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St Stephen's for GrandOrgue

ggoode.sa

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Hi Guys,

I have gotten permission to host a GrandOrgue version of the St Stephen's Anglican Church (Penrith, Australia) by Nick Appleton. I have updated the .organ file with Divisionals and Generals and given the layout of the stops an update too.

Go to http://www.sa-virtualorgans.co.za/GrandOrgueStStephen.htm to see the GrandOrgue screenshot and download the sample set.

If there are any issues with the .organ file please let me know.

Have fun!

GrahamG
 

Ghekorg7 (Ret)

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret)
Hi Graham !

I got it OK, Works full great ! I liked the extensions, a very good small organ and GO can deal beautifully with it !

Thanks for the link

Panos
 

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
Hi Guys,

I have gotten permission to host a GrandOrgue version of the St Stephen's Anglican Church (Penrith, Australia) by Nick Appleton. I have updated the .organ file with Divisionals and Generals and given the layout of the stops an update too.

Go to http://www.sa-virtualorgans.co.za/GrandOrgueStStephen.htm to see the GrandOrgue screenshot and download the sample set.

If there are any issues with the .organ file please let me know.

Have fun!

GrahamG

What a fascinating project, I'd love "someone" to come and sample the wonderful pipe organ at the Chapel where I work (Pymble Ladies' College). How does this happen. Access to the organ is the easy part (via me).
 

Ghekorg7 (Ret)

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret)
Hi David !!

GrandOrgue program is just fascinating. It's very easy to install and get it work immediatly. I work with two Australian organs St.Augustine's in Neutral Bay and St.Stevens. Both are great and very good for choral work (my opinion...). Give it a try - download it from the link Graham gave us some months ago , as the two Australians.

Great idea to sample your own organ !! If you can accomplish this task we'll end up with another great set for grandOrgue. It's best if you record each pipe in 24bit at 48000 Hz with a good set of stereo mics. Your engineer can do it for you as you'll play each note of each pipe ......
I plan to do a similar task in my son's Odeon for an old 1740 German Harpsichord in up commin' winter...

Try a VPO...it's fun !

Greetings from Skopelos Island
Panos
 

tittualex

New member
I'm really feeling like a dullard ... is this "virtual organ" business easy to get going on a computer?

Dear CT64,

You should defenitely try VPO ... it is really fantastic .....especially with such a lot of sample sets to choose from.Having a good amp. and sub woofer , will double the enjoyent.

I considered it to be a difficult process but with the help from Graham and other members of this forum even I could run Grand Orgue in my computer.

Regards,

Alex.
 

ggoode.sa

New member
Hi Contratrombone64,

Tell us a little bit more about the computer you're using and the MIDI hardware (if you have any) that you will be using. For a start I'd recommend downloading GrandOrgue v0.2, and downloading this sample set to get you going.

Then, in regard to sampling the organ that you have access to... perhaps get in contact with Nick Appleton (as he is also in Sydney) and see if you can get him to do some recordings (alternatively we can train you how to do the recordings and make a volunteer project to process them).

Please post any questions that you might have, as we are all very willing to help :)

GrahamG
 

greatcyber

New member
Hi David,
I'm glad that you are showing interest in the VPOs now. I believe you will find them very user friendly, unlike the experience you had with Hauptwerk. But even that will eventually begin to make sense if you don't allow it overwhelm you as I have tended to do. I remember you telling me during our Skype conversation that you felt Hauptwerk was too complicated. Actually, the concepts within the different VPO/VTPO sets begin to make sense when you see that each of them are highly configurable to your needs. And once you open your keyboard/PC up to the vast sound libraries available...well, let's just say "you ain't gonna want to stop!"

And obviously, there are more than enough qualified folk here that are happy to help.

Happy experimenting.
 
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