I am happy to inform everyone that completed my new sample set of Baroque Organ from Bodajk (Hungary) . The organ has two manuals and pedal and 26 stops.
Bodajk is a small town on Transdanubia, not far from Székesfehérvár. It has 4,000 inhabitants.
Bodajk was already an inhabited settlement in the Roman and Avar times. In the early Middle Ages, the famous well of the place was the Holy-fountain, which, according to legend, dries up every seven years and is reborn one year later. The spring had a healing reputation and was already considered a place of farewell pilgrimage, the kings of the time also visited it, and St. István had a small chapel built next to the spring.
The chapel turned out to be small over time, so the Moorish Capuchins built a very beautiful baroque church between 1737 and 1768. This is the Church of Our Lady of Help at All Times. The icon of the church is a copy of Lucas Cranach's icon of Innsbruck, which Countess Colloredo donated to the chapel in 1695. The church had a small baroque organ-positive, which was built in the 20th century. was destroyed by the beginning of the century. The Calvary and the Way of the Cross were built on the hill next to the church in 1736, which was recently reconstructed in its original state and is one of the most beautiful Ways of the Cross in Hungary. The beautifully renovated church received the rank of Basilica Minor from Pope Francis in 2023.
In 1910, an one manual and pedal organ with 10 registers was added to the church, which was made by the Rieger Organ Factory in Budapest. This organ was completely depreciated by the beginning of the 21st century. The new and young parish priest of the church, Tamás Morocz, who is an organist himself, organized a collection and received not only money, but also the pipes of old organs dismantled from Austria. Based on his plans, the organ builder Péter Takács built the new organ with a baroque layout, on a minimal budget.
The sample sets are available in wave format 48kHz/24bit, stereo, multiple loops (8) and multiple releases (3 levels).
Equal, a=440 Hz. The reverb 2.5s, reflects the original acoustics of the church.
Hauptwerk v4.2 and v5-v8 supported for the Organ Definition Files.
The sample sets made in several forms.
Stereo near, stereo far and six-channels surround.
In the surround versions you can adjust the perspective by setting the volume of the near, and far an rear recordings.
Hauptwerk v5-8 users can use the IR file created about the acoustics of the church.
The sample RAM requirement is not high, the stereo version requires 6-7 GB, the surround version requires 13-15 GB for 16-24-bit loading.
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Acknowledgements:
The following friends helped me to make and publish the sample set (in alphabetical order): Dominique Dantand, Gérard Lefranc, Nagy István and Jean-Pierre Silvestre. If something's done well, it's thanks to them. Thank you for their work.
A special thanks goes to parish priest Tamás Morocz, who made it possible to record the organ.(Augustine)