Theorbe wrote:Anyway, I’m pleased to say that having spent a lot more time experimenting with the perspective adjustments in the demo version I’ve now found a combination which I think is a vast improvement, for me anyway:
Since this is a very large Pipe Organ in a very large Cathedral, the substantial Reverberation is an integral aspect of the sound, which cannot and should not be avoided. If the sound of a glorious large Organ in a glorious large space is not to your taste, then perhaps this is not the Sample Set for you.
But there is still hope. The "Close" recordings are actually semi-dry. Putting "Close" at 100% and everything else at Zero, there is very little Reverb. The Decay Time remains the same, but the echoing is very much softer... so soft, in fact, that you can now use Hauptwerk's Convolution Reverb along with it, to bring the sound back up to a fuller environmental experience. For this, I would recommend selecting "Church 01" or "Church 09" at 100%.
Thanks for posting the over-all Settings which you have found to be most satisfactory. Here are the Settings which sound best to my own ears, on my own system (Headphones with Tactile Subwoofer):
Switches ON (blower noise and Anches/Copula GO)
Noises at 100%
No added reverb
Detunes at 16% / 16%
Master Sliders: Close 75%, Front 75%, Middle 75%, Rear 100%
Divisional Sliders: Everything at 100%
Hoping that this is of interest. Comparing with my other Sample Sets (over 70 of them), the lighter registrations on the Nancy have a sweetness rivalled only by the Martinikerk of Groningen, and the richness of the full voices (with OR without Reeds) is unmatched.