Hello naujoks,
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naujoks wrote:More importantly, all that I'm looking for is a way to store a combination of stops, on a number from 0000 to 9999 say, to have a way to skip forward and backward by one, and to jump directly to a number by entering a number.
That's how most European organs with combinations work. It's extremely easy and intuitive.
That's actually exactly what Hauptwerk's combination stepper does, and is for.
In Hauptwerk v6, please have a look at the '
Combination stepper (all)' control panel (which can be opened via '
View | Larger ... control panels ...' from the menu).
The displayed 'current' frame number is your current step (0-999), and you can use the right-arrow to its right (and/or auto-detect it to a MIDI piston by right-clicking on it) to advance that step. You can also 'cue' steps to jump directly to different steps. Use the setter to store your registrations to the desired steps.
Please have a read through the '
Registration menu: combination stepper (registration sequencer)' section in the Hauptwerk user guide (pages 97-107 in the current v6.0.2 version) for full details.
naujoks wrote:Seeing this registration window in Hauptwerk makes my heart sink. It has so many things I will never need and I can't get it to work the way I want without reading the user's guide. But the guide itself is so convoluted. It's clearly been written by a software engineer, certainly not an organist.
I designed and wrote it myself, and I am a software engineer (as well as an amateur organist/musician/keyboardist), so I'm guilty as charged in that respect. Sorry to hear you find it confusing.
It does indeed have a lot of functionality, since different people like to use combination systems in different ways (and are accustomed to different systems around the world), and Hauptwerk tries to cater for different approaches and preferences. However, as above, you can very easily do exactly what you're hoping for, so you can just ignore the other combination system functions (master scoped combinations, master generals, etc.) if you don't want to use them.
naujoks wrote:First of all, the floating window is too small and can't be resized.
We do have enhancement requests logged for allowing the control panels to be made larger. (Of course, the resulting size does also depend upon your computer screen's size and resolution -- if you have a small but very high-resolution screen then the control panels will appear smaller.)
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.