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1. Toe Pistons transfer when enabled will change their use to being a duplication of the General pistons This is of limited use when controlling the organ purely via touchscreen but potentially very handy for those with fully equipped consoles Finally all pistons may be set by clicking on the latching button labeled L and then pressing the desired piston once the desired combination of stops and or couplers have been drawn Don t forget to press L again to disable capture once piston setting is complete eo 2 E go e The extensive selection of couplers should be largely self explanatory Willis was not entirely consistent with couplers coupling through for example drawing Swell to Great and Great to Pedal will result in the Swell being heard on the Pedal However if Swell to Choir and Choir to Great are drawn the Swell is not heard on the Great Experimentation with the couplers is probably the best way to further understanding The Doubles Off control mutes the manual double ie the Swell Double Trumpet as well as disabling the action of any suboctave coupler Note that when activating Doubles Off the affected stop and couplers do not visibly change state Stops Pistons Screen This screen is probably of most use to those who will be controlling the ee a Gee Eo Hereford organ with a single screen The appearance and functionality of the stops and couplers is identical to that of t2. information The majority of great Continental European organs occupy the ideal position high on the west wall The position is ideal not just from a sound projection basis but also from a sampling perspective where most if not all divisions of the organ are often able to be captured by microphones placed at a suitable sweet spot In the UK with its great choral tradition the church and Cathedral organ is first and foremost an instrument to accompany a choir which is usually situated to the east This results in organs that are sometimes buried in chambers and spread out in a variety of locations with some parts of the organ sounding more clearly than others This is very much the situation that Hereford finds itself in and provides something of a dilemma for the sampling engineer Microphones placed to the west of the organ in the nave would probably result in the best balance and blend and this tends to be the favoured position for CD recordings However this balance is at the expense of the detail of faster playing as the generous acoustic of the Cathedral rather takes over leading to a loss of definition There s also the issue of some divisions sounding very distant Therefore the decision was taken to use a multi mic recording setup in the Quire and organ console area which results in a sound that is close to that experienced by the organist in his her elevated position directly opposite the pipes Multiple releases were recorded whic
3. to be drawn to obtain the celeste effect This behaviour is exactly as is found on the real instrument and means that it was not possible to sample just the detuned rank on its own the Vox Angelica samples inevitably include those of the Salicional in addition Therefore a mechanism has been provided within the organ definition which automatically silences the Salicional samples when the Vox Angelica is drawn To achieve this cross fading has been used which gives a more realistic effect than simply switching samples which could result in inappropriate attack transients being heard when holding chords and changing registration Even so the effect is not perfect and sounds best when stop action delay is enabled The organ is tuned to equal temperament at approximately A 440 Hz At the time of sampling the organ was well tuned so all of the samples have been left at their recorded pitch with only the most out of tune being re pitched from within the organ definition file As a result the normal tuning errors that are found in even the best regulated organs are present here and therefore contribute to the overall realism of the organ However it may be considered necessary to use the organ at either a different pitch or with a different temperament This is possible and the organ definition file has been carefully programmed to produce appropriate randomised tuning errors when not using the original organ tuning the strength of these tuning errors ca
4. HEREFORD CATHEDRAL 4 lt m Sp ma tee gt gt ae D lt AA A DS A APOO ULV y i e HAUPTWERK v3 4 SAMPLE SET 23 STOP SET Volume 1 USER MANUAL Version 1 05 Lavender Audio 2011 Lavender AAHAS AUDIO aries www lavenderaudio co uk HEREFORD CATHEDRAL HAUPTWERK v3 4 SAMPLE SET USER MANUAL Thank you for purchasing this sample set Please take a little time to read this manual to familiarise yourself with the various features it offers NB Hauptwerk versions 3 version 3 23 minimum and 4 are both supported 1 Installation To be able to load the Hereford 23 stop sample set volume 1 in the Hereford Cathedral organ series needs to be installed Do this by using Hauptwerk s component installer to ensure proper installation and configuration of this sample set Start Hauptwerk and unless installing from a download insert DVD1 into your DVD drive In Hauptwerk choose File Install organ sample set temperament or impulse response and then navigate to your DVD drive or to the location you saved the downloaded installation files and find the first data installation package it s called HerefordCathedral DataPackagel Once Hauptwerk has analysed the package you will be presented with the sample set licence which you will need to accept After a while the following screen is presented Component Installation Actions le P ne Select an item below to a
5. These differing locations of the pipes are evident in the sound of the sample set and need to be considered to get the best out of the instrument For example the Swell flue work is more gentle than might be expected and although the Swell high pressure reeds do help re dress the balance coupling the Swell to the Choir and using that as the secondary manual may be beneficial for some pieces Indeed the directness of the Choir blended with the relative distance of the Swell is very effective The Choir can be very useful too as part of the build up on the Great on many English instruments the Choir is too quiet to have much impact on the Great but at Hereford this 1s not the case and the Choir can be considered almost as a secondary Great Choir to Mixture coupled to Great 8 and 4 makes a good basis for a Bach Prelude or Fugue and can be added to further as necessary Solo options include various combinations on the Choir and Great even the slightly stringy Choir Open Diapason on its own will work nicely in a Bach Chorale Prelude The appearance of the Great Trumpet on the Choir has various uses As well as voicing it up to become a bigger solo reed there is also the option to reduce the volume and maybe brighten the sound a little so that it becomes a Choir chorus reed or maybe even a quieter solo reed The ability to couple it back to the Great using sub and super octave couplers can also be of great benefit Being imaginative with the cou
6. a fair way down this list with little obvious loss of realism or quality however the last two options should both be avoided if at all possible You can also reduce the load on your computer s processor by disabling the wind model not appropriate in the US disabling real time harmonic shaping and disabling interpo lation all of which will affect the realism of the organ The first time the organ is loaded the sample cache is built This takes a considerable time maybe 5 minutes or more However subsequent loads are much quicker Once the organ is loaded you can use Hauptwerk to connect the keyboards stops pistons and swell pedals of your MIDI setup as necessary Before doing so it may be worth reading the following section which contains useful information on the various playing aids incorporated in this organ as well as offering suggestions on how best to connect more modestly equipped consoles 4 Hereford Cathedral Sample Set Screens With the advent of Hauptwerk version 4 and its ability to resize organ display screens the display elements of the Hereford organ definition file are built around a standard monitor resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels For those still using HW v3 this display resolution is therefore a minimum system requirement Assuming the use of HW V4 and a 1280 x 1024 monitor best results will be obtained by choosing not to zoom the display and operating in full screen mode where everything fits nicely However graphi
7. and Great the note action on the Hereford organ is relatively noisy and it wasn t possible to totally remove this sound without adversely compromising the quality of the samples Therefore even with the key action noise disabled some residual action noise may be noticed For many large instruments with detached consoles there is a small but noticeable delay in the operation of the stop action This is particularly evident when using combination pistons where organists are used to having to anticipate such a delay meaning that having a stop sound as soon as the piston has been pressed will feel unnatural With the Stop Action Delay enabled a small delay between the stop being pulled either via your console s stop control mechanism or via the combination pistons and the rank starting to sound will be noticed Note that the stop action noise still sounds straight away with the rank sounding approximately at the point at which the action noise starts to decay Again this stop action delay facility can be enabled or disabled on a per division basis The final setting is for the Trumpet stop on the Choir organ which is a separate appearance of the Great Trumpet If the Separate Rank is enabled and the appropriate samples loaded into memory then this stop on the Choir organ may be voiced without affecting the same stop on the Great For quick and easy adjustments a volume and a tone slider are provided but the Hauptwerk voicng tools Advanced edit
8. cs quality with Hauptwerk zooming enabled is still very high so other screen resolutions or window sizings will still give excellent results Console Screen 7 This view offers the most realistic view of the organ with stops keys couplers combination pistons and swell pedals all responding to the mouse as well of course to MIDI input signals Much of what is displayed on this screen will be self explanatory but the basic description which follows may prove to be useful mop rs The order of the manuals from top to bottom is Swell Great and Choir Each manual has a selection of combination pistons which are located immediately below on the keyslip The row of pistons above the Swell manual are general combinations which act on every stop and coupler on the organ For the divisionals any piston labeled with a 0 will cancel all stops on that division as might be expected General 0 is effectively a general cancel The pedal organ also has a total of eight combination toe pistons which are located to the right of the swell pedals The effect of the Great and Pedal pistons may be combined by drawing the Gt amp Ped Combs Coupled coupler whereby pressing a Great divisional piston will cause the corresponding Pedal combination to act as well and vice versa when pressing a pedal toe piston The row of toe pistons to the left of the swell pedal are by default a duplication of the Swell divisionals however the Gens On Sw
9. ding that has a planned commercial release special written permission will be required from Lavender Audio 8 This licence is not transferable Samples and organ definition files may not be resold or given to any third party without prior permission from Lavender Audio 9 These sample sets are provided as is with no implied suitability for any particular intended use No liability can be accepted for any injury or damage howsoever caused arising from the use of these sample sets Lavender Audio August 2011
10. djust its settings Data Hereford Cathedral Installation Package 1 Component type Sample set data package r Component name Data Hereford Cathedral Installation Package 1 Current installation state of component Not installed Bi Version of component installed none State of component available Eull c in package omponent Version of component available in package Selected installation action Install e C Ensure that the Selected installation action for the Data item is set to Install and then click OK Installation should then proceed and the whole process should complete quickly Once you have finished with DVD1 remove it and insert DVD2 into your DVD drive Repeat the process described above installing HerefordCathedral DataPackage2 Finally you need to install the Hereford 23 Stop Organ On the DVD there is just one version of the organ definition file suitable for both Hauptwerk versions 3 and 4 Assuming this is all successful the organ is now ready to load for the first time Further information relating to this can be found in section 3 NB Use of this sample set requires an update to your Hauptwerk dongle You should have received this update by the time the DVD has arrived If not please contact Lavender Audio Note also that if you have already installed the Evaluation set you will not need to install the contents of DVD1 ie Data Package 1 2 Specifications and background
11. h add greatly to the realism of the sample set All pipes have a release recorded for both staccato and sustained notes and the vast majority of pipes have a third set of releases for notes held for a duration between staccato and sustained portato typically 200 to 500 mS depending on pitch Incidentally multiple releases are handled automatically by Hauptwerk and no special hardware or configuration is necessary Each sample was sustained for an average of 6 seconds and each has been programmed to have either 3 or 4 loops Having more than one loop imparts some life to the sound and makes long sustained notes sound more realistic For the low pressure Swell stops a range of tremulant samples were taken and these were processed using a special tool kindly provided by the creators of Hauptwerk The Hauptwerk tremulant model has been carefully programmed to provide for maximum realism within the constraints of the model Likewise a large number of Swell samples were analysed for the level and harmonic differences between the swell box being open and shut and the results of this used to programme accurately Hauptwerk s swell models Both the tremulant and swell parameters can be further adjusted by using the voicing tools Advanced edition only The Swell Vox Angelica is an undulating stop which beats with the Salicional When the Vox Angelica drawstop is drawn the Salicional rank automatically sounds as well meaning that this stop does not also need
12. he previous screen however there is a third row of couplers which are provided as playing aids for those who have more modest console setups a 6 ia eeoooeoeo Bank a Basscouplers offer a way of playing the pedal organ from the manuals cooo cesccosee This can be useful in various circumstances not least 1f your virtual organ IIOTITEITIOITOSSS lacks a pedalboard The basscoupler is intelligent in that only the lowest Pe a ze e e manual note sounds on the pedal meaning that only one note is played at a time giving a far more musical result than a simple Pedal to Manual coupler For those with consoles having less than three manuals Hauptwerk offers a very powerful way of accessing all three divisions of the Hereford 23 stop sample set by using Floating Keyboards in HW v3 these were called Re directible Keyboards Once set up one or more physical keyboards can easily be routed to any of the Hereford divisions either by using a MIDI organ control keyboard shortcut or an on screen piston control HW v4 only This functionality is native to Hauptwerk so the HW user guide should be consulted for further details On this screen there 1s space to include the full complement of pistons and reversibles In addition to those described previously there are two settable pistons that control just the couplers as well as an all coupler cancel and a piston to cancel all octave and un
13. ion only are recommended for best results If the separate rank 1s not enabled then the stop becomes unified with the Great Trumpet eg this would need to be the case if memory restrictions prevent the Choir Trumpet samples from being loaded For all volume and tone adjustments an operating range of 12dB is provided 5 In Use some suggestions and considerations In some ways the organ of Hereford Cathedral can be regarded as being a transition instrument anticipating to some degree the sounds of the early goth century work of Arthur Harrison amongst others The reeds in particular have a rounder and smoother tone in comparison to Willis s earlier work and the scale of the mixtures 1s somewhat smaller However the trademark Willis sounds of the bright ringing choruses remain along with the liquid Lieblich s and well balanced manual divisions Judicious additions along the way have greatly increased the versatility of the instrument and it is now a highly regarded example of Father Willis s work As mentioned earlier the various divisions of the organ are rather diversely located around the east end of the Cathedral The Choir is the most direct speaking out directly into the Quire at low level and being the division closest to the sampling microphones The Great and Pedal are a little more distant but still offer a reasonably direct sound The Swell is in a far more buried position being situated high up behind the Great
14. ison off couplers Reversible pistons act on just one coupler with each press of the piston toggling the position of the associated coupler Again these are of most use when mapped to a physical console MIDI control LH and RH Jambs These screens display the stops over two pages and are useful if you have a multi monitor setup The layout of the stops doesn t exactly conform to the real instrument but is approximately correct albeit with the couplers now presented as drawstops rather than rocking tabs These two pages support intelligent re sizing HW V4 only which allows screens rotated to a portrait position to be used more effectively The stops and couplers in each screen are all linked so that if you operate a particular stop in for example the Console screen its counterpart in the Stops Pistons and appropriate Jamb screen will also change Settings Screen This screen allows configuration of some of the specific features that contribute to the overall realism of the organ The blower noise tremulant noise and swell shade noise can all be switched on or off and the relative volume of each can be adjusted In addition the noise of the stop action can be set for each division individually as can the key action noise for Great Swell and Choir the key action noise for the Pedal was found to be virtually inaudible on the original instrument hence that option is not available here Note that for some samples especially on the Swell
15. n be adjusted within Hauptwerk or even disabled completely The most realistic sound though will be when the original organ tuning is selected Note that adjusting the random tuning errors has no effect in original organ tuning mode 3 System requirements and loading the organ for the first time With a modest total of 23 stops speaking into a fairly large acoustic computer processor and memory requirements are not too demanding by today s computing standards A sensible minimum of a 64 bit operating system 4GB RAM and a dual core processor is suggested although acceptable results may well be obtained with a 32 bit operating system single core processor and 3 GB or less RAM depending on the loading configuration Bear in mind that only 2 3 system memory is accessible on Mac OSX whereas Windows 7 typically allows all free memory to be used for a rough rule of thumb for the amount of free memory with Hauptwerk running but with no organ loaded subtract 1 5 GB from the total installed memory if your Windows installation 1s relatively clean Windows XP typically uses significantly less system memory The sample set was developed on a PC consisting of an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor with 12 GB of system memory running Windows 7 64 bit and this platform has proven more than adequate to run this organ with all realism features enabled The following table gives very approximate figures for the amount of RAM memory the organ requires with vario
16. plers can pay dividends Full Swell with the octave coupler cuts through more noticeably when used with full Great and the octave couplers to the Pedals are useful when a telling ff pedal line is needed The Swell Vox Angelica with either octave or suboctave couplers or even both is very pleasant indeed the Swell probably lends itself to the use of these couplers more than any other division Even at just 23 stops the organ has a good selection of flutes and it is worth trying these in various combinations across all three manuals again using the octave couplers as you see fit Above all this organ positively encourages exploration Press piston on Great Swell Choir and Pedal draw a few couplers and start improvising 6 Acknowledgements Finally my thanks go to the following The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral for granting permission to sample the wonderful Willis organ of Hereford Cathedral Geraint Bowen the Cathedral Organist and Director of Music Christine Field the Cathedral Administrator The Cathedral s wonderful team of vergers Tim Pryse Davies Stephen Guy Andrew Wynn Mackenzie and Lyn Smith Martin Dyde and Brett Milan for their help and support in bring ing this sample set to fruition Appendix Licence Agreement Hereford Cathedral Sample Set Licence Agreement This agreement is applicable to the Hereford 23 Stop the Hereford 46 Stop and the Hereford Complete sample sets 1 The sample
17. set s may be used indefinitely by the licensee on any computing equipment owned by them in any form of private or public installation 2 Copyright and intellectual property rights of the original samples images and organ definition files is retained by Lavender Audio 3 Copyright in any musical performance using these samples is vested solely in the licensee A musical performance is defined as one in which the samples are combined in such a fashion that no individual samples could be re used by a third party 4 These samples are licensed only for use in connection with software issued by Milan Digital Audio or their succes sors Note that the individual samples but not the organ definition files are encrypted to ensure this 5 Organ definition files and custom organ definition files may be freely edited for personal or public use by the licen see but not distributed to any third party unless specifically authorised by Lavender Audio 6 These samples may be freely combined with samples from other sample set producers to form composite organs de fined by standard or custom organ definitions only where this is specifically permitted by the third party sample set licence s Any composite organ so created must only be for personal use and not transmitted in any form to any third party 7 Performances and recordings with these sample sets are fully licensed with the exception of those of a commercial nature In the case of a recor
18. us different loading options set None of these figures take into account the RAM needed by the operating system or Hauptwerk itself Where no figure is given that particular loading option although valid hasn t been tested generally because it wouldn t make sense to use it Of course not all ranks need to have the same settings Given the memory requirements shown below it can be seen that this sample set will fit well with Hauptwerk Basic Edition s 3 GB 3072 MB memory limit although Hauptwerk Advanced Edition is recommenced for maximum flexibility in terms of loading options organ control and organ polyphony compression and compression Single loops releases and compression To achieve best results the organ should be loaded at 24 bits resolution no memory compression and with all realism features enabled If your system doesn t have sufficient memory to allow this then it is recommended to try the following in order until the set loads reliably it is wise to allow for a small amount of unused memory to keep the operating system happy Use lossless memory compression audio quality is unaffected although polyphony is re duced by approximately 15 Load some or all samples at 20 bit resolution Load some or all samples at 16 bit resolution Only load a single loop on some or all samples Load some or all samples at 14 bit resolution Only load single releases for some or all samples It is possible to go
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