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Topic: Viscount Cantorum as Organteq Console

Hi! I recently find this portable 3-manual organ with an optional MIDI pedalboard connection. Does any organist here advice can I use it as the console for Organteq? It seems possible, but I am not a MIDI expert. Not sure any compatibility or function that may be an issue?

https://www.viscountinstruments.com/ins...orum-trio/

In my rough idea, having this 3-manual and the MIDI pedalboard with two expression pedals, it should be able to connect and map to the Organteq individual division and other controllers. Am I correct? Do you have any comment on this setup?

Regards!

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Re: Viscount Cantorum as Organteq Console

ericwongmusic wrote:

Hi! I recently find this portable 3-manual organ with an optional MIDI pedalboard connection. Does any organist here advice can I use it as the console for Organteq? It seems possible, but I am not a MIDI expert. Not sure any compatibility or function that may be an issue?

https://www.viscountinstruments.com/ins...orum-trio/

In my rough idea, having this 3-manual and the MIDI pedalboard with two expression pedals, it should be able to connect and map to the Organteq individual division and other controllers. Am I correct? Do you have any comment on this setup?

Regards!

Hi, yes this can technically be used as a midi controller, but for the price of it, you'd be building a very expensive controller when there's already a DSP engine and amplification of it's own. One of the drawbacks is that if you want to use the physical stops as assignments over midi to organteq, you'll be a bit limited.

Are you a mac or PC user?

I considered this organ as an advisory for my local sister church, but there were some limitations and with that, it was left alone and we're adapting the current rodgers 40+ year old console to a computer driven (using organteq) system.

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Re: Viscount Cantorum as Organteq Console

Thanks for the reply! I have a quotation from a local official dealer that it is around €5370 + shipment.
Cantorum Trio, 30-note Radiating Concave MIDI Pedalboard, Expression pedal, Stand, Bench for 30-note MIDI Pedalboard. (Warranty: free warranty 3 years, plus 7 years charge part only warranty.) I think it is a very acceptable setup. I don't need to build my console and mange those audio and MIDI modulers connection.

With this little unit, for one price, you get:
1. Three manuals, already stacked and mounted properly in a stable frame
2. Piston rails
3. Stop tabs
4. MIDI encoder system already wired up and ready to use
5. Built-in amps and speakers
6. Headphone amp and jack, already wired to automatically silence the speakers.
7. And as a free but valuable bonus - a ready-to-play tone generator with four "sample sets"

If I am connecting to Organteq, it would be fantastic!


lewisalexander2020 wrote:
ericwongmusic wrote:

Hi! I recently find this portable 3-manual organ with an optional MIDI pedalboard connection. Does any organist here advice can I use it as the console for Organteq? It seems possible, but I am not a MIDI expert. Not sure any compatibility or function that may be an issue?

https://www.viscountinstruments.com/ins...orum-trio/

In my rough idea, having this 3-manual and the MIDI pedalboard with two expression pedals, it should be able to connect and map to the Organteq individual division and other controllers. Am I correct? Do you have any comment on this setup?

Regards!

Hi, yes this can technically be used as a midi controller, but for the price of it, you'd be building a very expensive controller when there's already a DSP engine and amplification of it's own. One of the drawbacks is that if you want to use the physical stops as assignments over midi to organteq, you'll be a bit limited.

Are you a mac or PC user?

I considered this organ as an advisory for my local sister church, but there were some limitations and with that, it was left alone and we're adapting the current rodgers 40+ year old console to a computer driven (using organteq) system.

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Re: Viscount Cantorum as Organteq Console

I use a Cantorum Duo with Organteq - works very well.

The only thing to watch out for is that the couplers cause a link between manuals etc on the Duo, they don't send MIDI messages.

You can program the organ stop keys to work with Organteq, but then you have to use an external amp and turn off the sound from the cantorum.

I actually feed the output from Organteq into the cantorum amp and from there into some extra external powered speakers to give me a better sound - to do that you need to remember to turn off one or other of the reverbs (Cantorum or Organteq) else you get some very strange effects!

I use an android tablet with TouchOSC in MIDI mode to control the organteq stops. I would prefer a Launchpad but I've never found a way to make Organteq set the lights on the Launchpad buttons...

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Re: Viscount Cantorum as Organteq Console

Thank you for your sharing! It is really helpful. I tend to purchase it soon. Thanks!

mfwiniberg wrote:

I use a Cantorum Duo with Organteq - works very well.

The only thing to watch out for is that the couplers cause a link between manuals etc on the Duo, they don't send MIDI messages.

You can program the organ stop keys to work with Organteq, but then you have to use an external amp and turn off the sound from the cantorum.

I actually feed the output from Organteq into the cantorum amp and from there into some extra external powered speakers to give me a better sound - to do that you need to remember to turn off one or other of the reverbs (Cantorum or Organteq) else you get some very strange effects!

I use an android tablet with TouchOSC in MIDI mode to control the organteq stops. I would prefer a Launchpad but I've never found a way to make Organteq set the lights on the Launchpad buttons...