"Ghost" stops in Organteq 2

From playing with the new app, I think the "ghost" stops appear when they are "automatically" added as the crescendo pedal is depressed and disappear as it is returned to its rest position. The ghost stops allow the organist to determine the source of the sound at any particular time but remain readily distinguishable from other more "normal" stops that the organist has consciously chosen. I am not an organist myself but this seemed to be what was happening and I hope my analysis is accurate!

If one had read the Organteq 2 manual before posting, and one had known what it was that one was looking for,  one would have come across the following relevant sections

3.5. Stop drawknobs
When playing on a keyboard, a stop has to be activated to be heard. This is done with the stop drawknob, on the side of the keyboard.

Stops can also be activated not manually by using either:

the Crescendo pedal, or
the Tutti button.
Stops that are activated using these features are ghosted.

and

5.7. Crescendo Panel
The crescendo pedal triggers a pre-recorded sequence of stop switches, coupler pedals and tremulant switches. The crescendo pedal is divided into 24 steps. Note that the crescendo pedal takes only control on items that are not switched on by hand.

The Crescendo panel lists all the items that are affected by the crescendo pedal. The items are sorted by category: keyboard divisions, couplers and tremulants. The vertical black line represents the position of the crescendo pedal with respect to the steps.

When the crescendo pedal matches a filled step, i.e. when the vertical black line enters a filled step, the item is switched on. This has no effect if the item is already switched on by hand.

When the crescendo pedal matches an cleared step, the item is switched off. This happens only if the item is not switched on by hand.

Of course, after decades of testing IT applications and designing IT architecture, I have a tendency to "play" with an application first, in order to find out what its potential and limitations are. It is only once I run into a roadblock that I resort to actually reading the manual in any detail. If I had done so I would have picked up that Organteq 2 has rationalised the way it controls the activation of the crescendo pedal and made it easier to utilise for groups of stops.

Since I tend to utilise Organteq as a virtual system, without either a physical keyboard or a crescendo pedal, the Crescendo Pedal is not something that gets much use. A left click on the pedal will set the crescendo to either 0% or 100%, and I learnt early on that 100% crescendo flattens my CPU and is therefore of little practical utility. I only learnt today that right clicking on the pedal allows one to set the crescendo level to any value between 0% and 100%, or between 0 and 1.00 in Organteq 1.6. An intermediate level can also be set by holding a left click on the mouse and moving the cursor vertically up and down the pedal.

However, it is only looking at Crescendo Panel in Organteq 2, that I had some idea of how one could manipulate the position of the vertical black pedal line and what one could achieve by doing so.

I have been trying for some time to configure a set of "en chamade" reeds. The Cavaillé-Coll organ, at the Church of Saint Sernin, Toulouse, France, has a "Trompette en chamade 8" and a "Clairon en chamade 4" as stops on the Grand Orgue. As I am neither limited by the constraints of space or gravity, within my digital audio environment, it would also be possible to rotate the another reed rank and have a "Posaunen Bass en chamade 16 and 32" as an additional stops on my Grand Orgue manual simply for my personal enjoyment and amusement. 

If I understand the Crescendo Panel correctly, I could configure the Clarion 4', Trompette 8', Posaunen Bass 16' and Posaunen Bass 32' to progressively activate and deactivate as the crescendo pedal was depressed and raised. Rotating a rank of Posaunen Bass 32' pipes horizontally, even virtually is going to be rather fun, but I think the expression pedal may be helpful here, as one can configure what ranks of pipes are going to be effected  as the wooden blinds of the box containing the ranks of pipes opens up,

I had a sneaking suspicion that I was missing something blindingly obvious, so much thanks for enlightening me. It also means that I can see some interesting configuration possibilities that weren't either obvious or possible before.

The best thing about asking naive questions is obtaining stimulating responses.

Michael