All about Hauptwerk

This book explains just what a person planning to use Hauptwerk in the creation of a virtual pipe organ needs to know. Hauptwerk is a unique piece of computer software which enables an organist to play pipe organs from all over the world, in their original acoustic, but in the home. The book details how the Hauptwerk software can be obtained and installed, and how organ sample sets can be loaded and configured in the virtual organ. It also explains how someone with minimal woodworking skills can construct a wooden console in which the keyboards other components can be housed. Drawing for a diy pedalboard are also provided. The author advises on computer resources for Hauptwerk, and describes the accessories required to enable stops to be drawn, the organ controlled, and played. This edition was written specifcially relating to Hauptwerk version 4.2, with setting up high quality multiple channel audio and speakers being described in relations to that version. It does however, cover the large majority of key topics which are designed to help the user to understand Hauptwerk, including details of software adjustments for voicing virtual organs. New and existing users will find what they need to get the very best out of their virtual pipe organ.