Konzerthaus Organ keyboard range question.

[steve_l]

Hi folks,

I have the VSL special edition extended library (at least I will have when they send me the activation code for the extension!). And I have a question, not a stupid one I hope, about the Konzerthaus organ.

It seems that when playing on a standard 88 key piano keyboard the lowest couple of octaves are not mapped and you need to keyswitch to get the lowest octaves. The keyswitch loads another manual or the bass pedals I guess. Whilst this probably is true to life, is there any way of making all 88 or 87 keys map to the appropriate samples so it can be played like a piano without having to keyswitch to get the bass notes. This would allow organ pieces that have been arranged for piano to be played from the music as written (I am a pianist and no organist I'm afraid). This would also allow bass notes and higher notes to be played at the same time, which thinking about it I am sure you must be able to do - so I must be missing something. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Regards

Steve

[herb]

Each manual patch offers two different keyboard mappings, which can be altered with any controller of your choice (it's called the A/B switch).
Mode A offers a normal mapping, mode B is transposed one octav up.

Same concept for each pedal patch, here mode B is transposing one octav down and mutes the highest notes.

So you can stack manual and pedal registers in the VI, and with mode B you will get no overlaps, this enables you to perform manual and pedal on one 88 key piano.

best
Herb

[steve_l]

thanks very much for the reply herb its really nice of you to take the trouble. so the essence of it, if i understand you correctly is you are having 2 instances of the vi loaded, one having the bass end and one having the rest of the keyboard, both on the same midi channel and because there is no overlap it is as though you had just one vi instance covering the whole 88 keys. that makes perfecr sense. thanks again herb.

regards

steve

[Conquer]

Hi Steve.

@Another User said:

you are having 2 instances of the vi loaded, one having the bass end and one having the rest of the keyboard, both on the same midi channel and because there is no overlap it is as though you had just one vi instance covering the whole 88 keys.

In a sense yes, but to be precise what you're getting are multiple patches stacked within one instance of the VI. You can stack as many as four patches if you use the 'parallel cell' facility. (Click on the little 'PCELL' box and two more empty cells will appear.)