I helped a colleague set up the Salisbury sample set in a new Hauptwerk installation. His console has many unused pistons, and he wants to designate ten of these as generals, to bring the total to twenty. The Salisbury organ has only 10 virtual general pistons. How do we capture the extra ...

Martin, thanks for your usual prompt reply. The audio configuration appears to have been sorted out by re-installing the sample set (Redeemer Skinner) and reconfiguring the audio settings for multiple speakers from scratch. We had tried resetting the settings before, but to no avail. I'm inferring ...

I have migrated Hauptwerk 4 to Hauptwerk 8 on a Windows computer for colleauge, but have had several issues: 1) The first, which really had me tearing out my hair out was that the Presonus 1818VSL sound interface wouldn't operate with the Windows 10 compatible drivers in the Universal Control ...

Martin, thanks for your prompt response. I think the simplest solution is the use of couplers, on the assumption that the Cor Anglais will be the only stop activated for the Solo manual.

Ray

I'm trying to help a colleague for whom I configured a Hauptwerk installation using the Salisbury Cathedral sample set. He would like the 16' Cor Anglais rank on the solo manual to be 8'. Not being at all conversant with the Custom Organ Definition process, is there a relatively painless way by ...

Did you by any chance remove and plug back in the connector going from the pedal board to your midi interface? The upward shift of 8 notes is symptomatic of a matrix connector having been shifted.

Ray

I'm planning an upgrade for an organ which was gifted to a young organist. The organ has V4.2 installed on an old Macbook Pro. The Macbook OS cannot be upgraded to the level required for Hauptwerk 8, so the computer will be replaced with a Windows PC. My question relates to the logistics of doing ...

If you refer to page 21 of the schematics in the link you posted, the keyboards and stops are wired as an 8x8 matrix, and the pedal board as an 8 x 4. These are connectors 2 through 5. The Midi Boutique hwce2 encoder has 4 IDC16 input connectors. You would have to check with Midi Boutique to see if ...

I have a Windows 10 computer, and my brainless approach is to create a complete system image as follows: 1) Open Control Panel 2) Under System and Security, select the last item "Backup and Restore (Windows 7) 3) This opens a page "Backup and Restore Your Files" 4) At the top left hand corner choose ...

The switches are wired in an 8 x 4 matrix, witih 8 wires going to JP1 and four wires going to JP4.
Try reversing JP1, i.e. remove it from the socket, rotate it 180 degrees, and plug it back in.

Ray

I am assuming that each set of eight switches is wired into an individual harness. It appears that you have flipped each harness end over end before mounting it in position.

Ray

Thanks Iain. That's what I was looking for. As Martin points out, the later versions of Hauptwerk may preempt this, but that and the 450 document are useful in working my way through the multi-channel setup. This is for someone else's organ, which happens to have V4.2 Hauptwerk anyway.

Ray

Some time ago I read this document on setting up a multi-channel system. I believe is was six channels, with cycling among ranks and octaves. Unfortunately I didn't save it, and it's not showing in my download file. I have Googled for the precise title of the document, and can't find it. There's no ...

One of the criticisms of sampled tremulants versus synthesized is that each sampled note has a different tremulant phase relationship. The point in the tremulant cycle where the sample starts will be different for each note. As a consequence, the amplitude and pitch shift will be different. When ...

Also keep in mind that the voltage drop across a typical diode like a 1N4001 will be at least .7 volts at low current, and about 1.1 volts at 1 amp. Given that you are already starting at a low voltage, this may also be a contributing factor.