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Specific advice on playing an English cathedral work without the use of General Pistons - a COMPLETE How-to-Do!
2015-10-08Editor's note: This article is a follow up to David's wonderful article "The Anglican Way of Setting Up and Using Pistons".The art of making swift changes in registration while playing seems to b...
Read MoreMulti Channel Audio in Hauptwerk
2014-11-07
Mixed Signals
Multi channel audio is consistently one of the most confusing elements to setting up a Hauptwerk instrument.
So, I thought I'd explain a few things and show a test case.
Hauptwerk Audio - Voicing
2014-11-19
I was sitting at a church this morning while our tech Arie was voicing a Hauptwerk instrument we installed and thought "this might be a good topic to tackle".
Basically, I thought I'd explain w...
Considerations When Choosing Speakers For Hauptwerk
2015-08-20Speakers are often the weak link in many people's audio systems. They are the final component that the audio signal passes through before it's released into the wild. Choosing the right speaker h...
Read MoreThe Anglican Way of setting up and using pistons!
2015-10-05I have to admit that "pushing pistons" is one of my favorite things to do!Since I'm pretty much "self-taught", I do LOTS of things that many fine teachers would say are "wrong". Each musician mu...
Read MoreWolfram Syre - True Artist and Modest Man
2015-09-02One of the truly wonderful things about the Hauptwerk community, and I think with the Concert Hall specifically, is that we get the chance to interact with one another. We are all at differ...
Read MoreClarifying MIDI Misconceptions - Pt II
2015-09-02Welcome to MIDI Misconceptions - Pt II. This time we'll look at MIDI Ports vs. MIDI Channels, How you can have multiple devices all connected by one cable, and explain the difference between MIDI Merg...
Read MoreThe Art of the North German Organ - Part V
2017-07-01
The Art of the North German Organ - Part V (63)
written by Dr. Wolfram Syré
The technical design of the North German organ required, among other things, the minimum distance between the mai...
Tips for Selecting Your Hauptwerk Computer
2015-01-26
Probably the most frequent questions I get asked by customers are questions relating to which computer they should buy for Hauptwerk.
Part of the problem in answering that in a general way...
Hauptwerk Audio for Churches - General
2014-10-23
Pipe Dreams
A great pipe organ in a great room and the money to keep it in tip-top shape is the ultimate sonic situation!
However, the reality is that having those three elemen...