adri wrote:I deeply apologize if I offended anyone. Not my intention at all. I tried to inspire. I feel very bad now as I apparently made the creators of the set quite defensive. Please accept my sincere apologies.
I welcome all new efforts and often I am the first one to announce a new sample set on the horizon.
Nevertheless, since this place is already so crowded with so many sets, any new set will have a hard time keeping up with the latest standards that seem to have become what seems to be demanded by the users these days (though not by all).
After what you posted here and on the Dutch forum, I went back to the Onderhorst organ to give it a critical second listening/playing and I believe it still has issues, even though I thank you for correcting some errors in my initial comments.
The organ has a stop knob labeled "Wind"; when engaged, the organ behaves not as well as without it. Not sure what function this knob serves.
There at several individual notes in the bass and treble that when repeated hesitate too much, and this problem is worsened when the Wind is on. It might be best for you to test this yourself by playing each note repeatedly with several and all stops engaged. It happens with repeats that are played normally (not too fast even).
I suppose such issues can be corrected in an update.
That's it! Thanks.
In friendship,
Adri
I appreciate your intentions. It is up to you to act upon it. Apologies accepted but not necessary. I did not take it personally. I have just taken it as a good opportunity to explain some of the choices made when making this sampleset.
I would also like to take your comment about the "Wind" button to give some further explanation. For you and for those who are interested to read this.
If you record the sound of an organ pipe for pipe, you get the sound of the wind supply at every pipe, even in the release phase when the pipe no longer speaks. That delivers samples that are not immediately usable. When playing the virtual organ you want to sound more than one pipe at a time. To prevent the accumulation of wind noise these samples must be cleaned from the sound of the wind supply. The care with which this happens is crucial for the quality of the samples.
Now with the button wind: It has been added for those who do not want to miss the wind. This button "Wind" can be used to add the sound of the wind supply that has been removed from the samples, but only once without any accumulation.
The implementation is very simple. It is simply playing the recorded sound from the wind supply as if it were the sound of a (one) organ pipe. A sustained tone that is not switched with a key but with a button. (So it has nothing to do with the wind model of HW.)
I can not imagine that playing a single sustained tone would affect the behavior of the organ. Perception is subjective, sometimes you may hear what you think you hear.
Kind regards,
Bas