Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:00 pm
Hello Mr. Bandersia,
It's not difficult at all to raise the volume of an entire division, if you don't mind globally adjusting the audio volumes of individual stops. It's usually a one-shot deal; after the change has been made, you only need to back up your custom changes and they are permanently raised for your individual instrument. In addition, the Mt. Carmel Skinner organ is not terribly large, so you can do the entire chore in less than 10 or 15 minutes even the first time.
Here's how to do it:
In the Hauptwerk tool bar with the Skinner Mt. Carmel organ up and running, you will notice the tab for Organ Settings. (It is located between General Settings and Design Tools tabs). Click on the Organ Settings, and select "Pipe and Rank Voicing" (on my computer, the Pipe and Rank Voicing option is the next to bottom choice).
You will then be in the Pipe and Rank Voicing window. Across the top of this screen you will see an area that says "Rank" (this is the one you want to work on for each stop), Layer (leave this alone) and Adjustment (of which the default adjustment is Overall amplitude, dB).
Upon clicking in the Rank window, you are presented with all of the stops in the Skinner organ. Hauptwerk makes this easy for you, because the stops are presented for you BY DIVISION(!). All of the stops beginning with zero, refer to the Pedal division; next all of the stops beginning with number #1 represent the Choir Division on the Skinner, and all of the #3's represent the Swell Division.
All you need to do is, within each stop you select, just go to the far left slider and increase all of the individual notes' volumes by, say +6dB. Then proceed, rank-by-rank, to increase all of the stops in each division by +6dB, and you are done!
Be sure to back up your changes by going to the Hauptwerk window, under "File", and select "Backup your Hauptwerk settings and personal data". The next time you start up the Mt. Carmel Skinner, these two divisions will be louder! Just be careful to leave the Pedal division and Great division alone, or the Swell and Choir divisions will still sound relatively too quiet.
Cheers,
Joe
P.S. My choice of +6dB was just an example. You could do it more or less than +6dB, but be consistent in your choice. If you hate the change, you can always reset all of the changes, or restart the instrument from a previous backup.