Welcome to the holiday season! As part of the celebration, we are releasing a new instrument, and offering a holiday discount on many of our sample sets.
St. Luke’s McLean Steiner-Reck – III/60 (IV/76)
We’re pleased to announce the release of our newest sample set, the St. Luke’s Catholic Church Mclean Virginai Steiner-Reck. The instrument is available for the introductory price of USD249. Fully functional demo license (HW VII only) are available for the introductory price of USD 79 cents!
This instrument is a very versatile III/60 instrument that we’ve expanded to IV/76. It is at St. Luke’s Catholic Church in McLean, VA. It is in a live space, and is supplied with two perspectives. New to this instrument is a programmable crescendo which we plan to include on all of our future instruments.
Details on the instrument can be found on our website. We have a number of recordings available, on our YouTube channel, or on Contrabombarde under clrresources or giwro.
These demo recordings show the instrument capable of a wide range of literature:
Franck Fantasie in A
Raasch St. Anne Suite
IMPORTANT NOTE: This instrument is available with Hauptwerk VII ONLY. Refunds of perpetual licenses will carry a USD30 restocking charge if you order and are unable to use the instrument on your V or VI system. See below for our reasons for doing this. Upgrades from V to VII and VI to VII are available on the Hauptwerk website.
20% off select instruments!
We are offering 20% off of our core instruments. These instruments are all available for Hauptwerk V and later.
University of Redlands Casavant IV/73 (demo)
Pasadena Presbyterian Aeolian Skinner IV/111 (demo)
Immanuel Presbyterian Los Angeles 3 instrument set
1927 IV/62 EM Skinner (demo) | 1956 III/37 Schlicker | 1977 II/20 Hradetsky)
Saint Olaf Lively-Fulcher III/67 (demo)
First Lutheran Church Long Beach Zimmer III/47 (demo)
Concordia University Casavant III/59. This workhorse practice instrument is $103 with the coupon code.
Holy Trinity Georgetown EM Skinner III/50. Only a limited number of licenses for this instrument are available.
2 manual instruments (With the 20% coupon, these instruments are $39 each!)
Immanuel Presbyterian Hradetsky II/20
Concordia University Zhang Hall Goetz
To get your 20% discount, use coupon code BF2022, valid today through Dec 31, 2022. EDIT – Code is not working properly, prices have been manually adjusted
Upcoming
We have been both fortunate and very busy in preparing a number of new instruments for presentation to the Hauptwerk community. We have 3 other significant instruments completing recording. We plan to release these next year. One of the three instruments is a well preserved Wm. Johnson organ. It is the biggest Johnson known to exist, and probably one of the biggest he built. The Johnson reeds are something completely different, and we’re very excited about developing this sample set. The organ is in a fantastic room, and we have multiple perspectives planned. Listen to an improv recorded during one of our sessions:
We remember Fred Swann, Southern California and international organ icon, who recently passed away. His life was such a contribution to the craft, and he touched so many people with his kindness and his excellence.
The Arboretum organ at Christ Cathedral was purchased and installed at Fred Swann’s urging after the Northridge earthquake in 1994 made the Christian Science church where it was originally installed unusable. The arboretum organ unofficially carries Fred’s name. We plan to release soon a complete redo of the Christ Cathedral Arboretum sample set. We have gone back to the original recordings and completely redone noise reduction, sample extraction, and sample processing. We will also be redoing the user interface of the organ, adding
- Variable Pedal Divide
- Simple Screen
- Variable Tuning
- Multiple perspectives
- Programmable Crescendo
- GT/CH manual swap
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A word about encryption
There is an immense amount of work that goes into developing a sample set. There are bad actors on the periphery of the Hauptwerk community who are satisfied to steal the hard work of sample set producers and sell the sets as their own. Milan Digital Audio has been diligent since the release of HW V in improving the security of the sample sets that we create, protecting our intellectual property, and allowing us to properly gain the benefit of sales, as well as be able to return fees to the venues where these great instruments live.
These bad actors succeeded in exploiting a weakness in HW V/VI to again steal what was not theirs. With HW VII, the encryption and protection has been again improved, and so for future instruments, we will be releasing using HW VII encryption.
Thank you for your support and interest.
The Evensong Music Team, Jonathan Orwig and Charlie Raasch