I'm so pleased - and THANKFUL - that you went down the 32' pedal stops SLOWLY, allowing time for them to sound properly. This is something that mysteriously does not occur to most organists. Thank you ! ! !
For those not familiar with American organs, a Flauto Dolce stop found on these organs will generally be a muted string, and a Flute Celeste found in the same division will be designed to be paired with this rank. Skinner invented this combination, and modern American organs still feature it, usually on the Swell.
I'm just gonna leave timestamps here for the undulant stops, which I love listening to on any organ :) 13:07 - Choir (flute céleste) 29:11 - Swell (voix céleste) 39:52 - Echo 45:09 - Solo Thanks for doing this, Paul! Partly because of your demo, I bought a licence for this organ.
Eine weitere hervorragende Orgeldemonstration, Paul - du bist einfach genial! Diese Æolian-Skinner-Orgel aus dem Jahr 1961 verfügt über eine breite Palette an Klangressourcen, und obwohl ein Großteil der „Mischung“ von Orgelstilen und Stimmen mit einigen fabelhaften Solo-Stopps recht gut funktioniert. . . es fehlt (meiner Meinung nach) ein allgemeiner Zusammenhalt, weil es versucht, zu viel zu tun. Nachdem ich das gesagt habe. . . ich liebe es!
Now that I've read the stoplist, I see that it's very typical of G. Donald Harrison: an excessive number of high mixtures, and no meaningful reed chorus on the Great.
Das Pedaltutti ist gewaltig! Mein Soundsystem dreht den Kühler komplett auf. Die Vibrationen der Contrabombarde sind deutlich zu spüren. Dabei habe ich nur einen kompakten "Subwoofer"
Wonderful demostration! Most Great Divisions on Aeolian Skinner organs do not have the regular 8' Trompete or 16, 8, 4 Reeds. Primary reason is because the Great is used for hymn playing. Also the Trompette En Chamade in the Echo was added by Schantz in 2002.
Hey Steve, sorry to hear that! I think I havent saved the settings (it was a 14 day trial set). BUT I'm sure that I used not more than 3 or 4 seconds reverb. Its important that you set the "mixing" to about 30-50 in the reverb tab, that it sound more fluid. Please e-mail me for further info, I can send a a picture of what I mean :-)
Awesome demonstration as usual. I was going to ask about the audio setup that you have. I have a Sennheiser HD660s and sometimes the audio cracks. Do you think it's because of the audio amplification on the pc (I use a 3.5mm from the audio jack to an amp) or the polyphony/compression is too low/high?
Thank you!! I know exactly what you mean - i think its computer related - Ive experienced this as well when adding a lot of stops at once - i think its a ram-speed issue, but couldnt pinpoint it aswell. In the recordings its not present though!
@@PaulFey My RAM is at 2133 speed. I am planning to upgrade my pc bc it's 4 years old and I want to add at least 64 gb ram with 3200 speed. That or the audio on the motherboard is not that great..
@@dariussala6377 In general, motherboard-based audio is adequate enough "to get by on" if you're on a strict budget. If you can afford a good USB-based streaming-audio Digital-to-Analog converter, you will notice a great improvement in the sound quality. Anyone who cares greatly about music should seriously consider owning one. In America, there is an excellent on-line ordering source for these converters, as well as for nearly everything else a serious audio enthusiast could want (ranging from headphones to record turntables (believe it or not!), to loudspeakers, amplifiers - even vinyl LP records. Here's the web-link to "MUSIC DIRECT," the USA online vendor of all things audio: www.musicdirect.com/ MUSIC DIRECT is located in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., and it has a very extensive online catalog. I use a French-made USB-based streaming-audio d-a converter, the "FOCAL ARCHE" together with Focal's 'Stellia' headphones. The sound from this combination, when listening to Paul Fey's stream here, is superlative.
Uhmm.. the maximum ad-count usually is 2 (skippable ones). I have no influence on this though, so I‘m sorry if this annoyed you. At least the video does not get interrupted by mid-rolls 😀
You mean Aeolian-Skinner Organ, right? That's what it sounds like. To say "Skinner Organ" implies an instrument by E.M. Skinner, or later, The Skinner Organ Company. But anyway, the sample set sounds good.
I thought so as well upon seeing the title, and I was confused because I didn't think Skinner ever built an organ this large. But Paul says Aeolian-Skinner at the beginning of the video.
This demonstration of the Hauptwerk samples doesn’t sound anything like what the organ sounds like in real life. The reality is it sits in a moderately dry room, doesn’t have the in-your-face presence, nor can it be described as bass-heavy as is this version. Well, that’s the beauty of Hauptwerk and other systems like it - one can fiddle with the settings until the result is either an improvement or a degradation of the original, and often a bit of both depending on the experience of the person doing the regulation. If the room only had the wet acoustics of this demo the organ would be far more interesting to listen to than it is. It is my understanding that many/most of the ranks in the Echo division (really just an antiphonal) were those saved from the church’s Murray Harris organ, hence the early 20th Century style of voicing.
Paul, the popularity of this instrument in the current room are due to the personalities involved, all of whom I consider friends. At the time of the major earthquake (1971 Sylmar/San Fernando) I was not involved with church music except for having an interest in organs - I was an oboist with a strong interest in baroque music interpretation. I never heard the Aeolian-Skinner in its original acoustic. I can only describe the current room as strange for music, and the original room, with whatever acoustic it had, was what drove its original scaling and layout, and the new room’s design must have been driven more by appearance than anything else. The acoustic didn’t even support the spoken word and there is now the ugliest speaker array hanging in the room.
The echo ranks were saved from the original church after the 1971 earthquake, as were the ranks of the main organ, but were not installed in the new sanctuary until 2003. The Trompette-en-chamade was something of a wish until a special gift made the addition possible. The original installation was in a neo-gothic sanctuary, which was probably more suited to the sound than the brutalist architecture of the current sanctuary. Still, I feel blessed to be able to hear this organ every Sunday!
Mhh - you have to activate the License for the sampleset in iLok to use the set. After this you have to download all the sampleset files (several GB) and install that in Hauptwerk - thats the way I do it usually 😀
I'm so pleased - and THANKFUL - that you went down the 32' pedal stops SLOWLY, allowing time for them to sound properly. This is something that mysteriously does not occur to most organists. Thank you ! ! !
For those not familiar with American organs, a Flauto Dolce stop found on these organs will generally be a muted string, and a Flute Celeste found in the same division will be designed to be paired with this rank. Skinner invented this combination, and modern American organs still feature it, usually on the Swell.
Good to know, thank you 😊
Thank you so much for this precision!
I'm just gonna leave timestamps here for the undulant stops, which I love listening to on any organ :)
13:07 - Choir (flute céleste)
29:11 - Swell (voix céleste)
39:52 - Echo
45:09 - Solo
Thanks for doing this, Paul! Partly because of your demo, I bought a licence for this organ.
Thank you for your timestamps Alessandro!
Cool! I‘m thinking about getting the full version aswell! :)
What lovely sounds from this organ
True! 😊
Eine weitere hervorragende Orgeldemonstration, Paul - du bist einfach genial! Diese Æolian-Skinner-Orgel aus dem Jahr 1961 verfügt über eine breite Palette an Klangressourcen, und obwohl ein Großteil der „Mischung“ von Orgelstilen und Stimmen mit einigen fabelhaften Solo-Stopps recht gut funktioniert. . . es fehlt (meiner Meinung nach) ein allgemeiner Zusammenhalt, weil es versucht, zu viel zu tun. Nachdem ich das gesagt habe. . . ich liebe es!
Beautiful demonstration of the stops! Your interlude selections are expert improv. Super for organ student!! Thanks, Paul
Thank you very much John!!
Das ist ein tolles Instrument und eine super Präsentation, einfach genial Paul
Ich bin begeistert Paul, danke für deine Arbeit
Thank you my friend for this video! Brilliant organ and brilliant job from you!😁👍👍👍👏👏👏👏
Eine riesige Freude dich zuhören, wunderbare Orgel
Lieber Paul, vielen herzlichen Dank 😊
Now that I've read the stoplist, I see that it's very typical of G. Donald Harrison: an excessive number of high mixtures,
and no meaningful reed chorus on the Great.
Yup, youre right :)
Great Sampleset!
Das Pedaltutti ist gewaltig! Mein Soundsystem dreht den Kühler komplett auf. Die Vibrationen der Contrabombarde sind deutlich zu spüren. Dabei habe ich nur einen kompakten "Subwoofer"
Wonderful demostration! Most Great Divisions on Aeolian Skinner organs do not have the regular 8' Trompete or 16, 8, 4 Reeds. Primary reason is because the Great is used for hymn playing. Also the Trompette En Chamade in the Echo was added by Schantz in 2002.
Ooh that’s interesting - I didnt know! Thank you for watching 😀
Very nice!
Thanks! 😊
Great!
Could you do a tour stop on Piotr grabwaski’s st. john cantious cracow if you haven’t already?
Yep, ive got that planned :)
Yesssss,I got it yesterday and absolutely LOVE it
Wie heftig muss das mit einem professionellen richtigen Subwoofer erst sein?!
Oooh ja 😂👌🏼
Would love to see your audio/reverb settings. It sounds nothing like this on my HW.
Hey Steve, sorry to hear that! I think I havent saved the settings (it was a 14 day trial set). BUT I'm sure that I used not more than 3 or 4 seconds reverb. Its important that you set the "mixing" to about 30-50 in the reverb tab, that it sound more fluid. Please e-mail me for further info, I can send a a picture of what I mean :-)
Could you do a stop tour on the GO. Starter sampleset?,im using GO rn and I am running out of mixture ideas
Sure! Which Set do you mean specifically?
The sampleset when you download grand orgue
@@PaulFey the sampleset you get*
It is called Grand Orgue Demo V.1 Grand Orgue contributers
Okay, i will check it out 😊
Awesome demonstration as usual. I was going to ask about the audio setup that you have. I have a Sennheiser HD660s and sometimes the audio cracks. Do you think it's because of the audio amplification on the pc (I use a 3.5mm from the audio jack to an amp) or the polyphony/compression is too low/high?
Thank you!!
I know exactly what you mean - i think its computer related - Ive experienced this as well when adding a lot of stops at once - i think its a ram-speed issue, but couldnt pinpoint it aswell. In the recordings its not present though!
@@PaulFey My RAM is at 2133 speed. I am planning to upgrade my pc bc it's 4 years old and I want to add at least 64 gb ram with 3200 speed. That or the audio on the motherboard is not that great..
Yes, thats possible aswell 🤔 Ive got 3200 aswell, maybe it really is the soundboard!
@@dariussala6377 In general, motherboard-based audio is adequate enough "to get by on" if you're on a strict budget. If you can afford a good USB-based streaming-audio Digital-to-Analog converter, you will notice a great improvement in the sound quality. Anyone who cares greatly about music should seriously consider owning one.
In America, there is an excellent on-line ordering source for these converters, as well as for nearly everything else a serious audio enthusiast could want (ranging from headphones to record turntables (believe it or not!), to loudspeakers, amplifiers - even vinyl LP records. Here's the web-link to "MUSIC DIRECT," the USA online vendor of all things audio:
www.musicdirect.com/ MUSIC DIRECT is located in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., and it has a very extensive online catalog.
I use a French-made USB-based streaming-audio d-a converter, the "FOCAL ARCHE" together with Focal's 'Stellia' headphones. The sound from this combination, when listening to Paul Fey's stream here, is superlative.
I think it is processor speed related.
Did this video really have to start with 10 advertisements? I was just about to give up at the ninth ad...
Uhmm.. the maximum ad-count usually is 2 (skippable ones). I have no influence on this though, so I‘m sorry if this annoyed you. At least the video does not get interrupted by mid-rolls 😀
@@PaulFey Well, I tried it again and this time there was only ad and it was skippable. What the heck?!?!
@@andrewhall2554 Haha, that’s how it is supposed to be - I never heard about 10 ads though, that’s so crazy! 😂
I think i can play Davy jones theme from pirates of caribbean on this organ ! ;)
Haha, yup!!
You mean Aeolian-Skinner Organ, right? That's what it sounds like. To say "Skinner Organ" implies an instrument by E.M. Skinner,
or later, The Skinner Organ Company. But anyway, the sample set sounds good.
Oh okay!!! Thanks for the hint :)
I thought so as well upon seeing the title, and I was confused because I didn't think Skinner ever built an organ this large. But Paul says Aeolian-Skinner at the beginning of the video.
This demonstration of the Hauptwerk samples doesn’t sound anything like what the organ sounds like in real life. The reality is it sits in a moderately dry room, doesn’t have the in-your-face presence, nor can it be described as bass-heavy as is this version. Well, that’s the beauty of Hauptwerk and other systems like it - one can fiddle with the settings until the result is either an improvement or a degradation of the original, and often a bit of both depending on the experience of the person doing the regulation. If the room only had the wet acoustics of this demo the organ would be far more interesting to listen to than it is. It is my understanding that many/most of the ranks in the Echo division (really just an antiphonal) were those saved from the church’s Murray Harris organ, hence the early 20th Century style of voicing.
True! That’s why I‘ve added the reverb, it’s just not really pleasant to the ear otherwise 😀
Paul, the popularity of this instrument in the current room are due to the personalities involved, all of whom I consider friends. At the time of the major earthquake (1971 Sylmar/San Fernando) I was not involved with church music except for having an interest in organs - I was an oboist with a strong interest in baroque music interpretation. I never heard the Aeolian-Skinner in its original acoustic. I can only describe the current room as strange for music, and the original room, with whatever acoustic it had, was what drove its original scaling and layout, and the new room’s design must have been driven more by appearance than anything else. The acoustic didn’t even support the spoken word and there is now the ugliest speaker array hanging in the room.
The echo ranks were saved from the original church after the 1971 earthquake, as were the ranks of the main organ, but were not installed in the new sanctuary until 2003. The Trompette-en-chamade was something of a wish until a special gift made the addition possible. The original installation was in a neo-gothic sanctuary, which was probably more suited to the sound than the brutalist architecture of the current sanctuary. Still, I feel blessed to be able to hear this organ every Sunday!
How do you move the file from ilok to hauptwerkV?
Mhh - you have to activate the License for the sampleset in iLok to use the set. After this you have to download all the sampleset files (several GB) and install that in Hauptwerk - thats the way I do it usually 😀
hey there, could you send me the sampleset if possible?
No, sorry - You can get a copy from Evensong via the links in the video description 😀
Free??
No! 😀
@@PaulFey do you have any for free?
Gute Arbeit Paul. Nicht meine Liebligsorgel aber sie klingt schön weich.
Almost like having the Mormon tabernacle organ…but not quite.
Yup! 😀
I just got hauptwerk and am wondering how to use diffrent samplesets
Upper left corner - load organ 😉
Ty!