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

PLEASE READ THIS!

I uploaded this to demonstrate the 3rd Volume of the Hauptwerk Salisbury Cathedral Virtual Pipe organ which I recently upgraded to.

As it is Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee on Tuesday 5th June 2012, I thought I would play the British National Anthem as it may be heard played in St. Paul's Cathedral or Westminster Abbey on Royal occasions.
This is my own arrangement and I made it up as I went with no music.

Unfortunately, my super fast computer is not fast enough to process all the "pipes" unless I play very slowly and wait for it to catch up, which is why this perfomance is perhaps rather slow without any singing. Any faster and it really is not a good result.

The pictures of the stop jambs are actually from my Hauptwerk setup, due to Youtube compression, you cannot read them though.

I hope to upgrade my computer soon.
If anyone reading is considering the Salisbury Hauptwerk organ and obtaining a computer to do it, an Intel i7 3.2GHz processor with 12Gig of DDR3 RAM is NOT sufficient by a long way!

I welcome comments about the organ and my performance but any rude comments regarding "the British" will be removed.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• British
• National
• Anthem
• God
• Save
• The
• Queen
• United
• Kingdom
• UK
• Great
• Britain
• Northern
• Ireland
• Scotland
• Wales
• England
• Red
• White
• Blue
• English
• London
• Buckingham
• Palace
• Flag
• Union
• Jack
• Elizabeth
• Salisbury
• Catherdal
• Pipe
• organ
• Virtual
• Hauptwerk
• volume
• music

[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 :-)

[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.

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