Free Enhancement Package for Theatre Organ Lovers

[voodoo]

Hey Joe,

thank you for the great samples. I could test them meanwhile, and I like them very much.

Thank you also for the great description how to use them. I was missing this help before.

So all is very appreciated. Thanks again.

Uli

[Toplayer2]

My friend Pierre dropped by this afternoon. He kindly recorded a tune using the theatre organ expansion.  I will post a link to it this weekend after converting the file to MP3. Pierre is a fabulous organist. He will be performing at the upcoming national convention of the American Theatre Organ Society in Pasadena.

Joe

[Toplayer2]

Here is a link to "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face", performed by top international artist Pierre Fracalanza on Genos using the Theatre Organ Expansion packs.  This will give you a very good example of the authentic sound of the theatre organ.  Comments are welcome.

Joe

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19oShxULgn3xzuXeNWzkod2OFdViOFpyB/view?usp=sharing

[EileenL]

What a gorgeous performance this was. I have just loaded your sounds into Genos and am enjoying going through them very much. Next thing is to make up some registrations. Wont be able to play like your friend though.

[YOUNG JOHN]

Thank you very much for all samples all downloaded and on my Genos sound great.

Regards

John

[Toplayer2]

What a gorgeous performance this was. I have just loaded your sounds into Genos and am enjoying going through them very much. Next thing is to make up some registrations. Wont be able to play like your friend though.

Hi Eileen,

Thanks for your praise for Pierre's performance.  I am happy to hear that the packs installed into your Genos and hope that you have fun playing them.

Joe

[Toplayer2]

Thank you very much for all samples all downloaded and on my Genos sound great.

Regards

John

Hi John,

You are very welcome!

Joe

[Jean-Pierre 33]

Hello Joe,

I was impressed by the sounds of the theater organs, which remind me of the sounds of the organ of the cinema Gaumont Palace in Paris that I knew in the 60s.

I am tempted to try some sounds because I have a Mutec memory of 2 GB but I have not found the link, thank you in advance to inform me.

Best regards

[tyrosman]

hi Joe What a gorgeous performance this was. I have just loaded your sounds into Tyros 5 and cant wait to get Genos and am enjoying going through them very much. Next thing is to make up some registrations. Wont be able to play like your friend though. but

[Toplayer2]

Hello Joe,

I was impressed by the sounds of the theater organs, which remind me of the sounds of the organ of the cinema Gaumont Palace in Paris that I knew in the 60s.

I am tempted to try some sounds because I have a Mutec memory of 2 GB but I have not found the link, thank you in advance to inform me.

Best regards

Hello Jean-Pierre,

Please contact me on my personal email (remove the * used to foil internet bots)

Hard*y*63*50*@*g*ma*il*.*com

I will reply with the download links for the six expansion packs.

Joe

[Toplayer2]

hi Joe What a gorgeous performance this was. I have just loaded your sounds into Tyros 5 and cant wait to get Genos and am enjoying going through them very much. Next thing is to make up some registrations. Wont be able to play like your friend though. but

Thanks for the compliments for Pierre's music.  I hope you enjoy the theatre organ voices and that your Genos comes soon!

Joe

[Jean-Pierre 33]

Hello Joe,

Thank you very much for the music of Pierre and your Packs which are very good and offer beautiful sounds that will be even better on a future Genos

Best regards

[jimlaing]

Thanks again for all your work in creating and sharing this free Pack of Theatre Organ sounds!  Now I don't have to turn on my big and non-portable Hauptwerk organ to hear some great theatre organ sounds!  I am looking forward to using these in conjunction with the V-Console, to get a somewhat-closer to theatre organ experience.  (using the individual stops and able to layer up to 11 of them).  I'm still amazed this is FREE!  :-)

I wish one of the creators of the great classical organ sample sets, which I have on Hauptwerk, would do a similar thing and make theirs available for Genos/Tyros!

-Jim

[Spirit of the old South]

Continued...

To make best use of this package, a MIDI bass pedal board is recommended.  Attached is a photo of my personal setup as an example.

Joe

I couldn't help noticing how the CP4 works well with the Genos as a lower keybed.

[Sandra77]

Hi , is there any chance of sending me an link please of these wonderful theatre organ sounds
I own a T 4 and see these have been made available as uvn
Id be every so grateful
Regards
Sandra

[Jamist]

So envious of my Genos-owning colleagues!  And sad that my poor S970 can't take advantage of these marvelous sounds. 


Joe, I'm currently using  GrandOrgue running on a laptop to access some wonderful theatre organ samples using a midi controller keyboard..  I think it's a similar platform to  Hauptwerk.   Are your samples available for that platform?

[Toplayer2]

Hello Jim,

I do not have samples for GrandOrgue, but we do offer the free ten rank, three manual Paramount 310. It can be used with the free version of Hauptwerk which runs on PC and Mac.

Joe

[jimlaing]

Hi this is sort of a "Side" topic - but has anyone else transferred Hauptwerk sample sets over to files that work in Genos, as you have with your Paramount sample set?  Would love to have (Even purchase) something like the Willis St. Salisbury Cathedral organ, on my Genos (have it on my Hauptwork) ... or even a smaller but great sounding classical organ sample set.

Jim

[Toplayer2]

Hi Jim,

AFAIK, no other Hauptwerk samples have been ported to Genos and there might be some copyright issues to do so.  While the preset Theatre Organ voices in Genos do not sound very realistic in my opinion, the classical pipe organ voices are actually pretty good.

Joe

[Toplayer2]

How do I obtain the free enhancement package named above What I have listened to sound marvellous. Can they be downloaded .Thank you

Hello Harry,

Yes, please see the very first post at the top of this thread.

Joe

[Jamist]

Joe -
Now I'm even more jealous.  I finally got around to finding out what it would cost to buy hauptwerk and the theatre organ package that has the sounds you've been offering.      Oof.  THATS not gonna happen any time soon!


Seriously, the product sounds just amazing.  No doubt in my mind that it's worth every penny.  I can see why folks buy it.


Blessings,


Jim

[Normanfernandez]

Where's the link to download?

[Roger Brenizer]

Please look at what Joe said when he started this topic, Norman, about emailing him if you want to receive his samples. 

[jimlaing]

This sample set does sound great on the Genos ... also, I've been thinking of *maybe* selling my Hauptwerk-based virtual organ that I've built (which includes this sample set) ... it's become almost too big for my house!  :-)    [If so, I'll post a for-sale wherever those go ...]

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[Normanfernandez]

Hi Joe,

Since your pack is 1.34GB in size, an FL1024M is not enough to hold the complete pack.

Tyros 5 owners will have to install a 3rd party Mutec FMC-07 2-GB flash wave expansion card in order to install your complete pack:
https://www.thomannmusic.com/mutec_fmc_07.htm
https://www.mutec-net.com/product_fmc-567.php#description
https://www.psrtutorial.com/forum/index.php/topic,25917.msg186559.html#msg186559

Thanks,
Paul

Possible on PSR S Series?

[zionip]

Possible on PSR S Series?

Hi Norman,

It depends on which PSR S model you have.  If it is PSR-S970 (512MB expansion flash) or PSR-S975 (768MB expansion flash), you should be able to load this expansion packs through Yamaha Expansion Manager (YEM), current version 2.5.2, and pick and choose the voices you absolutely need to create the pack installation file with the respective expansion size limit of your PSR S keyboard.  The expansion limit of PSR-S770(160MB)/S775 (280MB) is too small to install these packs meaningfully.

Joe broke down the original 1.34GB expansion pack into 6 smaller expansion packs so users have more flexibility in installing these packs (11MB expansion overhead as shown by YEM):
1 Pedal      151MB
2 Accomp   203MB
3 Great A   199MB
4 Great B   319MB
5 Solo        258MB
Theatre Organ Ranks  243MB

From the above information, you can see that for PSR-S970, if you install fully 1Pedal, 2Accomp, and 3GreatA packs, the expansion limit is already exceeded, while for PSR-S975, you can install the above-mentioned 3 packs, but will exceed expansion limit when you add the full 4GreatB pack.  These Theatre Organ expansion packs are really meant for Tyros 5 with optional 1GB / 2GB expansion card installed, and Genos with built-in 1.8GB expansion flash for you to experience the whole package fully.

You can email Joe at hardy6350 *a*t* gmail *d*o*t* com for the download link if you are still interested.

Thanks,
Paul

[Normanfernandez]

It's really horrible to have such low memory on the 770.
It's even worse on the 670 with just 30 MB

Yamaha isn't going to change.
Is there any possible way to use the Voices Via USB ?

[zionip]

Is there any possible way to use the Voices Via USB ?

My speculation is "possible". 

In order to achieve this purpose, you will have to have a Yamaha arranger keyboard with enough expansion flash size, such as Genos, to install these complete packs.  Then from that keyboard, you have to save the voices of the expansion packs one by one as .vce files on the USB drive, from which you can load on another Yamaha arranger keyboard, such as PSR-S970, with a compatible tone generator, up to its specific user voice size limitation. 

The process is so tedious and boring that no one wants to do this.  I installed these packs twice to test and experience their contents, but they were gone when I installed other expansion packs due to the lack of expansion flash.

Thanks,
Paul

[Normanfernandez]

So vce. Is possible on any Arranger Workstation Keyboard??
To be able to make it.
How do I get it to be VCE?

[zionip]

When I saved some test expansion voices on the USB drive of my Genos, the saved files have the .vce file name extension, for example, "ErHu1.vce".  Genos recognizes ErHu1.vce as a valid user voice.

You can perform some experiments on your own Yamaha arranger keyboard to verify the concept.

Thanks,
Paul