1850 Pipe Organ
The Instrument
Organ pipes are made from either wood or metal and produce sound when air under pressure (“wind”) is directed through them. Pipes are arranged by timbre and pitch into ranks. A rank is a row of pipes mounted vertically onto a windchest. An organ contains two actions, or systems of moving parts. When a key is depressed, the key action admits wind into a pipe. The stop action allows the organist to control which ranks are engaged.
We sampled a Pipe Organ built in the year 1850 in Artà’s church (a little village on the island of Mallorca, Spain). You can check the size, look and proportions of this church on the image gallery page on Facebook. The pipes are controlled by a wood keyboard of 54 keys (from C1 to F5). Sustain and release notes sampled, which means that you have the natural reverb tail of the church, it’s amazing! No pitch shifting (note interval) used, sampled every note.
This Pipe Organ has 8 ranks selectable by 16 stops (8 right and 8 left). With 1850 Pipe Organ Pro you can control the volume of each rank separetly, making the instrument very versatile and flexible, you can achieve an enormous amount of different sounds. On the free version you only get the sound of the 8 ranks opened without control on each of them. Free version lets you control the overall volume and the volume of the tail reverb directly from the GUI. With Pro version you can control the overall volume, pan and each rank directly from the GUI.
GUI has been designed by Cocavet, rendered in 3D. Note that the stop knobs are identical to the real thing (see the real images on Facebook).
Kontakt 4.2.3 needed to load the library. You don’t have Kontakt? No problem, 1850 Pipe Organ is available now for Audio Units and VST (Mac and Windows 32 and 64 bits). That means that you can load them directly into your DAW as a plugin.
Testimonials
Technical Info
- Stereo recording, 44.1 Khz, 24 bits.
- High quality mics, preamps and converters.
- 54 keys Pipe Organ from 1850 recorded in Arta’s church (Mallorca, Spain).
- All notes sampled, no pitch shifting.
- 54 sampled notes, 108 files (sustain+release).
- Full natural reverb tail (no IR or artificial reverbs).
- Custom script and GUI (3D rendered).
- Overall volume and reverb/release control.
- Kontakt 4.2.3, Audio Units and VSTi (Mac and Windows 64 and 32).
- Separate WAV files only on Kontakt version.
- Same script and GUI for all formats.
- Max of 128 simultaneous voices on VST and AU.
- Full version of Kontakt needed, Free Kontakt Player will run in demo mode.
- System requirement: Windows XP or later / Mac OS X 10.6 Intel or later (Snow Leopard).
- Stereo recording, 44.1 Khz, 24 bits.
- High quality mics, preamps and converters.
- 54 keys Pipe Organ from 1850 recorded in Arta’s church (Mallorca, Spain).
- All notes sampled, no pitch shifting.
- 430 sampled notes, 860 files (sustain+release).
- Volume control over all pipe ranks (8 ranks).
- Very versatile, customize by mixing different registers.
- Full natural reverb tail (no IR or artificial reverbs).
- Custom script and GUI (3D rendered).
- Overall volume and pan control.
- Formats: Kontakt 4.2.3, Audio Units, VSTi (Mac and Windows 32 and 64 bits).
- WAV files only in Kontakt version.
- Same GUI and script on all formats.
- Max of 128 simultaneous voices on VST and AU formats.
- Full version of Kontakt required. Free Kontakt Player will run in demo mode.
- System requirement: Windows XP or later / Mac OS X 10.6 Intel or later (Snow Leopard).
- €19.95 (each format)
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great, that’s really useful to have a free version for testing before buying the pro version.
very nice.
Thank you for providing a free version without timeouts ect. This way one can hear if he/she likes the instrument so can go pro later. Every commercial app must have this option. Well designed and released. HQ !
Best
Panos
VERY NICE
i enjoyed hearing this vst great work
its a great vst
What a lovely, characterful instrument! I downloaded the free version and am going to purchase the full version now. It’s also really nice to see photos of the source instrument on the fb link. One can imagine playing that remotely…
merci beaucoup !!!
This instrument is stunningly awesome and a tremendous value at its price of under $30 American. Someone commented that it is noisy; on that point, I will note that the electronic noise floor is excellently low, and, although the samples contain ambiance from the real church in which they were recorded, the ambiance blends well in the playing and sounds real and great and gorgeous. Besides, you can clean it up significantly with a decent EQ, if that’s your game, and still have a rich, real-sounding 19th century pipe organ with a ton of tonal flexibility.
I give this all the stars. However many stars you got room for, this gets them.
My one word of advice: Get the Kontakt library version. It’s much more resource-efficient than the VST.
This pipe organ sounds amazing!!!
Beautiful and authentic!
What CC’s control the ranks? I wanna automate tone changes. Doable? Is there a manual? Not that you’d really have much to put in a manual; the instrument is pretty straightforward except for this one thing.
If you’re using Kontakt you can assign CC by clicking with the right button on the rank you want.
It’s an “avant gout” to the proversion. Thanks
Can I use it with Cubase? It sounds amazing
Yes, with the VST version or with Kontakt.
very nice
Great realistic sound
very very nice