Hello,
I have to say my disappointment for most of the new sample sets I tried to listen (in demos).
They sound awful, electronic, as an old electronic organ of '80 years..
The reason of this is what I said many times to sample set producers.. they must not edit samples so much! they must not tune automatically! they must leave the original tone, tuning of each pipe, with their not perfect tuning and speaking. The magic of organ is this! if you take every pipe sample and tune perfectly at 440hz, correct all problems in studio you create a new pornofono sound! a lot of technology to return at years '80 electronic organs.. please if you are in doubt ask to some expert organist before doing such things. It's really a pity because many sample sets could be great without this problem.
Thanks God many sample set producer know this and their organs sound good. Thanks everybody for your work.
I fully agree and support this point of view, because I know this kind of disappointment too.
A real pipe organ is always somewhat out of tune, and this is why I love this instrument.
Hello! I'm not sure what sample sets you are referring to. I don't recognize this problem in sample sets of major producers like Sonus Paradisi and OAM.
Fully agree too, but I know some others that could be concerned... !
I have installed, tuned and voiced more than 100 sample sets.
Most benefit from tonal finishing and detuning to suit intended use, equipment and space.
Detuning in 2 ways simulates how pipes drift out of tune over time.
First--the higher the pipe's pitch, the sharper it goes.
Second--the reed pipes go flat of the flues.
The random detuning control in Hauptwerk may help, too.
Detuning is done by ear for each organ.
The result of detuning and tonal finishing is a much warmer and more realistic sound that guest concert organists and audiences appreciate.
This is exatly the kind of thing I don't want to do.
I want to play and rehearse music with a sampleset as it is, "out of the box",
and don't want to spend hours or days to make DIY tuning or voicing, with hundreds of reverbs and dozen of speakers ...
When you sit on the bench of a real organ and pull some stops, you'll have to deal with it !
And the sound is never the same, depending of the seanson. (humidity and temperature).
I think that when you buy a sampleset, you pay to avoid this kind of long unsatisfactory process...