Modartt user forum - Questions before I pull the trigger

Re: Questions before I pull the trigger

2025-11-16T15:21:44Z

Not sure if the OP has already pulled the trigger or not. I am a happy user of Pianoteq so when I found the need to produce a pipe organ sound, of course I tried Organteq. I quickly found out it took way, way more computer horsepower than Pianoteq does. On stage I use a Raspberry Pi 5 to run Pianoteq and the little PC has no trouble with it. Even some of my desktop PC's can't run Organteq. Sad. I had to use GrandOrgue instead.

Re: Questions before I pull the trigger

2025-11-11T01:01:21Z

1) yes

2) check the LOCAL user market (e.g. craigslist). If you are patient you will find something. If you are the DIY type you could maybe even taking a full broken organ (which sometimes are given away for free) take the pedalboard and make it into a MIDI thing with one of the many open source projects that you can find online.

3) I find USB-MIDI the perfect way, since you can connect multiple USB devices (you might need a hub, but that opens a can of worms which I prefer to leave to the next commentator :-) )

Questions before I pull the trigger

2025-11-10T11:47:50Z

Hi all,

I assume the Black Friday discount is coming so I'm ready to purchase Pianoteq 2 but I love classical organ music too (mostly J.S. Bach and Johann Pachelbel's works) so I'm thinking about buying Organteq 2 too. I'm an intermediate piano player and haven't learned organ playing at all, but I used to own an old Yamaha Electone so know some basic playing on the foot pedals.

What I have right now is a normal digital piano with both USB-MIDI output and traditional MIDI IN/OUT ports. My PC is an Intel i7 14700K + 96GB RAM machine with Windows 11 Pro system, which I guess is pretty powerful to handle the software.

Stupid questions if you don't mind:

(1) I'm 99% sure that Pianoteq 2 will work with my setup, but will Organteq 2 work as well, even if I don't have a MIDI pedalboard now?

(2) If I would like to buy a MIDI pedalboard with at least 2 octaves for learning and playing classical church organ pieces, what would you recommend? I did some research and found that these products are quite expensive, and it seems like there are different designs too and not all of them are suitable for toe/heel techniques used in classical pieces.

(3) How should I connect the MIDI pedalboard to my digital piano and the PC when using Organteq 2?

Any input is appreciated.