Pipe Organs
Alpha Organ is a beautifully sampled pair of pipe organs recorded at St. Paul’s Church in San Francisco, California. They feature a rich sound, powerful bass, a huge variety of presets, sound design, mic placement, tone controls, customizable effects, and an intuitive and flexible GUI. Each organ contrasts distinctly with the other, and when both are played in unison, the sound is simply magnificent. We recorded both instruments separately and together in unison, using a variety of mic types and placements to offer you a variety of aesthetic options.
✔️ About the Recording
The lower organ, built by the Kilgen Church Organ Company of St. Louis, Missouri, was originally water-powered but has since been converted to an electric blower-powered system. The console is on the south islet near the side entrance, with the pipes hidden behind the altar and the blower and machinery under the floor of the apse, allowing the lowest notes of the pedals to resonate through the floor, seemingly shaking the foundations.
The upper organ, much larger and more elaborate, was built by the Felix F. Schoenstein & Sons Organ Company of San Francisco. It is located high above the portcullis and narthex in the mezzanine between the two bell towers. While the first organ, the Alpha, is silky and delicate in sound, the second, the Omega, is thunderous and powerful in its body and energy, with a more powerful blower, a larger console, and more pipes.
✔️ Contents
We packed the user interface with powerful sound shaping controls to give you complete flexibility. Controls for volume increase, attack and release times, sample start offset, vibrato, and sound bank selection are included in all presets. The main preset also features a mic mixer and octave effect. The multi-layer preset contains 4 independent sound layers, each with a full set of parameters that can be linked, automated, and adjusted. The first three layers are mic positions: close (Mic 1), mid (Mic 2), and far (Mic 3). The fourth layer is the ambience layer. We used a variety of sound design techniques to transform the sounds from our journey into 30 different pitched and dissonant pads, synth hues and ambient dreamscapes. These can be played on their own or used to add texture and dimension to the main sounds.
System Requirements
- Publisher: Soundiron
- Format: Kontakt (6.2.2+)
- Quality: Stereo 48 kHz 24 bits
- Size: 17.76 GB
