Making pipe organ registration changes in an organ score for playback

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JOHN DAVEY Posted August 07, 2016 01:51

Op system: Windows 7

Notation: Finale 2012c

Library: GPO5

How do I change registrations through an organ part to play the music on different manuals. I have a trumpet and organ piece I have written. I need to be on the great manual only at times, the positive manual only at times, great in the treble staff and positive in the bass simultaneously, and at one point I need to split the treble staff (for only a measure) between the great and the positive because of the way I have notated the music for ease of reading.

I have spent days trying to figure this out. All the ARIA and the GPO5 manuals say is that you can so this or you can do that, but don't say whether I can do what I want to do described above. I should be able to do at least the first three as they happen in nearly every piece of organ music. But in any case there are never any instructions given as to how to do it. And I can't even download a hard copy of the GPO5 manual so I could look through it.

This is a question that probably would be better dealt with a tech support person, except the one I talked with last week regarding using the custom Organ Console to do this wasn't really versed on how it worked and whether I could do this, so I am going to go to the forum in the hope that someone here can help me.

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John Garside Posted August 10, 2016 08:41

Hi John, from another John.

I believe you've posted your question in the wrong place, this part is for feature requests rather than a help desk.

But I'm just a user not a member of the Garritan team.

However, I might be able to answer your question.

Being able to do what you want depends upon whether the three manuals and the pedal board of your organ are able to transmit on separate MIDI channels. If they are then you can load a copy of the custom organ into separate 'slots' in the ARIA player.

If you go to the section in the manual called "Loading instruments and making sounds" and scroll down to the section "Using the custom organ console in a notation program" you will see at sub-sections 15 an 16 a list of MIDI controller messages. These tell you how to load sounds into the twelve sections, switch them on and off, and set their volume levels.

The messages can be sent for each MIDI channel to load the appropriate sounds, have them active or not, and set their levels.

If you want more can you try the regular forum at [url]http://forums.makemusic.com/viewforum.php?f=6&sid=bfdbdb1d96c0ecd69d2003ab4ea69b69[/url].

Regards,

John.

RONALD BROWN Posted August 15, 2016 14:24

Basically what John said. However, an easier approach is to load the registrations you want onto separate channels in your aria player. Then create expressions, one for each register (organ stop), select type channel, and give the channel number where you loaded that particular stop. Then all you need do is insert your expression wherever you need a change.

Greg Moore Posted July 07, 2024 03:22

Why does Finale have no way (or seem to have no way) to simply put an instrument on a staff for some specified period? An organist constantly changes registrations during a piece, often going from full organ to three separate sounds, one on each keyboard, frequently in the middle of a measure. The organist pre-sets a piston and ZAM in an instant the needed sounds are there. Could Finale, or Garritan, create a Piston (as well as about twenty different sounds, at least - the tonal library in the Score Manager is paucid. Either full organ or flutes, and overwhelmed with Baroque shrill stuff. So my normal technique today is to combine orchestral instruments in a huge score derived from the Organ (manual+pedal) score, so I can make an MP3 for review, then annotate the simple (3-line) score. Maybe that's easier and less costly than the Piston concept I propose, but at least I have voiced what Orgnaists need to have proper notation and sound.

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