Tue May 21, 2019 8:36 am
To Josq:
Ultimately the question is: do we really need to emulate more sample sets by combining existing ones, when new ones of all kinds/types are coming out all the time?
The fake Rouen is from predominantly C-Coll samples; this is like restoring a real organ with pipes from another organ but by the same builder. With proper voicing, such stops can probably be adopted successfully. The same can be done in HW if you really know your stuff on all levels. The result has to remain utterly musical, and not just utilitarian.
By combining a few stops from here and from there, from different builders, different periods, old and new; I think you will indeed have great problems making it all sound cohesive, properly scaled, voiced, musical, satisfying, etc. Such a task is probably as hard and time consuming as recording a real organ from scratch and making a sample set.
When you look at a specification and the think "Oh I can play this and that on this organ" you are often quite mistaken, for a specification doesn't tell me or you anything about the sound. There are so many, many differences between organs, and that is kind of mind boggling.
Of all the sample sets you currently have, does any organ sound very much like another? Not in my vast collection. That summarizes my point exactly.