Hi Martin
Just a few observations regarding HW8. I am enjoying the benefits of HW8 and I won’t list them as they are in other posts.
The "Organ settings | Rank voicing and surround/3D panning" screen, with expandable nodes is a great idea and has the potential to be one of the best new additions since the new mixer.
Being able to create four different versions of the same organ is ground breaking and opens many possibilities. This saves copying the organ from say alt config 1 to 2 to create a new version from your organ you have spent lots of time setting it up as a baseline.
However, in the "Organ settings | Rank voicing and surround/3D panning" screen there are literally 100’s of changes made to an organ sample to make it sound the way you like. Bringing this data across from one node to another node is very painful and would require days of work to copy info one at time between nods.
To make this new idea reach its fullest potential it needs a copy between nodes routine.
I am excited with this idea but as it is I won’t be using it as I don’t have the patience to spend days copping between nodes for every organ I own.
The mini control panel “Mixer preset for organ’s rank routing/voicing preset” has grown in width greatly due to its long new name. In HW7 I had a few docked at the bottom of the screen however when I upgraded to ver8 it pushed some of my docked items off the screen to the right. Maybe you could change the name or use two lines to bring its width back down.
Not related to HW8.
I have set up Hauptwerk so I use midi to control as many aspects as I can. In a normal session I don’t use keyboard, mouse or monitor. I also run Hauptwerk 24/7. At the end of a session, I like to unload the current organ so that my launch pads are not lit. This requires dragging out the keyboard and using its shortcut.
Being able to link the unload with a midi control would be nice and shouldn’t be hard to implement.
A long time ago (Window 7 & HW5 I think) the ideal way to run Hauptwerk was in Realtime priority as it still is today. The annoying thing is that it needs administration privileges to run. I soon got tired of answering yes to the popup every time and sometimes Realtime was not implemented.
So, I devolved a script using Windows Task Scheduler to run Hauptwerk with highest privileges and to run it Realtime priority using a desktop shortcut. This method bypasses the popup and is never seen again and guarantees Runtime priority is implemented.
Every time I’ve updated my computer, I’ve had to go back to see what I did, so I have created a PDF instruction manual on how to implement this to save myself time and copy/paste the script.
Do you think this is information that could be shared with other users. I think many uses probably do not know how to run Hauptwerk with admin privileges and if they do like me are sick of the popup. I have created the manual with step-by-step instructions for those with little understanding of windows.
I won’t share this until you have had a look at it. I can send with your permission a copy to Francois as I have his email. Let me know if you like a copy to evaluate.
I have a few more ideas that may be useful but I will do that through Francois at a later time.
Congratulations on HW8 and thanks again,
Norm
Just a few observations regarding HW8. I am enjoying the benefits of HW8 and I won’t list them as they are in other posts.
The "Organ settings | Rank voicing and surround/3D panning" screen, with expandable nodes is a great idea and has the potential to be one of the best new additions since the new mixer.
Being able to create four different versions of the same organ is ground breaking and opens many possibilities. This saves copying the organ from say alt config 1 to 2 to create a new version from your organ you have spent lots of time setting it up as a baseline.
However, in the "Organ settings | Rank voicing and surround/3D panning" screen there are literally 100’s of changes made to an organ sample to make it sound the way you like. Bringing this data across from one node to another node is very painful and would require days of work to copy info one at time between nods.
To make this new idea reach its fullest potential it needs a copy between nodes routine.
I am excited with this idea but as it is I won’t be using it as I don’t have the patience to spend days copping between nodes for every organ I own.
The mini control panel “Mixer preset for organ’s rank routing/voicing preset” has grown in width greatly due to its long new name. In HW7 I had a few docked at the bottom of the screen however when I upgraded to ver8 it pushed some of my docked items off the screen to the right. Maybe you could change the name or use two lines to bring its width back down.
Not related to HW8.
I have set up Hauptwerk so I use midi to control as many aspects as I can. In a normal session I don’t use keyboard, mouse or monitor. I also run Hauptwerk 24/7. At the end of a session, I like to unload the current organ so that my launch pads are not lit. This requires dragging out the keyboard and using its shortcut.
Being able to link the unload with a midi control would be nice and shouldn’t be hard to implement.
A long time ago (Window 7 & HW5 I think) the ideal way to run Hauptwerk was in Realtime priority as it still is today. The annoying thing is that it needs administration privileges to run. I soon got tired of answering yes to the popup every time and sometimes Realtime was not implemented.
So, I devolved a script using Windows Task Scheduler to run Hauptwerk with highest privileges and to run it Realtime priority using a desktop shortcut. This method bypasses the popup and is never seen again and guarantees Runtime priority is implemented.
Every time I’ve updated my computer, I’ve had to go back to see what I did, so I have created a PDF instruction manual on how to implement this to save myself time and copy/paste the script.
Do you think this is information that could be shared with other users. I think many uses probably do not know how to run Hauptwerk with admin privileges and if they do like me are sick of the popup. I have created the manual with step-by-step instructions for those with little understanding of windows.
I won’t share this until you have had a look at it. I can send with your permission a copy to Francois as I have his email. Let me know if you like a copy to evaluate.
I have a few more ideas that may be useful but I will do that through Francois at a later time.
Congratulations on HW8 and thanks again,
Norm