OMG. People have modeled pipe organs! By “people” here I mean Modartt and by “modeled” I mean everything. Pipes, chiff, tremulants… even the mechanical clonking of stops which I went way overboard with here but just sound so good.

It’s a little weird to see such a detailed physical model for an instrument that’s not known for its expressivity — no velocity, aftertouch, or glide here. But I'm thrilled someone did it because there’s just a ton of spontaneous and chaotic interplay between the parts of a machine as large and complicated as an organ. It’s hard to capture it all in samples. And when you try it’s always “wet” (reverb kind of gets baked in when your instrument is a supporting wall of a structure). And huge. The modeled sounds, on the other hand are dry as a bone (which is otherworldly) allowing me to add whatever real or artificial reverb I like. And the entire Organteq plugin is only 16Mb!

And, I mean, I'm a little uneasy around houses of worship, and they wouldn't let me mess with their hardware regardless, so how else am I going to get to play around with something like this? The abundance of creative tools we have in this age is absurd!!

Anyway, here’s a fugue.

Tags: classical, fugue, modartt, organ, organteq, pipe organ, week 50 2022, View by:jemmons