DavePolich
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Joined 07-27-2002
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Re: Theatre Organ sound
You may want to check out the following sound libraries for your ES, available at the motif mart:
B’s Knees (for Hammond B3 “theater organ” registrations)
Organimation (for Hammond B3 “theater organ” registrations)
Organ Session (for Hammond B3 “theater organ” registrations, requires additional RAM installed in your ES)
All The Stops (for pipe organ registrations)
Majestic Pipes (sampled pipe organ voices, requires additional RAM installed in your ES).
When you speak of “theater organs”, bear in mind that there is no single “theater organ” sound, because theater organs (essentially the same thing as pipe organs) employ different combinations of pipes and manual settings - 32’, 16’, 8’, 4’, 2’, and so on. A single pipe organ waveform may consists of samples of one particular registration. For more flexibility, you actually need samples of all the individual pipes, or at least several different pipe combinations.
If you are seeking the “mighty Wurlitzer”, then you really need samples of the individual pipes of a Wurlitzer organ - and which one is another question. Pipe organs all differ in their actual sound - every one of them is different, no two pipe organs are alike. In the largest churches, pipe organs (many very old) have been custom built and maintained over the years, they aren’t “factory” builts, and are therefore unique. Some pipe organs are small, with the required number of pipes, but just a single rank of these pipes, all with shorter average lengths. The multiple rank “monster” church organs will have longer pipes and more sets of them.
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