Grandorgue church installation

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-09 13:36:14.227000 by ivimano in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Hi all!

2 years ago I built a Grandorgue powered virtual organ in my church. The church built in 1926, but the parish never had enough money to purchase a real pipe organ. In 2000, we bought a Johannus Sweelinck 10 digital organ. The built-in sound source not the best, especially the reeds. 16’ Contra trumpet sounds like a broken speaker cone, and the whole instrument has a thin, fatique voice. The sweelinck 10 have an 5 channel amplifier system, with internal and external speakers. The external enclosures placed behind the altar, totally covered by the altar picture, the console sitting in the choir. In 2004 I found the Grandorgue software, and Lars Palo’s pretty good samplesets. So, I decided to upgrade the whole organ thing. I want to mimic a real organ as close as possible. First, I had to disconect the inside sound source. After some thinking and planning, I made a 6.1 speaker system, with 2 subwoofer, driven by 8 separate power amps. Because the speakers are different types, it took a lot of work with the crossovers to achieve equal results.
The computer :
Lenovo M58
Celeron 3300 dual core CPU
4Gb Ram, 160Gb SATA hdd
M-audio delta 1010Lt sound card
Wireless mouse, Genius mini keyboard
Windows xp, 17” Tft display.
grandorgue 3.1.1624
Boot and loading time takes approx. 1,5 mins.
I made a composite sampleset for the organ, all samples taken from Lars Palo’s samplesets, with some eq-ing applied. If anyone interested, I will upload a composite set to our web storage. The sustain of the samples is set to 350ms, the rest is done by the church’s acoustics.
Since 2014 the virtual organ working flawlessly, never had a blue screen, frozen application or audio problems.We made a simple organ case to cover the speakers, the woodwork not the prettiest, there is a possible place for some improvements.
So, I would like to say: thank you for this awesome software, and for the great samplesets!
Pictures from the organ is in our church’s webpage, at the bottom of the page.
Best regards:Ivan

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-10 16:40:17.984000 by Martin Koegler in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Have you had a look at GOLive? Its designed to be lean and crash safe [no OS shutdown necessary].

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-13 07:35:05.958000 by ivimano in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Unfortunately the m-audio1010lt drivers only have proper bass management under windows xp 32bit. Is there any solution for this under linux?

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-13 18:15:06.904000 by Martin Koegler in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Linux drivers are totally different compared to Windows drivers - often third party drivers.
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-ice1712

As this driver is upstream, GOLive written to a USB stick should allow testing the linux drivers.

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-10 20:18:50.325000 by krbar in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Hi Ivan,
Would be interested in your composite set. Maybe we could trade. I have one called OMNI.
Thanks, Ken Barta

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-13 07:45:49.358000 by ivimano in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Ok, I will upload the sampleset, it takes 1-2 days.

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-18 20:08:18.082000 by ivimano in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Sorry, my connection is very slow, but finally, here is the file

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-19 17:26:29.221000 by marcofrancesco in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Hi Ivan,

That composite organ of yours is interesting. However a bunch of errors
are logged by GrandOrgue (latest 3.1.2171) that ought to be addressed.

Regards

Mark

[Edit: full quote removed]

Attachments in original post:
https://sourceforge.net/p/ourorgan/discussion/962124/thread/0e22689d/fc63/f2fd/676e/attachment/alternate

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-19 19:59:12.610000 by Martin Koegler in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

This sampleset seems to be CC BY-SA, so so modification/redistribution should not be an issue.

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-20 20:07:15.371000 by ivimano in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Interesting, in my system, with ver. 2171 only one error occured, the corrected .organ file downloadable from here

There is a (not too big) problem with the recent version. Under windows 7,8,10 if the "load last file at startup" box checked, when Grandorgue started, the splash screen cover the progress bar, and only disappear after the sampleset fully loaded. Is there any solution for this problem?
Under Linux , everything is works flawlessly.

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-20 20:35:09.143000 by Martin Koegler in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Did you enable the strict ODF mode?

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-20 21:27:10.635000 by Mark Bugeja in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

strict odf enabled
log file attached
These are errors for your corrected disposition file.

Attachments in original post:
https://sourceforge.net/p/ourorgan/discussion/962124/thread/0e22689d/3a44/attachment/Log.pdf

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-22 21:33:54.091000 by ivimano in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

Oops, I did not notice this "strict ODF" option.
I had to repair the whole sampleset, downloadable here
Otherwise, because the samples recorded in different acoustic environments, I recommend to set the sample release to 350ms, and use convolution reverb.
Any advice on the splash screen issue?

[larspalo]

Originally posted 2016-10-23 21:01:05.390000 by Martin Koegler in GrandOrgue discussion forum on SourceForge

There is no fix for the splash screen issue - it looks like, that the timer events to close the windows are delayed until the load finishes.