Hello Antoni,
Antoni Scott wrote:Losing sample sets is a real issue as many of my sample sets were not transferable to Version 7, something I was not aware of before deciding to migrate.
To my knowledge the list of encrypted sample sets for which their makers never released v5+ versions is tiny -- mainly just one or two small producers who are no longer active. Are you sure that the sample sets you're referring to aren't available for v7? Have you contacted the relevant producers to check?
N.B. It was only v4 *encrypted* sample sets that needed to be reissued for v5+. Non-encrypted v4 sample sets can be used directly in v5+. If you had any non-encrypted sample sets installed on your v4 computer which aren't yet installed on your new v7 PC then all you need to do is to install them ("
File | Install ...").
Which specific encrypted sample sets are you referring to? Before upgrading, you mentioned to us that you had only three encrypted v4 sample sets (
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19814&start=105#p151325 ), and all of those are definitely available for v5+, and I think Francois installed them for you.
Antoni Scott wrote:Although I asked many times on the Forum for a definitive comparison of the audio increase features from Version 4.2 to 5,6 or 7 , none were available, except opinions. I was able to dig into my archives (my recordings posted on Contrebombarde.com and Youtube) over the years of the Inspired Acoustics Esztergom and myself playing the Chorale from Boellman's Suite Gothique as an example. With this sample set, I was pretty sure that the stop selection was the same on all three versions. The first 2012 recording is Hauptwerk Version 4.0, the second is Version 4.2.1 and the third recording is Version 7. All three are probably using the same stops so the difference would be the Hauptwerk software and the last, maybe the influence of the newer software and sound card. Although each version shows audio/realism differences , in my opinion the difference between 4 and 4.2 is more noticeable than 4.2 to 7. just my opinion.
Given that you have v7 installed, you can actually compare v4.2-quality against v7-quality rather easily:
- On the "
General settings | Audio device ..." screen, set the sample rate to 48 kHz (not 96 kHz, since v4 couldn't do 96 kHz).
- Load an organ.
- Go to the "
Organ settings | Organ preferences | Audio engine" screen tab, and set the following two settings as follows:
--------- "
Audio engine processing quality" = '
Lower'
--------- "
Tremulant/wind supply/swell box/relay model quality" = '
Lower'
... then OK the screen. That will effectively give you v4.2-quality, since it uses the v4.2 audio engine quality, and v4.2 model quality. (Technically it's actually still slightly better than v4.2 could achieve, due to other minor quality/realism improvements.)
- Now go back to the "
Organ settings | Organ preferences | Audio engine" screen tab again, and this time set the following two settings as follows:
--------- "
Audio engine processing quality" = '
Higher'
--------- "
Tremulant/wind supply/swell box/relay model quality" = '
Medium'
... then OK the screen. That will give you default v7-quality. (Technically, it's actually still slightly less than v7 can achieve, given that v7 can also use 96 kHz and the 'Higher' model quality.)
I think you'll find the quality difference between them is very noticeable.
Edit: P.S. I see that Mark and I replied at the same time.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.