E.M. Skinner Organ Demonstrations - MasterWorks Series

The following demonstrations were all recorded live through a multiple channel audio system with microphones in a large room. Hauptwerk 3 Advanced Edition was set to run 26 channels to 26 speakers (including 2 sub-woofers) routing various ranks (and parts of ranks, percussions and sound effects) to different speaker arrays. Samples were loaded in mono using the C/C# split algorithm and the organ was voiced and balanced for the room in which it was recorded by Brett Milan. Please note that every users room will be different, therefore we highly recommend the Advanced Edition of Hauptwerk 3 in order to gain the best results from this virtual organ which uses dry samples. Without the voicing capabilities included with the Advanced Edition users will not be able to properly balance and voice the organ for their own listening environment. We have provided an "out of the box" stereo balancing and voicing, however it is nearly impossible to cater to all various types of playing situations and listening environments. Again, we stress that the Advanced Edition of Hauptwerk 3 is an important factor in obtaining the best possible sound when using multiple audio channels. Where indicated, the demonstrations have additional IR (Impulse Response = sampled acoustics) reverb applied after the recordings were done. For this we used Audio Ease's Altiverb which is a high end IR convolver. For more information on Altiverb please visit the Audio Ease website. Special thanks to Jim Gallops and Richard Dissell for the use of their residence to record these live demos.