[rodgersorgan] Re: SOL


Yes, Yes, Yes.
Jack says it all

Ralph Cullen
Rodgers (and Kurzweil) Dealer New Zealand.


>The following are comments from Jack Cormack who also has a Kurzweil K2600RS.
>
>The Kurzweil is extremely powerful, and at first extremely intimidating --
>it was to me
>at least. !!!!  But what you can do with it is absolutely amazing and
>wonderful.
>On a 3-manual organ, the Kurzweill can address all 8 MIDI pistons
>simultaneously, each with a different sound.
>
>I received a set of tibia samples that had:
>Tibia 8 tremelo
>Tibia 8 & 4 tremelo
>Tibia 8 & 2 tremelo
>Tibia 16 & 2 tremelo
>Tibia 8 no tremelo
>
>After I learned enough about the Kurzweil to examine the above
>combinations, they are
>composed of one or more layers of sounds.  For example, the Tibia 8 & 4 
>has the
>8 foot stop on layer one and the four foot stop on layer 2.  I can adjust
>the amplitude
>of each layer independently and  the tuning of each layer independently.  I
>can also add layers,
>tuned to whatever pitch and loudness I choose.
>
>So I have made a "doppler tibia 8" by tuning the second layer to the third
>harmonic of the
>8 foot layer.  Just how much "doppler" sound you want is done by choosing
>the loudness
>of the second layer as compared to the first layer.  I have also made a 3
>layer tibia stop
>with the first layer at 8 foot, the second layer at the third harmonic, and
>the third layer
>at the fifth harmonic, adjusting the amplitudes of each layer to provide
>the sound, that
>to my ears sounds best.  That combination also is saved as one stop.  Of
>course if your organ
>has an 8 foot flute, a 2 2/3 flute, and a 1 3/5 flute, you can get a
>similar sound by selecting
>all 3, but in that case you have no control over the relative loudness of
>the three stops.
>With the Kurzweil, the sounds are available on any of the any/all MIDI
>pistons of your choice.
>
>There is a set of theatre samples available free from the Kurzweil web
>site.  They are passable,
>but not great.  They include tibias, strings, voxes, reeds from Wurlitzer,
>Barton, and Kimball theatre
>organs.  One can manipulate the relative amplitude and tuning of the
>various layers in the many
>combinations already set up in this group of samples.  This set combines
>tibias, voxes,
>strings and reeds in many "presets" .
>
>One is not limited to 3 layers -- some of the built in sounds in the
>Kurzweil have over 20 layers.
>In my view the Kurzweil sounds are the among the best in the industry, if
>not the best.  But
>for organists, there are relatively few sounds that I find useful.
>
>I have added an internal hard drive to my K2600RS, and external CD player,
>and a  JAZ drive.
>When I want to listen to the MIDI files that Noel ( our group moderator)
>produces, I get the
>General Midi sounds via my computer with a sound card that has the GM and
>GM extensions
>and is also interfaced to our Rodgers Trillium 927.  There are several sets
>of classical pipe
>organ samples available for purchase -- none cheap !!  I haven't bought
>them yet.
>If anyone has bought such, I would appreciate your recommendations.
>
>A real expert in the use of Kurzweil as a source of pipe organ sounds is
>Ron Pearcy in New
>Zealand.  His Rodgers 360 as augmented by Kurzweil has been used as the
>instrument for
>a professional musician to make a CD for sale to the public.
>
>To sum it all up, the Kurzweil is really great, but requires a fair amount
>of dedication to be
>able to understand and use its capabilities.  The voluminous instruction
>manuals that come
>with it are written by people who already know how to use the
>Kurzweil.  The manuals are
>difficult to find information without considerable digging.  Typical
>manuals written by people
>who already know the Kurzweil and only need the manuals occasionally to
>refresh their
>memory.  The info is there, but it isn't always easy to find.!!!!! <grin>
>
>We are on our second Rodgers organ and never bought the PR300 since, in my
>view, it
>is quite limited and has no pipe organ sounds built in.  I want pipe organ
>sounds to
>augment the organ, not helicpoters, whistles, gunshots, birdcalls, and
>orchestral sounds, etc.
>
>Some may disagree with the above -- after all this is the land of freedom
>of speech, isn't it?
>And it is obvious that the above are my opinions -- nothing more.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Jack Cormack
>Potomac, Maryland
>========================================================
>
> >My point is, the PR300S is great for what it is...an entry level sound
> >module, sequencer.  It sounds to me like what you want to do really
> >calls for some hardware with more muscle.
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >Bob Leety
> >Monroe, CT
>
>
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