Hi,
I am a new kid on the block. I’ve been watcing you from a distance for some time, and I have now decided to join the fun.
I am a co-founder and executive in the company which lends a corner of its ftp site to Hauptwerk. Before you all start getting on my back, please note it’s a private site mainly intended as a tool for our engineers, who frequently need to get in touch with their homebase when roaming the world on various assignments. We are a software company specializing in off-line programming of industrial robots (we write the ”score” and the robots follow the ”notes” when welding together supertankers and that sort of thing). At the moment I am the only one left at the office, the rest are off on jobs in Italy, Spain, and Korea, and it’s therefore crucial that they are able to download the latest (bug-weeded) versions of our software without any delay. That’s why we’ve had to restrict visitors from the Hauptwerk and the Sound Canvas Organ Project (yes, they are there too) to two at a time. I apologize, if you have to exercise a little patience to get through.
I’ve been a Hauptwerk user since the first version was released a couple of years ago. And what a wonderful program it is. Unfortunately I have long since had to give up trying to keep up with the never ending flow of new sample releases, and I am eating my heart out each time I listen to mp3 demos of yet another fantastic virtual organ – debating with myself whether I should skip summer vacations and cancel Christmas.
To make matters worse, Brett has announced his Skinner Organ and Martin will soon ”give birth” to a new superversion of Hauptwerk both of which will render my hardware hopelessly inadequate and obsolete. I read Martins specs for an ideal Hauptwerk 2 computer, but I stopped calculating the cost of that wonder machine, when I realised that one Opteron processor alone equaled the cost of my current computer. A dual Opteron computer with 8 giga ram will at the moment probably cost the equivalent of a two month Caribbean cruise (first class).
The problem is of course the ram limitation imposed by both current hardware and software (read Windows), which means no full blown Skinner Organs at present Hauptwerk setups. What if Hauptwerk and the Skinner organ were both geared to run on two standard computers in stead of one? It would certainly be cheaper than investing in a 64 MHz dual Opteron computer which Windows at the moment cannot cope with anyhow. Just a thought – I suppose Hauptwerk could already now run on two machines given the proper midi-setup. In the meantime, let market forces prevail. Prices are bound to drop over the next couple of years.
Finally, some sad news for my German Haupwerk playmates: Buxtehude was a Dane! His father was the organist at the cathedral in Elsinore, and recently when repairing the woodwork of the organ some correspondance between Buxtehude senior and junior came to light. All correspondance was in Danish. In one of the letters junior asked his father to thank his mom for the wonderful meatballs she had sent to prevent him from starving in Lubeck. I bet he received some Danish bacon too. Now only one unresolved mystery remains: from where did Bach get his sausages? I bet he might be Danish too!
Happy organ playing
Stenberg
I am a new kid on the block. I’ve been watcing you from a distance for some time, and I have now decided to join the fun.
I am a co-founder and executive in the company which lends a corner of its ftp site to Hauptwerk. Before you all start getting on my back, please note it’s a private site mainly intended as a tool for our engineers, who frequently need to get in touch with their homebase when roaming the world on various assignments. We are a software company specializing in off-line programming of industrial robots (we write the ”score” and the robots follow the ”notes” when welding together supertankers and that sort of thing). At the moment I am the only one left at the office, the rest are off on jobs in Italy, Spain, and Korea, and it’s therefore crucial that they are able to download the latest (bug-weeded) versions of our software without any delay. That’s why we’ve had to restrict visitors from the Hauptwerk and the Sound Canvas Organ Project (yes, they are there too) to two at a time. I apologize, if you have to exercise a little patience to get through.
I’ve been a Hauptwerk user since the first version was released a couple of years ago. And what a wonderful program it is. Unfortunately I have long since had to give up trying to keep up with the never ending flow of new sample releases, and I am eating my heart out each time I listen to mp3 demos of yet another fantastic virtual organ – debating with myself whether I should skip summer vacations and cancel Christmas.
To make matters worse, Brett has announced his Skinner Organ and Martin will soon ”give birth” to a new superversion of Hauptwerk both of which will render my hardware hopelessly inadequate and obsolete. I read Martins specs for an ideal Hauptwerk 2 computer, but I stopped calculating the cost of that wonder machine, when I realised that one Opteron processor alone equaled the cost of my current computer. A dual Opteron computer with 8 giga ram will at the moment probably cost the equivalent of a two month Caribbean cruise (first class).
The problem is of course the ram limitation imposed by both current hardware and software (read Windows), which means no full blown Skinner Organs at present Hauptwerk setups. What if Hauptwerk and the Skinner organ were both geared to run on two standard computers in stead of one? It would certainly be cheaper than investing in a 64 MHz dual Opteron computer which Windows at the moment cannot cope with anyhow. Just a thought – I suppose Hauptwerk could already now run on two machines given the proper midi-setup. In the meantime, let market forces prevail. Prices are bound to drop over the next couple of years.
Finally, some sad news for my German Haupwerk playmates: Buxtehude was a Dane! His father was the organist at the cathedral in Elsinore, and recently when repairing the woodwork of the organ some correspondance between Buxtehude senior and junior came to light. All correspondance was in Danish. In one of the letters junior asked his father to thank his mom for the wonderful meatballs she had sent to prevent him from starving in Lubeck. I bet he received some Danish bacon too. Now only one unresolved mystery remains: from where did Bach get his sausages? I bet he might be Danish too!
Happy organ playing
Stenberg