I will soon be reassembling my pipe organ. The relay system I have has MIDI capability. I've noticed that a number of pipe organ builders substitute digitally sampled ranks for some of the stops in the pipe organ - especially some very expensive ranks as well as some that take up a great deal of space.
I would love to morph my pipe organ into a small 3-manual organ with about 6 stops per manual. I have most of the pipes.
I was wondering if anyone has combined Hauptwerk with real pipes to create a hybrid. I saw briefly mentioned in the "Features" that HW could be interfaced with real pipes. My thoughts would be to experiment with this after I get my 2-manual pipe organ set up, then supplement with Hauptwerk.
1. I would think that the audio system - amplifier and speakers - requirements would be quite different from the usual person HW setup.
2. I would mostly likely be using HW for a few reed ranks as well as a couple pedal ranks.
3. To complicate things further, I might use HW to supply the bottom several notes of a couple open 8' ranks.
If it's not too much trouble, could someone please describe - conceptually - how this would work or point me to a link where this is described. I would imagine that HW would become the main control for the organ and certain stops would be routed to send signals to a MIDI decoder that would interface with pipe driver boards.
The most complicated might be how to make the bottom octave of a stop virtual with the remainder of the rank real pipe.
Thanks,
Keith
I would love to morph my pipe organ into a small 3-manual organ with about 6 stops per manual. I have most of the pipes.
I was wondering if anyone has combined Hauptwerk with real pipes to create a hybrid. I saw briefly mentioned in the "Features" that HW could be interfaced with real pipes. My thoughts would be to experiment with this after I get my 2-manual pipe organ set up, then supplement with Hauptwerk.
1. I would think that the audio system - amplifier and speakers - requirements would be quite different from the usual person HW setup.
2. I would mostly likely be using HW for a few reed ranks as well as a couple pedal ranks.
3. To complicate things further, I might use HW to supply the bottom several notes of a couple open 8' ranks.
If it's not too much trouble, could someone please describe - conceptually - how this would work or point me to a link where this is described. I would imagine that HW would become the main control for the organ and certain stops would be routed to send signals to a MIDI decoder that would interface with pipe driver boards.
The most complicated might be how to make the bottom octave of a stop virtual with the remainder of the rank real pipe.
Thanks,
Keith
Sincerely,
Keith
Athens, GA
Keith
Athens, GA