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Topic: Organteq2 compared to Johannus an Gloria digital organs

Recently I tested a Johannus Studio 350 and a Gloria Optimus Physis plus, and both organs which cost between 7.200 and 9.500 Euro (!) sounded to me more like a harmonium than an organ!

I also tested the new Johannus Sonique which costs 12.000 Euro(!!!).
And this extremely expensive digital organ sounded a little bit better than my Organteq2 -setup.

But 12.000 Euro, this is the price of a used Bechstein upright piano in very well condition.
And then you have a real instrument under your fingers.
But the Johannus isn´t a real organ, it is only a digital clone of a real organ.

To get as close as possible to a real organ, I now ordered a Viscount Legend 25 midi basspedal for my two manual organteq2 setup, so that I can play the bassline like on a real organ.
My setup consists of:
- Korg Kross 2 workstation and masterkeyboard
- Nektar impact EXP 61 keyboard
- 2 Behringer MS 40 monitors
- Viscount legend 25 midi basspedal
- WIN 10 notebook
- Organteq2 software

And this setup sounds way better than the Gloria Optimus physis plus, which costs three times more than this Organteq2 setup!

I hope to bring up some recordings with this new setup soon!

Andreas
Germany

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Re: Organteq2 compared to Johannus an Gloria digital organs

Organtangente wrote:

Recently I tested a Johannus Studio 350 and a Gloria Optimus Physis plus, and both organs which cost between 7.200 and 9.500 Euro (!) sounded to me more like a harmonium than an organ!

I also tested the new Johannus Sonique which costs 12.000 Euro(!!!).
And this extremely expensive digital organ sounded a little bit better than my Organteq2 -setup.

But 12.000 Euro, this is the price of a used Bechstein upright piano in very well condition.
And then you have a real instrument under your fingers.
But the Johannus isn´t a real organ, it is only a digital clone of a real organ.

To get as close as possible to a real organ, I now ordered a Viscount Legend 25 midi basspedal for my two manual organteq2 setup, so that I can play the bassline like on a real organ.
My setup consists of:
- Korg Kross 2 workstation and masterkeyboard
- Nektar impact EXP 61 keyboard
- 4 Behringer MS 40 monitors
- Viscount legend 25 midi basspedal
- WIN 10 notebook
- Organteq2 software

And this setup sounds way better than the Gloria Optimus physis plus, which costs three times more than this Organteq2 setup!

I hope to bring up some recordings with this new setup soon!

Besides that, the Johannus Sonique 360 has only four organs sampled, Organteq2 has 50 different organs with physical modelling!
The Sonique has 45 Stops for each of the four organ, Organteq2 has also 45 Stops but in 50 different organs.

My setup costed me 2400 Euro (because I already had the two keyboards my notebook and two monitors).
The Johannus costs 12.400 Euro!!!
And with four monitors it sounds better than the Johannus with its 13 built in speakers!
Why? Because my studiomonitors sit in the height of my ears in front and beside of me.
In the Johannus they are bulit into the console, so that the sound comes from below and only in front of me.

The main difference between my setup and the Johannus sonique is its very solid built console in real wood with a wooden organ bank and a 30-note pedalboard.
But my setup doesn´t stand in a luxurous livingroom as you can see it in the Johannus-Brochure, but in my homestudio, and 25 notes in my Viscount pedalboard are really sufficient for my purposes.

Andreas
Germany