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Wrong reasons? This isn't a library for organists. It's for music producers. Sampling every stop would inflate the size and cost or the library massively.

@@jetlag1488 Hello M. JetLag, I agree that it is magnificent for music producers :) But the Rieger Organ on VSL with 104 stops takes 10.8 GB, so I guess the 157 stops of the Royal Albert Hall organ would take something between 15 and 20 GB? And then you have a package for both music producers and organists. But RAH organ has much more microphone positions than VSL, so my estimate might be far too low... But obviously, it would take a lot of work to sample all stops individually. VSL started also with a subset of the stops, and only years later we got the complete set. But anyway Mr. Everingham, you made a beautiful piece of artwork! Congrats!

@@ritenrobrecht I looked up the Great Rieger Organ and while it has an impressive collection of sounds and the ability to build whatever combination you want is very tempting, it does cost twice as much as the Royal Albert Hall organ, with almost three times less samples than the Royal Albert Hall organ. Once again, ROH is aimed at music producers, Great Rieger Organ doesn't seem to be. Would love to use it for music production, but not at that price point. The variety of sounds that ROH offers is more than enough for any situation, be it conventional organ scoring, orchestral music or genres that you'd normally not use a church organ in.

​@@jetlag1488Exactly and don't forget you'd need the advanced licence if this was made available for Hauptwerk to use it. If you got the licence fair enough, its not an extra cost I've seen people spend upto 20k on their set up on Hauptwerk . Great to see a price tag of £129 on this that most people can afford and get this amazing sounds. You would never get this sound out of a digital organ or keyboard so for me £129 is fantastic . OK, you might not be able to make your own registrations but you've got everything here on this to make any performance sound great

​@@ritenrobrechtThe RAHO is a 36GB download Slr . That just shows you the quality of the samples. If they were to sample this for Hauptwerk they would need to reduce the size of the samples recorded which then wouldn't sound as good as what it does. . He states as to why they've never sampled individual stops in the video . 👍

It's the main theme from Handel's Judas Maccabeus, but there may have been an altered chord or two in there.

Probably to expand the memory levels. A guest organist can bring a disc in to save all their settings on without having to override any of the built-in memory levels.

Same here regarding linguistic aspect, and I’m in the US!

​@@newtboysRichard Hills went to school at King's School Rochester, founded AD 604, second oldest school in the world, now over 1,400 years old.

In a sense, yes. Electropneumatic instruments don't have that problem as much. But yes, if you draw every, single, stop on, including all the celestes, it will deplete the air in the wind chest and the blower can't provide enough air in real-time. The pitch of the entire instrument will then go flat. So, the famous phrase, "pulling out all the stops" isn't actually done by us organists on anything more than about 20 stops, because it's usually just not needed and the tuning is at risk of falling.

Yes, you could use the MIDI output of the EL-500 to control a computer running Royal Albert Hall Organ!

@@RoyalAlbertHallOrgan Then, can we acatually send / transfer the specific, selected pipe organ sound of vst plugin to this el-500 organ ? (upper keboard, lower keyboard and to base pedal 《--- because el-500 yamaha electone has two keboards and base pedal controll) ?? Will this vst plugin recognize upper keyboard, lower keborad and base padel ? Because I want to send the seperate sounds to those 3 (upper, lower and base pedal )

​@@priyanliyanage6047 Yes, that is also possible, so long as each keyboard/pedal can output on seperate MIDI channels. You could do this either by seperately routing multiple Kontakt instances, or by using External MIDI Mode on the Keyboard tab. This is demonstrated at 10:50 in the Technical Walkthrough: ruclips.net/video/RgP1iu071S4/видео.html

@@RoyalAlbertHallOrgan Thanx a lot! God blesd you!❤

Whilst this comment was made a year ago, I hugely disagree (and I know and love them both!). The RAH organ is not restricted to Anna and I’m sure even she will agree that there were many before and after her who bring it to light - although not quite to the masses that she has done through social media! You may not have heard of Hills, but the organ world certainly has and he’s one of the best of his generation for pipe and theatre organ. Just google ‘Tiger Rag’ and be blown away!

Hi Phil, you're correct that this library is primarily designed for musicians and composers using a single MIDI keyboard. However if you do have a digital console, you can stack multiple instances in Kontakt and set the MIDI inputs to your manuals and pedals. Alternatively, you can load a single instance and route the Left Hand and Right Hand patches independently using External MIDI Mode - I demonstrate this at 10:50 in the video. Hope that's helpful!

All good questions! I can answer (poorly) a couple: roughly half the pipes are wood so might move a little with change in humidity and temperature but not normally thought to cause problems. The metal pipes are largely lead with small amounts of tin, copper or antimony, so they are very inert to corrosion. All large organs like this are tuned several times a year though. As for the acoustics, I believe the seats are designed to have an "equivalent absorption area" (basically the area of a perfect absorber reflecting zero energy that is equivalent to the thing you're measuring) roughly the same whether they're empty or full.

@@chrisburn7178 Chris, Thanks so much for your answers, the metal makes perfect sense as that "recipe" has been available before the early design of the pipe organ. I would never have thought of the pipe being an alloy like that. Since viewing the video, I have reorganized my organ music library and added several new albums and organist to my " Santa" list :-) Thanks so much again Happy Holidays

The seating at the Albert Hall is mostly around the periphery of an oval so the sound absorption of the audience is very low. The arena floor (normally seats, but standing area during the Proms concerts) is a long way below the organ and also the stage, so there is little acoustic absorption there. Tip: the best place to hear the "Voice of Jupiter" is (IMO) the gallery, which runs around the top of the auditorium and is at a similar height to the organ case. I have memories of standing there for a Proms performance of the Saint-Saens organ symphony in the 1980s.

I'm an organist who has dabbled a smidgen in organ building, but live in the US and therefore don't have any experience with RAH's instrument. I started piano in first grade, and started organ lessons in high school; I decided to major in organ for undergraduate and a master's degree. Piano lessons are highly-recommended first, as that will help teach technique, some music theory, musicality, etc., then when you switch over to organ, much of that knowledge can now be utilized on organ. Yes, it's a lot of brain power, and it is the hardest instrument to learn and play, but it's so worth it! Many composers for the organ were/are organists themselves, and therefore know what works and what doesn't. Things like arpeggios that usually work great on piano are not as playable on the organ because of how sound is made, and the arpeggiated line may sound disjointed. On the other hand, the organ is made for long, sustained sound, and many pieces take advantage of that. Using multiple manuals/keyboards in a short span of time is another feature that organ composers can use. Organ builders use a variety of skills to build an instrument. Woodworking, electrical engineering (even for mechanical-action instruments), knowledge of levers and physics, and an eye for design and aesthetics all play a role, as well as being acousticians and usually performing musicians themselves. As practically every pipe organ is custom-made, it generally takes months or a year-or-two to build one from scratch; installing an instrument in its final venue also takes quite a while to accomplish. Pipes are either hand-made in-house or ordered from a pipe-making company. In addition to making new instruments or refurbishing older ones for new homes, organ shop employees are also tuners and maintenance people for instruments of all shapes in the area.

The main theme from Handel's Judas Maccabeus

See, the Conquering Hero Comes by George Frideric Handel