Jerry this is wonderful, I should have come early to your channel it would have made everything so much easier. Thank you for sharing and It is very good to understand. Great tutorial!!! 🙏
LOVE THIS RUclips IT'S GRAND TO SEE HOW YOU USED THE HAUPTWERK TO GREAT LEVELS OF GRAND SOUND FOR THE ORGAN...I LEARNED SO MUCH WITH THIS RUclips...BROTHER TONY
Thank you Remi! And indeed - GrandOrgue is an amazing tool - it did not exist when I was starting out, and I am glad you are enjoying it (and making it sound so good!!)
I think you would have a lot of fun with it - but in the meantime, your Johannus is impressive and you have such a wonderful sound scape to work with (my content makes no sounds except for hauptwerk 😊)
Thank you for dropping by 😊 (And I don't do many 'talkies' - not sure I like how my own voice sounds on recording - but I know I am not alone in that!)
Good morning Maestro !!! The sound of your home organ would have impressed the Great Cantor Bach himself))) How you achieved this sound is simply amazing. What audio card and audio system do you use, I will be grateful for this information. Best regards, Dominica
Great video. The X-keys solution is a great idea but it occurs to me that if your console had been customised to your own specification it could have incorporated the pistons you need. So my question is, what would be the best arrangement of pistons if you had a free choice in the matter?
Thanks Benjamin! I agree 100% and would recommend getting those pistons built in from the beginning - when I purchased this console, it was one of the first midi-only units made by Content (new frontier!) and was based largely on an existing model of theirs - hence piston arrangement is similar to found on many European mainland organs. As I've grown and understood the use of pistons and registration over the past couple of years, I think that 6-per-division would be my minimum next time around, 8 ideal. (plus 10 Generals, stepper advance and reverse for each manual, and coupler pistons).
How is it you’re getting the trigger to activate constantly on each button press for the cued stepper buttons? Whenever I click or step up through the set cued buttons, the trigger shuts off and no registrations are changed.
Thank you for this video - I have my divisionals but the problem is that the Great pistons cancel the stops drawn on the other manuals (as do the Swell pistons) What have I done wrong?
Sorry for my delay getting to you - it sounds like the "scope" of both your great and swell is too wide: to check - in the "registration" control panel, just illuminate the scope button, and then press one of your swell/great pistons - it will draw out all the stops that you have set that piston to effect. Reduce it to the amount of stops you want to select, then ensuring scope is still illuminated, use "set" and the piston in question to limit it.
Thanks, Jerry, for your immense contribution to the body of information on hauptwerk. Having been using the technology since 2003, you have obvious acquired much of your information from multiple sources. Are there any literary sources that you would recommend to someone like me, who is an experienced organist and in possession of a relatively good system, but who is new to hauptwerk? I would appreciate any advice you would care to provide. Thanks very much. Otho Hoyte
Sorry for my delay Otho - there are lots of good references out there; my biggest reference is the forums on hauptwerk.com - however although this volume is a little old now, it still covers much of the details that are still very applicable today and I can recommend it a.co/d/4bVcCsG
Hello jerry! Great video. I have a question. I am using a daw to control hauptwerk but I don't seem to understand how I can just assign a combination to a midi note or program change like you do with the buttons. I wonder if theres a default channel or midi variable specific for that as ita with crescendo pedal (ch 7 breath) and swell (ch3 expression) which i found out by just trying every possible combination. What i would like to do is to create different combinations and trigger them via midi to change them during a song. Be it via a note or program change or a value of any variable. It seems intuitive to do in the settings but then it just doesnt seem to work...
Hi Vittorio - thank you so much for your comment and checking out my video. I do not have experience with using a DAW directly with Hauptwerk. However I imagine it HAS to be possible. I would try using the [master generals] - rather than trying to use auto-detect I would consider being specific and picking the channel/note-change you want to trigger - you can get to this by right-clicking the master general and going to "Adjust MIDI/trigger" (rather than autodetect) - in the ensuing dialog you can at a very specific level chose the MIDI/other input you want to trigger the control. Then in hauptwerk set up your registration presets on the master generals and trigger them from your DAW in that way.
(to get to master generals - use view menu-> registration - then you can store combinations of stops to each master general as you would at a physicial organ a) draw the stops you want b) click [setter] c) click the master general button 1-20 into which you want to save that combination)
Thanks , Dan. I do not believe there is a way to do that globally (yet) in HW - keyboards and expression controllers must be mapped to each newly-loaded sampleset.
Dear ! you are an amazing organist! I watched you for a long time and decided to write and ask you for help on how to assemble such a good instrument for this sound at home. I can use my Sonus 60 from Viscount, just what kind of computer, and of course the awlio system, to produce 32 "bass I will be very grateful to you and thank you for your precious time spent on reading my letter.Thank you in advance for your help and God bless you and Merry Christmas!
So the reversible pistons are just that: if you assigned one to "gt to ped" - each time you press it it would toggle the position of the piston (so you can assign them to anything, or groups of things, you would like to toggle)
Thanks Jerry - you've done a number of really helpful videos for new Hauptwerk users like myself. Greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much 😊
Jerry this is wonderful, I should have come early to your channel it would have made everything so much easier. Thank you for sharing and It is very good to understand. Great tutorial!!! 🙏
I appreciate it 😊 Thank you for dropping by and happy to help!
Very interesting and clearly made to match your usual splendid levels of details and perfection. Thank you dear man.
Thank you so much Maurice!
Thanks for this excellent demonstration, Jerry! Always nice to know how others use Hauptwerk, since there is so much possible.
You're very welcome! I know that I always get ideas from other people so I hoped to give people things to think about from my setup!
I have no clue how you figure all that stuff out, but it is impressive!
Haha!! Thanks Phil 😊 Meanwhile your ability to conjure wonderful music out of thin air mystifies and amazes me!!
LOVE THIS RUclips IT'S GRAND TO SEE HOW YOU USED THE HAUPTWERK TO GREAT LEVELS OF GRAND SOUND FOR THE ORGAN...I LEARNED SO MUCH WITH THIS RUclips...BROTHER TONY
Such a useful video, Jerry - thank you so much for putting it together and sharing your immense knowledge of Hauptwerk!
Glad it was helpful! I realize I have learned a couple of things over the past many years and I'm happy to share!
Interesting ! If I switch from GrandOrgue to Hauptwerk one day, I will have a closer look. Thanks for sharing Jerry
Thank you Remi! And indeed - GrandOrgue is an amazing tool - it did not exist when I was starting out, and I am glad you are enjoying it (and making it sound so good!!)
Thanks for sharing! I hope I can hook up Hauptwerk on my Johannus!
I think you would have a lot of fun with it - but in the meantime, your Johannus is impressive and you have such a wonderful sound scape to work with (my content makes no sounds except for hauptwerk 😊)
So nice to put a voice to the face Jerry!
Thank you for dropping by 😊 (And I don't do many 'talkies' - not sure I like how my own voice sounds on recording - but I know I am not alone in that!)
Very helpful. Thank you, Jerry!
Thank you so much Graham!!
This is cool. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching Andrew! I hope all is still going well with your Content - would love to hear more about yours 😊
Good morning Maestro !!! The sound of your home organ would have impressed the Great Cantor Bach himself))) How you achieved this sound is simply amazing. What audio card and audio system do you use, I will be grateful for this information. Best regards, Dominica
Thank you very much! I am using an audio interface from MOTU (ultralite mk3) and the Hauptwerk software.
That is impressive how you figure out what you use for what notes. So interesting but I would be very confused.
Thanks Katy!
Great video. The X-keys solution is a great idea but it occurs to me that if your console had been customised to your own specification it could have incorporated the pistons you need. So my question is, what would be the best arrangement of pistons if you had a free choice in the matter?
Thanks Benjamin! I agree 100% and would recommend getting those pistons built in from the beginning - when I purchased this console, it was one of the first midi-only units made by Content (new frontier!) and was based largely on an existing model of theirs - hence piston arrangement is similar to found on many European mainland organs. As I've grown and understood the use of pistons and registration over the past couple of years, I think that 6-per-division would be my minimum next time around, 8 ideal. (plus 10 Generals, stepper advance and reverse for each manual, and coupler pistons).
How is it you’re getting the trigger to activate constantly on each button press for the cued stepper buttons? Whenever I click or step up through the set cued buttons, the trigger shuts off and no registrations are changed.
When you "autodetect'" your control - there is a check box you may need to try - I have sometimes found issues with that.
Thank you for this video - I have my divisionals but the problem is that the Great pistons cancel the stops drawn on the other manuals (as do the Swell pistons) What have I done wrong?
Sorry for my delay getting to you - it sounds like the "scope" of both your great and swell is too wide: to check - in the "registration" control panel, just illuminate the scope button, and then press one of your swell/great pistons - it will draw out all the stops that you have set that piston to effect. Reduce it to the amount of stops you want to select, then ensuring scope is still illuminated, use "set" and the piston in question to limit it.
Thanks, Jerry, for your immense contribution to the body of information on hauptwerk. Having been using the technology since 2003, you have obvious acquired much of your information from multiple sources. Are there any literary sources that you would recommend to someone like me, who is an experienced organist and in possession of a relatively good system, but who is new to hauptwerk?
I would appreciate any advice you would care to provide.
Thanks very much.
Otho Hoyte
Sorry for my delay Otho - there are lots of good references out there; my biggest reference is the forums on hauptwerk.com - however although this volume is a little old now, it still covers much of the details that are still very applicable today and I can recommend it a.co/d/4bVcCsG
Hello jerry! Great video. I have a question. I am using a daw to control hauptwerk but I don't seem to understand how I can just assign a combination to a midi note or program change like you do with the buttons. I wonder if theres a default channel or midi variable specific for that as ita with crescendo pedal (ch 7 breath) and swell (ch3 expression) which i found out by just trying every possible combination. What i would like to do is to create different combinations and trigger them via midi to change them during a song. Be it via a note or program change or a value of any variable. It seems intuitive to do in the settings but then it just doesnt seem to work...
Hi Vittorio - thank you so much for your comment and checking out my video. I do not have experience with using a DAW directly with Hauptwerk. However I imagine it HAS to be possible. I would try using the [master generals] - rather than trying to use auto-detect I would consider being specific and picking the channel/note-change you want to trigger - you can get to this by right-clicking the master general and going to "Adjust MIDI/trigger" (rather than autodetect) - in the ensuing dialog you can at a very specific level chose the MIDI/other input you want to trigger the control. Then in hauptwerk set up your registration presets on the master generals and trigger them from your DAW in that way.
(to get to master generals - use view menu-> registration - then you can store combinations of stops to each master general as you would at a physicial organ a) draw the stops you want b) click [setter] c) click the master general button 1-20 into which you want to save that combination)
Is there a way to set the expression pedal to universally work with all organs?
Thanks , Dan. I do not believe there is a way to do that globally (yet) in HW - keyboards and expression controllers must be mapped to each newly-loaded sampleset.
Dear ! you are an amazing organist! I watched you for a long time and decided to write and ask you for help on how to assemble such a good instrument for this sound at home. I can use my Sonus 60 from Viscount, just what kind of computer, and of course the awlio system, to produce 32 "bass I will be very grateful to you and thank you for your precious time spent on reading my letter.Thank you in advance for your help and God bless you and Merry Christmas!
What are the reversibles aside from the scoped combinations?
So the reversible pistons are just that: if you assigned one to "gt to ped" - each time you press it it would toggle the position of the piston (so you can assign them to anything, or groups of things, you would like to toggle)