Richard, Congratulations on you new Toy!! Deeply appreciate your sharing it with us and look forward to hearing more of the much improved Beauty in Sound productions from you.
Yay! Finally your organs can breathe! Nothing worse than a “constipated” system trying to do mainframe work. We just can’t have too much PC power for our organs, huh?! Pretty cabinet - but with power comes lots of heat. Mine is now free-standing and I added another fan. Heat means short life in there. Rock on, Richard!!!
Bravo, Richard! Congratulations on your newest machinery and set up. This is really fascinating stuff so thank you very much for sharing your journey. At least I won't have to try and figure it all out on my own. Cheers!
Richard, You, and Jean Guillou, and Thomas Ospital, and Olivier Latry, Daniel Roth, Balint Karosi, E.P. Biggs, Marie Claire Alain, Thomas Trotter, Michael Murray, Jonathan Scott, and Todd Wilson (to name a handful) are responsible for setting my net worth back thousands by incorporating two subwoofers -- that I can enjoy some of the character of those concert organ 32 footers, choruses, solos, and upperwork. I have long been a pipe snob as to organs. The Hauptwerk has taken a fat edge off that -- although I still think the speakers in a venue make a non-pipe instrument, as my tuner used to say, "sound like it was played through a radio." I tend to analogize a Hauptwerk computer as a wind supply. Can it handle the pipe load, in ensemble? Tutti? I'm glad you have a solid instrument, with good lungs to play upon. Virtual pipe organs are a bona fide thing, finally, at last. I enjoy your performances, enormously. Glad you're here. Ludere puram.
Congratulations to you, Richard, for upgrading your computers as thoughtfully, mindfully and thoroughly as you have. YOU ARE NO LONGER FORCED TO CRAM A BATHTUB-FUL OF ORGAN MUSIC THROUGH A SODA-FOUNTAIN STRAW - it now flows freely through your new "digital plumbing" as it should, and at the quality level you want. I own a top-of-the-line computer myself, and as other commenters here have noted, I know from my own experience that the build-up of HEAT inside both your computers (the one in your cat-scratched black cabinet and the server-style one beneath your editing desk) is and can be a real problem. For your two wonderful computers to last (and they should, for a long time), you, 1), MUST pay heed to heat build-up, and make sure both of them are well ventilated and are NOT allowed to run hot - and, 2), you must diligently avoid the OTHER great enemy of high-tech, high-performing computers, DUST, which builds up slowly and insidiously and acts like an insulating blanket, trapping heat, which in turn greatly shortens the life of the components. So, chore as it is, you must regularly inspect and blow accumulated dust out of your computers. Even the nicest and cleanest homes have dust (yours looks immaculate). DUST is the reason why main-frame computers are kept in clean rooms, where all the in-coming air is filtered. You can't have a clean-room setup but, with regular inspection and care, you yourself can maintain your lovely new equipment in top operating condition. I have noticed the greatly improved quality of your AUDIO on my RUclips stream, as well as your fantastic 4K graphics. I listen to your programs on a top-of-the-line audio system, so I know what good sound is - and you now provide it in spades.
Congrats Richard on your new computers! I enjoy your work even more since the churches are still closed in the US and in my home state of North Carolina due to the pandemic. My church has a restored E. M. Skinner organ, with 4,700 pipes, I think . Church was completed in 1928. Best Wishes, Greg
Two CPU modules and 6 sticks of memory! WOW! I built my computer from components purchased mostly from B&H Photo Video in New York City. Not nearly as powerful, of course.
Hi Richard... I really enjoy your music... thank you very much for sharing your music with us... I share your enthusiasm for your new equipment... I have been in the data processing business since 1974... it's always a thrill to enjoy enhanced capabilities and new features... I would like to share with you, three topics to consider as you enjoy your new equipment... (1) consider speaking with someone about insuring your equipment... (2) make sure that there is free circulation of fresh air around your equipment any time they are plugged into the mains...(3) speak to someone about a comprehensive and automated way to backup your operating systems and your work... very best wishes to you, for unending enjoyment of your new equipment... Bob Johnson Atlanta Georgia
Thank you for naming my company (Encaps ICT Support Amsterdam) as the supplier of your new Hauptwerk Computer. I feel proud that we were able to provide you a new, however refurbished, workstation with lots of resources that you mentioned correctly. We wish you, Caroline and the BiS Channel all the best for the future.
Now that’s more like it. If you want to improve those load times, make sure your Hauptwerk cache is located on an SSD drive. I’ve only got 32Gb of memory to play with, so less of a problem for me.
Theres gotta be some way for a main type digital organ maker to invent an organ with these stops hard wired in. If one of the comps go crazy thats that and most of us dont have your expertise. That said, this is amazing. Good luck with it.
Not sure what you consider insanely powerful, but an common consumer cpu, like the 8 core (16 thread) Ryzen 7 3700x processor running at 4.4GHz, $280 (USD) will run circles around both of the cpu' s in this machine.
BEAUTY in SOUND The reason I'm using that app on the PC with my Keytar is so that way I can play Bobby Hicks Music on the Pipe Organ which will make me the next Bobby Hicks of Pipe Organ. Bobby Hicks played 5 String Fiddle, he turned his 4 String Fiddle into a 5 String for a good reason cause one of the Harmony fiddlers passed away & adding a Low C String allowed him to play Harmony parts below the lead.
Hi Richard, congratulations on finally being able to acquire some seriously good hardware to run your organs. Thanks for showing the specs of your computers and especially the time taken to load each organ. I often wondered if mine was taking too long, but it seems to be the norm. Although I find it a bit frustrating, I just think about the time I would spend on a pipe organ, walking to the blower, firing it up and walking back to the console, so waiting for Hauptwerk isn't that bad in the big scheme of things!
To be fair to me, I couldn't see another option when ordering the computer, and the thumbnail they used for the case was a normal tower.... I just forgot about it until it arrived!! haha!
@@beautyinsound what if I use USB MIDI keyboards like Nektar Impact GX61 ? They don't have MIDI adapter, they have USB already. Won't USB MIDI work well ?
The hard drive doesn’t need to be SSD or NVME (the OS is installed on an SD, and I have both SSD and NVME in my Video editing computer). Do you realise that once the organ is loaded, it sits in the RAM leaving the HDD essentially redundant? RE the CPUs, yes, they are ‘old’, but they are incredible powerful and I have two of them. The McLaren F1 is a very old car, and customers certainly don’t pay a discount when buying one 😉
@@beautyinsound Not going to argue with you, but as a retired software developer I stand by my comments. Love your music; best wishes for much success!
What would you think of having a blind audio test of 16bit/48Khz vs the extremely Hi-Def you usually use? Theoretically listeners shouldn't be able to tell the difference because it is the rare human that can hear frequencies above 20Khz. Record a work that has ppp to sfz on midi, then render it in both low sampling and high sampling using the same instrument (maybe Bach BWV 582 on Haarlem), have your Patreons listen to both and reply with the one that sounds better to them. If the result is within 10 percent of each other you can save yourself load time by using the lower sampling frequency set. If not then we can conclude that psychoacousticologists are barking mad. ;-)
👍 By the time you get done spending all that $$$ on electronic equipment to produce a fine VPO....you could have installed a medium sized real pipe organ in your home.....lol (just pulling your chain)...best wishes....
The old video editing PC is now what I use for my live streams, and the infamous laptop is how Caroline and I chat with the community during live streams. Waste not, want not! 😂
Even though you post the videos in 4K, doesn't RUclips compress the audio down to something like FM radio levels??? I might have been completely mislead on this :-)
Not quite! RUclips does compress the audio (which is annoying for music channels like mine), but 4K is 4K on RUclips. I’m currently still trying to find out ways to make my audio sound like the best organ audio on RUclips.
That's interesting. I'll have to do some testing. I have a Samsung Smart UHD TV connected to a 7 speaker surround system, but I rarely d/l and play music videos at higher than 720p as I haven't seen/heard any appreciable difference :-)
After a quick Google search, I found this... appuals.com/why-converting-youtube-to-320kbps-mp3-is-a-waste-of-time/ "For starters, RUclips does not play audio at 320kbps, even on the highest video resolution. It does not come even close to 320kbps. RUclips uses two types of audio formats - AAC (wrapped in an MP4 container) or Opus in a WebM container. For AAC, RUclips will play a maximum audio bitrate of around 126 kbps. For Opus, it can be between 56 kbps and 165 kbps. This is regardless of the audio source format being uploaded because RUclips will automatically re-encode videos to use their format. So even if you upload a video with 24/96 lossless audio, RUclips will convert it to 126 kbps AAC in an MP4 container." WOW!!! it's MUCH worse than I thought. ========================= I also d/l 3 versions of one of your videos (720, 1080 & 4K)... as far as I can tell the audio was identical in all of them
Richard, Congratulations on you new Toy!! Deeply appreciate your sharing it with us and look forward to hearing more of the much improved Beauty in Sound productions from you.
You look so happy. Congratulations and we look forward to many more presentations, Maestro.
Good things come to those that wait. You’re like the little kid on Christmas morning... Congrats on your new acquisitions!
Yay! Finally your organs can breathe! Nothing worse than a “constipated” system trying to do mainframe work. We just can’t have too much PC power for our organs, huh?! Pretty cabinet - but with power comes lots of heat. Mine is now free-standing and I added another fan. Heat means short life in there. Rock on, Richard!!!
Bravo, Richard! Congratulations on your newest machinery and set up. This is really fascinating stuff so thank you very much for sharing your journey. At least I won't have to try and figure it all out on my own. Cheers!
Richard,
You, and Jean Guillou, and Thomas Ospital, and Olivier Latry, Daniel Roth, Balint Karosi, E.P. Biggs, Marie Claire Alain, Thomas Trotter, Michael Murray, Jonathan Scott, and Todd Wilson (to name a handful) are responsible for setting my net worth back thousands by incorporating two subwoofers -- that I can enjoy some of the character of those concert organ 32 footers, choruses, solos, and upperwork.
I have long been a pipe snob as to organs. The Hauptwerk has taken a fat edge off that -- although I still think the speakers in a venue make a non-pipe instrument, as my tuner used to say, "sound like it was played through a radio."
I tend to analogize a Hauptwerk computer as a wind supply. Can it handle the pipe load, in ensemble? Tutti? I'm glad you have a solid instrument, with good lungs to play upon.
Virtual pipe organs are a bona fide thing, finally, at last. I enjoy your performances, enormously. Glad you're here. Ludere puram.
Congratulations to you, Richard, for upgrading your computers as thoughtfully, mindfully and thoroughly as you have. YOU ARE NO LONGER FORCED TO CRAM A BATHTUB-FUL OF ORGAN MUSIC THROUGH A SODA-FOUNTAIN STRAW - it now flows freely through your new "digital plumbing" as it should, and at the quality level you want. I own a top-of-the-line computer myself, and as other commenters here have noted, I know from my own experience that the build-up of HEAT inside both your computers (the one in your cat-scratched black cabinet and the server-style one beneath your editing desk) is and can be a real problem. For your two wonderful computers to last (and they should, for a long time), you, 1), MUST pay heed to heat build-up, and make sure both of them are well ventilated and are NOT allowed to run hot - and, 2), you must diligently avoid the OTHER great enemy of high-tech, high-performing computers, DUST, which builds up slowly and insidiously and acts like an insulating blanket, trapping heat, which in turn greatly shortens the life of the components. So, chore as it is, you must regularly inspect and blow accumulated dust out of your computers. Even the nicest and cleanest homes have dust (yours looks immaculate). DUST is the reason why main-frame computers are kept in clean rooms, where all the in-coming air is filtered. You can't have a clean-room setup but, with regular inspection and care, you yourself can maintain your lovely new equipment in top operating condition.
I have noticed the greatly improved quality of your AUDIO on my RUclips stream, as well as your fantastic 4K graphics. I listen to your programs on a top-of-the-line audio system, so I know what good sound is - and you now provide it in spades.
In this video, Richard's like a kid in a candy store. He has a great setup for producing his videos and livestreams.
Congrats Richard on your new computers! I enjoy your work even more since the churches are still closed in the US and in my home state of North Carolina due to the pandemic. My church has a restored E. M. Skinner organ, with 4,700 pipes, I think . Church was completed in 1928. Best Wishes, Greg
Now that all looks awesome! One day I must replace/rebuild my Hauptwerk PC too.
Two CPU modules and 6 sticks of memory! WOW! I built my computer from components purchased mostly from B&H Photo Video in New York City. Not nearly as powerful, of course.
Hi Richard... I really enjoy your music... thank you very much for sharing your music with us... I share your enthusiasm for your new equipment... I have been in the data processing business since 1974... it's always a thrill to enjoy enhanced capabilities and new features... I would like to share with you, three topics to consider as you enjoy your new equipment... (1) consider speaking with someone about insuring your equipment... (2) make sure that there is free circulation of fresh air around your equipment any time they are plugged into the mains...(3) speak to someone about a comprehensive and automated way to backup your operating systems and your work... very best wishes to you, for unending enjoyment of your new equipment... Bob Johnson Atlanta Georgia
Thank you for naming my company (Encaps ICT Support Amsterdam) as the supplier of your new Hauptwerk Computer. I feel proud that we were able to provide you a new, however refurbished, workstation with lots of resources that you mentioned correctly. We wish you, Caroline and the BiS Channel all the best for the future.
Oh yeah!! Thanks for sharing :)
Now that’s more like it. If you want to improve those load times, make sure your Hauptwerk cache is located on an SSD drive. I’ve only got 32Gb of memory to play with, so less of a problem for me.
That was great. Very great indeed
Theres gotta be some way for a main type digital organ maker to invent an organ with these stops hard wired in. If one of the comps go crazy thats that and most of us dont have your expertise. That said, this is amazing. Good luck with it.
That is an insanely powerful computer. Congrats!
Not sure what you consider insanely powerful, but an common consumer cpu, like the 8 core (16 thread) Ryzen 7 3700x processor running at 4.4GHz, $280 (USD) will run circles around both of the cpu' s in this machine.
William Moody He’s talking about the PC with the Threadripper 3970x not the Xeon CPUs 🤦🏻♂️
Thanks William! I'll put them both to good use for the benefit of the channel, and ultimately my subscribers :)
Maybe install rack mounts under the desk to get that server off the floor. Not a difficult job.
BEAUTY in SOUND The reason I'm using that app on the PC with my Keytar is so that way I can play Bobby Hicks Music on the Pipe Organ which will make me the next Bobby Hicks of Pipe Organ. Bobby Hicks played 5 String Fiddle, he turned his 4 String Fiddle into a 5 String for a good reason cause one of the Harmony fiddlers passed away & adding a Low C String allowed him to play Harmony parts below the lead.
Hi Richard. What organ did you use for Théodore Dubois Tocotta at the beginning of your video?
Rotterdam
🎶Congrats Richard🎶
Hi Richard, congratulations on finally being able to acquire some seriously good hardware to run your organs. Thanks for showing the specs of your computers and especially the time taken to load each organ. I often wondered if mine was taking too long, but it seems to be the norm. Although I find it a bit frustrating, I just think about the time I would spend on a pipe organ, walking to the blower, firing it up and walking back to the console, so waiting for Hauptwerk isn't that bad in the big scheme of things!
LOL to the rack mountable server error...🤭😁!
To be fair to me, I couldn't see another option when ordering the computer, and the thumbnail they used for the case was a normal tower.... I just forgot about it until it arrived!! haha!
can i use two MIDI keyboards instead of buying an expensive manual for my hauptwerk organ setup ?
Yes that’d work. You’d probably have to buy two MIDI to USB adapters for this though.
@@beautyinsound what if I use USB MIDI keyboards like Nektar Impact GX61 ? They don't have MIDI adapter, they have USB already. Won't USB MIDI work well ?
Looking to engineer a system using GrandOrgue and some specialist designs.
Were you aware that your processor, the xeon e5-2620 v3, is quite old in computer years, being launched in 3Q 2014. Hope you got a discount....
Also, why the SATA drive (slow, old tech, mechanical)? A 2 TB NVME would provide more storage than your 1.256 TB combined, at about $260 (US)
The hard drive doesn’t need to be SSD or NVME (the OS is installed on an SD, and I have both SSD and NVME in my Video editing computer). Do you realise that once the organ is loaded, it sits in the RAM leaving the HDD essentially redundant?
RE the CPUs, yes, they are ‘old’, but they are incredible powerful and I have two of them. The McLaren F1 is a very old car, and customers certainly don’t pay a discount when buying one 😉
@@beautyinsound Not going to argue with you, but as a retired software developer I stand by my comments. Love your music; best wishes for much success!
No wonder you've got a cheery smile on your face.....
Normally a we bit dour laddie)
What would you think of having a blind audio test of 16bit/48Khz vs the extremely Hi-Def you usually use? Theoretically listeners shouldn't be able to tell the difference because it is the rare human that can hear frequencies above 20Khz. Record a work that has ppp to sfz on midi, then render it in both low sampling and high sampling using the same instrument (maybe Bach BWV 582 on Haarlem), have your Patreons listen to both and reply with the one that sounds better to them. If the result is within 10 percent of each other you can save yourself load time by using the lower sampling frequency set. If not then we can conclude that psychoacousticologists are barking mad. ;-)
👍 By the time you get done spending all that $$$ on electronic equipment to produce a fine VPO....you could have installed a medium sized real pipe organ in your home.....lol (just pulling your chain)...best wishes....
Loving the spaghetti of wires 🍝🍝
My husband is having issues with his pedalboard does anyone recommend any pedal boards?
... so can I buy the old one???!
The old video editing PC is now what I use for my live streams, and the infamous laptop is how Caroline and I chat with the community during live streams. Waste not, want not! 😂
BEAUTY in SOUND a man after my own heart!
Even though you post the videos in 4K, doesn't RUclips compress the audio down to something like FM radio levels???
I might have been completely mislead on this :-)
Not quite! RUclips does compress the audio (which is annoying for music channels like mine), but 4K is 4K on RUclips. I’m currently still trying to find out ways to make my audio sound like the best organ audio on RUclips.
Thanks, but isn't 4K just the video spec?
I thought that audio and video were separate "things".
They absolutely are, but I’ve noticed that the higher quality the video is, the higher quality RUclips publishes the audio...
That's interesting. I'll have to do some testing.
I have a Samsung Smart UHD TV connected to a 7 speaker surround system, but I rarely d/l and play music videos at higher than 720p as I haven't seen/heard any appreciable difference :-)
After a quick Google search, I found this... appuals.com/why-converting-youtube-to-320kbps-mp3-is-a-waste-of-time/
"For starters, RUclips does not play audio at 320kbps, even on the highest video resolution. It does not come even close to 320kbps. RUclips uses two types of audio formats - AAC (wrapped in an MP4 container) or Opus in a WebM container.
For AAC, RUclips will play a maximum audio bitrate of around 126 kbps. For Opus, it can be between 56 kbps and 165 kbps. This is regardless of the audio source format being uploaded because RUclips will automatically re-encode videos to use their format. So even if you upload a video with 24/96 lossless audio, RUclips will convert it to 126 kbps AAC in an MP4 container."
WOW!!! it's MUCH worse than I thought.
=========================
I also d/l 3 versions of one of your videos (720, 1080 & 4K)... as far as I can tell the audio was identical in all of them
2:20 Organ??
All that hardware in one place, there might be over-heating problems. Be careful.
Agreed; avoid placing the two computers next to each other and consider adding a fan.
Did you notice the cupboard has no back and is right next to a window? 😂
yeah I agree, would recommend keeping the cupboard door open when the computers are on just for an extra bit of ventilation
@@beautyinsound Good choices. And thus you could always add an outboard electric fan if needed. Beats freezing your posterior off in a cold cathedral.