Not possibleFirst off, I don’t want this thread to become another “digital vs. pipes” battle.
Roland isn’t even in the game anymore, as best I can tell, and they never specialized in it the way the others do. Allen has gotten better in the last few years, but from what I’ve heard my ear still prefers Rodgers stuff if it’s voiced well. We had a Rodgers installed at my last church and I was very happy with it.Allen mostly And Roland which beats them all I would suspect.
only if the organ is DE. In any case, I highly suspect Austin would have done more unification during install if it made sense for the spec list. They wouldn’t arbitrarily limit the already limited instrument if more unification had really been possible.Sometimes, it is possible to get more out of a small pipe organ.
Mattspmusic0320 May 21
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You might look into Viscount. They seem to be aggressively trying to position their consoles and technology in the hybrid direction. They just released a whole new product line of organs for the North American market with their newest version of Physis Technology.
Oh—and if you do unify, avoid faking mutation stops. They aren’t tuned pure since they are derived, and it’s painful. Digital mutations would sound a lot better. (I lived with a 5 tank schantz that was unified to kingdom come and I did not come away impressed… the mutations bothered me the most. They unified one flute rank 16 thru 1 1/3, with everything in between. Talk about squeezing out every last drop… don’t do that. Please don’t do that.)
I am seeking to expand the capabilities of the small Austin pipe organ at the mission church where I am employed, but given extremely minimal space constraints I am considering the option of hybridizing
First off, I don’t want this thread to become another “digital vs. pipes” battle. I’ve seen so many of those types of discussions, and I understand that people are very passionate about it, but I’m not interested in that argument!
Thanks for this. This interests me because, over a year ago, Austin actually shared a proposal with my predecessor which included wiring one of the existing 8’ swell ranks to play a nazard 2 2/3 voice. If I understand you, this is precisely what you are warning against doing? Better to hybridize and use digital mutations?
For Heaven’s sake gentlemen, not again. Ugh.
Organs are expensive and correcting mistakes can take decades.
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