Digital Enhancement Packages for Pipe Organs

Learn about quick and easy digital enhancement packages to augment your existing pipe organ using Classic Organ Works hardware and the CM100 synthesis module.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• pipe organ
• classic organ works
• classic organ
• digital 32
• Viscount cm100
• cm-100
• cm100
• pedalboard

[ClassicOrganWorks]

Hauptwerk is definitely superior in it's flexibility and library of sounds for sure. However, it's still a bit fiddly to install a Hauptwerk-based system in a church if you only want a few sounds. Integrating it into the console can be a little contentious.

The advantage to the CM-100, at this point, is that it's dirt simple to implement. For an installed application, that one feature is worth it's weight in gold.

Home installations, no question, go the Hauptwerk route. You'll be happier

[latribe]

Interesting - but I thought that this was the Viscount CM-100, which it isn't . . . !

[ClassicOrganWorks]

@latribe

Sure. It is indeed the Viscount CM-100. (look directly below and above the LCD display for both names)

[patsaxon]

I glad to see that this be hooked up to a keyboard like a synthesizer or digital piano. I use an Allen Expander 2, same as the Allen Ensemble. But it is only limiting to one voice at a time per keyboard.

[goodchappy]

I looked up the price for this module. It is very expensive for what it does.

Perhaps it has its place but I cannot see why anyone would want to buy it if they knew about the computer program Hauptwerk which does everything so much better and for the price of the CM-100 you could buy a decent computer and Hauptwerk with the basic 2 manual fully sampled organ... twice! The sounds on that module all sound very similar and although you can change the characteristics, it still sounds electronic!

[latribe]

@ClassicOrganWorks Hi! Don't know the cause of my previous comment. This demonstration is very impressive. I had not appreciated the total control of voicing variation that the module gives which really enables one to fit the chiff style to the nature of pipework. Unfortunately I have not discovered a reliable USB to serial cable to fit into the connexion at the back of the module in order to explore these parameters, but the voicing programme really makes it so much more versatile.

[RHortonOrganist]

Thanks for the great demo!

Even through computer speakers it’s clear that the CM-100 voices are truly pipe-like. The stopped flutes and the Contra Violone are spot on. The Contra Bombarde is wonderful, reminiscent of a reed with ¼-length (or shorter) resonators. The other voices are quite good, though a bit bland. The remarkable PC Editor can fix that.

Note-by-note tuning is possible, but the CM-100’s optional tuning instability is probably the best way to minimize any digital sterility.

[bourdonboy]

Wow, none of these stops sound like any pipe organ tone colour that I have heard.

Perhaps the mixture would pass......but is every note individually tunable?

[ORGANICDUDE]

Very nice! Thanks for the informative demo.