Who am I?
I'm a simple, but enthusiastic, amateur organ player and in my daily live a freelance software (java, web, database) developer.
There are two types of organists (musicians):
- They make music themselves.
- Which only imitate (via sheet music) what others have invented.
I myself belong to the second category, and I can play, after considerable practice, what someone else wrote, so be warned.
I started with Hauptwerk in 2005 with a laptop with 2 GB internal memory and the Marcussen sample set.
My current configuration:
- White V-Touch console.
- Computer with 8 GB RAM and Intel Q9450 processor.
- Windows Vista 64 bit.
- EMU 1616M PCI multichannel sound card.
- 2 Genelec 8040A active speakers (used ones via marktplaats.nl)
- The sample sets which are on this site.
On this site I restrict myself to church organs, although you can use Hauptwerk also for theatre organs, harmoniums and harpsichords.
Also I restrict myself to the PC (with Windows Vista), although you can run Hauptwerk also on a MAC
or on Windows XP.
Here I play on the organ of Joerg Glebe
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On the magnificent 4 manual instrument of Petrus h'Aanschaf
I made this site to:
- Exercise with making a website.
- Share my pleasure of Hauptwerk with others.
- Promote Hauptwerk to Dutch organ players.
- Compare sample sets in an objective way.
- Take away the misunderstanding that Hauptwerk is expensive. A sound-module (e.g. Viscount CM-100) on a digital organ is more expensive.
We are independent and have no special relation with Hauptwerk or Milan Digital Audio,
one of the sample-set producers or sale of computers and audio systems.
I don't sell sample sets and don't receive commission from sample set producers.
Sometimes I get discount or sample sets offered for review / beta test.
Best regards,
Gert van Ginkel
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