Make new sound by layering a registration

Stig,

There is another way of achieving the haunting, passionate sound you are searching for within a single track of you DAW.

If you load Organteq as an instrument onto your track in your DAW, you can then remove all the stops and end up with a blank canvas console. Then you can populate each of the Récit, Grand Orgue and Positif with your desired combination of stops ie Bourdon 8’, Gamba 8’, Vox Celeste 8’ and Flute 8’.

Then you right click on the Bourdon 8’ stop on the Récit manual and raise the pop-up window "Stop Edit", which by default allows you to alter the volume profile of the selected stop. There is a small panel above all the volume adjustments which says "Réc. Stop $n Volume". Clicking on this panel also allows you to select "Réc. Stop #n Detune" and this is what we want to fiddle with.

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to allow you to detune all the notes on this stop by a set number of Hz, which would be handy, but rather by a set number of cents. Using the blue grab boxes, we will detune this particular stop by -10 cents, though you will obviously detune to taste.

If you then left click on the panel that reads "Assigned Stop" "Bourdon 8’" you can then select the "Gamba 8’" and then detune that stop by the same amount. You will note that the panel at the top left hand corner of the window "Drawknob" now reads "Récit" but with a different stop number. The remaining two stops on the Récit manual can also be detuned by -10 cents, so that all of the stops on the Récit manual are detuned by the same amount, though, of course, this doesn't need to be the case, and stops could be detuned by differing amounts to add to the interest and general enjoyment

When you left click on the "Drawknob" panel it allows you to select "Positif" and you can then detune each of the stops by -20 cents by following the previously described process.

This will leave you with all of the stops on Récit detuned -10 cents from 440Hz, the stops on the Grand Orgue are all tuned to 440Hz and all of the stops on the Positif are detuned by -20 cents from 440Hz.

The manuals can then be coupled together so that playing a note on the Grand Orgue will also sound a note on the Récit and Positif manuals, each of which each of which have been detuned with respect to 440Hz, assuming that the relevant stops have been drawn.

This should allow you to achieve the sound that you want by utilising just one track in your DAW, which is going to simplify the process of playing the haunting descant to whatever music you wish.

Of course, by using the "Drawknob" panel to select the manual and also to select the Stop number, all of this can be set up quickly within one pop-up window. However, one only realises this once one has set up a couple of stops and the trick of semi-automating the process becomes obvious.

I hope this helps, Stig, and I will admit that it was only because I enjoyed the "softer, fuller, passionate sound" that you were creating, that I went poking around under the bonnet of Organteq and came up with this.

As you say, "A new instrument every day!" 

Michael