mdyde wrote:However, the pistons in most sample sets are momentary in action (non-'stateful'), i.e. their is no concept of any one of them being 'on', which is common in European organs. For example, the St. Anne's native divisional pistons and Hauptwerk's master scoped pistons are non-stateful, whereas the St. Anne's FF and PP are stateful (and the master stepper and master generals).
Is there any logic (software) that could be used to make a momentary piston
stateful? That is with the contact closure, first all existing lit pistons(in a particular grouping, i.e. divisionals, generals on a particular manual) would be canceled followed immediately by the particular piston that was pushed being held in an
on state? Assuming that any previously turned on/held pistons (during a prior session before shutdown) be canceled upon restart. In other words, each time Hauptwerk was started, it would start with no pistons being
on.
I know this goes against the so-called norm, but it would be very user friendly. My suggestion has always been, before the organist start setting up c/a of manual registration to always push the g/c. Honestly, I never checked to see if this
general canceling is done "automatically" upon startup.
Rgds,
Ed