Looking for some genius' (meant to be plural) thinking altho already I hear an answer - no - it can't be done.
Starting from nothing (ground zero), here's the situation. All but one of the churches I'm involved with have 3 manual consoles. That is all except one which has a 2M. (All but 2 are Hauptwerks and I'm working on those to become H/W). A select, special choir is slated to do a concert in each (on separate dates, of course). The organist for these occasions planned her musical accompaniment around 3M's and I agree that's quite the way considering the music involved.
Now here's the issue, of course, that being the 2M. Now the question, Can the upper manual be split for a portion (of the music) and then be reverted back to a "complete" 61 note manual? (And visa/versa) That's where I keep hearing NO. Considering some MIDI VooDoo - and this is a bit clunky - yet. Can we use a MIDI encoder that can do a split manual and also a 2nd MIDI encoder (connected parallel to the same manual) be configured as a normal 61 note. Then, and again I'm hearing NO's, switching between the 2 encoders? Separate channels, maybe? Does Hauptwerk see this as hot switching? Dunno. BTW, the idea of rent-a-organ was off the table very quickly, something like fliers who do a touch-and-go landing.
All options are appreciated. How about selecting/switching between the 2 MIDI outputs when auto-detecting?
Not impossible to diode isolate (between 2 encoders) the keyboard contacts on the upper manual.
I should probably go with "not possible", yet - - - - (CC has made M & O do much more than this.)
Rgds,
Ed
Starting from nothing (ground zero), here's the situation. All but one of the churches I'm involved with have 3 manual consoles. That is all except one which has a 2M. (All but 2 are Hauptwerks and I'm working on those to become H/W). A select, special choir is slated to do a concert in each (on separate dates, of course). The organist for these occasions planned her musical accompaniment around 3M's and I agree that's quite the way considering the music involved.
Now here's the issue, of course, that being the 2M. Now the question, Can the upper manual be split for a portion (of the music) and then be reverted back to a "complete" 61 note manual? (And visa/versa) That's where I keep hearing NO. Considering some MIDI VooDoo - and this is a bit clunky - yet. Can we use a MIDI encoder that can do a split manual and also a 2nd MIDI encoder (connected parallel to the same manual) be configured as a normal 61 note. Then, and again I'm hearing NO's, switching between the 2 encoders? Separate channels, maybe? Does Hauptwerk see this as hot switching? Dunno. BTW, the idea of rent-a-organ was off the table very quickly, something like fliers who do a touch-and-go landing.
All options are appreciated. How about selecting/switching between the 2 MIDI outputs when auto-detecting?
Not impossible to diode isolate (between 2 encoders) the keyboard contacts on the upper manual.
I should probably go with "not possible", yet - - - - (CC has made M & O do much more than this.)
Rgds,
Ed
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