St Maximin is the first sample set (apart from La Madeleine, but it is not a stop by stop set) I bought along with Hauptwerk and I could not wait when I heard that a completely new version would be released.
I have received the St Maximin V2 upgrade yesterday. The installation was fast. I first load wet and surround in 16 bit format to fit in 12 gb memory, and in the same output since I don’t have rear speakers and the EMU 1212m doesn’t allow for that anyway.
The difference since version 1 is big, this is really night and days, there is a much deeper spatial sense, the reverberation is what we should expect in this basilique, everything is rich in quality.
However I wanted to see what I would get if I turned off the rear samples and load everything else in 24 bits : the sound is clearer, richer, each pipe extremely detailed and the good surprise is that the reverberation is much more present than what I expected, in fact largely enough to my opinion (I don’t like dry organs).
I think, in my case, it’s much better to load only the wet part in 24 bit rather than the surround in 16 bits, unless you are not limited by 12 gb of ram.
Now, I know that the surround in 16 bit would provide a greater immersion if I had rear speakers, but I would surely lose the details I get in 24 bits.
Jiri has once again achieved a state of the art sample set, congratulation!
I have received the St Maximin V2 upgrade yesterday. The installation was fast. I first load wet and surround in 16 bit format to fit in 12 gb memory, and in the same output since I don’t have rear speakers and the EMU 1212m doesn’t allow for that anyway.
The difference since version 1 is big, this is really night and days, there is a much deeper spatial sense, the reverberation is what we should expect in this basilique, everything is rich in quality.
However I wanted to see what I would get if I turned off the rear samples and load everything else in 24 bits : the sound is clearer, richer, each pipe extremely detailed and the good surprise is that the reverberation is much more present than what I expected, in fact largely enough to my opinion (I don’t like dry organs).
I think, in my case, it’s much better to load only the wet part in 24 bit rather than the surround in 16 bits, unless you are not limited by 12 gb of ram.
Now, I know that the surround in 16 bit would provide a greater immersion if I had rear speakers, but I would surely lose the details I get in 24 bits.
Jiri has once again achieved a state of the art sample set, congratulation!