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Testers needed for the Barton 3/7 Theatre Organ for GrandOrgue (Windows and Linux)

e9925248

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Barton, to return to the thread, becomes the main standard free Theatre Organ set and plays wonderfully (with latest improvements) with 0306.

For GO 0.3, please don't use the version number [0.3.0.6], as it stay the same for a longer time - use the SVN revision number [by the way, the Windows build for r1026 has been uploaded by JLD].

Did you manged to get the second touch support in GO working?
 

Mathbob

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I just loaded the full organ today and haven't had time to play with it much. A couple of questions for you (I'm not a theatre organist): 1) I know that for a two-manual theatre organ, the upper manual is the solo and the lower is the accomp. What is the order for a three manual theatre organ? I know how to change the midi channels, I just don't know which way they should be set, and they appear to be wrong now. 2) On my 32-note pedalboard, middle C (CC) is playing the lowest C (CCC) on the theatre pedalboard. What's the easiest way to correct the offset? 3) What is a "VDO" - one of the pipe sets?

Actually, a couple of weeks ago I borrowed a couple of "ranks" from this organ for one of the other organs I have set up: the chimes and the chrysoglott - which makes a lovely vibraphone by adding a mild trem.

Thanks! Bob
 

ggoode.sa

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Hi Bob,

1) The order from bottom to top is: Pedal, Accomp, Great, Solo
2) Right click on the Pedalboard on the Barton 3-7 in GrandOrgue 0.3, click on 'Listen for Event', press a key on your pedalboard so that GrandOrgue can sense which MIDI channel it is configured to. Then set the Transpose property to 12 to get the MIDI signals playing an octave higher.
3) Viole D'Orchestra

Glad you're having some fun with the Barton! Theatre Organ is a rather different style to classical, but can be so much fun :)

Kind regards,
GrahamG
 

Mathbob

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Thanks, Graham! Works fine now. Next question: How do I use the combination setter? I tried setting some stops, then clicking the set button, then a comb button, then the set again. but it didn't take.

Bob
 

ggoode.sa

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Hi Bob,

Yup, the Set and combinations are not working :( I'll have to investigate why and get back to you.

Kind regards,
GrahamG
 

scush

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Hi.
Regarding the combination action,
Open the O.D.F "Barton3-7.v01Alpha.organ" with Notepad.
Line in the organ section reads "CombinationsStoreNonDisplayedDrawstops=n".
it should read "CombinationsStoreNonDisplayedDrawstops=y"
Replace n with y and save the changes.

John
 

jp31t

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Hi,
This is the first time I write on this forum. I am French from Toulouse and I make a console with 3 keyboard, a pedal, 32 stops, 2 expressive pedal and 2 screens (one for score and one tactile for stop specially for the baron organ for my son who learn organ.
First before all thing, thank you very much for GrandOrgue and for the the Barton3-7 organ.
We have test the solution "CombinationsStoreNonDisplayedDrawstops=y" has explain by scush and the combination setter work fine.
We have just the toys button who don't play.
Thanks,
Jean-Pierre.
 

jp31t

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Thank you. This is a good idea for the screencasts and excuse me, I haven't give enough informations.
This is AutoHorn ,Birds, FireGong, Siren, Thunder, Bell, ChineseGong, Locamotive, SteamBoat buttons. The samples are in the toy directory.

We have test with the version 0.3.0.61088 and 0.3.1.1146 of Grandorgue on Windows XP system. We will reinstall Ubuntu 12.04(LTS) in December and on it after.

best regards, Jean-Pierre.
 

wehtam721

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Jean-Pierre,

I also have the Barton set and use it from time to time. When I saw your post I thought I would check the problem out because I knew that I had tested the toys before and they worked fine for me. What I found was that the toys worked fine when I first loaded the organ and throughout lots of stop changes and combination changes until I hit the GC (general cancel) button. The buttons for the toys then stopped working. You might try loading the organ and testing the toys first before anything else to see if they work then.

I also noticed that the trem tabs were behaving strangely. Turning them on did nothing. Then turning them back off again started the trem. I can then turn them on and off at will, but the on and off positions are reversed.

I am running Windows 7 with GrandOrgue revision 1146.

I'm curious to see if others have these problems. I don't use the toys too often, so I don't know if that has been an ongoing issue, but it seems to me that the tremolos used to work properly in a previous revision of GrandOrgue. Can't say for sure though.

Take care,
Matt
 

scush

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I'ts the same here.
The tremulants and reit have become inverted.

rev1088 is ok,also 1125 did not show this behavior.


john
 
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e9925248

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What I found was that the toys worked fine when I first loaded the organ and throughout lots of stop changes and combination changes until I hit the GC (general cancel) button. The buttons for the toys then stopped working. You might try loading the organ and testing the toys first before anything else to see if they work then.

You can add the GCState setting to the relavant stops - this will fix the GC "problem".

The effect stops are implemented as manuals - this restricts the supported MIDI events. Each toy button should have been implemented as stop with exactly one pipe.

I also noticed that the trem tabs were behaving strangely. Turning them on did nothing. Then turning them back off again started the trem. I can then turn them on and off at will, but the on and off positions are reversed.

Should be fixed in trunk.
 
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