I wish to make the announcement about two new sample sets from the Sonus Paradisi workshop. We have just released a Velesovo organ model, which is a modern instrument (built 2007) inspired by baroque Thuringian organs, especially by the work of Zacharias Hildebrandt. The intention of the organbuilder was to provide an instrument perfectly in accordance with J. S. Bach organ-demands. You may judge yourself if the result is up to his requirements. According to us, this instrument is unusually mild voiced and perfectly even. The church acoustics is not huge, which makes this sample set suitable as a study organ. There are wet and surround versions available.
The description and a lot of demo performance may be found at
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/organs/vele ... tory.0.asp
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/organs/velesovo/demos.0.asp
The other sample set newly released is the Prague Baroque v.2. It may be well argued that the first release of this organ model 2 years ago was somewhat premature. The releases behavior was not perfect and the extension reeds which were added to the original Prague Tyn Organ were not perfectly fit into the acoustics of the Prague church. This was improved a lot in the new version. Together with other improvements (like the support for double touch screens, a number of voicing corrections etc.), this sample set is now worth considering, since the organ belongs to the most precious historical instrument of the entire Czech Republic and of all the "South German Organ Type" region. The description and the demo performance may be found at:
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/organs/prag ... tory.0.asp
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/organs/prag ... emos.0.asp
The owners of the previous version of the sample set may benefit from very low cost upgrade.
Now (finally!), I am able to fully dedicate my time to the preparation of the release of the new St. Maximin sample set.
Thank you for your kind attention,
Jiri Zurek
(Sonus Paradisi)
The description and a lot of demo performance may be found at
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/organs/vele ... tory.0.asp
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/organs/velesovo/demos.0.asp
The other sample set newly released is the Prague Baroque v.2. It may be well argued that the first release of this organ model 2 years ago was somewhat premature. The releases behavior was not perfect and the extension reeds which were added to the original Prague Tyn Organ were not perfectly fit into the acoustics of the Prague church. This was improved a lot in the new version. Together with other improvements (like the support for double touch screens, a number of voicing corrections etc.), this sample set is now worth considering, since the organ belongs to the most precious historical instrument of the entire Czech Republic and of all the "South German Organ Type" region. The description and the demo performance may be found at:
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/organs/prag ... tory.0.asp
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/organs/prag ... emos.0.asp
The owners of the previous version of the sample set may benefit from very low cost upgrade.
Now (finally!), I am able to fully dedicate my time to the preparation of the release of the new St. Maximin sample set.
Thank you for your kind attention,
Jiri Zurek
(Sonus Paradisi)