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Hephaestus Sounds Italian Concert Organ v1.5 KONTAKT

KONTAKT | 509.41 MB
The Italian Concert Organ is a faithfully reproduced church organ with individual ranks and combinations, in addition to an exceptional sound engine able to restore harmonics, environment, mechanical noise and even more, in a completely customizable way.

STUNNING DESIGN

Italian Concert Organ features a realistically rendered user interface developed by Divergent Audio Group to inspire you during your performance.

FEATURES:

Sample resolution: 48KHz 24-bit Stereo
32 patterns (16+16), from single ranks to combinations
7 sound controls
Key-off noise, airflow and customizable impulse reverb
It's possible to turn off the airflow and disable the internal Kontakt FX engine
6 modes: TouchScreen, FootSwitch, MultiCombo, MultiChannel, TraditionalSingle and TraditionalMulti
Total instrument size: 512MB (430MB of compressed samples)
Stunning 3D GUI by Divergent Audio Group
Average polyphony consumption during performance: 32 sounds
Max polyphony in single mode: 128 sounds
Max polyphony in multi mode: 1024 sounds
Works with Kontakt v5.2.1 or newer, but only 15 minutes with Kontakt Player.

VIDEO DEMONSTRATION

PLEASE NOTE: video demo refers to instrument version 1.0; the sound has been improved a lot on newer versions! Check the audio demos below to ear the last version sound.

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OscarRomelPR	status	registered	posts	comments	rating
OscarRomelPR	Resident	23.08.2011	4	242	+167

Many thanks stefg

22.03.17 @ 15:45

robotboy	status	registered	comments	rating
robotboy	Member	9.07.2014	555	+151

Only 500 MB? It can't possibly sound good!
/sarcasm

22.03.17 @ 17:09

Charly61	status	registered	comments	rating
Charly61	Member	5.10.2015	86	+11

Un video in italiano... non ci posso credere!!!

Bellissima libreria, grazie!

22.03.17 @ 17:47

Diabulus in Musica	status	registered	posts	comments	rating
Diabulus in Musica	Resident	9.12.2010	78	505	+1993

Ho pensato la stessa cosa

23.03.17 @ 04:25

Hans Irgend Blumenfeld	status	registered	comments	rating
Hans Irgend Blumenfeld	Resident	21.04.2014	1589	+330

Hephaestus is a Greek god of blacksmiths, ARTISANS, SCULPTORS, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. His Roman equivalent is Vulcan.
In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of the gods. In another version his mother Hera rejected him, because of his deformity and thrown out of Olympus to the earth contact.
Now, 'Hephaestus Sounds' is one of the few companies that can wipe samples and do a lot with little, true ARTISANS and SCULPTORS that do everything sounding very big and well done, is a company that I trusted blindfolded. I never forget their marvels:
Hephaestus Sounds Spanish Guitar just a few 58 MB
Hephaestus Sounds Grand Concert Harp only 213 MB

There are hundreds of perfect virtual tube organs today, the mainstream are the free 'Myorgan' easy to use without complications, the other is 'Hauptwerk' not so easy, but have all function that the big church organs have, the only contra is that both have no reverb.
But now Hephaestus one is for Kontakt, so I rate 10. My tips...

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The good thing is that all these organs were sampled by Italians in Italy, when they have the most amazing organs of the world in their churchs, all working well.
On the bad side, the packs even in Myorgan, tooks time to read, pipe organs do not need layers, but, need to have just one sample per note along the entire keyboard, now imagine, if you combine a new register called 'STOP', then, there are two samples per note, this way, if you combine all open 'STOPS' , depends of the organ, gives you a number of more or less 16 samples per just one note, this means that in just one octave you´ll have 208 samples, the entire 4 octaves keyboad will have 784 samples on a FULL ORGAN register.
The second upper keyboard called 'SWELL' has other samples, that are not the same of the Principal lower keyboard also called 'GREAT', don't forget that there are dozen of tubes for the pedal bass.
Resume of this opera, in an small church it should have at least 3.000 to 5.000 tubes, now imagine how is sample all that, then when you play, you'll use up to 1568 samples at a time, more 128 samples for the bass, remember that all this in a small organ, each Organ varies the number of tubes.

My tip, for the perfect sound of organs is just one, the French 'Orgue Cavaillé-Coll', this organ will up your music on the top.

A second tip, never, but never buy a physic virtual organ from the trademark 'VISCOUNT', they are awful, beautiful furniture, but it does not sound good, don't even have MIDI record, USB, very limited product, prefer to buy one from Netherlands called 'JOHANNUS'.

A third tip, in canada there are many companies, that sell, all the thing you need to build up a "true" organ console, keyboard controllers with many 'Stop buttons', like those used in true organs, and a full Midi Pedal Board'. https://www.midiworks.ca/

Just a 1 min video from Shrek movie, when the organ appears.
It was amazing, when they decided to use the Pipe Organ in a little passage in the movie Shrek, if you notice the audition, they put the rougher mix that exits, Pipe Organ with Timpanis, but in the movie Shrek is forgiven.

22.03.17 @ 18:51

SuperFly Guy	status	registered	posts	comments	rating
SuperFly Guy	Resident	6.05.2014	11	68	+278

How good is this compared to Sonokinetic Toccata?

23.03.17 @ 06:03

drdark	status	registered	posts	comments	rating
drdark	Resident	18.07.2013	15	373	+564

Toccata still the best and simplest. The releases of samples in this library are too sharp, and therefore the staccatos played are not good. Maybe one should look into envelopes but since toccata also sounds better I have no intention of doing so.

24.03.17 @ 10:12

TheGinnielove	status	registered	posts	comments	rating
TheGinnielove	Member	4.12.2014	1	9	+30

Toccata is one of the worst organ library I've ever played, and Aria's organ too. Fake reverb, fat and dirty sound, the Tutti is horrible especially on high notes, the sound seems to be sampled too far and playing fast you'll get a confusion of notes with the reverb! Italian Concert Organ is the only one (and also some Hauptwerk's organs) that gives me the feeling of a giant organ in front of me, and playing fast notes you can listen to every note clearly! It's just great and gives me goose-bumps with the headphones. I agree about the short releases, I don't know if it is a sampling issue or it's just typical on Italian organs, but setting up the reverb properly you can get great results.

25.03.17 @ 16:40

Hans Irgend Blumenfeld	status	registered	comments	rating
Hans Irgend Blumenfeld	Resident	21.04.2014	1589	+330

Good to remember that 'Pipe Organs' are quiet different form each other, there´re 219 manufacturers in all the world, many companies already closed, from baroque to those of today organs each one has it's own caracteristics, the difference is glaring. Pipes remember me accordions, ones prefer a big full rude sound, while others prefer a Musset.
And the reverberation of each church, changes even more, it is good to remember that the church is part of the composition of the organ. A friend of mine, she has a real pipe organ in her big room, very beautiful, but lacking reverberation.

The French ones are so different from German ones, is not exactly like pianos, that all have piano sound, but each piano has a different timbre, like the timbre of wines, Pipes Organs have more different timbres, in my opinion and common sense among organists, the French Cavaillé-Coll is the best, is like having a 'Steinway&Sons'.
Although manufacturers respect the tradition timbre characteristics of the pipes, of course one was copying the other through history, metallic and woody, like the 'Cromorne pipe' that in other languages they are called: Krummhorn, Clarinet, Schalmei, Chalumeau, well, they try to obey the same tone characteristics, but are never the same.

Another point that can not miss, is the famous 'Nasard or Nazard (Quint, Fifth or Doublette) 2'2 / 3' which is the same drawbar center of all 'Hammond' organs, it is black because it is a drawbar of Mutation, than when placing a fifth it draws that 'Nasal tone', this way you can build the Oboe or Bassoon, you will notice that all 'REEDs' have this black central black Drawbar to register reeds, without it you won't have that 'woody' sound.
Back to tubes, that is, although they follow tradition in pipes constructions, the sound varies greatly from one to another.

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25.03.17 @ 21:33

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