The new Allen Navigator has taken the place of the Allen Vista as I strongly recommend watching the demo video. Much easier than the Allen Vista and has a color touch screen. I wished that it was available in a single MIDI sound module to use on my keyboard?
That is absolutely incredible! You really play well, and that is a great jazz version of the old hymn "Com thou font". That would be the ideal organ for a contemporary church with all of its synthesizer sounds. Thanks again for posting!
I could keep watching this amazing video over and over again! I love having professional features than limiting a digital classical organ to just a pipe organ. Most other classical digital organs are just limited to being a pipe organ. I want more out of an electronic organ!
This demonstration video makes me want one of these with Vista! I say why limit an electronic musical instrument to just a pipe organ. As a professional keyboard musician, makes me want to play on an Allen organ!
Not much different than a three tiered keyboard stack for some rock band. The only difference being that Allen or Rodgers will add several more zeros in to the cost of it because it is and organ plus "everything."
While you’re right that this organ can do everything a stack of keyboards can, you’re selling it short in a lot of other ways. First, it is an organ. That’s something no stack of keyboards can really be. This instrument has more than 80 individual, independently available stops. Second, it has an audio system most rock bands would die for. I made my living as a rock musician for many years, playing keyboard stacks. I can tell you from personal experience that there’s no comparison.
Just having pistons and a Crescendo shoe adds a completely different level of flexibility and creativity. I often chuckle about the guys who developed MIDI so that one keyboard could control another. They didn’t know it but they were just re-inventing what organ builders had developed hundreds of years before them: couplers. Oh yeah, and with this rig there’s only one on-off switch and no tangle of cords to connect everything. And, every time you turn it on, everything works.
And, oh, did I mention keyboards that are a joy to play and a console that’s the most beautiful piece furniture you’re likely to ever own. Need I go on?
@aocvideo I'll give testimony to that. My family owns a two-manual Allen Heritage with a walnut console that has maple stops, rocker tabs, and manual sharps. It's in our home, and I (an organ performance major) use it for practice when I come home during the summer. My mom has a DMA in organ performance; even she isn't too spoiled to pipe organs to appreciate the great sound quality that it provides!
I recently got a YouTube account, and my first video is of me playing our Allen. Check it out!
I am so amazed with this video! Wow! Very impressive as Allen is really more of a professional organ than just a classical organ! I use an Allen Expander II on stage when I play keyboards with bands, as you can do so much with any Allen muiscal instrument!
It's nice but if I wanted pianos and jazz organs and drums, they would be much cheaper than a play-all organ. I say use the organ for natural organ sounds, and if you want jazz hymns, then get jazz instruments. Still I give my compliments for this performance anyway.
This is amazing. I own a Allen 345c and love to see the organ world alive and well, addressing praise music of today without compromising the classical sounds of the pipe organ! Absolutely amazing!!
That was really good. . .I have been doing this for years on my Rodgers organs. .Check out my videos. .and to the player in this video. . KEEP IT UP! Churches need to know that the organ is still viable to ALL forms of worship . . BRAVO!
Interesting take, sort of like a latter-day theater organ!
I think the biggest hurdle to keeping organs relevant to contemporary audiences is the lack of velocity sensing in the manual assemblies themselves. Sorry, but gerrymandering an expression pedal to send velocity data to a MIDI module (even the Vista) doesn't cut it.
Is it possible to implement keyboard-note-level velocity sensing into an existing organ that already has MIDI outputs? Cheaply?
Not so easy to do. The keyboards have to generate the MIDI velocity information and there isn't a cost-effective way to retrofit the keyboards. But, even the least expensive new Allen's have this feature (excuse the slight sales pitch)
Only if the keys use velocity sensitive switches. Some organs have these. Some don't. Years ago used to be called after touch. My Roland VK88 has this, and but it only works for the non-organ orchestra tones. Great for bass guitar, piano, trumpet, etc.
that was great. If you guys keep that up maybe fewer organs will be torn out of churches to make room for praise band drum kits! (same footprint as console)
The new Allen Navigator has taken the place of the Allen Vista as I strongly recommend watching the demo video. Much easier than the Allen Vista and has a color touch screen. I wished that it was available in a single MIDI sound module to use on my keyboard?
patsaxon 1 month ago
That is absolutely incredible! You really play well, and that is a great jazz version of the old hymn "Com thou font". That would be the ideal organ for a contemporary church with all of its synthesizer sounds. Thanks again for posting!
tempetiger 6 months ago
Oh my Lord!!!
ticoguy05 8 months ago
I could keep watching this amazing video over and over again! I love having professional features than limiting a digital classical organ to just a pipe organ. Most other classical digital organs are just limited to being a pipe organ. I want more out of an electronic organ!
patsaxon 1 year ago
This demonstration video makes me want one of these with Vista! I say why limit an electronic musical instrument to just a pipe organ. As a professional keyboard musician, makes me want to play on an Allen organ!
patsaxon 1 year ago
Hi, I have just bought an Allen L9. Can I install Vista into that organ?
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Tan Guodong, Singapore
tguodong 1 year ago
@tguodong Yes. Vista can be installed on the L9.
aocvideo 1 year ago
Not much different than a three tiered keyboard stack for some rock band. The only difference being that Allen or Rodgers will add several more zeros in to the cost of it because it is and organ plus "everything."
praestant8 1 year ago
While you’re right that this organ can do everything a stack of keyboards can, you’re selling it short in a lot of other ways. First, it is an organ. That’s something no stack of keyboards can really be. This instrument has more than 80 individual, independently available stops. Second, it has an audio system most rock bands would die for. I made my living as a rock musician for many years, playing keyboard stacks. I can tell you from personal experience that there’s no comparison.
aocvideo 1 year ago
Just having pistons and a Crescendo shoe adds a completely different level of flexibility and creativity. I often chuckle about the guys who developed MIDI so that one keyboard could control another. They didn’t know it but they were just re-inventing what organ builders had developed hundreds of years before them: couplers. Oh yeah, and with this rig there’s only one on-off switch and no tangle of cords to connect everything. And, every time you turn it on, everything works.
aocvideo 1 year ago
And, oh, did I mention keyboards that are a joy to play and a console that’s the most beautiful piece furniture you’re likely to ever own. Need I go on?
aocvideo 1 year ago
@aocvideo I'll give testimony to that. My family owns a two-manual Allen Heritage with a walnut console that has maple stops, rocker tabs, and manual sharps. It's in our home, and I (an organ performance major) use it for practice when I come home during the summer. My mom has a DMA in organ performance; even she isn't too spoiled to pipe organs to appreciate the great sound quality that it provides!
I recently got a YouTube account, and my first video is of me playing our Allen. Check it out!
sesquialtera1991 8 months ago
I am so amazed with this video! Wow! Very impressive as Allen is really more of a professional organ than just a classical organ! I use an Allen Expander II on stage when I play keyboards with bands, as you can do so much with any Allen muiscal instrument!
patsaxon 2 years ago
WOW! Amazing skill! The Allen I play is a C6c with MIDI Expander II. It's only a 2-manual, but it doesn't matter. I could never play like that.
accousticdecay 2 years ago 6
It's nice but if I wanted pianos and jazz organs and drums, they would be much cheaper than a play-all organ. I say use the organ for natural organ sounds, and if you want jazz hymns, then get jazz instruments. Still I give my compliments for this performance anyway.
nwside7725 2 years ago 5
Fantastic!
almeisam 2 years ago 2
This is amazing. I own a Allen 345c and love to see the organ world alive and well, addressing praise music of today without compromising the classical sounds of the pipe organ! Absolutely amazing!!
leonbdn 2 years ago 2
That was really good. . .I have been doing this for years on my Rodgers organs. .Check out my videos. .and to the player in this video. . KEEP IT UP! Churches need to know that the organ is still viable to ALL forms of worship . . BRAVO!
JimJordan 2 years ago 2
Interesting take, sort of like a latter-day theater organ!
I think the biggest hurdle to keeping organs relevant to contemporary audiences is the lack of velocity sensing in the manual assemblies themselves. Sorry, but gerrymandering an expression pedal to send velocity data to a MIDI module (even the Vista) doesn't cut it.
Is it possible to implement keyboard-note-level velocity sensing into an existing organ that already has MIDI outputs? Cheaply?
PScooter63 2 years ago 2
Not so easy to do. The keyboards have to generate the MIDI velocity information and there isn't a cost-effective way to retrofit the keyboards. But, even the least expensive new Allen's have this feature (excuse the slight sales pitch)
MrBholben 2 years ago 2
Only if the keys use velocity sensitive switches. Some organs have these. Some don't. Years ago used to be called after touch. My Roland VK88 has this, and but it only works for the non-organ orchestra tones. Great for bass guitar, piano, trumpet, etc.
rmaccrea 2 years ago 2
that was great. If you guys keep that up maybe fewer organs will be torn out of churches to make room for praise band drum kits! (same footprint as console)
good marketing.
56Packman 2 years ago
WOW thats cool!
Theyoungorganist01 2 years ago