Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:00 am
Over the last few days, the Hauptwerk organ at Greenwood United Methodist Church has been getting updated to v6, as well as undergoing all of the new updates from various sample set producers - most strikingly at the moment is the Caen Cavaille-Coll from Sonus Paradisi. The new pipe coupling and other improvements are astounding!
I am planning (but can’t promise) to make some demo recordings trying out and comparing different audio routing setups. Having 56 channels makes for an incredible amount of flexibility, but is also quite time-consuming. Namely, I want to do a side by side comparison of two different audio configurations I have long been toying with, but never implemented because Version 4 (which I had been running up until yesterday) did not make changing audio routing easy. I want to tryout the current arrangement (which used 6 groups of 8 channels each for the mains, primarily using the Cyclic algorithm), and compare it to a configuration which uses 12 groups of 4 speakers each using Tone Matching Mode 1. Then, I’d also like to do a THIRD one using the first setup, but use the rank offset feature to shift “duplicated” ranks up a speaker or two and see how that works.
I had long-feared that, when I made the hop to v6, I’d spend WAAAAAAAY too much time tinkering.
I have to be careful, though, as I still have to have something ready to play on Sunday morning.
For those curious to know, the upgrade process from 4 to 6 was a piece of cake. I had a small panic attack at one point because I realized I had forgotten to make a backup of v4 before installing 6, but luckily there was an automatic backup done just a day or two prior.
It’s so great that all of the voicing and tedious work done up to this point was kept in tact, especially and most concerning to me was the voicing done by Justin Nimmo and Tim Duckworth. It has all carried over and now we continue to move onward and upward.