Zlata Koruna - specification, screenshots - Hauptwerk

• Each pipe of the instrument was sampled one by one including the original reverberation of the room.
• The reverberation is very large (4-5 seconds) as the church belongs to the largest in the region. All the processing took place in 24 bit depth at 48kHz rate.
• The sample set is completely prepared for the Hauptwerk version 2 with multiple loops in each sample (at least 3 loops per sample).
• The historical tuning is lost therefore the samples are tuned to equal temperament. Anyway, the Hauptwerk version 2 allows re-tuning the samples "on-the-fly" according to the wish of the performer.
• The sample set is available in 24 bit depth and 48 kHz sample rate.
• The RAM consumption when fully loaded at 16 bit:
  • original version: 1 359 MB
  • extended version: 1 497 MB
  • mini version: 419 MB
  • Compressed: 1097 MB.
• You can load the samples in 24 bit depth as well to take the advantage of 24 bit sampling. However, the amount of RAM needed to load organ would double in this case.
• Requires 987 x 824 px screen resolution
• The compass of the manual is four octaves C1-C5, pedal originally C1-a2. The compass may be extended digitally in Hauptwerk to F5, pedal to D3.

Zlata Koruna - screenshots

Zlata Koruna - specification

Updates

Organ definition file 1.01: the MIDI velocity handling changed. Velocity sensitive keyboard can be used to controll the initial chiff of the pipe without the "pitch swing" which would normally be caused by the slowly opening ventil under the pipe.

Zlata Koruna - the second edition sample sets - Hauptwerk 1

The recording was made in full 24 bit depth at 48kHz. All the post-production as well. Only at the very end the result was converted to the 16 bits to meet the Hauptwerk (v. 1.21) requirements. The organ was sampled key by key, stop by stop. The reverberation of the church (the acoustics of the building) is captured precisely. The church is the third largest in the country so the level of the echo is very high (some 5 seconds). The Mixtura in the main manual has also a third (terzia) included as one of its ranks what is rather traditional setting in bohemian organs. It gives very special timbre to the organ pleno. The principals on the RückPositiv are of slightly larger menzura so the color of the sound is different from the principals of the main manual. Sesquialtera on the RückPositiv is of Principal timbre forming so the rank with a third (terzia) for the RP Pleno. Therefore, mixtura 3x on RP has no third (terzia) included.

• Zlata Koruna Virtual (and Deluxe) Organ set - "Live" Second Edition  appeared after some users expressed in the Hauptwerk forum the opinion that they prefer more "noisy" sound where the denoising is not that deep and  the noise occasionally produced by moving tractura and especially the characteristic hiss of the air flowing through the system and through the pipes is preserved. Well, the sample set as whole is a bit more "hissy" but the overall effect of this is very important: the sound appears even more natural than before. Playing the virtual console is hardly to be distinguished from playing the real instrument. The principals are more "spirant", mixtures are brighter and pungent. The localization of the sound in the space is more precise and the instrument is "breathing" - as in the real world. I would say that the intonation of this organ set is more vivid. Therefore, I call this second edition "live". If the first edition was not fully convincing your ears the "live" second edition definitely will.

Current state - original organ definition file

It is very close to the very original state of the instrument as built. It preserves the Baroque short octave as well as some occasional irregularities of the pipes. The Fugara 4' is starting from the lowest G as on the real instrument. The order of the manuals restores the original instrument: the lower keyboard is the Positiv, the upper one is the Hauptwerk. The space "distance" of the Rückpositiv from the Hauptwerk is well defined by the recording techinque used. The organ has also very special kind of stereo effect being the HW built in far apart blocks as seen on the picture. 20 sounding stops are divided as follows:

(Click on the picture to enlarge.) Samples were re-tuned to the equal tuning to the 440 Hz because the historical tuning is lost on the real instrument.

Compass: C1 - C5 in Hauptwerk terminology, Baroque short octave. Pedal: C1-A2, short octave. Loaded into Hauptwerk it takes 961 MB of RAM.

Extended organ definition file

(Click on the picture to enlarge.) This ODF extends the compass of the keyboards to the F5 and the pedal is extended to the D3. The Fugara 4' was extended to start at the lowest C. The lowest octave of all the stops was also digitally chromaticised for the use with modern keyboards. It also corrects the most jarring pipes by repitching them from their good neighbours. You may always recognize the repitched sample by a "Re" at the end of its filename - and you may always return to the original sound by removing this "Re" from the .organ definition file. The order of manuals was changed - the lower keyboard is the main manual, the upper one is the RückPositiv. By the way, this resembles the current state. Apart from this no other manipulation with the samples was done. No deriving of additional stops occurs. The couplers HW/P and RP/P were also added. Loaded into Hauptwerk it takes 1 161 MB or RAM (1.2 GB).

Zlata Koruna Deluxe Set

This version of the sample set is tuned to mean tone tuning to evoke the 17th century most common non equal temperament scheme. See the demo page. This is also the only difference from the Zlata Koruna Virtual Organ set. It also shares the same .organ definition files. The DeLuxe set is available for both editions of Zlata Koruna.