Topic: Organteq : Three manuals and a pedalboard
My personal organteq workstation
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Re: Organteq : Three manuals and a pedalboard
Gaston wrote:
My personal organteq workstation
Bravo Gérard! You once talked about your little attic-studio I think this is gigantic. Are those speakers Presonus Eris series, E5 ? Where did you get that pedalboard.? What are those 3 keyboards? Wow, I wish i one day have those too. I'm very happy for you
Best wishes,
Stig
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Pianoteqenthusiast wrote:
Bravo Gérard! You once talked about your little attic-studio I think this is gigantic. Are those speakers Presonus Eris series, E5 ? Where did you get that pedalboard.? What are those 3 keyboards? Wow, I wish i one day have those too. I'm very happy for you
Best wishes,
Stig
Bonsoir stig,
Yes, those speakers are Eris 5 Presonus.
I have also a Schneider mini sound bar SC300SND laid on the upper keyboard.
Pedalboard : Studiologic MP-117 Midi Bass Pedal (Thomann €489). Too smal to really play the organ : Heel-and-Toe technique impossible.
But a real 32-note pedalboard is far too expensive (around 2000 euros) and would take up far too much space in my mini-studio.
Keyboards (from top to bottom):
Nektar Impact GX61 (Récit)
Roland A-49 (Grand Orgue)
Studiologic SL 88 Grand (Positif)
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Re: Organteq : Three manuals and a pedalboard
Gaston wrote:
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In prefacing this note, I was a professional computer programmer for 40 years before I retired. I am also a woodworker for a hobby.
I too had a problem getting/finding a pedalboard. I paid $800 for a small pedalboard that I could not use the heel to toe method on. At that point, I found 3-25 note pedalboards in the space of 3 weeks for free. I returned the purchased pedalboard and used the saved money to buy MIDI manuals and other components (including OrganTech) to build my organ. I used pieces of old pianos to build up my organ console.
One of my local piano stores occasionally gets an organ in that cannot be repaired economically/cheaply. I choose the best Hammond pedalboard with 25 pedals that was long enough to support the heel to toe technique and converted it to MIDI with $10 dollars worth of parts and MIDI software that I wrote myself.. The hardware just barely had enough pins to support the 25 pedals. That was 2 years ago .
Recently they got in an Allen church organ that could not be repaired. It had a 32 pedal AGO style pedalboard with it. It turns out to be a compact model and is not a true AGO PEDALBOARD. I did manage to convert it to MIDI. It had kind of a different mechanism for detecting pedal usage in that it used contacts for switches. It turns out that it was easier to convert. The only problem was going from 25 to 32 pedals. The limitation of the hardware was a problem. I did not want to convert my MIDI software to use a multiplexer to gain the support the additional 7 pedals on a single processor.
I was looking at OrganTech and discovered that I can add another processor on a different MIDI channel and then on input messages from it, change the input MIDI channel to the other pedalboard's MIDI channel which would then add the addional 7 pedals into the pedalboard. In other words, I added a separate processor for just the addional 7 pedals. This meant that I could keep my additional hardware/software design.
The console that I built was to small for the new pedalboard so I paid $100 to have the organ console brought to my house. I stripped out all of guts and I am converting/refinishing it to move all of my components over to it. It will take me a while. I do have the pedalboard working.
If this helps, you can contact me about my software and what hardware I used. It does require soldering skills.