The Sound Board

If you’re into grand organs or your music requires one of these mammoths' presence, you might wanna look at the result of James Everingham’s herculean effort: the sampling of the majestic organ in the Royal Albert Hall, according to Mr. Everingham: “the ultimate organ in the ultimate room”.
The library contains around 40.000 samples. Which amounts to a 35gig download.

Here are a few specifics:
- 27 manual registrations, 14 pedal registrations, 8 solo stops, 7 additional fx patches, 18 snapshot presets, around 40,000 samples
- Stereo mix, Royal box binaural head, LCR, Gods and Surround mics
- Recorded and curated in collaboration with world-renowned organist Richard Hills
- Custom GUI with Keyboard configurator to select patches and ranges for the left hand and right hand individually (eg. pedals left hand, manuals right hand)
- Stop list for each registration viewable in GUI

Pity about the 'curated' which is the most annoying word in current marketing.

Below are a few videos and demos. Shame they didn’t include a version of “Louie Louie” which, when performed on the real thing, would have sent a shudder of recognition and weird memories through the instrument as that very song was played on it in 1969 by Don Preston during a legendary Zappa concert (partly captured on the album “Uncle Meat”).

Demos sound nothing short of fantastic, I find, and reveal a rare amount of knowledge, passion, dedication and love with which the immense challenge was undertaken.





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I swear to God, the inclusion of a small "+VAT" has done more to dissuade me from buying a product than literally anything else. It's worse than the word "curated".

Sounds fantastic. Likely won't buy - the one thing EW Goliath has given me is a wonderful mighty pipe organ (which needs its S taming). For the small amount of times I need such a grand thing I feel this covers me. Good to know this is there though, should I ever need to pull out all the stops (ho ho).

Sounds fantastic. I have no need for it, but I want it and may very possibly buy it.

Maybe I’ll play some stuff to tape, then cut the tape into little snippets and throw them on the floor, mix em up and do some random splicing. I wonder if anything like that’s been done before….hmmm.

You'll do a show on trampoline as well, Larry?

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Piet De Ridder wrote: ↑Apr 12, 2022 5:28 pm You'll do a show on trampoline as well, Larry?

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‘zactly!