The
Virtual Organist
Original
compositions for pipe organ
played on digitally-sampled instruments
www.virtualorganist.com
www.virtualorganist.net
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which is a free download.
I invite you to listen to my recent compositions for pipe organ. You can listen to these pieces by clicking on the various titles in the left column. So far, I have only posted a few pieces, but I hope to add to this list in the near future.
Also, you should see a gray tab containing an arrow at the bottom left of your screen. Clicking on this tab will reveal a fly-out music control banner. Check out the playlist feature that enables you to move sequentially through these various pieces.
As my compositions are written along the line of historical types, they would sound best when played on appropriate instruments. Hence I am utilizing "Hauptwerk" software which is designed to faithfully reproduce the sound of historic pipe organs.
Most of the world's great organs are not able to be accessed by the average organist due to various formalities and the travel that would be required in any case. It is a great good fortune that important instruments are being sampled and made available using digital technology. This will enable organists the world over to get a good approximation of the sound of various registers and acoustical settings of these instruments. Albeit, the tangible experience of the manuals, pedals and other physical features are still absent. But that is a smaller concern than not having access to the sound itself.
My acquaintance with the outstanding Hauptwerk software began with version 2. However, I am now up to version 3.2. My PC has 4 gigabytes of memory and, so far so good. I'm not experiencing any "crackles" in the playback. The PC I use has a quad-core processor. So, it can crunch numbers pretty well. The Windows XP 64-bit version loaded without a problem. The 64-bit version allows a greater amount of memory to be addressed. This is necessary because entire sets of organ samples are loaded into memory to facilitate instantaneous playback. I should mention that, previously, I found that my dual-core PC couldn't handle the job, so I got busy and ordered a "gaming" computer from cyberpowerpc.com.
By the way, the organ depicted in the header is the beautiful instrument in Göteborg Organ Art Center, Sweden. Photo credit: Prospectum.com (taken by Gernot Wurst, 2006).
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