Hauptwerk (software)

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developer Milan Digital Audio LLC
Current  version 5.0
(December 9, 2019)
operating system Windows , macOS
category Music software
License proprietary
German speaking No
www.hauptwerk.com

Major work is a software - samplers to simulate the sound of a pipe organ , named for their part work, the " major work ".

The software is controlled via MIDI . A photo-realistic implementation of a gaming table enables the registers to be operated on the screen or via a touchscreen ; Control via MIDI is also possible. The software works with recordings ( samples ) of real organ pipes.

history

It was operated by Crumhorn-Labs Ltd. until 2008. manufactured and sold in Birmingham ; then Hauptwerk was taken over by the American company Milan Digital Audio. Crumhorn Labs was founded in 2006 with the appearance of program version 2 by the programmer Martin Dyde. Version 1.00 was released at the beginning of 2004. There is a free version with limited functionality and performance.

Numerous sample sets for Hauptwerk are now available, including important instruments by Arp Schnitger , Gottfried Silbermann , Andreas Silbermann , Wilhelm Sauer , Henry Willis , Jonathan Bätz and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll . According to pre-programmed historical moods can be set. Some manufacturers of sample sets also support 4-channel audio output, similar to the surround effect. Here the rear room loudspeakers (rear) are fed with a more reverberant signal (wet) than the front loudspeakers (front). Recently there are even sample sets for 6-channel audio output. Such an installation can require more than 64 GB of memory .

functionality

Hauptwerk imitates various properties of a real pipe organ. This applies to wind fluctuations in a pipe organ, for example, which, depending on the register, number and speed of the played notes, affect the liveliness of the sound. However, due to patent law reasons, this essential program function was not available in the USA until May 2015. The use of release trigger samples, which add the original acoustics of the room with the release of each key, creates a high level of authenticity. From version 2.21 up to three release trigger samples can be used, depending directly on the previous tone length or the MIDI dynamics of these triggers. The version also uses multiple and varying multiloops to create an even greater liveliness of the sound.

From version 4.0, no special knowledge of MIDI is required to set up and connect to a MIDI-compatible organ console.

Remarks

The widespread use of the software was based on version 1 ( HW1 ) (without ASIO ), with which a good and inexpensive alternative to a hardware sampler could be implemented even on relatively inexpensive, older PC configurations. Version 1 is no longer maintained and supported. While in the first version organ sets in the form of organ files (in ASCII format) could be created and individualized by the knowledgeable user, from version 2 this is hardly possible without in-depth knowledge of XML.

Version 3, on the other hand, required more hardware resources. From approx. 18 registers, a dual core processor with 2.66 GHz and 8 MB L2 cache is recommended in order to be able to play large sample sets with acceptable latency . Sample sets of two-manual instruments can also be played with Pentium IV processors of the latest generation without restrictions. There are numerous setting options for older PC systems that also enable operation with them. Hauptwerk 3 offers the option to import old sample sets and thus continue to use them. When dimensioning the hardware, the size of the main memory available is very important. Hauptwerk 4 makes the recognition and setup of MIDI commands, as they are sent by the register control of a MIDI-compatible organ console, very quick and easy with a "learning function". In the Netherlands, installations with main works can already be found in numerous churches.

Moods

The software offers - in the freeware edition - a number of preset presets , which can be supplemented by further, self-created presets:

  • Original organ temperament
  • Equal temperament
  • Eigth comma
  • Equal
  • Justintonation Natural
  • Justintonatiom-Pythagorean
  • MeanTone-Fifth Comma
  • MeanTone-Modified Sixth Comma
  • MeanTone-Quarter Comma Pietro Aaron
  • MeanTone-Sixth Comma
  • Ordinaire
  • Organ - Gabler
  • Organ - Silbermann
  • Tenth comma
  • WellTemperament Fifth Comma
  • WellTemperament waiter
  • WellTemperament Kirnberger III
  • WellTemperament Seventh Comma
  • WellTemperament Vallotti Young
  • WellTemperament Werckmeister III
  • Young

See also

Another organ sampler, comparable to Hauptwerk version 1.3, is MyOrgan . It is open source software and has a German user interface. However, the source code has not been maintained since June 2006. Another, derived and extended version is GrandOrgue for Windows, Linux and OS X.

Aeolus offerssimilar functionalityfor Linux and is also freely available under the GPL . It does not use samples, but mathematical models for sound synthesis.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ System requirements at Hauptwerk.com, accessed on December 3, 2015 (English).