I am very interested to know that it is technically possible to “mix and match” Hauptwerk sample sets, as discussed in in “Custom Organ (Very Large)”:
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As explained in my contribution there, I find that combining theatre organs with church/cathedral organs works well for me, and to some extent I can achieve this by running two complete complete Hauptwerk systems – one on a desktop computer, one on a laptop. Although this is an expensive way of doing things, it has advantages – when one computer breaks down, I can still play the organ using one sample set on the other computer; and the processing load is shared between two computers.
However, it seems from the design of the Custom Organ that it would be possible to go further, with professional help, and I would be interested to know what are the possibilities and limitations of this approach. Presumably the easiest sample sets to modify are those in which both the samples and the ODF are unencrypted, whereas it's more difficult if everything's encrypted.
Assuming that I have a theatre organ on my desktop computer, what are the possibilities of combining into one instrument, for the laptop computer, samples from the following sets:
1966 Schantz (Evensong)
Hereford Cathedral
E M Skinner (Mount Carmel – MDA) (dry version)
As explained elsewhere, we do have in England some “dual purpose” organs, built during the 1930s, which aim to combine church and theatre organ ranks; though in my opinion they work better as theatre organs. Do such organs exist in other parts of the world?
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=16582
As explained in my contribution there, I find that combining theatre organs with church/cathedral organs works well for me, and to some extent I can achieve this by running two complete complete Hauptwerk systems – one on a desktop computer, one on a laptop. Although this is an expensive way of doing things, it has advantages – when one computer breaks down, I can still play the organ using one sample set on the other computer; and the processing load is shared between two computers.
However, it seems from the design of the Custom Organ that it would be possible to go further, with professional help, and I would be interested to know what are the possibilities and limitations of this approach. Presumably the easiest sample sets to modify are those in which both the samples and the ODF are unencrypted, whereas it's more difficult if everything's encrypted.
Assuming that I have a theatre organ on my desktop computer, what are the possibilities of combining into one instrument, for the laptop computer, samples from the following sets:
1966 Schantz (Evensong)
Hereford Cathedral
E M Skinner (Mount Carmel – MDA) (dry version)
As explained elsewhere, we do have in England some “dual purpose” organs, built during the 1930s, which aim to combine church and theatre organ ranks; though in my opinion they work better as theatre organs. Do such organs exist in other parts of the world?