Litomysl Dry Set for Hauptwerk 3

version 2

Key features:

• The instrument was sampled using the close-up technique, resulting in dry and mono samples.
• The samples available in 24bit/48kHz wave format.
• The samples contain multiple loops (at least 3 loops per sample).
• The release portion of the samples is negligible in length and contains basically only the sound produced by pipe due to the effect of the closing pallet under the pipe. For this reason the sample set does not take much RAM (only about 1.6 GB for full instrument) and polyphony (the release tails do not consume polyphony).
• The sample set is suitable for use in reverberant spaces. The space itself will add the necessary reverberation to produce pleasant audition (it is recommended that organ sound has at least 2 seconds of reverberation to be pleasant according to some authors). The alternative is to add reverberation digitally, using various reverb devices, using reverb supplied by your sound card or using impulse response reverberation.  I recommend using Hauptwerk 3 in conjunction with Voxengo Pristine Space (you can use your own impulse responses). Read more here.
• The layout on the computer screen is exactly the same as in the wet version of the sample set, including the dual touch screen support.

Recording technique:

The microphone was placed near to pipe mouth, approximately 25 cm - 1,2 m. It was not possible to maintain a constant distance from each pipe since the spatial dimensions of the organ divisions prohibited that (no easy access possible to some ranks). Nevertheless, this recording was the "driest" possible for this particular organ.

Note:

This virtual instrument is in the line of the "digital organ school". We did not attempt to make the dry sample set to sound as the real organ. We attempted to make the instrument to sound much better than in reality. Our own ears and listening experience were the only guide to achieve this goal. However, you have the freedom to use the independent ranks in any way you like to "build" your own virtual instrument according to your wishes! You can even combine our dry ranks with any other dry recorded ranks to form an instrument of your dreams.