New MIDI System on 101-key Concert Organ "De Arend" 2

A MIDI organ is born! This is video 2 of 2 showing me fitting a new MIDI playing system to the 101-key Mortier scale Heesbeen Concert Organ "De Arend". My system still allows the organ to be played in the traditional way with perforated cardboard music read pneumatically by a device called the 'key frame', but now a computer MIDI player can also run the organ, or for that matter any standard MIDI output device (see my other videos for a demo of my playing the organ using my MIDI piano accordion!). The midi system interfaces with the first stage of the pneumatic action (the standard keyed key frame system), so air is still used throughout the organ to make all the sounds.

I hope you enjoy the first ever performance of the organ playing via midi at the end of this video. The piece is an American Medley, but please note this is just a rough re-arrangement to test the system. I'll have to change the midi key map to suit a standard midi keyboard first, and then I can move onto finished midi files with correct registration and percussion signals to properly utilise the many tonal effects this spectacular chromatic concert organ can play.

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• Dansorgel
• Draaiorgel
• Drehorgel
• Fairorgan
• Fair
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• Organ
• Street
• Concert
• Steam
• Mechanical
• MIDI
• iMOD
• Nick
• Williams

[smellycatpoop]

Dude!

This is So freakin COOL!

Do you have a website with more info, on how you built this?

What software are you running in this video?

[edonmusic]

Outstanding achievement. All wonders of electro-mechanical advancement as technology moves along with music. Thanks for not only creating this but for sharing it.

[Rhissanna]

This is just amazing!

[ESY835]

A nice sounding organ. Nice job on the midi system.

[producerben]

You're next mission , should you choose to accept it, is to make this into a VST instrument :-) .....PLLLLEEEAAASSSEE :-D