I just recently got my console conversion to a point where it's playable, and I only have one commercial sample set so far: the new St. Mark's Glendale. I bought this set because it was somewhat similar to the organ at my church that I practice on, and figured it would be a good starting point.
Everything works ok, but the swell and choir divisions are much softer than the great and pedal, to the extent that coupling either or both to the great has little effect.
Everything is routed through a single main output group, which feeds 12 monitors and one sub via an aux mixdown, so no ranks are given preferential treatment over any other. The swell shoes are generating the correct range of midi values, except that two of them only go down to 2 instead of 0, but HW seems to have no problem with that, Full open, they're sending 7F and the on-screen shoes follow the physical ones correctly.
Is it typical that a sample set needs to be adjusted to sound decent, or should things work reasonably well out of the box? The organ is in my garage (I'm still working on it) and no doubt the acoustics are horrible, but I think that would have more effect on the quality of the sound, not the relative level of specific divisions.
I also have the SP romantic demo set installed, and the swell and positive divisions are much softer than the great and pedal. Not to the extent as the SMG, but definitely in need of correction as well.
Am I missing something obvious here? I'm pretty certain there are no built-in volume level controls by division, so I'd have to adjust the level of each rank individually; an extremely tedious prospect at best.
Everything works ok, but the swell and choir divisions are much softer than the great and pedal, to the extent that coupling either or both to the great has little effect.
Everything is routed through a single main output group, which feeds 12 monitors and one sub via an aux mixdown, so no ranks are given preferential treatment over any other. The swell shoes are generating the correct range of midi values, except that two of them only go down to 2 instead of 0, but HW seems to have no problem with that, Full open, they're sending 7F and the on-screen shoes follow the physical ones correctly.
Is it typical that a sample set needs to be adjusted to sound decent, or should things work reasonably well out of the box? The organ is in my garage (I'm still working on it) and no doubt the acoustics are horrible, but I think that would have more effect on the quality of the sound, not the relative level of specific divisions.
I also have the SP romantic demo set installed, and the swell and positive divisions are much softer than the great and pedal. Not to the extent as the SMG, but definitely in need of correction as well.
Am I missing something obvious here? I'm pretty certain there are no built-in volume level controls by division, so I'd have to adjust the level of each rank individually; an extremely tedious prospect at best.