Each one can be tweaked if need be with its own set of individual controls although you are limited to a maximum of four at a time.
Reed Oboe and Strings are both good and the Tutti provides a full in-your-face organ sound, great with the Cathedral reverb, one of nine preset signal chain effects available. The actual 4’ and 8’ basic flutes themselves posses a pipe-like tone, as you might expect but the 16’ 8’ flute is much fuller with a powerful full organ sound. By contrast Mezzoforte 8’ has a much mellower flutey quality. Piping Up Plenum 16’ is top of the list with a rich powerful sound, every note sounding pure and clear, no matter how full the chord. Several convolution spaces are available with the included ARIA player. Two modern pipe organs are also represented in the collection which features 75 stops and combinations. Setting up sounds quickly is a simple matter of choosing one of the dozen mix ready presets.Īlternatives Garritan Classic Pipe Organs (£66) contains no less than six different pipe organs spanning four hundred years – baroque, classical, renaissance and romantic. He tells us in the website promotional video that the sound is very smooth and clear, making it possible to play a large variety of music from baroque through to modern. There’s also a generous set of non-traditional presets for creating new soundscapes.Īll Clear Many pipe organs sound muddy and are tricky to record, especially those installed in large church buildings with poor acoustics.Īware of the difficulties and because he wanted to create an instrument that could be used for both traditional and modern music, the man behind the sampling of the EZkeys Pipe Organ, Björn Gäfvert, himself an organist, chose to play and record the organ installed in the Täby Kyrka, a historic church dating back to the 13th century. Pipe organs are not usually associated with songwriting, unless perhaps you write hymns, but Toontrack tells us that it was designed to fit the songwriting-friendly format they are known for and includes the most characteristic pipe organ stops and instruments. The eighth, this new release, features the pipe organ from a medieval church in Sweden.