Organ is full 88 keys virtual organ designed specifically for the iPad & iPhone. You can now play the organ on your device everywhere! With GarageBand for iPad, we are also closer then ever to having a full professional recording studio in a very thin package. But GarageBand can do much more than this: it gives you complete control over its Software Instruments. You can sculpt synth sounds, re-create vintage instruments, change a seventies sound to an '80s instrument, create wonderful electronic sweeps and swirls in synthesizer pads, emulate your favorite artist's axe, etc etc.
Play with the sound of a full cathedral organ, created by award-winning sound designerKurt Ader! This app is designed as professional sound module for your iPad byconnecting external MIDI keyboard(s), using the Apple USB camera adapter oranother adapter supported by Apple¹.
This app supports Apple's Audio Unit v3 plugin standard (iOS 9 or higher),Audiobus, Apple's Inter-App Audio system,as well as the JACK Audio Connection Kit (up to iOS 6.1.3)for audio & MIDI connections from/to other audio apps, as well as Bluetooth LE MIDI !
Sounds
iCathedral Organ generates the sound of a lovely and color rich pipe organ of areal cathedral. All 28 individual stops of such a pipe organ were recorded instate-of-the-art quality to resemble this sound as realistic as possible. Youcan fully control all individual organ stops in real-time, simply by rotatingthe respective knobs, to create your own sounds and save them as your personalsound presets. Or simply select one of the factory sound presets to playimpressive organ sounds right fromt the start.
The sounds of this app were once again created by Kurt Ader, awarded assound designer of the year at the NAMM 2015 winter show!
Demo Video
| Official trailer video of iCathedral Organ. |
App Features
iCathedral Organ was designed as intuitive iOS app for your Apple iPad.Simply connect one (or even several multiple MIDI keyboards and MIDI controllersif you will) with your iPad and enjoy playing a stunningly realistic pipe organ.Even though iCathedral Organ allows configuring various aspects, there is noconfiguration whatsoever required though to use and play it immediately.
Along to the factory presets coming with this app, you also have the option tocreate your own presets. Just setup sound and settings to your needs, tapon the plus button on top of the screen and enter a name for your own newpreset. You may also assign MIDI program change and bank numbers to yourpresets. That way you may switch between presets directly with your externalMIDI keyboard during live performances, without touching or even looking at your iPad.
General Features
- 28 individual organ stops, each one controllable simultaniously in real-time.
- Polyphony up to 140 stereo voices.²
- Configurable audio latency down to 5 ms.
- Low latency disk streaming.
- Integrated cathedral reverb effect.
- App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or while using other audio apps at the same time.
- Hermode Tuning: Makes the sound more brilliant by controlling the pitch of the notes in multivoiced music to better frequency ratios than with fixed tuning. This dynamic tuning imitates the tuning behavior of well educated musicians of i.e. orchestras and choirs.
- Supports Bluetooth LE MIDI devices for playing with wireless MIDI keyboards.
- Supports 'Audio Unit v3' for being used as convenient instrument plug-in with third party mult-track DAW apps (iOS 9 or higher).
- Supports 'Audiobus' for audio routing between apps (iOS 7 or higher).
- Supports Apple's 'IAA' system for audio & MIDI streaming between other apps (iOS 7 or higher).
- Supports JACK Audio Connection Kit for audio & MIDI streaming between other apps (up to iOS 6.1.3).
- Virtual on-screen piano keyboard, scalable & scrollable.
MIDI Support
iCathedral Organ was designed as professional virtual organ sound module.Accordingly it allows you to play it with external MIDI equipment. By defaultthe app simply listens to all MIDI devices connected to your iPad on all MIDIchannels (Omni Mode), that way you can immediately play with an external MIDI keyboardwithout requiring any configuration at all. You do have though various optionsto adjust the MIDI setup of iCathedral Organ to your specific needs as well. For exampleyou may want to connect two or more external MIDI keyboards with your iPad and definewhich organ stops shall be controlled by which one of the externalkeyboards. Since there are a lot of organ stops in this app, the stopswhich are currently enabled are highlighted by the app for you. That way youwill never get confused about which stops you need to route with yourkeyboards for your current sound.
Your MIDI setup will automatically be saved and restored with new sound presetsyou create. That way you can easily restore entire application states and switchbetween them quickly during performances, without wasting one thought aboutsetup issues.
You are on the road with no 'real' MIDI keyboard around? No problem, just scalethe virtual on-screen piano keyboard with two fingers to the size preferred byyou and scroll it with one finger to the keyboard section or octave you want toplay on. The resize and scroll features were implemented in a way which neverwill occur accidently while you are intending to play notes on the virtualkeyboard.
Hermode Tuning
iCathedral Organ includes support for Hermode Tuning, which makesthe sound even more brilliant by controlling the pitch of the notes slightlyand gently in multivoiced music in real-time for achieving better frequency ratios than withfixed tuning. This dynamic tuning algorithm imitates the tuning behavior of welleducated musicians of i.e. orchestras and choirs. You can enable and disableHermode Tuning at any time and you can fine tune the impact of its frequencycorrections.
The Hermode Tuning screen is also an excellent tool for learning or teachingthis professional playing technique with real life instrument players andsingers, since you are able to watch how Hermode Tuning adjuststhe individual active notes in its frequencies and in which degree.
MIDI Player / Recorder
iCathedral Organ comes with a built-in multi-part and multi-track MIDIplayer and recorder, which you can use for easy and quick recording your musicalideas without launching and configuring a separate app or external devices. Hereis a summary of its features:
Player / Recorder Features- Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format.
- Load your favorite songs as MIDI (.mid) files from the Internet, and watch at the virtual keyboard how to play them.
- Unlimited amount of tracks.
- Unlimited recording and playback length.
- Configurable target MIDI channel per track.
- Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail).
- Download or upload MIDI files with iTunes.
- Use the 'Tempo Zoom' dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs more easily.
- Integrated Metronome.
- Use the 'BPM' dial to record new or to overwrite existing tempo changes on the master track.
And there is more about user presets to be mentioned here: The sound presets youcreate also save the MIDI song which you are currently using. This allows youto automatically load MIDI play-alongs which will assist you during liveperformances, and that simply by restoring a sound preset.
You are however not limited to the built-in MIDI player / recorder of course. Ifyou prefer, you can also use any other third party Inter-App Audiocapable sequencer or Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) app like i.e.Apple's Garage Band for recording your organ playings or simply forusing iCathedral Organ as virtual instrument in your favorite Inter-App Audio (IAA)host app.
Polyphony & Supported Devices
Due to the nature of a pipe organ, many sound presets in this app are usingseveral voices per note. This is caused by the fact that pipe organs consistof individual stops which can be controlled and combined in real-time tocreate the respective desired overall sound. Here is an overview of the maximumamount of voices that you may achieve with various iPad models:| Device | Stereo Voices | Mono Voices |
| iPad Air | 140 | 280 |
| iPad Mini 2 | 140 | 280 |
| iPad Mini 1 | 84 | 168 |
| iPad 4 | 140 | 280 |
| iPad 3 | 100 | 200 |
| iPad 2 | 84 | 168 |
| iPad 1 | 40 | 80 |
Appropriate polyphony is automatically detected and selected for your specificdevice model by the app for you. If desired however, you can override thepolyphony setting manually in the app's settings screen. For example to save CPUhead room for other audio apps that you might be running in the backgroundsimultaniously.
Minimum requirement for using iCathedral Organ is an iPad 1st generation.However due to the very limited amount of polyphony that can be achieved on aniPad 1, we recommend to use an iPad 2nd generation or higher with this app.
Please Note: This app requires quite some hardware resources from the device. In casethere are problems with this app, please close apps in the background by double pressingthe device's home button, the list of active apps appears on the bottom of the screen,tap and hold one app icon in the list, then press the respective app icon 'minus' cornerto quit those apps.
User Manual
For more detailed information about iCathedral Organ, please referto the iCathedral User Manual ...
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iCathedral Organ is currently available for the following mobiledevices. In case you encounter any problems while using this app, pleasereport it to us by using the feedback link above.
- Apple iPad:
You can get iCathedral Organ through iTunes from the Apple App Store. You need at least iOS 4.3 or later to be able to use this app.
Hello everyone (that I didn’t scare away with my last post).
Today I thought I’d do something a little different and turn you on to some organ sample sets, free as well as commercial. For the few of you that have no clue what I’m speaking of -A history lesson:
‘Samples’ are snippets of recorded sound used in musical composition. It technically started in the 1940’s with Pierre Schaeffer and ‘Musique Concrète’.
1948!
In the 1960’s Musique Concrète went pop with the birth of the Mellotron, a keyboard that played 8 second lengths of audio tape playing a signle note of an instrument (like a cello, or violin) per key. Certainly, you’ve heard it.
The strings? Mellotron.
Then came the 80’s and with it came digital sampling. The biggest name in the form was the Fairlight CMI.
Peter Gabriel explains the Fairlight! Yes, in English
Art of Noise with their ground breaking Fairlight track (and amusing vid) for “Close To The Edit”
As the decade wore on, the technology became MUCH cheaper and the data storage much smaller resulting in many different choices in the sampling realm. From the heavy duty:
The EMU Emulator II
To the down and dirty:
The Ensoniq Mirage (RACK VERSION)
Pipe Organ Garageband Ipad
Pete Rock wailing on the now legendary EMU SP1200 (among other things)
To the thing you wish you never bought your grandkid for Christmas:
What they sold you…
What you bought!
Replace “Hello My Name Is Herbert” with a fart, or “Billy Is Gay” and the tears, they did flow huh, Gramma? Yep.
Well, with the 90’s came the advent of computer recording and now, in the late Aughties, anyone with a half decent computer or smart phone (iPhone / iPad) has the ability to also run a top of the line sampler / sequencer through any number of DAW programs like Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Fruity Loops, Ableton, Pro-Tool, Garageband, the list is LONG.
go ahead, hit the link, see if I care!
So, why oh, why did I drag through this?
Because some of you love organs, but don’t have the space necessary or means to have one in your home. Well, if you have a computer, enough space on your hard drive, and money to afford a USB MIDI keyboard controller, I think sampling is the solution for you! Once you understand the basics of sampling (terms like MIDI and WAV) and spend a little time with a simple program like Garageband (which comes loaded in most iMacs as far as I know) or Cubase lite, the internet will provide you with more sampled organ sounds than you could believe, often cheap, sometimes free!
Here’s a few places to get some organ samples!:
http://sonimusicae.free.fr/orguedesalon-en.html awesome pipe organ
http://www.forgottenkeys.co.uk/3_fe70.php A Yamaha FE-70 – exactly the kind of organ we love @ Organ *Pron! I’ve bought from Forgotten Keys numerous times, great stuff and SUPER CHEAP! I didn’t know about this until TODAY!! Plenty of classic Drumbox sample sets there, too!
Pipe Organ Garageband Ipad Cover
http://www.sampletekk.com/proddetail.php?prod=PMIDELIVER-007-FORMAT A nice Kontakt style baroque organ
http://www.vintagekeyboardsounds.com/ A bunch of hot combo organs here!
http://audiogeneticslab.com/instruments/free/magnus-chord-organ A free Magnus chord organ set. Actually really cool!
http://www.hollowsun.com/shop/Freepacks Hollow Sun, the masters of the weird sample set, offer up a free Novachord, one of the coolest organ type instruments EVER!
http://www.freesound.org/ Speaking of weird and Musique Concrète…
Here are some VSTi (Virtual Studio Technology instrument), basically simulated digital versions of real instruments – no samples. Some are servicable, some are amazing, as far as organs go, there are TONS and the majority of them are FREE. So, please, mosey on over to KVR Audio check ’em out!