Hi SiegFried,
As I understand you want to create a library of raw pipe data recorded dry? So after they can be processed to pipe ranks and used in compound organs just like that electronic organs for which you can choose different "sets"?
Exactly, there is no alternative. In addition, the dry and monophonic recordings are easier to do. The complications come later ...
There are two ways to use dry sounds (in a typical multichannel audio system):
- Use real acoustics (church, auditorium, ...)
- Use virtual (surround) acoustics (VSL MIR PRO, ...)
http://www.vsl.co.at/en/211/497/1687/2002/1691.htmYou can start imitating a traditional pipe organ but will also be more interesting to open new possibilities with new sounds taken from other sources (glass register, percussion register, synthetic register, ...). All these sounds may have different licenses including commercial.
If I remember well MDA had such set - don't know where it's now. Father Willis set of Silver Octopus is built under same principles, they are using ranks from different organs of Henry Willis. And they are planning something more common, like an organ constructor.
Even "http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/" is very active. The commercial offer is interested in wet sampled pipe organs and in some cases there is also a dry variant.
Concerning samples.
They should be distributed under some sort of license, Graham is right. It's important because even some samplemakers will contribute if project will become popular.
I do not want to appear as the owner. The interest of the community is more important. A single license would be more simple. Who want to have more protection may adopt a more restrictive license to protect their intellectual work. At a minimum it would be necessary to use these sounds in a public context.
To ensure the commercial interests you can also get this (hypothetical):
- Encrypt the data with the Hauptwerk hardware protection mechanism
- Purchase a license to use the finished encrypted product (even individual organ registers)
- Use the raw unencrypted sounds is less realistic but possible
As for me I'd like to help, but I can help only in postprocessing - denoising and looping. May be someday I'll record pair of Yalta organs (especially that in Livadia Organ Palace) but it will be later. Anyway it should be interesting project.
You are welcome. Unfortunately I did not make a long recording to background noise. You can put your work in the tmp folder with details on repeatability and license that you want to adopt ... Even a small contribution can be appreciated and followed by other people.