British National Anthem - Played on Hauptwerk Salisbury Cathedral Organ Volume 3

[silverstartrucker]

Can't mesage you Peter. Your youtube address is shown as thus

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[goodchappy]

@silverstartrucker Hi Arth, Just sent you a private message. I think the problem is when replying to previous messages as your email comes up as "To: vRWpBxrnicxgtRCWnmhI7A " and it wont send or let you edit anything.

Have to do a fresh message each time! Till Youtube sort out the bugs.

Pete.

[mikedc2020]

Hey buddy, nice playing. I found that with all 3 volumes, even 16 GB of Ram is not enough. With full organ, I tend to get stuck notes which I never had when I was using just Vol. 1.

[goodchappy]

@mikedc2020 Thanks, I know my issues are the speed of processing rather than memory size. Its a polyphony issue. What worries me is that if I splash out on a new ultra fast PC that there will be issues that I won't be able to solve. PC component suppliers ASUS, OCZ, EMU (Creative) seem to pass the buck when it comes to problems. ALL advice I have been given and read in forums has not helped solve ANY of the issues I have had. It is a pity Hauptwerk hasn't got an inbuilt fault finder.

[oldbear52]

Wow!

Grand sound for a grand song!!!

Love them big 32 footers....Really sounded like the cathedral organ on my end as well!

Thank you for sharing, Peter........

[goodchappy]

@oldbear52 Thank you sir :-)

[silverstartrucker]

EXCELLENT version. Could you do the magnificent American National anthem at some time?

[goodchappy]

@silverstartrucker Thanks Arth. Yes I have the music for the American national Anthem though I wonder if the version that Peter Conte plays on the Wanamaker is available in print. Though in my opinion even if I did, I could not match the sound or the performance!

[007vauxhall]

Very nice, what a beautiful sound. Well played too Peter. Makes you proud to be British. Thanks :-)

[goodchappy]

@007vauxhall Thank you Paul. My computer ended the day with a head ache :-)

[cornwall59]

A lovely "rich" sound,incidentally priory records are bringing out Salisbury Cathedral organ out on dvd roundabout easter time should be good!

[goodchappy]

@cornwall59 Thanks. I may look out for that DVD.

[GrandeBombarde16]

Sounds great, Peter!

A computer that could handle the demands of the full Salisbury organ might cost well in excess of the sample set. :-o

Are you using a FireWire audio interface?

[goodchappy]

@GrandeBombarde16 Hello Tim, thanks very much.

Yes I think for Hauptwerk you have to future proof yourself with the computer.

I thought 3 years ago that mine was the tops, it was pretty good back then.

Hauptwerk recommend Apple Mac pro but that is more expensive.

I use an EMU 1616m external PCI card. I have had issues with it and EMU who are part of Creative are terrible for customer service and driver updates.

I have not tried Firewire.

P.S. I hope you clicked like :-)

[GrandeBombarde16]

@goodchappy Yes...Creative doesn't have a very good reputation in that regard.

I don't know how many channels of audio you use for your Hauptwerk system, but the Focusrite Saffire series of audio interfaces was highly recommended to me for my multi-channel organ project. These devices seem to be known for their low latencies, as well as pristine audio quality that results from great A-D/D-A conversion.

P.S. I always click "like." :)

[goodchappy]

@GrandeBombarde16 My sound card has 6 channels, though for home use I just use 2 (1 left, 1 right) and usually with headphones to avoid waking up the neighbours.

As I need to build a new computer I will be looking to buy another Pcie sound card probably because many new motherboards no longer have a Pci slot or just have one which means you may have issues with interrupts. Also I am looking at motherboards with the new UEFI bios for quicker boot up.

[GrandeBombarde16]

@goodchappy If you're looking for really fast boot up times and faster sample set loads, a solid state hard drive would help immensely, too...

[goodchappy]

@GrandeBombarde16 Oh yes, I've used SSD drives since I built my "fast PC" 3 years ago, they are expensive, the largest one I have seen is 500Gig.

My PC takes 20s to get through the BIOS phase & about 25 to boot up into Windows and that is without loading the organ.

In a real life situation you need the organ to be up and running in a few seconds, i.e. when the minister announces the next hymn and you were half asleep....but I can't see that happening even with the fastest computer on earth.

[GrandeBombarde16]

@goodchappy Ah, ok, I didn't realize that you were already using them. The read/write speeds have greatly increased in the past couple years. With SATA 3 (6 Gbits/sec), SSDs are able to hit 500MB/sec.+ sequential read speeds, with total boot up times of under 30 seconds.

[goodchappy]

@GrandeBombarde16 Yes, the one I have in my Organ PC is 120Gig 550MB/S r/w.

I tried a PCIe card "Revo" drive but had issues with the BIOS not turning the hard drive off quick enough at shutdown and causing the computer to think it had not been shut down properly. ASUS would not come up with a BIOS update for this so I went back to the SATA drive. Things now may have changed, OCZ do a 1000 MB/sec pcie hard drive, though of course it costs !!! Main priority is processing speed.

[Organexaminer]

I am very impressed. That is certainly recognisable as the organ of Salisbury Cathedral.

If you hadn't said it was your computer I honestly would have thought it was the real thing.

Perhaps you should be the reserve organist for Royal occasions if you can play like that.

[goodchappy]

@Organexaminer Hello, thank you very much. I just need a faster computer to cope with it now. I also need to voice it as I think it needs adjusting.

[PlazaOrganist]

Absolutely Brilliant!!!



[goodchappy]

@PlazaOrganist Thank you. I hope you clicked like :-)

[RobCharles1981]

That was great Peter a nice powerful Sound my end! :-)

[goodchappy]

@RobCharles1981 Thank you Rob. I know you appreciate 32 foot pipes :-)

[RobCharles1981]

@goodchappy :-)