Hello dear friends of virtual organs,
my name is Michael P. Schmidt and I am from the german GrandOrgue forum (MPS Orgelseite). I am the one who builds all of the bigger GrandOrgue ODFs for Hauptwerk sets, like Rotterdam, Krzeszow and more. Doesburg, Rotterdam surround and St. Maximin coming soon in HW similiar quality. But I am also Hauptwerk user since HW V. 1.0.
I like your website here and read it since a long time. Now I am also user of this site - thank you !
Especially for GrandOrgue it is important that the users should move together and overcome language barriers. For this I can write you in English or in German, as you would prefer. Perhaps there is anyone of you, who can translate this into Dutch, for the other users to understand. Please simply answer in your language as usual - I can understand a lot and the rest will do the Google translater for me.
The Sonus Paradisi Giga-Demo should NOT be understand as a big organ with usable disposition! The goal was only to generate a "tool" to test all of the bigger SP demosets simultaneously for demonstrations, and to deliver a basis for me and for other people, who wants to design playable organs out of this demo samples. One can relatively simple reduce the Giga-Organ to a smaller subset and then optimize the intonation and extend the disposition with derived ranks.
But one can play all of the demo sets in a way, like SP described on their Website as small 2 or 3 manual organs. At the first sight this looks very confused, but nevertheless there is a concept:
At the left side, are the more romantic sets:
Manual I stops ("Hoofdwerk") Manual II stops ("Borstwerk"), left side of Manual III stops ("Bovenwerk"), and the lower stops of pedal.
Simply use P, I, II, III
At the right side, the more baroque sets:
right side of Manual III stops ("Rugwerk"), Manual IV stops ("Hoofdwerk"), Manual V stops ("Bortswerk"), and the upper stops of pedal.
Use the couplers to get P, III, IV, V to your physical Manuals 1,2,3
Each set has a unique color for the stops.
But it´s really not easy to bring this amount of stops to one screen and simultaneously give it any sense
Perhaps you have better ideas - then let us do so.
The demo of Dom Bedos set I have deliberately not used. I am in collaboration with Jiri Zurek, and he told me that the owner of this original organ will not accept using their samples other than in the given HW-set.
I also follow your discussion at the thread - Uitdaging: gratis "universeel orgel"
But this is especially in your Hauptwerk sub forum and I don´t know, if you are interested to have such a set for GrandOrgue. If you want, we can try to make such a set together out of the Giga-Demo.
GrandOrgue therefore has the big advantage of built in IR convolution reverb ! We have direct connection to the developers of GO - so we nearly get weekly new updates with more and more functionality.
Together with a friend, we translated GrandOrgue into German - you could do the translation into Dutch.
Yours,
Michael