Hello caper1,
caper1 wrote:One further question from the Music Director: "Does or can the Hauptwerk audio come out of the computer and sound card separated by organ division (i.e. Choir/swell/great) so that each organ division is going to separate amp/speakers to allow for individual volume control for each division."
Yes -- the Advanced Edition of Hauptwerk certainly allows you to route any ranks to any speakers (and/or groups of speakers). (Installation in a church would require the Advanced Edition, with Public Installation Licence option, anyway.)
Although I see that you currently have the Basic Edition, you could experiment by exiting Hauptwerk, temporarily detaching your Hauptwerk USB key, then launching Hauptwerk via one of the 'spare' '
Hauptwerk (alt config N)' configurations (desktop short-cuts), and selecting to evaluate the Advanced Edition. (The four configurations have completely independent settings, so you wouldn't interfere with your main configuration's audio settings that way.)
The '
Audio routing and multi-channel audio' section in the main Hauptwerk user guide (pages 164-168 in the current v4.2.1 version) covers multi-channel audio.
caper1 wrote:2. What sort of audio interface do we need to get a good sound from the Hauptwerk organ through the Allen system?
We have some general guidance on audio interfaces and computer hardware in these documents (linked to from the 'Support | Prerequisites' section of the website:
https://www.hauptwerk.com/clientuploads/documentation/PDF/HauptwerkBackgroundTechnicalInfoOnComputerHardware.pdfhttps://www.hauptwerk.com/clientuploads/documentation/PDF/HauptwerkPrerequisites.pdfYou'll find lots of recommendations for, and experiences with, audio interfaces from Hauptwerk users in this section of the forum in general.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.