Grandorgue Manual Pdf

[Heberto Calderon]

Nowadaysthere's no reason to use the old 0.2 version of GrandOrgue since the development version (0.3+) can do everything the 0.2 version could plus much, much more! So, for a truly enjoyable virtual organ experience do visit the Testing folder of GrandOrgues Files on Sourceforge. Don't worry about the (Testing) label, it mostly means that lots of things are still subject to change and the .odf format is not frozen. Instructions for installation can be found on the linked page as well.

Once the program is installed you'll also need a sampleset to load to actually be able to play anything. You'll find some free ones on my download page and more can be found by searching the internet. A good place to start would be on the sampleset list on Magle international forum, if you join that forum you can also get help with whatever problem you might encounter while using GrandOrgue. It's of course free. There's also a great list on the GrandOrgue wiki. Some build versions of GrandOrgue now contain a small demo sampleset to quickly get you started. The demo is also available as a separate download from the Testing folder on GrandOrgues Sourceforge page.

One of the first choices to make is what audio device and audio backend (device driver etc) you wish to use. Something will likely be chosen for you initially, but it might not be what you want. For Linux you'll have to choose between ALSA and Jack, where the main reason for using Jack would be to add external convolution reverb, remember though that Jack must be started to appear in the listing. You make the choice in the Midi & Audio Settings dialog reachable from the menu Audio/Midi -> Audio/Midi settings. The relevant tab is Audio Output and there you should select the device so that it's highlighted and then you can hit the Change button to get a dialog showing all available devices. Those with (PA) in the name use portaudio and those without use RtAudio.

In the Options tab of the Midi & Audio Settings dialog you can choose the settings for loading the sampleset you wish. Things like Samplesize and Samplerate should ideally match the audio files in the sampleset, but you can change them to lower memory requirement if needed. Here you can also select Samples/Buffer that will affect the latency of the sound, if it's too low for your hardware the sound will break up though. The method of resampling interpolation (polyphase or linear) will also have a great impact on sound quality and performance. Try it for yourself, but I find that polyphase generally delivers better sound quality but worse performance (requires more CPU) than linear does. You'll have to tweak things a little to find the optimum settings for your specific hardware and ears!

Then it's time to load the sampleset, File -> Open and select an .organ file! It will take some time depending on the size of the sampleset and your computers performance capabilities. But when you have tweaked all the settings and configurations for that organ you want to use you can use the Save feature and Update Cache to speed up subsequent loadings. Remember though that the cache will use more of your disk space but with lossless compression enabled you'll likely see substantial improvement in load time, so you might just consider it worthwhile. The settings and cache will be stored in the folder specified in the Midi & Settings dialog Options tab (the original organ file will not be overwritten).

Depending on the sampleset and your MIDI hardware you might have to re-configure the manuals and pedal to respond to the correct MIDI keyboard. Now, this is one of the great beauties of the new GrandOrgue! Hit the element you wish to configure with a right mouse click, and up will a dialog come where many things can be configured. For instance it's possible to click the "Listen for event" button and then any key on the MIDI keyboard/pedal that you wish to connect to. This is possible with all the elements on the organ screen, keyboards, stops, buttons etc. Very handy for quick customizing. The information will also be stored if you select to Save. When you load the organ again you'll be able to start right where you stopped when last you hit Save.

In the menu Audio/Midi -> Temperaments you can select what temperament should be used. If the sampleset creator didn't bother to write the pitch information into the audio files but tuned the samples directly it's still possible to use the temperament feature if one chose to tick the "Ignore pitch info" box in Audio/Midi -> Organ Settings dialog. In that dialog it's also possible to customize the voicing of the organ. You can change overall pitch of the organ, select any stop or even individual pipes and change both pitch (in cents) and volume (Amplitude and/or Gain). Here you could also indvidually select load options to override the global settings if you for instance wish to lower memory consumption.

In the Panel menu you'll find some entries that enables you to use features like generals, divisionals and couplers in any way you wish even if the sampleset creator didn't add them to the organ in question. Also, you can find any additional panels (views) that the creator added. If you happen to use a recent version of Ubuntu (at the moment tested with 12.04) then you might have to disable global menu to have the Panel menu appear at all, see my post to GrandOrgue mailing list for details.

Make sure that your keyboard (or pedalboard) send MIDI messages on the right channel to be connected to the right manual (or pedal). Read up on how to change the MIDI channel on your device and/or read above again! You can check that the keyboard/pedalboard keys on GrandOrgues screen will light up with red borders when they are played (receive MIDI messages) or move if the sampleset creator has used that possibility instead.

Also you'll have to pull some stop(s) for the division you are trying to play! ? See if the volume bars have any activity when you play on a keyboard with some stops activated. If so, then GrandOrgue is working and you should revisit the Audio Output tab and try some other audio backend/device driver and see if you find another that gives sound output.

GrandOrgue is a sample based pipe organ simulator. When connected to MIDI keyboards and an audio system, it can accurately simulate the sound of a real pipe organ. This application has builds for Linux and Windows.

How can I program the Midi-Settings for Stops to Send by Copying the current receive device? I program the Receive and attempt to copy to Send, but there is no respnse in Send. Do I have to manually enter the send data for each stop? I use Mojave in a MacBook Pro.

It sounds as if more than one keyboard is assigned to one manual in GO. Try right-click on one of the manuals. The window below should open. Click on "New", then choose in the dropdown-menu "Event-No" the old entry and delete it. The same with your other manual. Confirm with OK and try. The manuals should have no connection to your keyboards.

And that is surprising. The on-screen position of a stop icon indicates the associated manual. Some Cavaill Coll organs are known to deviate from this coupling.

Maarschalkerweerd organs often use color for stops to manual at various position. Organteq could do the same when screen surface would be a limit. It already uses color for for pushed keys (when this option is set).

It's something our developers could consider for a next update or version where we could have flexible stop jambs and stop spreading. 20 stops on the great really does offer some punch, but it would be nice to float the console in a way that the swell could have further stops, great could be a little less and choir could benefit from more, basically a flexible stop routing and jamb design. Currently, you can remove stops from a given division and organise them, but you can't expand upon for the swell and choir.

The three-manual instrument at St Sernin, Toulouse has the Grand Orgue first and the Positif second. Is the Positif case empty as at St Sulpice or does the P. action cross around or through the G.O. action?

I have asked around about this and this is what I came up with. The Positif case on the St. Sulpice organ was indeed emptied in 1857 by C-C. Mutin changed the order of the manuals in 1903 (but I don't know exactly how or whether till then the Positif was still on the lowest manual). As of today, the lowest is Grand Choeur, second Grande Orgue, third Positif, fourth Recit and fifth Solo.

As far as I am aware, C-C never built a Positif de Dos case on any of his own instruments, but there are some (such as St. Omer) where he retained the P d D case when he rebuilt the organ. In most if not all such instances, the Positif retained the tradition of being on the lowest keyboard, although in his own instruments the G.O. was always on the lowest row of keys.

No, as far as I know, the Positif case at St. Sernin contains the Positif Orgue - the console is en fenetre. A similar layout exists at St. Etienne, Caen (which I have played on occasion). The order of the manuals here is also:

The manual layout of Cavaill-Coll's grande orgue at St Sulpice could still be the subject of some debate. On the organ's website, there are some detailed drawings of vertical elevations of the organ and a detailed layout drawing of the disposition stops on the console, dated 29th April, 1862, but the resolution is not good enough to determine which manual connects with what. Moreover, the location of soundboards for a particular manual is not clear or labelled. One can take a guess as to what they are. The only things that are obvious are the 16ft and 32ft Pedal reed pipes, the fake 'en chemade' and the position of the console.

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