Haverhill OIC MiniSet User Manual
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1. HAVERHILL OLD INDEPENDENT PGi Aeonate Memuqy of Daniel Chuytern of the DUdaP Hee ey I fohedied May 28 thig Ongan wag enected bn higine sisleneandehyotheng A b muti Sabella illiamand Sabes C igi HAUPTWERK v 3 SAMPLE SET USER MANUAL Version 1 00 Lavender Audio 2008 Lavende ara www lavenderaudio co uk 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 At the time of writing only Hauptwerk version 3 10 upwards is supported 1 Installation Please use Hauptwerk s component installer to ensure proper installation of this sample set Start Hauptwerk and 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 to find the installation package it s called HaverhillOIC Part1l 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 1s presented a 7 i 7 Component Installation Actions vel Select an item to adjust its settings Data Haverhill OIC Full Set Part 1 CANANEA Organ Haverhill Old Independent Church ponent One Organ Haverhill Old Independent Church Bonus Mini Set Organ Haverhill Old Independent Church Low Screen Resolution Component name aer TAa ma a Natal Haverhill OT2. typically 200 to 500 mS depending on pitch Some of the pedal notes have a total of 4 releases Despite the relatively modest acoustic of around 1 5 seconds this extra layer adds noticeably to the realism It was found that for the softer stops a portato release made no difference to the overall sound Please note that the multiple releases are handled automatically by Hauptwerk and that no special hardware 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 Up to 16 tremulant samples were taken for each Choir and Swell stop and these were processed using a spe cial tool kindly provided by Crumhorn Labs A limiting factor to the realism of the tremulant model is that the releases are not modulated in any way so in effect a tremmed sustain has a non tremmed reverberation However the relatively short reverb time of the building tends to minimise this problem Likewise a large number of Choir and 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 organ is tuned to equal temperament at approximately A 450 Hz Al
3. The soft swell strings with octave cou pler are very pleasant and at the other end of the scale adding the Swell to Great octave coupler is very ef fective in full combinations In the build up of the swell the Oboe stop would typically be drawn quite early usually before the mixture A useful mini full swell can be obtained by drawing 8 4 and 2 foot flues the Mixture Oboe and Contra Fagotto Returning to the Great bear in mind that the Viola is really a small open diapason and therefore quite usable with the Principal and Fifteenth In addition the combination of Hohl Flute Principal and Fifteenth works very nicely in contrapuntal music Although the Nazard may seem a little out of place it s a handy stop to add a little colour especially as part of a solo combination Try the Double Open Hohl Flute and Nazard played up an octave as a solo Unlikely as it may sound just the Viola and Nazard together can be used against Swell 8 and 4 in a Bach chorale prelude not necessarily an authentic sound but it works For both the French and German romantic school it s best to avoid too much heavy 8 foot tone The Choir Orchestral Oboe sounds quite French and that stop along with the Choir flutes and Viol di Gamba can be good for Cesar Franck The Choir Concert Flute is a lovely stop try coupling it to the Swell strings and then using it as a solo against the strings The swell is a good starting point for lighter music try the Stop Diap
4. 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 Crumhorn Labs or their successors Note that the individual samples but not the organ definition files are encrypted to ensure this and a dongle update is required before the samples may be used 5 Organ definition files and custom organ definition files may be freely edited for personal or public use by the licensee 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 defined 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 transmit ted in any form to any third party 7 Although any form of private or public performance is fully licensed permission must be obtained from the Haverhill Old Independent Church via Lavender Audio for any recording using these samples that has a planned commercial release 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 David Butcher October 2008
5. 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 various 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 24 bit 20 bit 16 bit 14 bit Uncompressed 8000 MB O 4210 MB Oo Lossless 4890 MB 4350MB 2830MB O compression Sieh oo als 3825 MB 2190 MB 2030 MB compression Single loops and releases with 1680 MB 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 recom mended to try the following in order until the set loads reliably it is wise to allow for a small amount of un used memory to keep the operating system happy Use lossless memory compression audio quality is unaffected although polyphony is reduced by ap proximately 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
6. are all fully programmable select the stops you wish to assign to a piston and then click on the setter piston la belled S followed by the piston you wish to assign the combination of stops It s important then to click on the setter again to switch it off after you have finished programming the pistons The C piston is a general cancel i of i9 9 Q lol 6000 00e9e i Q 999g 9g 999o 90990 00090 9900 0933009 e e e e gt e e e e e Ce e CE EY NAg Incidentally the extra pistons on this page are completely separate from the Binns combination pedals This means that there are effectively 10 pistons to the Great Swell and Pedal For the purposes of mapping exter nal switches to pistons the default is to map the Binns combinations to pistons 7 to 10 Of course this can be altered should you wish It is also possible to programme the Binns pistons using the setter piston should that prove to be more convenient Combs Coupled is enabled then pressing a Great piston will also operate the correspond ing Pedal piston and vice versa Neither combination coupler is affected by any piston These controls allow you to couple the piston action For example if the Great and Pedal GT amp PED COMBS COUPLED divisional or general Basscouplers offer a way of playing the pedal organ from the manuals This can be useful in various circumstances not least if your v
7. ason Viol d Orchestre Mixture and Oboe with the octave coupler and tremulant for a more than passable theatre organ sound All of the above is very much intended as a starting point to encourage exploration of the organ and discover combinations that work for you There is also no reason why external reverb should not be added to place the organ into a bigger acoustic SWELL ORGAN SWELL ORGAN 6 Acknowledgements Finally my thanks go to the following people CLARION Brian Swallow the organist at Haverhill Old Independent Church for 2 his great support and enthusiasm in getting this project off the ground Karen Knight the minister of the church and the lay elders and con gregation for their hospitality and for agreeing to allow the sample set to be made publicly available CORNOPEAN Peter de Vile who tunes and maintains the organ to a very high stan s dard Martin Dyde and Brett Milan for their help and support in bringing the sample set to fruition Appendix Licence Agreement 1 The sample set may be used indefinitely by the licensee on any computing equipment owned by them in any form of private or public installation 2 Copyright in 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 per formance is defined as one in which the samples are combined in such a fashion that
8. erhillOldIndependentChurch LowScreenResolution is designed to run on the Hauptwerk minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 Please note that otherwise both ODFs are identical there is no difference in sound quality or features between the two and they share a common sample cache Either may be loaded as appropriate with for example the same stored combination files being accessible for each The Console screen is for the purist as it offers the most realistic view of the instrument without the extra features that are seen on the other pages All of the keys pedals and stops respond to the mouse as well as providing a visual indication of remote control via MIDI Although much of the display should be intuitive here are a few pointers for those not familiar with this sort of organ The Great is the middle manual with Choir below and the Swell above unlike some European organs where the equivalent of the Great 1s at the bottom Both Choir and Swell are enclosed being controlled by the left and right pedals respectively 9 9 9 00099 e e e e e e e e e e The specification of the virtual organ is nearly identical to the original instrument The only addition is the Great Harmonic Flute which is unified with the Nazard When built the organ had a Harmonic Flute at 4 foot pitch on the Great this was transposed to become a Nazard in the 1980 s The Hauptwerk sample set therefore offers the o
9. gt e gt gt Only load single releases for some or all samples It is possible to go a fair way down this list with little obvious loss of realism or quality however the last two options should both be avoided 1f at all possible Loading single loops means that very approximately only half of the sustain section of each sample will be loaded leading to a useful saving in memory space 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 interpolation all of which will affect the real ism of the organ The first time the organ is loaded the sample cache is built This takes a considerable time maybe 5 min utes 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 Default settings for all of the sample set s inputs have been carefully speci fied so this process should only take a minimum of time If your MIDI rig has only one or two manuals then it is well worth using Hauptwerk s redirectable keyboard feature to help access all three manuals 4 Haverhill OIC Sample Set Screens As described earlier two organ definition files ODFs are provided to cater for two different screen resolu tions The standard ODF needs a display resolution of 1280 x 1024 to load whilst the ODF called Hav
10. i jl Cot Dart Vataj Maver UIG Ful O amp t ral t Current installation state of component Version of component installed State of component available in package a mponent Version of component available in package Selected installation action You will notice that three organs are available to be installed these are as follows Haverhill Old Independent Church This is the standard full organ designed for a display resolution of 1280 x 1024 Haverhill Old Independent Church Low Screen Resolution This is identical to the organ above apart from the fact that it is designed for a display of 1024 x 768 Haverhill Old Independent Church Bonus Mini Set This is the same organ as that provided for the separately available Haverhill MiniSet and is included here by way of a bonus It can be installed if you wish but it is not essential for the full set to function Note that this organ doesn t install any extra samples it makes use of those that are installed for the full set Ensure that the Selected installation action for the Data item and for at least one of the Organ items 1s set to Install and then click OK Installation should then proceed and the whole process may take many minutes to complete depending on the speed of your computer Once DVD1 has installed remove it and insert DVD2 into your DVD drive Repeat the process described above installing HaverhillOIC Part2 and noting that for DVD2 there
11. irtual organ lacks a pedalboard The basscou pler is intelligent in that only the lowest manual note sounds on the pedalboard meaning that only one note is played at a time giving a far more musical result than a simple Pedal to Manual coupler The state of the basscouplers is stored and recalled with the general pistons only the divisional pistons have no effect The next two pages LH and RH jamb spread the contents of the Stops Pistons page over two pages and are of use if you have a multi monitor setup The layout of the stops doesn t exactly conform to the real instrument but is approximately correct The stops and couplers in each screen are all linked so that if you operate a particu lar stop in for example the Console screen it s counterpart in the Stops Pistons and appropriate Jamb screen will also change er e P o h g e S T The Settings page allows a quick and convenient way of enabling or disabling stop action noise key action noise and blower noise as well as setting the relevant noise levels To set the volume level simply click on the appropriate LED bar graph and the volume will adjust to the point where you clicked The calibration of the bar graphs is in decibels Key action noise on the real organ is quite quiet the exception being the bottom octave of the Swell which is noticeably louder It was generally not possible to remove this totally from these samples although enough ha
12. is just the Data item to install As suming this is successful the organ 1s 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 2 Specifications and background information The following information is provided as background to the creation of this sample set It is by no means re quired reading but may help when considering the options available as the organ is loaded for the first time as well as helping with the various organ specific settings that Hauptwerk provides The Haverhill Old Independent Church organ was recorded using the ORTF mic technique This was felt to give the optimum balance of direct and reverberated sound whilst maintaining a good stereo image The or gan was recorded from a distance of approximately 4m from the front pipes All samples are presented at a resolution of 24 bits and a sample rate of 48 kHz Multiple releases were recorded which add greatly to the realism of the sample set All pipes have a release recorded for both staccato and sustained notes and a third set of releases were recorded for the Swell chorus reeds not Oboe and for all Great and Pedal stops including the Trumpet en Chamade These releases are for notes held for a duration between staccato and sustained portato
13. l of the samples have been left at their recorded pitch with only the most out of tune being repitched 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 standard concert pitch A 440 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 can be adjusted within Hauptwerk or even disabled completely so the organ plays in per fect equal temperament The most realistic sound though will be when the original organ tuning 1s se lected Note that adjusting the random tuning errors has no effect in original organ tuning mode NB this is only true for Hauptwerk v3 11 and later 3 System requirements and loading the organ for the first time Although the organ has 40 speaking stops computer requirements aren t too onerous by today s standards This is largely due to the relatively short reverberation time which means that polyphony and therefore processor load and memory requirements are less than those of similar sized organs in more resonant build ings The sample set was developed on a PC consisting of an Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 processor with 8 GB of system memory running Windows Vista 64 bit
14. ntinental Europe The Great flutes are also big in sound and very much lacking in upper harmonics again typical for the period This was an era when the Great organ was just that stops here are much bigger in scale than anything other than the swell reeds Full swell is typically English being reed rather than flue dominated The rest of the swell is also as might be expected with very English sounding soft strings and a family of four flutes The Choir organ is almost a solo organ with at least four imitative stops the Choir Mixture and Trumpet en Cha made were also added in 1992 The Haverhill organ is suited to a wide variety of repertoire English music obviously works well with much of the output of SS Wesley Alfred Hollins Charles Stanford Hubert Parry Percy Whitlock and Herbert Howells being a good fit However the Preludes and Fugues of Bach and Buxtehude can sound good and although the tone of the organ is quite some way from being a Cavaille Coll the French romantic school can sound very effective The German romantic era is also worth exploring Mendelssohn generally sounds good and many of the colours called for by Karg Elert and Reger are there although it s easy for some of Reger s music to sound a little muddy on an English romantic organ When registering bear in mind that the octave couplers can be used to great effect the full compass of 61 notes helps to lessen the problem of running out of notes at the top
15. ove away from the classically conceived organs of the 18 and early 19 centuries to organs which em ployed increasing wind pressures and a greater variety of flue and reed colours using newly designed pipe work The organ was increasingly being seen as an orchestra as imitative stops became more realistic and the fashion of the day was for an overall smooth and round tone Traditional chorus structures were displaced by a heavy emphasis on unison tone whilst such upperwork that remained was being voiced relatively quietly Mixtures tended to be pitched quite low with some quite un subtle breaks which didn t always help the performance of polyphonic music Henry Willis commonly em ployed a tierce in his mixtures and Arthur Harrison s Great mixtures often included a flattened 21 St rank as well Some builders notably Robert Hope Jones almost totally abandoned anything above a 4 foot rank even in large instruments eg Worcester Cathedral In contrast builders such as T C Lewis and J J Binns kept truer to the organ s classical traditions maintain ing a proper chorus in many of their instruments Thus the organ at Haverhill has a full Great diapason cho rus from 16 foot to a clean mixture likewise the Swell the Tierce rank in the Swell mixture was only introduced in the 1992 rebuild Of course the prevailing fashion meant that the Great Open Diapason 1s typically big and round in tone and quite unlike anything that might be found in co
16. pportunity to use either stop or even both together should you wish A special feature of many organs built by Binns is his patent combination action In the days of multi memory solid state combination pistons it s easy to forget how revolutionary this facility must have been when it first appeared not least as some organs of the time had to be partially dismantled to change the com bination of stops that were drawn when a piston was pressed The Haverhill organ has four combination ped als that act on the Swell and four that act on the Great and Pedal together In each case the fourth combination is fixed with other three being adjustable at the console Setting a combination pedal 1s straight forward simply select the stops you wish to assign to a pedal and then draw the relevant setter drawstop eg Great No 1 As the setter drawstop is released it goes back in and sets the appropriate combination pedal This operation is precisely modeled in the sample set The combination pedals to the left control the Swell and those to the right control the Great and Pedal in each case pedals to 4 go left to right The combination pedal to the far left is simply a reversible acting on the Great to Pedal coupler The Stops Pistons page offers a convenient way to control the organ from a single screen It also offers some extra features that you won t find on the real instrument There are 6 pistons for each division and 20 General pistons They
17. s been removed to make the effect of playing this part of the Swell with several stops drawn ac ceptable so even with the key action noise switched off note on and off noise will still be noticeable to an extent Both swell pedals are perfectly silent in operation hence there is no noise associated with their opera tion SETTINGS e There is also the facility to set the volume of the Trumpet en Chamade When this organ was sampled the decision was taken to sample the Trumpet en Chamade from a greater distance than that used for all other ranks The reason for this is that this stop is absolutely devastating at the console as well as sounding a little harsh Once further back in the church the natural acoustic gives the stop a much rounder and more musical sound of course the stop was voiced to sound good in the church rather than at the console so it seemed to make sense to take advantage of this when sampling This then raises the question of what volume level to use for the stop hence the facility to give that decision to the end user Please note that Hauptwerk Advanced Edition has comprehensive voicing facilities and this is highly recom mended if you wish to make changes to the volume tone or tuning of other stops 5 In use setting this organ in historical context and some thoughts on registration and repertoire The English romantic organ was at its height in the late 19 and early 20 centuries The trend had been to m
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