mnailor wrote:2, 4, or 6 is the number of sample ranks loaded per original organ's pipe rank, not audio channels, because I was talking about 2 channel stereo vs 4 channel surround vs 6 channel surround. Sorry for not being specific enough. So it's plausible that wind is used faster with 4 or 6 samples playing per pipe, only if the wind model doesn't account for the surround samples not actually drawing more wind. Since the surround samples have their own rank ids, maybe...
Thanks for your ideas. I'm still mystified.
So am I
Surround "ranks" (which don't really add to the pipe count, although they do add to the sample count), shouldn't drain wind faster. I have all of them loaded also.
Did you try just disabling the wind model on the Organ Preferences page? If that fixes it, then it's clearly some weird issue with the wind model operation or settings. Otherwise, maybe it's Silberman's ghost