I bumped into GrandOrgue, Virtual Pipe Organ Software. Its free and seems interesting and I have little idea what I'm doing. i did manage to make some sounds so that's encouraging. Anyway you can download free organs and play them on your midi keyboard. I'm trying to figure out if you can run it through a DAW. Anyway the price is right.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ourorgan/

Free Organs
http://sourceforge.net/p/ourorgan/samplesets/Sample%20Sets/
http://www.familjenpalo.se/vpo/download
http://mauriziosiagri.wordpress.com/musica/virtual-organ-free-sample-sets-campioni-per-organo-virtuale/

 

History repeats itself, and never throw away your old ties as the style will surly return (now if I can only find a way to inject parallel compression into my old Hermes printed neckwear, now that would be novel!).

 

These are all wav-files, so you could try to make an organ with them in Kontakt! Just an idear!

 

That is an interesting idea, I'll have to check the licenses on them but that could be fun.
Odd question maybe Kontakt Guru knows. Can you keyswitch a layer on/off rather than switching between layers? Since I think you would want to be able to have say 10 layers any of which you could turn on or off independent of all the other layers so have as many or few on at one time as you wanted.

Easiest way would be to do a multirack and just let the user mute the organ sounds they don't want, but not very elegant.

 

Yeah I agree .... multis aint perticular pretty and this could (at least I think so) be done more elegant indeed! Scripting in Kontakt are for skilled folks *yes*

 

Hum could you try this. I think I got buttons to turn layers on and off to simulate organ stops being pulled in and out.
The layers are just a woman singing ah, oo and such.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/d1hn80vji5g0mjp/organ_script_test.nki

 

Jup .... seems like a working solution! At least it worked ok here!

Amazing!

 

I'm working on a bit of a demo now. A way to big but cool picture and a couple layers of organ sounds.

 

Oh two different tries at the organ. See what you think.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/lx01j68946d2xs2/Burea_Funeral_Chapel_Organ_Take_1.nki
http://www.mediafire.com/download/bcech2h6o0gkldc/Burea_Funeral_Chapel_Organ_Take_2.nki


This organ sampled by Lars Palo of Lars Virtual Pipe Organs http://www.familjenpalo.se/vpo under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.

 

Nice one ..... both of them!

A few notes needs a bit of a twist before they work completly! Nice work

 

Thanks Phloopy! What do you mean by twist are they out of tune?

 

Especially one note do an odd thing like make a glide before it get to the right pitch <---- hope you understand?!?

 

Oh yeah I think so. I'll try to figure that out thought it was odd, but I know so little about organs, I thought maybe it was intended. I'm uploading a demo of some of the swells and pedals of a cool sounding organ. Don't have to to finish it before sleep and work today, but I think it sounds better.

 

Wow that took forever to upload.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/afi2txlv0w94p6l/St_Augustines_Organ_Demo.zip



St. Augustine's Neutral Bay
Hauptwerk Sample Set
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Much better sounding!! Nice work

 

Thanks for trying them, Phloopy. The St Augustine's has 7 swells, 5 greats and 2 pedals all told so it should be quite a project. I think I'll do both an all in one and individual 'instruments' for the swell, great and pedal keyboards. That was if someone really wanted I think they could load up each one to a different midi keyboard kinda like a real organ.
The same chap also did a St Stephens that looks promising. It think I'll concentrate on these two first as I think they have the nicest sound.