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Although Virtual Pipe Organs aren't necessarily designed to replace an actual pipe organ or electronic organ, they can be used very effectively as a very low cost practice organ with the addition of a couple of low cost "Midi" Keyboards. If a Virtual organ is added to an existing Organ's console, it can add a tremendous amount of new sounds and features that previously cost many thousands of dollars with dedicated "Digitally Sampled Sound Modules" for virtually nothing!
I think it goes without saying that the Miditzer Virtual Organ is a breakthrough in midi control software. Jim Henry who developed the Miditzer should be highly praised for all of his hard work. The Miditzer is a complete Midi Control system that can control all 16 + midi channels simultaneously on each keyboard by selecting instrument tabs (stops) while playing. In addition actual sound font recordings of individual Wurlitzer and other Theatre Pipe Organ ranks from the Universal Sound Font Project (USF), or the Universal GigaStudio File Project (UGSF), along with other actual orchestral instruments can be used with the Miditzer for incredibly authentic sound quality. The Miditzer also allows you to easily set 23 individual and general combination pistons to control the virtual instrument(s) keyboard sounds with the push of a button. Further more you can store 10 banks of these combinations for even greater flexibility in instrument selection.
The MidiTzer Linux Project, Concieved by Russ Ashworth, Graham Goode, and others, purpose is to try and develop a basic plug and play MidiTzer distribution package that can be run under a stand alone version of Linux. Please feel free to download and experiment with this project file. The discussion concerning this project is located on:
Downloads:
Just a few quick things to note:
Starting Puppy:
1. Burn the ISO to a CD & set your computer to 'boot from CD'.
2. Boot your computer with the CD. Puppy will load into the RAM, not onto the HardDrive.
3. When Puppy first loads there are a few options that can be set... first try it with no extra options. If it freezes then reboot and try entering puppy acpi=off.
4. Choose your computer keyboard type (i.e. US)
5. Choose Xorg if you have a newish graphics card, otherwise choose Xvesa (If you choose Xorg and things go wrong just reboot, and when you get to this step choose Xvesa).
6. Select the screen resolution (I use 1024X728) and choose Test.
7. If it all works choose OK.
8. Puppy should now be configured and you should hear a barking sound!
Starting Miditzer:
NOTE: Puppy uses ONE MOUSE CLICK to start a program so try not to double click anything.....
1. Click on JACK Control (this will load and start the JACK Audio Connection Kit)
2. Click on Qsynth (This will load and start three Qsynth soundfonts setup for Miditzer 216 and 260)
3. Click on Miditzer 216 and wait a while - the first time it starts up on a new system is quite long. Test sound using the mouse.
Starting Miditzer with USB Midi devices:
As above, except that once you have loaded and configured Puppy you should turn on your USB Midi keyboards (It should accept 2 or 3 with this configuration).
Once Miditzer is loaded right-click on the top bar to get the menu, then configure the MIDI inputs as you would in Windows.
Saving your Puppy configuration:
Puppy gives you the option of saving your modifications to a file on your harddrive that it will look for and load the next time you boot from the CD. It will present this option when you shutdown/reboot. I keep a file 512Meg in size on my Windows drive that keeps all my settings.
What I'm looking for:
I basically wanting to know if people can get Miditzer up and running using this image. If you have any problems, let me know. Any suggestions, let me know. Any questions, let me know :-)
I'm not a Linux expert in any way shape or form, so this has been a learning curve for me as well.
Have fun!
GrahamG
Johannesburg
This is a picture of the custom 3 Manual Key Desk using the Organ Works CMK Keyboards. Another version of this uses wood Wurlitzer Replica true 2nd touch keyboards instead of the single touch Organ Works CMK keyboards. Versions are available up to 5 manuals.
RELATED LINKS of INTEREST
In addition Jim Henry has a Miditzer Discussion Forum on his website where you can get a tremendous amount of very useful information and help if you need it!
This is a small shot of the Miditzer Style 216 console control screen
2, 3 and 4 Manual Miditzer Hardware Packages, 2nd Touch Keyboards, S.A.M Stop Rails
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The Theatre-sf Group is all about Virtual Theatre Pipe Organs
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Other Free Downloads
SymphIV23k Version of the Sound Font (245MB) (Updated 07/24/07): Allman_SymphIValpha23k.Sf2
Info on the Symphonic IV 4-54 4-54 VTPO Console for jOrgan 2.3
Note: Although this sound font was built for the 4/54 jOrgan Symphonic IV disposition, the SympIV alpha23a sound font for the most part is patch number compatible with the Bruce Miles or John Tay's sound fonts and Jim Henry's Miditzer 216 / 260 Organs with a few minor exceptions. I would suggest you plug this font into bank 27 or 28 and point which ever Miditzer stops you want to use from it to the new bank you plugged it into.
If you would like to play or experiment with a much larger instrument with 390+ stops and 54+ ranks. Here is a link to more information about the jOrgan Symphonic IV (4/54)
Universal VTPO Sound Font (USF) Project
Universal GigaStudio File (UGSF) Project
There has been a lot of discussion in the forums over the need for a high quality Stereo Theatre Pipe Organ Sound Font that can be used for the MidiTzer and jOrgan to achieve a similar sound quality. If you have any recordings in stereo of an individual Theatre Pipe Organ rank or ranks and have sampled every pipe with 3+ second stereo samples with 2 seconds in between notes. I am willing to act as a clearing house to help the VTPO community build a high quality Universal sound font for everyone to use. If you upload the recordings to the FTP link below, I will volunteer to do the processing of the rank(s) into a Universal Sound Font for MidiTzer and jOrgans VTPO's. What I'm willing to do is remove the blower, wind leakage and background noise from the samples, looping the samples, terracing (balance) the rank(s) and compile them to the Universal Sound Font.
Even If you have any stereo sample recordings which you think may have too much background, blower or wind noise, please upload them anyway, I have some extremely good software that might be able to remove virtually all background noise without hurting the quality or fidelity of the actual pipe sounds.
Please Click Here for instructions on how to use the Vienna 2.3 Sound Font Editor
Here is another instruction link on the Vienna 2.3 Sound Font Editor
The FTP link is: ftp://72.29.87.235/incoming When the link opens simply copy the file from your computer and paste it on to the open FTP page window where you will see an existing instruction file there already, be sure to paste on an open, blank area on the page, not on or over top of the instruction file or other files. If you try to paste over an area near one of the existing files your "paste" option will be greyed out and won't work.
Be Sure that the Internet Explorer: Tools\Internet Options\Advanced\"Use Passive FTP (for firewall and DSL Modem compatability)" is turned on (checked). Please email me with the details of your upload at: rkallman@allmanmusic.com
With your help we can bring a very high quality free stereo sound font to life for our VTPO community that we can all use and enjoy with our MidiTzer and jOrgans.
