller.
I use a Novation Launchpad to provide a simple interface to various Hauptwerk control functions (select instrument (sample set), control recording, load combination sets and so on).
There is also a wireless computer keyboard and touch pad which is useful for performing system maintenance.
(For more details see http://www.iainstinson.com/wp/hauptwerk )
Iain