Litomysl Wet set Requirements, Screenshot

To be able to load the Litomysl sample set to the organ, you have to have powerfull PC running Windows 2000 or XP Professional, with Hauptwerk installed.

• Processor
  the Pentium or AMD based processor with more than 2.6 GHz frequency (the best results are obtained if > 3 GHz). The sample set will load also with lower frequency processor, however, you may experience occasional overload.
• RAM
  3 GB of RAM (if you have less memory, you may load a subset, of course - see below). Well, it may seem too much of memory consuption involved, but think: first, you get an exceptionally high quality sample set with long and perfect loops and with natural reverberation and second, it is so cheap compared to other sample set of comparable size that you may use the spared money to buy some more RAM modules...
• Screen
  the ODFs are designed so that your screen (a monitor or a LCD panel) has to be set to at least 1280x1024 pixels.
• Sound Card
  decent soundcard (this seems to be less crucial since human ear is not really a digitally perfect organ, you do not need to spend too much money on that since the soundcards sold today have usually decent chipsets and at least 16bit D/A converters)
  Due to the extreme dynamic possibilities of this sample set, it is suggested to use the Hauptwerk output level of 10-13% only - to be set in the Settings pane of your Hauptwerk.
• Amplifier, speakers, headphones
  hi-fi quality amplifier or mixer and hi-fi or professional quality headphones or speakers (studio monitors). This is much more important than the soundcard since it is this equipment which makes the sound sounding to your ear. I have myself made very good experience using headphones: AKG K-501, AKG K-240, Sennheiser HD-280.
• It is quite meaningless to speak about speakers since the audition quality lies in the acoustic qualities of your listening room above all! The speakers themselves may have very good quality, but put into different rooms and positioned in different ways their sound may change very, very much. Well, you have to "tune" your listening ambient with your speakers to achieve very good results. Be prepared to experiment very much at this point. Remember, the best suiting equipment need not to be the most expensive! I experimented with relatively cheap M-Audio LX 4 (in 5.1 set) with very pleasing results! What is essential is the clear "crystalline" presentation of high frequencies not the bass parts. But do not try to use cheap computer speakers with a single 1' speaker each. This will not give satisfactory results in any occasion.
• MIDI capable keyboard or midi software
  If you want to play live, you will have to have a midi capable organ console. Either you have one already, or you may want to "midify" some old consoles what is very possible (e.g. see this page) but to start with something, you may use even cheap electronic keyboards (such as Casio CTK-601 just to give an example for many) which have the MIDI-OUT connector. Alternatively, you might want to feed your Hauptwerk with midi files directly from your computer, so that the PC performs the piece for you "by itself". Many demo mp3s on this www site were made using that method.

RAM consupmtion table for different subsets of Litomysl Wet set

Large subsets:
Litomysl-Full  full 4-manual organ with the compass of manuals shortened to 4 octaves (C1-C5) and pedal shortened from C1 to D3 due to the RAM limitation.	2.94 GB RAM
Litomysl Baroque: a 4-manual selection of the stops used in the Baroque period	2.66 GB RAM
Litomysl Romantic: a 4-manual selection of stops used in the Romantic period of music	2.78 GB RAM
smaller subsets	...
Litomysl -Romantic Medium a 3-manual subset	2.55 GB of RAM
Litomysl - Baroque Medium a 2-manual subset	1.74 GB of RAM
Litomysl - Small Baroque a 2-manual subset	1.39 GB
ODF's supplied by kind users available for download
	less than 1.3 GB	James Pressler: Litomysl Heavier Small
	less than 1.3 GB	James Pressler: Litomysl Light Small
	less than 1 GB	Anton Heger: Litomysl Small under 1 GB of RAM