Will Dorico be using organ sounds in its more advanced programs; i.e. Dorico Elements?
Thanks in advance for your help.
@Minna_Mansky, I would recommend not posting your email address in the forum.
All versions of Dorico come with simple organ sounds, including a pipe organ sound, but none of the variants come with a sophisticated church organ with multiple stops. It’s something we would like to provide at some point, but it’s a hugely complex world and can be demanding on computer resources – take a look at the virtual organs provided by tools like Hauptwerk if you want an idea of how deep the rabbit hole goes!
(And I’ve taken the liberty of editing your post to remove your email address.)
To me, personally, this would be a top-tier item (full disclosure: I’m a church musician and organ composer). What would be really cool is to make a way for a Huaptwerk sampleset to “talk” to Dorico. I would think there would surely be a way to do that if someone already had Hauptwerk on their computer. Step 2 would be to make the stops selectable inside Dorico
Doesn’t NotePerformer have a utility on their website for setting organ registrations (within the limits of what stops are available in the NotePerfomer sample set)?
Yes, NP does.
I’m afraid I don’t know what that is (I’m new here, sorry).
Organ stop calculator:
Wow, that really is a limited palette…no mixtures and no mutations, no 16’ Principal and only two flavors of reed timbre…
@Minna_Mansky If there is still demand, I suggest taking a look at Aeolus, which is a neat little plugin that utilizes a synth engine for organ stops and provides a 3M+P organ. It sounds better than one would expect from a synth based plugin and is very economic with system resources.
Ow yeah, that would be awesome! I do see that this would be no easy developing task though. But imagining my favorite scorewriter understanding for example French symphonic registration notes and automatically applying them in playback… One can dream, right?
What makes me refrain from purchasing Hauptwerk for this purpose is that Milan Digital Audio offers the plugin functionality only in the full package, which is completely oversized for use inside Dorico or even in a full DAW, as one usually does not need to address a 6.1 speaker system or bigger with sophisticated individual pipe-speaker allocation there.
@dspreadbury I know I already wrote this in a different thread, but in this context it would be great for any organ plugin (including Aeolus) if voices could be individually named (or maybe just annotated after up-/downstem voice x) and rearranged in independent voice playback in play mode. A typical 5-part organ arrangement would be to have two voices in the right hand, two in the left and bass played on the pedal keys, let’s call them SM(r)-AT(l)-B(p) for now. Right now Dorico arranges them in order of creation, which leads to a rather unintuitive layout like SABMT in play mode.