Screenshot of Piteå School of Music sampleset main console

As a professional organist I must voice my opinion that no virtual organ can compete with a good, well regulated tracker organ. To really develop a good touch one must play the real thing, otherwise it's hard to understand attack/release and to feel how the pallet is opened by the playing finger.

Nevertheless it's impractical for most persons to have a real organ at home and it's in such situations that a virtual organ can be very valuable. Not the least important reason is that, even if it's available at only a fraction of the cost of a real organ, it can sound very convincing indeed.

My hopes are that vpo's and my efforts with them will help more people enjoy the wonderful instrument that the Organ really is.

Samplesets for Hauptwerk

Thanks to efforts from Graham Goode it's now possible for Hauptwerk 3 users to download Bureå church sampleset as a HW 3 native package instead of importing the GrandOrgue version. For now this is a first beta version of the original specification. The sampleset works with the free edition of Hauptwerk.

The samples of this set is of 16 bit 44.1 kHz samplerate so users with soundcards only supporting 48 kHz samplerate must open the ODF XML file and substitute the number 3 instead of 2 in this line:

<AudioOut_OptimalFormat_SampleRateCode>3</AudioOut_OptimalFormat_SampleRateCode>

Magne Nilsen has kindly offered to mirror my samplesets on his server in USA, so the lower link that goes to his server can now be used also.

BureaChurchOriginal-v0.1a.CompPkg.Hauptwerk.rar

BureaChurchOriginal-v0.1a.CompPkg.Hauptwerk.rar (USA)

 650.2 MB