I was one of the early birds that needed a temporary licensing ‘fix’ for the HW 6 perpetual upgrade on 19 Nov 20. While thanking François for his prompt help, I mentioned to him that I now know why I bought 16 cores and an RME UFX+ [as well as Dirac2 processor/crossovers for all channels] late last year. The sonic result with a wholly unfettered Hauptwerk 6 is fabulous. Incredible. The only ‘compromise’ I have needed to make for HW 6 was to increase my (single page) buffer size from 512 to 1024, though I may have been on the edge of needing to do so with HW 5. Even so, latency continues to be a non-issue: with my previous Windows 7 HW computer, I could “feel” the difference between an estimated 6ms and 11ms latency, but with the current Thunderbolt connection to the RME, I detect no delay at all despite the fact that I CAN “feel” the 10ms delay that I SET for the antiphonal division of one sample set.
Back to the titled topic: although I am not as much a fan of “American classic” organs as are many valued contributors to the Forum, the Mt. Carmel Skinner was among my earlier sample set purchases after I began working with Hauptwerk in 2010, and I have had genuinely rewarding experiences with it, particularly playing slower pieces not so affected by the single-release full natural reverberation. Since then my Hauptwerk data folder has always included, as far as I know, the items 000115 and 000116 for the “Skinner Organ Installation” ID 01 and ID 02, plus the slightly later addition of 000119, “E.M. Skinner Update 1.02.” However, after installing HW 6, I was quite surprised to find data files that were previously absent: 000117 and 000118, “MasterWorks E.M. Skinner” 01 and 02. I already suspected that something unusual was happening with the Mt. Carmel sample set, because among 167 caches that I needed to regenerate for HW 6, it was the only one that exhibited a significant REDUCTION in size, from 4.49 (HW 5) to 3.65 GB. (Only 3 other caches showed any reduction at all.)
I spent most of my organ time today with a different sample set, but I did load Mt. Carmel for a while, and I could distinctly cause and hear at least two different releases: one quick with echoes and one familiarly long-tailed. IS THAT TRUE?!! It appears that I will need to rethink and revise the truncation/IR setup that I devised for Mt. Carmel under HW 5. Unless I am completely daft about this entire matter….
In any event, I do express great thanks to Martin Dyde, et al., for this stellar development in Hauptwerk sound. And I also acknowledge the stunning blessings that have coalesced to make this all possible for me.
Back to the titled topic: although I am not as much a fan of “American classic” organs as are many valued contributors to the Forum, the Mt. Carmel Skinner was among my earlier sample set purchases after I began working with Hauptwerk in 2010, and I have had genuinely rewarding experiences with it, particularly playing slower pieces not so affected by the single-release full natural reverberation. Since then my Hauptwerk data folder has always included, as far as I know, the items 000115 and 000116 for the “Skinner Organ Installation” ID 01 and ID 02, plus the slightly later addition of 000119, “E.M. Skinner Update 1.02.” However, after installing HW 6, I was quite surprised to find data files that were previously absent: 000117 and 000118, “MasterWorks E.M. Skinner” 01 and 02. I already suspected that something unusual was happening with the Mt. Carmel sample set, because among 167 caches that I needed to regenerate for HW 6, it was the only one that exhibited a significant REDUCTION in size, from 4.49 (HW 5) to 3.65 GB. (Only 3 other caches showed any reduction at all.)
I spent most of my organ time today with a different sample set, but I did load Mt. Carmel for a while, and I could distinctly cause and hear at least two different releases: one quick with echoes and one familiarly long-tailed. IS THAT TRUE?!! It appears that I will need to rethink and revise the truncation/IR setup that I devised for Mt. Carmel under HW 5. Unless I am completely daft about this entire matter….
In any event, I do express great thanks to Martin Dyde, et al., for this stellar development in Hauptwerk sound. And I also acknowledge the stunning blessings that have coalesced to make this all possible for me.
Don Vlazny