Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ

What about Danube's King of Instruments (DKI of DKoI)

A name is good. But doesn't help how it plays.

Aren't the real questions how many loops and length, multiple attack and decay samples, overall sample set quality and features, and machine requirements?

I don't get the sense that this instrument is going to play well in a run-of-the-mill 4G HW machine :)

Grant_Youngman wrote:A name is good. But doesn't help how it plays.

Aren't the real questions how many loops and length, multiple attack and decay samples, overall sample set quality and features, and machine requirements?

I don't get the sense that this instrument is going to play well in a run-of-the-mill 4G HW machine :)

These are definitely the most important factors. I would really hope that if you're going to go to the trouble of sampling such a large and reputable instrument, that the quality of the sample set would reflect the quality of the instrument. It certainly would be a disappointment if this sample set were not up to par with the best of sample sets currently available. I think the focus on the name is just because that was the topic of the thread.

In the US, when you "super size" something, you get more of it.

So, we can call this organ the SSO = Super Sized Organ.

Dear Grant_Youngman and Stefanussen,

I'll be able to post some demos very soon and I hope it will convince you.

There is a group of worldwide acclaimed advising organists with us who help monitor the sound quality and the playability.

As far as the technical questions, I can now tell that there are multiple and lengthy loops and multiple releases, and some surprise too.

For recording enthusiasts: the organ was sampled entirely at 192 kHz. Of course I know that this alone does not guarantee anything, but maybe it shows something about our approach. Those who know NDB may check what we are going to exceed considerably in quality.

Indeed true, there will be a memory requirement for enabling this kind of quality for the full organ. I will post a detailed list about this as soon as I can. Computers with 4 GB of RAM can load selected portions of the organ, and those portions work very well.

Stay tuned.

Cool, I'm looking forward to hearing the demos. I'm hoping to be able to put the Mac Pro with 16GB RAM to good use. Would be cool to have an organ that barely fits in compressed :D

That are excellent news!

Best regards,
Johan

Hello Csaba

You mention that your new sample set will be a considerable improvement on NDB - so how about the Listz B.A.C.H which I think was one of the most convincing NDB demo's - just for comparison ?

In anticipation

Best Regards

Peter

I guess I'm a bit slow. What is "NDB"?

NDB was a sample made by Csaba for Gigastudio. NDB = Notre-Dame de Budapest.

Csaba,

Any fresh news about your upcoming sample... more technical infos, release date, demos?

Who won the organ naming contest? What name did you decide in the end?

Dear All,

let me share two screenshots here, showing the multiple touch-screen optimized left and right pages for the lower console. There will be a single page version of these as well, among with some other pages. Hope you like them!





The name contest will end soon, stay tuned.

Hi Csaba

That all looks very exciting....the couplers on the Chamade alone look like an interesting exercise in polyphony. Are you going to produce a three manual ODF ? - and forgive my ignorance but what does "Walze" mean. Looking forward to the demo's

Best regards

Peter

Hi Peter,

thank you! There are couplers everywhere so you can use it with any number of keyboards you have, 2, 3, 4, anything. Walze means crescendo wheel. You can enable and disable it according to your preference, even during play, and you can also have various wheel programs.