Step-by-step: Hauptwerk Mixer, Impulse Response, Multi-Channel Virtual Acoustics
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- The Advanced edition of Hauptwerk includes an Audio & Perspective mixer and Convolution Reverb. A system with seemingly limitless possibilities, it can seem daunting to many users: in this video I share my experience over the past couple of years with the mixer, and a method to create a multi-channel virtual acoustic.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction: reverb, acoustic and Hauptwerk
3:14 Perspectives: how modern wet sampling works
4:57 Convolution reverb in Hauptwerk
6:36 Terminology - mixers
8:38 Walkthrough: following Hauptwerk's audio stream
12:27 Multi-Channel Virtual Acoustic
19:43 Bach: Prelude in G BWV 541
Links:
Comparison of Hauptwerk editions: www.hauptwerk.com/editions/
The Hauptwerk forums - invaluable experience and advice: forum.hauptwerk.com/
Święta Lipka Sampleset: piotrgrabowski.pl/swieta-lipka/
Melcer Chamber Music Hall Sampleset: piotrgrabowski.pl/melcer-cham...
Official Hauptwerk Manuals: www.hauptwerk.com/documentation/
(detailed mixer explanations pp186-221)
Additional High-Quality Impulse Response Files are available from Sonus Paradisi - I particularly am fond of the Martinikerk/Groningen set
www.sonusparadisi.cz/en/irs.html
Thanks:
A special thank you to Maurice Coates who helped review this video and provided some helpful hints!
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Thiiisss..... is the most helpful video I've seen in a long time! I'll definitely be referring to this on numerous occasions. Thanks J!
You are welcome! It's been an adventure to get to this point: in this video I wanted to stick with the tools folk with HW Advanced would have including the suppled IRs and a free sampleset. But if you try playing with this (and I recommend you do) - grab a few extra IRs from Sonus Paradisi - Martinikerk in particular is super (it has helped create a rather immersive in-room rear-channel for my stereo Peterborough set)
This is simply fantastic Jerry. I see a nice activity coming for me during x-mas holiday! ;-)
Fantastic!! Yes indeed - especially knowing we can launch into an alternative configuration - mess around - and then "factory reset" that one and start all over - you can't break it! Your primary configuration remains safe!
Jerry, this is simply fantastic. Indeed, an absolutely first-class tutorial video. Thank you ... thank you ... thank you. More please.
You're very welcome! I realize I should do a "beginner" video too - this one is fine for those of us who eat and breathe Hauptwerk :)
Very helpful Jerry. I sure must investigate more into these features. And when I do, this video certainly will be my guide.
Thank you Ralph! I'm glad you think this will be a useful guide - that was my goal: this is the video I wish I had a couple of years ago when I started meddling with this 😊
Jerry, this has been very helpful and I learnt a lot from it, fantastic and thank you!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you found it helpful - it can seem like a maze, but after you go around the circle a few times it starts to make sense 😊
Very interesting video!
I never thought this is a part of Hauptwerk I need to trouble myself with too much, but you have given me some ideas of a few things to tinker around with now. There goes valuable practice time to play around with settings and options 😃
Thank you so much Marek - I'm glad you are getting some ideas from this - yes indeed, just like folk who spend hours in the garage tinkering with their cars, we can do the same with our virtual instruments!!
Excellent tutorial-video! I really enjoyed it and learned a lot!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for dropping by 😊
Dear Jerry.. Your step by step tutorial video is a life saver, so thank you so much! I wouldn't be able to do it on my own without your detailed explanation..
Glad it helped! Thank you for letting me know!
Thank you very much, Jerry for these very informative videos, they are very useful and you explain it all very simply and easily. I've been using the HW audio mixer to add surround to some of my older stereo sets, but I honestly never realised you can re-create all of the different perspectives similar to what you can now get on some of the newer sample sets. Think I'll need to start playing around and tweaking my settings, especially now we have all moved over to V7. The possibilities are endless with this amazing software!! Once again, thanks very much for sharing this with the community! :-) D
I appreciate it 😊 Thank you for dropping by - there really is so much to explore here!
@@jerrymartin79 no problem at all, I spent most of the weekend fiddling around with the settings!! Look forward to more of your videos :-)
Thanks. Very helpful information. Well presented.
Thank you so much 😊 I am glad you found this useful!
Having found your channel via BIS, and then watching this video, I have set up a small organ in an Alt Config as suggested and played around with those reverb settings. Its a revelation, and your descriptions are very easy and logical to follow - this is stuff I would never have gleaned from the HW manual.. Huge thanks!
Thank you so very much Joe! 😊 I am so glad that you found my explanation easy to follow - that was my hope. I am hoping others will find this a useful reference and starting place. The HW manual has all the information, but is a difficult read!! Wishing you best of luck with ongoing explorations!
I was looking for a followup comment you left which appears to have vanished - but just to let you know your idea about tips for volume balancing - great one! I'll be making that video early in the new year - doing some room remodel and console upgrades at the minute so timing is perfect! Best wishes!
@@jerrymartin79 Ah yes, I thought later not to bother you with that! But thanks for the acknowledgement and I look forwards to your thoughts Jerry.
Jerry, you really are a star! If I ever dare to upgrade from HW 4 to HW 6, I'll use this.
Thanks so much!!! It's just such an amazing piece of software - and this is just one of the many crazy things you can do behind the scenes with it 😊
Jerry, thank you for another great video. Hauptwerk users are fortunate that you are so willing to share your knowledge. I am sure this must have taken hours. I have watched your first video many times. Obviously in this one, you have worked very hard to make it more accessible. Maybe you should do a book "Hauptwerk for Dummys." I am sure it would sell well
Thank you so much - I am glad you found this helpful. I realize my last video was in need of some improvement (microphone etc) - and definitely wanted to take some time to make a reference video to help people out! That's what makes our online community great!
A wonderful performance ❤️
Thank you! 😊
What a fantastic video, Jerry! You put really a lot of work and time into it, congratulations! And congrats also for being able to move so confidently into this labyrinth! Seriously, Hauptwerk's developers should be awarded an Olympic prize for creating the most unintuitive and unfriendly reverb tool 😂 Personally, I would load HW as a plugin in a DAW such as Mainstage, send its output to three buses and load the impulse responses in Space Designer. Three minutes of work and you are done, with a graphical interface always available to increase/decrease the volume levels of the different perspectives you are using and, if you wish, even modify the impulse responses. But hopefully, as you say at the end, maybe Hautpwerk will provide a friendly graphic interface in the future as this would avoid a lot of struggles ;) And your Bach at the end... just amazing! Standing ovation!
Oh DP! I have read your comment a few times and I kept asking myself, "Is this in Italian? Or English? Or a sort of Techspeak" And then I realised it must be a foreign language which, with your background, I have termed - 'Techtalianlish' - a new language only people with a brain the size of a planet can master and freely converse in! And now I will go and creep back into my hole of ignorance where there is much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth for those of us who struggle with just the on/off switch . . .
@@grahamtwist 😂😂😂 believe, it’s easier done than said. I will show you and you will see how easy it is 😉
@@djmcguckin oh yes, I know them, was just suggesting space designer because it comes for free with Mainstage ;) I also have Spaces II which sounds very good!
Thank you SO much for your kind words! From you, my friend and MASTER of digital voicing, this means the WORLD!! The programmers have done such an amazing job making the tools available, at least in the code and under the hood - but the user interface is very difficult to access initially - I hope some of the analogies I used will help people who might want to meddle with this - and (as you know) - it's a LOT of fun to play around with digital voicing!! THANK YOU!!!
@David Mcguckin - thank you so very much for dropping by and hopefully you might find this useful in future exploration!
Thanks Jerry! You should've written the HW-handbook. This is the best way of explaining Hauptwerks Mixing concept... Even I (who is already quite expertish) could gather some new input from this! So thanks for this plane and simple explanation with wonderful graphics! Great!
Thank you so much 😊 I'm glad you found this helpful - amazing software and worth digging into the possibilities!
@@jerrymartin79 it is. Even after they brought all things more together in HW 7. but still no graphic mixer :( after your video I have done experiments myself and found new amazing sound settings for some sample sets. ;)
So beautiful music in the morning of Autumn.
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Thanks for listening
I personally use Cantabile to run hauptwerk as a VST, this allows me to run the audio through Reverberate, and use some binaural convolution files. You can also make your own convolution files of any space you like if you have a little time and access to the space, microphones, and a good, loud PA speaker.
Thank you very much for that tip - I've personally not used Hauptwerk as a VST - but it opens all kinds of other exciting possibilities!!
This is a famous machine! Used and sold at extremely high prices in Korea, too! Guitarists also consider it a must-have item.
Agreed! Thank you so much!!!
This is excellent, Jerry. I think a little more graphical overlay describing a studio mixing board, then applying the same concepts to a block diagram of Hauptwerk's implementation would help. I've used many a mixing board but will have to play around more with HW to see the analogy. Now I'm going to sleep on it, and probably lather, rinse, and repeat tomorrow. ;-)
Thank you so much Bill! I am glad you found this helpful, and I am making a note of your comments - while I have no idea what the timeline might be, there is no doubt there will be some updates to Hauptwerk "soon" - in the event that the user interface does not change, I will make an update - best of luck with the mixer adventure!! It really is designed to behave just like a mixing desk, it just requires at the moment that you imagine and "see" all the connections in your mind to navigate the four dialog boxes! 🤣
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Thank you very much!
Wow! What I learned with this upload is how powerful Hauptwerk software really is . . . and how, even if I watched you fabulous tutorial at least 100 times more, I still probably wouldn't be able to configure an organ to get the sound I might really want to have! And that isn't because you haven't provided a good enough explanation of what to do. It's because my main problem is that (1) the terminology is a little bewildering and I can't quite get my head around it and (2) I find it extremely difficult to read any of the dialogue screens on my 15" laptop as everything is so very small and I don't even know yet how to adjust the message boxes so that I can see the words clearly enough to read them - even with my glasses on! Oh dear. I am looking forward to the 'Hauptwerk Mary Poppins' version which just has one setting to select: "perfect in every way for Graham Twist!"
I know . . . there is no hope for me! My 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' moment is never going to happen!
Thank you so very much Graham!! And believe me, I completely understand that hearing all this first time can be overwhelming - sorry about that :) But hopefully, you will tuck this away in a corner, and maybe some winter day that needs a "project" you can launch an alternative configuration and start clicking on things; "I wonder what this does" :D
Wow Jerry what a great explanation. So I thought Hauptwerk and I get along but since I saw both of your videos I believe I have to do a lot of fine tuning. Thank you for these helpful videos!!!
Glad it was helpful! You are very welcome Martin!
Now I must say Jerry this is creating some very interesting responses coming from a variety of different levels of tech minded or not quite so tech minded folk. Digital Pipes response is particularly interesting too as it offers another route but I do wonder if this extra level of equipment/software might affect or create a latency issue. However, with a name such as Digital Pipes one would hope not. I also look forward to a video demo from them too.
Thanks so much Maurice!!! Yes indeed - I'm honored that DP was intrigued, as he truly is the master of digital voicing!
hi Maurice, reverb plugins do not add extra latency :) at least not all the ones I have tried and used so far ;)
@@digitalpipes Thank you for your reply DP. I am pleased to learn that. Jerry has messaged me some links to watch from DP so I will be looking forward to that later.
@@mauricecoates1856 how kind of Jerry! I hope you will not be disappointed :)
Nice video! Always great to listen to this "Little Prelude and Fugue in C"! (from Bach? or probably not?)
Thank you so much! And indeed - it was the first organ piece I learned to play - so, for me, regardless, it will always be "Bach" 😊
What a great and helpfull video! Thank you so much. I'm planning to do some multichannel virtual acoustics and you made it so clear! One question: In the rabk voicing adjustments you change the parameters for perspective mix, I see there is also an option to change output persp 1 - 4 seperately, What is the difference?
Thank you so much Marc - glad you found it helpful. Think of "perspective mix" as the volume control for each perspective (a master volume slider) - then within each perspective you can further fine tune amplitude, brightness, releases, etc. etc. - that's why there are so many options in the dropdown.
@@jerrymartin79 Thank you for clearafying!
Thank you for this video which gives me a good start on the HW a nuts and bolts. Have you done a video which would answer this situation: I have HW7. Some pedal notes boom in the acoustic of the room. I want to turn down these notes - that’s easy BUT….I need two outputs: speakers which have the ranks adjusted and headphones/recording channel which are unadjusted. I know this can be done but I haven’t worked it out for myself yet. Thanks
Hi Andrew - sorry for my delay 😊 Did you find a solution to your issue? The simplest solution might be within your speakers/audio interface - if there is a mixer there, you can adjust things for the room, and leave the HW recording unadjusted. However, if you need to do it within hauptwerk here is what I would suggest:
- use one of the primary busses for recording only
- tick the box "record" for that bus and disable it elsewhere
- route "perspective 2" of all ranks to that primary bus
- assuming "perspeictve 1" is going to your speakers, then make your adjustments for the pedal notes (on the voicing screen) - ONLY on the perspective 1 amplitutde controls (rather than the global controls)
I realize it's difficult to put into words the complexities of hauptwerk routing - does this make sense at all from your end?
@@jerrymartin79 Thank you for your comments. They make good sense to me - HW7 (my first real encounter with HW) is very flexible and I am already enjoying what it does for the sounds of real organs - I am effectively updating a 2002 3 manual Allen. The console is good but the sound was beginning to leave me dissatisfied. Thanks for your help.
Hey Jerry…excellent tutorial and terrific playing ! I had a quick question. When I follow your steps for virtual acoustics, I think I am missing a step. When you set up the close, medium and rear bus groups with the reverbs, are you then pointing them all to the perspective 1 mixer preset, and then pointing that preset to your speakers ? I find that when I try to adjust volumes in rank panning, either nothing happens or I get no audio. Running HW6 advanced. I’ve watched this tutorial dozens of times…it is mesmerizing !
Thanks Kathryn! Yes indeed it is indeed crazy to navigate (I hope a better user interface comes in a future version!) - in short, yes I am using "preset 1" in the mixer... as long as the speakers are "attached" to the endpoint (in this case it's the "main/recording" master mix bus) - at the top of the crazy dialog box - you should hopefully hear something?...
@@jerrymartin79 I will have to try it tomorrow and will let you know. I get into the weeds when checking the sends for close-mid-rear. I'm assuming these are all pointed to perspective 1 prst, or does each go to the appropriate perspective 1-2-3-4 ? It would be nice if they developed a screen where you could drag and drop ranks into bus groups, then drag or link (visually) the groups to the mixers, etc). Drew Worthen posted a really good tutorial with a conceptual diagram that was very helpful...he recommends working backward from the speakers to the ranks. That seems to work for me. I definitely understand it a lot better, but it is still complicated to get to that final result !
Success ! I wound up reverting one of my alt. Configs to factory settings and went from there. I believe I was trying to adjust Perspective 1-2-3-4 instead of Perspective Mix 1-2-3-4. Sounds really good with a dry-sampled small Moller. It is 15 ranks, and similar to what I play at church…I wanted a comparable practice instrument, since playing a Skinner on HW kinda spoils the ears when I go to church and tackle our 14-rank Wicks ! 😀
@@RTV351 Yay! That's so great to hear!!! I'm glad it all worked out (and it is such a treat to be able to set up our home practice instruments to help us "in the real world" :)
Thank you for the very detailed tutorial. I honestly didn’t understand the half of what’s in the video (sorry… bit I watched it all the way through) however, when I do decide to have it on my organ, I can always come back. Is this what involves when you actuality hook it up? Feeling a little overwhelmed 😅
Thank you so much Eunjoo!!! Yes - this is definitely not the video to *start* with for HW and sorry if it might have given you some pause!! I should do another one with "how to set up HW the first time" - it is really easy and reliable. All of this nonsense is completely optional - but good to know it's there - *so* much opportunity to play around and get ones hands dirty!
@@djmcguckin Yes, you are right. Johannus has 4 different locations, Console, Front, Middle and Rear.
@@jerrymartin79 A tutorial for beginners would be great! 😍
I had one random question for you. The organ you show in a studio next to the grand piano to illustrate a dry organ looks like an instrument at IU in the Music Annex...
What an interesting question: the photo I used was from PG's website with information on that lovely music-hall organ he sampled - it's by Walcker. I wonder if the instruments are related? piotrgrabowski.pl/melcer-chamber-music-hall/
Wow. I love this video. How may I email you?
Thanks Magnify Oparah 😊 I would be happy to chat - you can email me at jmartinmd [at] hotmail [dot] com