Sound Modules for your
InterMidi-equipped Pipe or Electronic Organ
Orchestral Sound Module Systems
InterMidi strongly supports the use of E-MU Systems'
products for pipe and electronic organ sound expansion. E-MU products put out a full complement of
voices with a realism and clarity beyond belief. To find out more about their technological wonders contact
E-MU now. 
Pipe Organ Modular Sound Systems
There are a number of fine pipe organ sound modules on the market, including an expander from the ALLEN Organ Company, The AHLBORN-GALANTI Archive Series Modules and the units periodically sold directly by Sound Byte Systems, Inc. — e.g., the Viscount-Manufactured Pipe Organ Sound Module.
The Hauptwerk Organ
System
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Hauptwerk is a generic computer simulation of a pipe organ. It is a computer program into which you can load different pipe organs and play them using a MIDI keyboard or keyboards. In place of, or in addition to MIDI keyboards, you can use a sequencer to control the organ. It is a specialized form of 'virtual sampler', some other examples of which have recently become available with the rapid increase in computer processing power. It receives MIDI data and produces pipe organ sounds using recordings that have been made of a real pipe organ, hence giving very realistic results.
Unlike many home keyboards and professional synthesizers, which are often sample-based, Hauptwerk has been designed to take advantage of the high processing power and relatively low cost of computer memory to give a far more accurate rendition of an organ than is possible on most keyboards, synthesizers or samplers. Whereas synthesizers and samplers usually use a few small samples, recorded at intervals across the keyboard and time-stretched to provide the remaining notes, Hauptwerk uses a large (three to five second) recording for every pipe in the organ. For a small parish church organ, this may amount to well over a thousand individual samples.
MIDI Converter Systems from InterMidi/Sound Byte Systems, Inc. can be used in a console of your choice. We recommend a stable (WINDOWS XP Pro-based) high-powered PC (INTEL P4 or fast AMD ATHLON XP) in the console with as much memory as you can afford (1.5 to 2GB) and a high-end sound system.
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