There is a certain warmth and grandeur about this instrument that is very, very appealing. What nice acoustics in this well played Mendelsohn piece!
Thank you! Indeed this sound is wonderful, and I have the feeling that this grandeur is truly captured in the sampleset. I hope to provide some new demos shortly. Did you listen to the four pieces I posted a little more than a week ago?
I cannot get over how beautiful and unique and colorful the interior of this church is. Simply amazing!
Yes indeed, they did a fantastic job when they renovated the church in 2008-2010. The paintings actually originate from the 19th century.
I regret that there are no 16' reeds in the manual(s), and in general only few reeds.
Yes, that would indeed be nice. However, the small number of reeds is one of the typical characteristics of the german romantic period of organ building, the focus was on providing an orchestral sound based on a large number of various 8' stops, all having their own individual sound. This organ does indeed have a high number of them, all in all there are 16!
An interesting element of this particular organ is that it also provides the kind of mixtures that are needed for baroque music which were normally not available in german organs of that period. It marks the beginning of a change in organ design which in the end lead to the neo-baroque organ. This organ however combines the grandeur and warmth of the romatic organ design with the mixtures in a way that seems to retain the best of both.
Any idea about RAM and HD requirements?
Yes, since all stops are processed and I only need to add the tracker action sounds. It requires roughly 21GB when loading in 24bit compressed, and about half of that for 16bit compressed. Since there is a long reverb (some tails go up to 10 seconds, most are between 6 and 8 secs) CPU power may become an issue when playing tutti, a modern 4-6 core CPU should do though.
Could your web site be updated with a few details to help promote this sample?
I am planning to start putting up information this weekend. Let's see how far I get.