Thanks, Artonika.
No problem.
I did run into a situation where the customer had a three manual stack and wanted to use the bottom 2 manuals as great and swell on a two manual sample set. Should I go into the two manual Organ settings and set the choir to play the great and the great to play the swell and leave the MIDI settings in General settings alone?
Hello Thomas,
Yes - the idea is that you name the objects on the 'General settings | ... MIDI ...' screens according to you physical MIDI hardware.
Here's the relevant excerpt from the user guide (page 123 in the current v3.30 version) that explains how the 'General settings' and 'Organ settings' screens are intended to be used:
Important: It is essential to understand the distinction between the General settings and the Organ settings menus: the screens and their settings found under the General settings menu are mainly used to define your MIDI and audio hardware and apply to all sample sets. For example you would use the General settings | Keyboard MIDI inputs screen to list the MIDI keyboards you have attached to the computer. The default settings are just defaults; update or rename them to reflect your own hardware (or software) with which Hauptwerk will be used. The Organ settings menu instead stores settings that are specific to whichever sample set is currently loaded. Changing a setting on one of its screens only affects that sample set. The Organ settings menu is mainly used to map the virtual organ's controls to your hardware. For example, the Organ settings | Connect keyboard MIDI inputs to organ keyboards screen allows you to select which of your MIDI keyboards (that you defined on the General settings | Keyboard MIDI inputs screen) you want to map/connect to which of the virtual organ keyboards provided by the sample set. Thus configuring Hauptwerk is a two-stage process: first list/configure your MIDI hardware via the General settings menu, then load each sample set and use the screens on the Organ settings menu to
map your hardware to the corresponding virtual organ objects.
(The formatting unfortunately gets lost when pasting it here, so it's probably easier to read by looking in the user guide itself.)
For example, on the 'General settings | Keyboard MIDI inputs' screen, change the names to:
- MIDI pedalboard
- Bottom MIDI keyboard
- Middle MIDI keyboard
- Top MIDI keyboard
Delete the remaining entries.
Now use the 'Organ settings | Connect keyboard MIDI inputs to organ keyboards' screen to map those MIDI keyboards to whichever virtual organ keyboards you like for each particular sample set.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.