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ALL ABOUT HAUPTWERK
All
about Hauptwerk has received hundreds of
highly positive comments in the Facebook Groups and other
forums related to Hauptwerk. The author has also received a
very great many personal communications from readers,
expressing their appreciation of the book.
The following
Book Review by James McVinnie appears by kind permission of
the "Organists' Review":
"Hauptwerk
is a program which allows the playback or live performance
of sound samples
of
real pipe organs. Kenneth A. Spencer's book
All about Hauptwerk
does exactly what it says 'on the tin'.
This is a must-have book for all those who are thinking of
building their own Virtual Pipe Organ at home, widely
acknowledged as the
next best thing to a real pipe organ. The author
suggests that one should read the book 'rather like a novel'
before attempting anything; it is indeed easy to read,
detailed and informative and offers a
comprehensive,
step-by-step guide in layman's terms as to what the program
is, how the program works and what you need to buy to make
it all work.
It's a persuasive read, too: you
will find
yourself eager
to explore the possibilities of this powerful program, but the
book also offers some thoughts of a more philosophical
nature on the often thorny issue of where digital
instruments stand in
the
realm
of
the real pipe organ.
The book
first offers an introduction
to
the pipe organ for those who
may
have
come to the program without prior knowledge of how
a real
pipe
organ is constructed. It then goes on to describe
what Hauptwerk is, how it works and how you would obtain it
(the program is a commercial product, but is also available
with limited functionality for free), the hardware needed
(computer capacity, MIDI keyboards and
pedalboards
and
how
these talk to the program, audio playback
requirements etc). It also goes into building
your
own
console
and how to voice
your
instrument
for the
room
in
which
it
is
placed.
The book also touches on
how the instrument could be used in a studio context with
Digital Audio Work stations such as Logic and ProTools.
Thoroughly recommended.
James McVinnie.
ISBN:
978-1-291-88674-0 Buy
it here:
http://goo.gl/S85xIq
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of charge.)
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