Robert Morton Opus 2401 - The Modern 3/12 (extended version)

That sample set was created (see Robert Morton Opus 2401 Series for Hauptwerk, and an extended stop list version, which we've called the 'Modern 3/12' set has been made. This organ uses the same ranks as the Empress Theater version, but with 16' extensions added to the Tibia Clausa and the Violin I. The Stop List has had a few of 'quirks' of the Empress Theater console removed, and many other Stops added.

The samples were recorded (and will be released) in 16-bit 48khz Stereo, and uses recorded tremulant samples. The organ samples are quite dry and will benefit from added reverb. For those who like the small organ studio feel, the samples may be just right as they are.

Donation and Order Forms:

This project, although free for personal and non-commercial use, will be donationware based and released by Melotone Sound Productions. Your donations to the project will help us to continue to develop new sample sets and improve the equipment and techniques used in their creation.

Please go to the PayPal Donations page if you are able to make a donation. 

Then go to the Donationware VTPOs Order Form page to fill in your information, and we will send you the link to download the sample set.  

The sample set download is just over 1Gig in size. With the Robert Morton Opus 2401 - Mordern 3/12 sample set fully loaded, the Hauptwerk executable will be using approximately 1.9 Gigs of RAM. This sample set will load in Hauptwerk Free Edition with medium RAM resources, but Hauptwerk Basic Edition is the minimum recommended HW Edition as you will then be able to use 1000 notes of polyphony rather than the 256 polyphony limitation that comes with the Free Edition.

Stop List:

The extended Stop List was created using advice and requests from the members of the Yahoo VTPO group: Robert Morton Opus 2401 - Modern 3/12 Stop List

Audio Demos

Makin Whoopie!

Misha Stefanuk plays an arrangement of "Makin' Whoopee!". This is a jazz/blues song, first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical. It is a foot tapping delightful tune that shows off the extended 3/12 very well. This is the Demo midi file that installs with the sample set.

SoundCloud: Makin Whoopie!

Every breath you take

Misha Stefanuk plays an arrangement of "Every Breath You Take". This is a song by The Police on the band's 1983 album Synchronicity, written by Sting. The single entered the charts at position 36 on 4 June 1983. The single was the biggest hit of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks, and also the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. It also topped the Billboard Top Tracks chart for nine weeks. This interpretation reminds us that Modern music can play very well on the Theatre Organ as well!

SoundCloud: Every Breath You Take

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Attributions:

The samples for this organ were recorded by and are the property of David Billmire.

Chimes

Chrysoglott

Orchestral Chimes (Glockenspiel)

Xylophone

Harp

Clarinet

Concert Flute 

Diaphonic Diapason 

French Horn

Violin I

Violin II

Violin III

Kinura

Saxophone

Tibia Clausa

Tuba 

Vox Humana 

All the noise reduction, tuning, looping, and creation of release portions was performed by Graham Goode. The 16' extensions to the Tibia Clausa and Violin I were digitally created by Graham Goode by re-pitching notes from the octave above and voicing them.

Voicing guidance was provided by the Alpha and Beta testing groups, and special thanks to Les Deutsch and Ted Williamson for their hard work in this area. The default combinations and the MIDI file demo were created by Misha Stefanuk.

The Hauptwerk CODM and ODF were created by Melotone Sound Productions.

The graphics are image modifications taken from the jOrgan Morton.zip skin that was created by Graham Wykes and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia license