I once found a tutorial where a guy get a old real organ foot, in wood/real, and turn it into a organ MIDI controller.

Saddly I lost the link.

May I ask if you have some church organ sampler software?

I might refer you to the Hauptwerk website, because instead of a generic "church organ", years of work have already captured individual pipe organs from around the world.  Here's the URL:

http://www.hauptwerk.com/learn-more/overview/

Regarding hardware on which to play these sampled organs, there are 2-, 3-, and 4 manual stacks of keyboards available, plus pedalboards, and touch screens are also available with which to operate the various stops.

http://www.midiworks.ca/

Of course, one may operate Hauptwerk organs from a single keyboard.  As a user, beta tester and performer of demos of certain Hauptwerk sampled pipe organs, I can attest that the software loads the entire sampled organs into the computer's RAM.  Some of the larger organs are able to swallow 32GB of RAM, or even more.

Cheers,

Joe

Q: May I ask if you have some church organ sampler software? A: You just got a great answer by an expert, I just noticed. However, in general I am not a fan of samplers. I can't tolerate the sound quality (they sound recorded) and latency of most  samplers. 

Q: What people, users of such softwares, use as a controller? A: Not sure, but keyboard, volume pedal are a couple. You should be able to get an organ pedal controller - I think I've seen one, but can't remember where. I would not get one since I'm not a performing  organist.

Q: Is that possible to use two keyboard by midi cable, to have two registers? A: Yes. There could also be a keyboard split function in standalone PT. Finally, if you have a keyboard and a DAW, you can layer in the sounds in parts, and even perform using say a prerecorded pedal line developed from the keyboard. You may even be able to do that in PT standalone but I do not know since I am only familiar with using a DAW.

Sorry, but I'm not the best person to answer your questions. I only like the organ because of the sound, and the great music written for it. As you probably already know, it's been called the King of Instruments, by no less than Mozart. 

honjr wrote:

Bluethner is awesome! Best virtual instrument I've ever owned. My own preferences for

Eventually, it would of course be great to see the amazing PT level of quality applied to all the other classes of instruments including:

- Concert harp (harpsichords Blanchett and Grimaldi are excellent and are also plucked instruments, and few really good virtual harps exist)

- Concert guitar

- Upright bass (plucked at first)

- Church organ

- More percussion

- Brass, woodwinds

- Strings

But even if all they offered was the Bluethner, I'd be happy.

What people, users of such softwares, use as a controller?

Is that possible to use two keyboard by midi cable, to have two registers?

1. Improve low and high end (more resonant, natural bass; less tinny high end) of Bluethner and Steinway. PT is already so close and closing the gap quickly!

2. Add Bosendorfer when done with (1) - the bass would be unreal

Eventually, it would of course be great to see the amazing PT level of quality applied to all the other classes of instruments including:

- Concert harp (harpsichords Blanchett and Grimaldi are excellent and are also plucked instruments, and few really good virtual harps exist)

- Concert guitar

- Upright bass (plucked at first)

- Church organ

- More percussion

- Brass, woodwinds

- Strings

But even if all they offered was the Bluethner, I'd be happy.

The blüthner is indeed awesome, i really like it.
After playing it for a while though, i do have one question about it.... in the mid range, around the middle C, there seems to be some kind of weird octave-doubling effect, like there are strings an octave higher resonating. Is this normal, does it sound like that on a real Blüthner?

Yes, this is normal: in the middle range, the Blüthner strike point is such that the 8th partial (3 octaves above the fundamental) is relatively strong while the 9th is weaker. In contrast, the Steinway strike point is such that the 7th partial is relatively strong while the 8th is weaker. Thus, those 2 pianos produce a different timbre signature.

"The Blüthner aliquot system uses an additional (hence fourth) string in each note of the top three piano octaves"

ddascher: might be a stupid question, but where can one listen to this recording?

At the top of the forum screen you will see an option for OTHER FILES.
Click on that and you will find it near or at the top of the list in that area.

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I wonder if some of what we have taken to calling the huff comes from the Delay setting in the Effects, or from the Initial delay setting in the Reverb. Might be worth some experimentation.

You know, as I expressed earlier ... I used to fuss with those types of sound modifications with the holy grail of sound just around the corner.

Alas, it was never to be.

I now leave that to the ones that "do that" and I ... I just pop a sound up ... tweak a little here and there, just for fun ... and start playing.

Modartt will figure it out and much more efficiently than I could ever hope to do it.