On 18 Jul 2010 at 23:03, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > > I don't have any specific experience with what you're looking for, > although I strongly suspect that it does, in fact exist, but that it > when you find it, it will be an expensive piece of equipment to > purchase. My best suggestions: check with the local Allen or Rogers > organ dealers, and see if they might have an instrument you could rent > for a period of time. Even their smallest units are apt to be bigger > than what you want, but it will probably come closest to providing the > sound your looking for at the best price.
Well, this all started because somebody suggested we get a Roland C- 230. It has 36 organ stops, which is overkill, and from listening the demos on YouTube, it sounds like it is not using note-by-note synthesis. The demos don't really give any kind of idea of what it would sound like in an ensemble (and the violin/harpsichord example is just really dreadful sounding, electric violin accompanied by electric harpsichord). But the price of this unit is way out of scale with what we need. I've tried out the Hauptwerk sample/player, and have downloaded a shareware single-manual organ that is quite good sounding. I can play it from my keyboard, though I haven't yet figured out how to drive it from Finale (which is not really necessary, of course). The problem is this solution requires: 1. keyboard 2. computer 3. speakers ...whereas I was hoping for something a little more complete, and with no need for a standalone computer. My guess is that samples at the Hauptwerk level of quality don't play in the kind of hardware that keyboards come with. I don't quite understand why the products fall into this kind of segmentation as they do. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
