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Features and screenshots of St. Maximin sample set
Features
- 4-manual French classical instrument. Composition: Grand Orgue,
Positif, Récit, Raisonnance, Pedal.
- The Raisonnance division is used as a
complement to the Grand Orgue. It provides it with
the Bombard division (Bombarde 16', 2 Trumpets
8', Clairon 4') and Flutes (16',
8', 4').
These stops are also shared to the pedal division. In addition, solo stops
are present on the Raisonnance as a kind of a second Récit:
Trumpet en chamade, Flute and Cornet.
- The instrument offers unusual number of reed stops.
There are 14 reed stops out of 43!
- This organ has unusual voicing where a kind of
complementarity can be observed. The reed stops have a common feature of
being weak towards the top of the compass. This is a natural phenomenon. To
complement this, the flue stops are attenuated towards the bottom
while they are brilliant at the top of the compass, so a kind of ballance
with reeds is
achieved.
Virtual console (Hauptwerk)
- The samples 24 bit depth and 48 kHz
resolution.
- Reverberation 5-7 seconds.
- The virtual console fits into 1024 x 768 px screen resolution.
- Temperament chart provided featuring the
proprietary St. Maximin tuning (mean tone modified).
- 10 generals (combination) pistons added to
facilitate user registration.
- Three versions of the sample set are available:
standard, extended and deluxe. They differ in the available features and in the
RAM consumption mostly.
- RAM consumption:
- DELUXE version
- full instrument 16 bit, 48kHz, full reverb,
all loops, compressed:
under 8 GB with the
memory compression of 3rd and 4th manual only.
- STANDARD version
- full instrument 16 bit, 48 kHz, full
reverb, 1st loop, without the noise samples, compressed: under 3 GB (the instrument just fits
into 3 GB RAM limit).
- full instrument 16 bit, 48kHz, full
reverb, all loops, compressed: 3 533 MB.
- If you want to get most out of the samples, load it at least
in 20-bits (possibly with the memory compression enabled). If
you have to make compromises, it is always better to use the
memory compression while loading in higher bit depth, than using
the samples without the memory compression at lower bit depth!
The higher bit depth, the less noise (hiss) introduced by the
audio engine in Hauptwerk!
Screenshots
| virtual console |
stop tab |
voicing tab (deluxe version) |
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| stop tab - extended |
Hauptwerk 1 |
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Installation issues
When receiving the 4 DVDs complet, you will have to install all the
installation packages found on them and you will have to install them one by
one. So, you will have to repeat the installation process for all the
packages found on the DVDs. It is not enough to run the installation process
only for one package.
However, the installation package no. 365 found on the 2nd DVD is necessary
only if you intend to use the deluxe version. If you want to use only the
Standard and Extended versions, you do not need to install this package. As
the package no. 365 exceeds the 4 GB limit for the FAT32 file system, you
can have problems installing it if you use FAT32 system. When NTFS file
system is used (very common today), no problem arrises. To install the
package on the FAT32 file system, you have to do it manually, extracting the
package with RAR archiver direcly from the DVD and pointing the extraction
to the HauptwerkSampleSetsAndComponents subfolder of the Hauptwerk
folder.
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