A new challenge. There are several organists at this particular church which play on a rotation basis. What is apparently happening is that each organist programs the combination action according to the music they plan to play obviously over writing any existing c/a's. That has become an issue because that means there is a need to re-program the c/a each time because for instance, organist A worked hard at creating the "perfect" registration and organist B reprogrammed the c/a and overwrote it.
Hauptwerk does have a feature - being able to load and save multiple combination sets (files) and recall them. Sounds like an answer to the above, however the procedure is somewhat involved and most likely not possible at least not easily on a headless instrument. So my first question is this a feasible option to pursue?
Following that line, thinking each organist could have their own "bank" of combination action "files" which would be good. Using Roman's (Midi Hardware) features of Program selector #2144 and Bank selector #2145 with any of his boards that have an analog input. (Bank selector uses a 10 position rotary encoder (switch) with a 1K resistor between each switch position, Program selector uses a 12 position rotary encoder (switch) also with a 1K resistor between each switch position.) What that means effectively is that there could be 10 organists each with 12 (personal) combination action "files". Obviously huge overkill that would need to be scaled down quite a bit to become practical.
As I understand it, Hauptwerk can be made to understand these Bank and Selector files (presets). A little more involved than setting up a c/a piston and saving it with the Setter.
Then there is the need to indicate first the organist and then which preset Program file. I believe H/W would do this last part via a LCD display, yes? As far as selecting and displaying which organist, using a rotary encoder (switch again) , thinking about using a Arduino 1602 LCD Blue screen display (along with a Serial Interface Module. I'm a newbie here but so far I have been able to write code so the display reads "hello world". per lesson #1. Pursuing that will be my next challenge. Very likely I'm going off the deep end , but all this seems doable. Not at all sure the organists, at least some of them could/would accept this. Dunno so haven't said anything about this to them. The saving grace is that they all are avid Smart Phone users.
Thinking ahead, it would be nice to have the top line of the display read out as the organist's name and the second line which Program file.
Rgds,
Ed
Hauptwerk does have a feature - being able to load and save multiple combination sets (files) and recall them. Sounds like an answer to the above, however the procedure is somewhat involved and most likely not possible at least not easily on a headless instrument. So my first question is this a feasible option to pursue?
Following that line, thinking each organist could have their own "bank" of combination action "files" which would be good. Using Roman's (Midi Hardware) features of Program selector #2144 and Bank selector #2145 with any of his boards that have an analog input. (Bank selector uses a 10 position rotary encoder (switch) with a 1K resistor between each switch position, Program selector uses a 12 position rotary encoder (switch) also with a 1K resistor between each switch position.) What that means effectively is that there could be 10 organists each with 12 (personal) combination action "files". Obviously huge overkill that would need to be scaled down quite a bit to become practical.
As I understand it, Hauptwerk can be made to understand these Bank and Selector files (presets). A little more involved than setting up a c/a piston and saving it with the Setter.
Then there is the need to indicate first the organist and then which preset Program file. I believe H/W would do this last part via a LCD display, yes? As far as selecting and displaying which organist, using a rotary encoder (switch again) , thinking about using a Arduino 1602 LCD Blue screen display (along with a Serial Interface Module. I'm a newbie here but so far I have been able to write code so the display reads "hello world". per lesson #1. Pursuing that will be my next challenge. Very likely I'm going off the deep end , but all this seems doable. Not at all sure the organists, at least some of them could/would accept this. Dunno so haven't said anything about this to them. The saving grace is that they all are avid Smart Phone users.
Thinking ahead, it would be nice to have the top line of the display read out as the organist's name and the second line which Program file.
Rgds,
Ed