Voicing

Our organs are individually voiced on site after installation. A laptop PC is temporarily connected to the organ with which it is possible to access literally hundreds of parameters for each stop at every point on the keyboard. In this way it is possible to produce highly accurate scaling for every rank, in terms of harmonic content, attack and decay, and the proportions of randomness and non-harmonic content which are always exhibited by any organ pipe or live instrument.

We use both Real-time Digital Computing and Digital Sampling technologies for organ tone production. Real-time Digital Computing generates digital waveforms, while the organ is being played, from pre-defined parameters which have been entirely specified by the organ voicer, whereas Digital Sampling uses digitally recorded waveforms of actual organ pipes, which are reproduced as the organ is played. Again, the voicer can manipulate the samples in order to achieve an optimum blend and scaling in the instrument.

Thereafter both technologies use an identical process to convert their digital waveforms to analogue signals, which then are reproduced through multi-channel amplifiers and loudspeakers.

We can provide ‘Alternate Voicing’ selectors, whereby more than one voicing style can be accommodated on the same instrument. There are various formats, for example English Swell reeds can be substituted for by their French counterparts, Mixtures can have their pitches and breaks re-constituted, or a complete second specification for the whole organ can be provided. We can also provide selectable Stop Libraries which can be applied individually or in combination to Alternate Stops on each manual.