Hauptwerk Brochure

The World’s Most Advanced
Virtual Pipe Organ
The King of All Virtual Instruments
Hauptwerk is state-of-the-art virtual instrument software for Apple
Macs and PCs bringing the world’s best pipe organs within reach of
musicians everywhere. It is a high performance sound engine used
to load and play samples recorded from real pipe organs around
the world. Used for study and practice by professional and amateur
organists, organ enthusiasts, and organ students, Hauptwerk is the
world’s leading virtual pipe organ software providing high-resolution
audio and unparalleled flexibility in MIDI interfacing with digital organ
consoles and pro-audio applications.
Learn more at www.hauptwerk.com
Feature Highlights:
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Perform virtually on historic and modern instruments
Baroque, classical, romantic, and theatre organs
Natural acoustics
Virtual wind model
Built-in audio recorder and MIDI recorder/player
Photo-realistic multi-display virtual consoles
Fully optimized for touch screens
Full MIDI implementation and MIDI Learn
Minimal MIDI and computer experience required
Headless operation/integration for organ builders
Support for nearly all digital organs with MIDI
LCD panel output
Real-time temperature based tuning
Support for up to 512 audio channels
Sample resolution up to 24-bit 96kHz
Pipe and rank voicing controls
Advanced and flexible combination system
Tremulant modeling
Swellbox modeling
Adjustable crescendo pedals
Pipe unification/borrowing
Multiple attacks, releases and loops
Random tuning deviations
Selectable historic and modern temperaments
VST and AU plug-in for Mac and PC
View more features at www.hauptwerk.com/features
What’s in the box?
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DVD-ROM containing both Windows and Mac 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Hauptwerk
Hauptwerk USB license key
St. Anne’s 30 stop English romantic virtual pipe organ
Hauptwerk user guide in electronic PDF format
Available in Basic and Advanced Editions
Free English romantic organ
Over 100 third party instruments available
The 1907 Brindley and Foster organ of St. Anne’s, Moseley, Birmingham,
England is included free with Hauptwerk to get you started right out of the
box. This instrument contains 30 stops featuring chromatically recorded
pipes from each stop, an expression pedal, blower noise, stop action noise,
a fully adjustable 40 stage crescendo pedal, a photo-realistic console
including displays optimized for touch screens, numerous playing aids and
more!
Hauptwerk is any organ you want it to be! With over 100 third party
instruments available and ready for use with Hauptwerk, organists have
a wide variety of styles and historical instruments to choose from. Break
away from the sounds of your existing digital organ, Hauptwerk allows
you to keep your MIDI organ console and breathe new life into it with the
addition of any of the available instruments. Listen to our demonstrations
and you will hear the difference.
View all available instruments at www.hauptwerk.com/instruments
‘Wet’ and ‘dry’ instruments
Theatre organ modeling
‘Wet’ instruments include the natural ambience of the room from
which the original organ was recorded, and reproduce the real acoustic
of the building, which is an integral part of an organ’s sound, whereas
‘dry’ instruments contain no room ambience. Wet instruments are
suitable for use at home, on headphones, or in acoustically-dry rooms,
whereas dry instruments can be used in reverberant spaces such as
churches. Both types of instruments are available in Hauptwerk format.
As well as unification, most, if not all, eccentricities of the theatre organ
are available to instruments, such as unification, second touch, ‘toy counter’
effects, drum pedals, sustainers and much more. Hauptwerk’s superbly
realistic tremulant and swell box models make for one of the most life-like
sonic and functional models of a theatre organ yet.
Recorder/Player control panel
Pitch control panel
Record your performances to audio (.wav) and MIDI (.mid) using Hauptwerk’s
native recording facilities all accessed from the Audio and MIDI recorder
control panel. Record high resolution audio in 32-bit or 16-bit and MIDI in
real-time. All incoming MIDI data is captured including data from MIDI organ
consoles, MIDI sequencers, touch screens, and even mouse clicks. Instantly
load saved MIDI files to hear your complete performance exactly as it was
recorded.
Instantly select from the many different temperaments included with
Hauptwerk, and available from third parties. Control the pitch of the
organ independently of the temperament, and in real-time, either from
the screen, a MIDI knob, or a MIDI pipe temperature sensor. The transposer
function allows transposition by +/-12 semi-tones, offering a quick and easy
means to play in different keys, a useful feature when accompanying choirs
or soloists.
Audio, MIDI and Performance control panel
Has the key functions to view and tune the performance of a virtual
instrument quickly, accurately and easily for your computer hardware, all in
real-time, and all in one place.
Audio level, polyphony and CPU load can all be monitored and adjusted in
real-time.
The memory usage and MIDI activity displays also help to diagnose and
resolve any configuration issues quickly.
Registration control panel
You can have an unlimited number of combination sets (banks) for each
virtual instrument, and any selected twenty allow random-access to cue
and recall them instantly. Hauptwerk can accurately model complex
combination systems within any given virtual instrument, and also provides
its own powerful and flexible combination system that’s completely
independent of whatever a virtual instrument provides, including:
• Random-access 999 stage stepper
• 20 additional generals
• 60 scoped (ranged) pistons
The combination system can
be fully controlled from MIDI
pistons or a touch-screen, and
the states of the combination
systems can be displayed on LCD
screens for seamless integration
into MIDI consoles.
Piston Toolbars
Hauptwerk’s native piston toolbars offer the organist a wealth of
flexibility for interfacing with many organ controls. Each piston function
can be customized for triggering registration changes or activating menu
functions and is controllable via MIDI or touchscreen. The Basic Edition of
Hauptwerk allows a single toolbar per display page while the Advanced
Edition allows up to 4 toolbars per display page.
Release samples and multiple release samples
Pipe Voicing
Hauptwerk uses release samples recorded from the organ pipes, playing
them when a key is released. Release samples can also record the natural
decay of the pipe within the original room ambience, making it possible
to capture that room ambience and spatial characteristics naturally
within the instrument. In particular, historical organs can be captured and
played virtually in the full majesty of their original acoustic environment.
Hauptwerk also allows several release samples per pipe to be used so that
when a pipe stops speaking the release sample is selected according to
how long the pipe has been sounding.
Many aspects of the sound can be adjusted for each pipe individually using an intuitive graphical interface in real-time. This ‘voicing’
information is stored separately for each instrument and allows an
instrument to be fine-tuned for the acoustic environment in which
it will be played.
Voicing includes: Amplitude, Tuning, Brightness, Stereo balance,
Tremulant, Wind model, Swell box, EQ.
* Per-pipe voicing is only available in the Advanced Edition of Hauptwerk.
VST and AU Integration for Sequencing and Scoring Software
VST and AU plug-in links for PC and Mac are provided with Hauptwerk allowing
integration into nearly all host sequencing and scoring software such as Sonar,
Logic Pro, Cubase and many others. 32-bit and 64-bit versions offer more options
for seamless integration into all platforms. The Hauptwerk VST/AU Links provide
an easy method for sending audio and MIDI between Hauptwerk and your host
application.
MIDI Learn
Hauptwerk’s MIDI Learn functionality automatically detects your MIDI hardware’s
MIDI messages and assigns them to each control that you specify without the need
to understand or know about MIDI hardware. Setting up your instrument has never
been easier or quicker.
System requirements
Windows
Macintosh
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Intel or AMD processor (dual/quad/multi-core, 64-bit recommended)
Microsoft® Windows 7, Vista or XP (64-bit recommended)
512MB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
4GB of available hard-disk space for core application and content
DVD drive required for installation
1024x768 monitor resolution (1280x1024 or higher recommended)
Microsoft ASIO or Direct-X compatible sound card
MIDI interface
Internet connection required for product activation
Intel, G4 or G5 Mac (dual/quad/multi-core, recommended)
OS X 10.5 Leopard or OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
512MB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
4GB of available hard-disk space for core application and content
DVD drive required for installation
1024x768 monitor resolution (1280x1024 or higher recommended)
Core Audio compatible sound card
MIDI interface
Internet connection required for product activation
For recommended audio and MIDI interfaces known to be compatible with Hauptwerk visit http://www.hauptwerk.com/requirements.
Core Audio, Audio Units and Core MIDI technologies by Apple, Inc.
ASIO Interface Technology and VST PlugIn Interface Technology by
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
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