Re:The Organ as a Wind Instrument
by bluGill on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:03PM
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There is a small group of people who have built their own console with "multiple manuals, pedalboard, couplers". I've been meaning to do that myself, but time is lacking. With software and good speakers you can probably get the reverberant room as well, though to my knowledge this hasn't been done yet.
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Re:The Organ as a Wind Instrument
by actually_a_dog on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:14PM
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Yeah, it really does seem like you can bodge something like this together with reasonable fidelity out of off the shelf stuff, starting with 3-4 synthesizer keyboards and a few pedals. Of course, that's no small expense right there already, and I'm sure this is one of those things that can get arbitrarily expensive as well, depending on that level of fidelity you're after.
There's a lot of people using Hauptwerk (virtual organ) for this and assembling their own consoles. Here is an organist on YouTube who shows his whole build process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UtzLlfwJ5w&list=PLUL_VC1ItB...