The alt configs share the same installed sampleset files as main, so reinstalling seems like it wouldn't help, but it shouldn't hurt. You could use uninstall and reinstall to reset the sampleset's settings and start over with it.

Just to check, are you sure that's the audio meter going red with trim -24dB, and not the CPU meter?

Okay, I tested the 4 manual Caen extension, with all stops drawn but celestes and all the couplers on the simple ext 2 screen. Playing big chords fast: At -24dB trim, the audio meter hits 1 green bar. This is the lowest Audio Trim dB setting. At -16dB trim, the audio meter hits 1 green bar. This is ...

It's possible that's just the dynamic range of the 4 manual Caen extension. The original Caen sampleset already has a big range, so soft stops need to be rather too quiet to keep full organ out of the red on the audio meter. The extension doubles the size of Caen, and then you're adding ...

You should be able to activate the license to your iLok Cloud account while the iLok License Manager application is signed in from your HW PC. If not, please try iLok support. Or post your attempted steps and the error message from iLok here in case someone can help you. HW doesn't allow a locally ...

Can't you use a different piston or stop tab to toggle the HW Setter? If you're using both combination systems, I wouldn't try having the same Set piston for both. Well, I wouldn't use both at all -- when I had a digital organ with HW, the local combination system was always causing problems.

Well, the tutti/sfz is easily done with a master reversible, the crescendo is the master crescendo when samplesets have no native cresc, but, as far as I know, there's no blind option up through HW9. I think that feature was requested a while back, so it's probably on Martin's list.

I don't know of any way to set up a blind reversible piston (blind = not showing its stop changes), unless you use the CODM to make a modified organ definition. The master crescendo works on any sampleset, but isn't blind either. (Why is a blind registration control useful? I've never understood ...

Since master couplers can't be used consistently "for all organs" -- because the manual numbering varies -- I use a group of six toe studs assigned to master reversibles "for all organs", and set each of them to the organ's couplers using the Setter. No repetitive MIDI autodetect that way. It's ...

www.midiworks.ca has basic information, and their online store lays out the parts you may want to consider, wherever you end up buying them. Everything can be bought off the shelf and bolted together with a screwdriver and pliers if you go the off-the-shelf parts route. I ordered a console cabinet ...

Well, I'm confused again! I thought you were nervous about the advice to reboot, but now it seems you've been rebooting the PC every time you use HW. Glad it's working anyway.

Mostly true, but see the Organ column in the Browse display? Right under the organ name is the software used in the recording. If it doesn't show "Hauptwerk [IV ... IX]", but some other VPO software, the sampleset may not have a HW version. It's against this Forum's rules to name other VPO software ...

Antoni, every night and whenever I leave the house, I shut down the system using Hauptwerk's Shutdown button, then switch off AC power to everything after the computer turns itself off. No harm done by that, ever. Those warnings are not to turn off AC power when the computer is running. Please ...

In Landau's Settings page (not Hauptwerk settings), make sure "Start blowers on organ load" is enabled and saved to Preset 1 on that page, or to whatever preset you use. It seems to affect the organ restart that the recorder does.

Hauptwerk has its own format for the organ definition file. You can't use it to play other samplesets. You could install those other unmentionable VPOs on your computer. P.S. Even most HW samplesets are made by companies other than MDA. It isn't the company that matters, just what VPO software the ...