A magnificent pipe organ recorded in a spacious Georgian church, with a carefully selected collection of stop combinations. With three microphone positions, this library showcases the full range of the organ’s sound, from soft, piercing tones to full “majestic power”.
About the Instrument
Recorded in St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, a converted church built in 1829 and now used as a concert hall and music venue, St Paul’s organ has three manuals and a rich variety of stops and timbres. This library contains four stop combinations, carefully selected by Fracture Sounds founder Will Bedford.
From soft, reed-like tones to majestic room-filling sounds, each combination is perfectly captured by three microphone angles, showcasing the extensive reverberation of this historic Georgian space.
Stop Combinations
The original organ has 41 stops, covering a wide range of timbres, including mains, mixes, flutes and reeds. The organist will typically blend these stops together to create unique ‘combinations’ to suit a particular moment in a piece of music.
To give you access to a range of these sounds in a user-friendly way, we’ve included four combinations (represented as articulations in the interface) that we’ve carefully crafted to cover the organ’s tonal range.
Starting with a soft ‘choral’ sound and gradually increasing in brightness and saturation, the included combinations are called Mellow, Bright, Rich and Full.
Interface
- Swell: Acts like an organ swell pedal, allowing the sound to become dynamically louder or softer.
- Color: An EQ effect for changing the brightness of the overall sound.
- Stereo Width: Controls the widening effect of the stereo signal, turn clockwise to widen the signal, turn fully anti-clockwise for a mono signal.
- Reverb: The mid and far mics reproduce the gorgeous natural reverb found in a church. If you need even more, you can take this reverb control with additional settings by clicking the gear icon.
- Mic Mix: Control the balance of the three microphone angles with separate Near, Mid, and Far sliders, or seamlessly switch between a Near and Far mix with the Perspective slider.
- Sample Start: Controls the offset of the sample.
- Swell Intensity: Controls how much the instrument volume is affected by the Swell modulation.
- Release Amount: Adjusts the playback volume to allow natural reverb to be tamed.
- Four pipe organ articulations
- Near, middle and far microphones
- Swell control replicates the pipe organ mechanism
- Simple and user-friendly interface
- Full NKS support: works with Komplete Kontrol hardware
- Works in the free Kontakt Player
