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Randall Mullin wrote:Here are the terms as organists understand them:
Keyboard = a piece of hardware that has 61 keys. This is what the organist "plays."
Virtual Keyboard = is a pictorial representation of the 61 key hardware.
Division = a group of stops (knobs or tabs) under a heading (usually, Choir, Great, Swell and Solo(Echo))
A Floating Division = a group of stops under a heading that can be assigned to any Keyboard.
Randall Mullin wrote:In the Hauptwerk world, on the Organ Settings/Keyboard (Floating Divisions) screen
Virtual Keyboard = Division
Floating Division = Keyboard
Randall Mullin wrote:In the Hauptwerk world, on the Organ Settings/Keyboard (Floating Divisions) screen
Virtual Keyboard = Division
Randall Mullin wrote:Now in addition to the above reversals, you include Route and Input into equation.
My understanding of Route = Button on the Floating Divisions large control panel.
Randall Mullin wrote:That leaves Input: As I understand it now, an Input is a container for both a keyboard and a button.
Randall Mullin wrote:With this understanding in mind, and after having followed Martin's directions for the spreadsheet mentioned in a previous message, I have translated all of this into an organist's language.
The divisions are listed in standard keyboard order and the standard order is assigned to Button 1, which is also Primary Input.
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----------------------------|--Primary Input----|--Input 2-----------|--Input 3--------------|--Input 4
----------------------------|----------------------- |-----------------------|------------------------|----------------------
Solo Div.----------------|--Keyboard 4-------|----------------------|---------------------- -|-----------------------
----------------------------|--Button 1-----------|----------------------|-------------------------|-----------------------
----------------------------|------------------------|----------------------|-------------------------|-----------------------
Swell Div.---------------|--Keyboard 3-------|----------------------|--Keyboard 2-------|-----------------------
----------------------------|--Button 1-----------|----------------------|--Button 3------------|----------------------
----------------------------|-------------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|----------------------
Great Div.-------------- |--Keyboard 2-------|--Keyboard 1----|--Keyboard 1--------|----------------------
----------------------------|--Button 1------------|--Button 2--------|--Button 3------------|----------------------
----------------------------|-------------------------|---------------------|--------------------------|----------------------
Choir Div.---------------|--Keyboard 1--------|--Keyboard 2----|--Keyboard 1--------|----------------------
----------------------------|--Button 1------------|--Button 2---------|--Button 3-----------|----------------------
My understanding is that this setup gives you a Great/Choir transfer using buttons 1 and 2.
When button 3 is pressed the swell division will play on keyboard 2 and the Choir and Great will play on Keyboard 1. Preparing an organist to play a two manual console when practicing on a three manual organ.
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Randall Mullin wrote:Francois Ratte even has to use an app to control a "client's" computer because they have found Hauptwerk too complex to even deal with the basics.
Randall Mullin wrote:As I have already mentioned, the dialog box in question could be "simplified" into a system of drop down menus.
The goal, as I understand it is to allow a person to
1. assign any division to any keyboard and
2. assign multiple divisions to any keyboard.
3. This is controlled by buttons.
With single drop down menus for a keyboard and single drop down menus for buttons, all that remains is multiple drop down menus for Divisions (one for each division) or a single drop down with all of the possible choices of divisions which could be assigned to a single keyboard. Any organist could understand this.
Randall Mullin wrote:At this point, I am dealing with the dialog box as it exists today and translating it into as simple a form as possible using the three terms (division, keyboard, button). Many organists will have trouble with the terms "Input" and "Route."
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If you can shed more light on this issue using the terms Division, Keyboard and Button in the most basic way (as I have defined them)
Randall Mullin wrote:To accomplish the Great/Choir transfer, the Swell and Solo can be permanently assigned to their respective (normal) keyboards with the keyboard assignment in the Organ Settings/Keyboards dialog using Auto-Detect.
Only Great and Choir have to use the Keyboards/Floating Divisions dialog.
In the second scenario, for the Swell Division to play on Keyboard 2 (for a three manual console to simulate a two manual console) the Swell Division would also have to be defined in the Keyboards/ Floating Division dialog.
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Randall Mullin wrote:When I first considered a Hauptwerk setup all I envisioned was a practice organ.
When I discovered the realism and quality of the sounds involved, the incredible flexibility that Hauptwerk gave me to switch keyboards, switch piston orientations, make adjustments to the sounds of individual notes or entire ranks, and the ease of creating recordings, I realized that this furnished me with the power to create videos for YouTube in my home using a laptop computer and my Hauptwerk tower computer. After the initial outlay of funds for the Hauptwerk setup, two video cameras and laptop computer with video editing software, regardless of how many videos I make, there is no additional cost to me. I began this when most people did not take YouTube seriously. I got the idea of creating the videos from Rob Stefanussen who had demonstrated previously that the quality provided by Hauptwerk sample sets coupled with the improved audio quality available on YouTube made this an acceptable recording platform.
After I posted my first videos I began to receive PDF copies of music from composers for consideration. One of these composers was Paul Ayres. When I approached this London based composer about making a YouTube video of one of his pieces, he wondered why I would bother. Now after having created 70 YouTube videos of numerous composers on Hauptwerk, I recently received a note from Paul Ayres thanking me for exposing his organ music "to the world." When you "Google" the term "Paul Ayres Composer" a picture of my video of his "Toccata on 'All you need is love'" is found in the list and the video has been viewed over 19,000 times. This is a recording of a piece by a composer that is not that well known viewed by a small subset of the classical music audience with an interest in the organ.
Now also keep in mind that this video, and 69 others like it, was recorded by a retired 69 year old organist living in a village of 6000 inhabitants in Southern Maine, who was initially interested only in obtaining a reasonably priced practice instrument.
Through YouTube and Hauptwerk, others like Carson Cooman have also exposed the classical music world to the work of countless relatively obscure composers.
Needless to say, each one of these videos, when identified as a Hauptwerk recording, is an advertisement for Hauptwerk to the organ enthusiasts of the world.
You, Martin Dyde, make this possible. The word "gratitude" does not even begin to cover my appreciation for your gift to the organists of the world!
Randall Mullin wrote:I think that I have described how organists think and with what terms and definitions they are comfortable when dealing with any size pipe organ/digital organ console.
In my example of a different dialog box for floating divisions, I have given one possible snapshot of what would give organists the ability to combine divisions, keyboards, and buttons so that they could understand what they were doing in the process.
Randall Mullin wrote:Now to the buttons and how I implement them.
I use the Haverhill OIC sample set for the majority of my practice.
To explain how I use three buttons from the Floating Divisions Mini Control Panel with the Haverhill OIC sample set, I will give the following description:
Button 1 gives me Choir, Great and Swell Divisions playing on Keyboards 1, 2, 3, respectively. This is my standard set up, which I use the vast majority of the time.
Button 2 gives me Choir, Great and Swell Divisions playing on Keyboards 2, 1, 3 respectively. I would choose this when rehearsing any compositions by French Romantic composers.
Button 3 gives me Choir and Great Divisions playing on Keyboard 1 and Swell Division playing on keyboard 2. I would use this Button when playing my setup in preparation to play a concert on a 2 manual organ.
I would not be switching these buttons during a piece, only between pieces. With this system of buttons I am able to simulate different organ consoles without changing sample sets.
As I have mentioned the 4th Keyboard is not involved in these arrangements.
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