A beautifully-voiced English Pipe Organ - for church, for home, for choir practice and performance
• 21 ranks in total, featuring a rich and well-balanced collection of Principals, Flutes, Strings and Reeds
• Playable by a single attached USB MIDI keyboard, with 'Automatic Pedal' feature
• Expandable up to 2 Manuals, Pedals, Swell Pedal AND Crescendo Pedal
• 7 programmable memory banks of 8 pistons gives 56 custom registrations, available at a touch via MIDI keyboards with drum pads
• 44.1 / 48kHz audio device support
• In-app Hymnal - record and play back hymns, assemble and share complete services
• Export performances or pieces from Hymnal as CD quality .wav files
• Lower cost and higher flexibility than 'Worship CDs' of pre-recorded organ music
• Tiny application - Wavetable Trajectory Synthesis allows Church Organ to squeeze into less than 30MB
CHURCH ORGAN brings you all the classic tones of a small English Pipe Organ, and offers an instrument that can grow with your budget and your abilities. Whether you are a learner musician, a skilled pianist with no organ experience or a virtuoso pipe organist, you will find the huge range of tones available from Pipe Organ's 21 ranks of simulated pipes extremely rewarding. You can begin playing with a single 49-key USB MIDI keyboard, and progress from there onto a full Pipe Organ experience with 2 61-key manuals, 32-note pedalboard, Swell Pedal and Crescendo Pedal - or any combination inbetween.
Automatic bass pedal - helps pianists create an authentic 'organ' sound
When played without pedals, the Auto Pedal feature adds an automatic bass note in the pedal division. An option to fold the pedal note into the lowest octave of the pedal division gives a very convincing impression of an independently-played bass line. When playing with a single USB MIDI keyboard - you may be at home, in the studio, or a remote, infrequently-used church without a pipe organ - the combination of the Swell to Great coupler and Auto Pedal means that every sound the organ can make is available at your fingertips through a single keyboard.
Combining the best of traditional pipe organ sounds with MIDI convenience
Modern MIDI controller keyboards contain useful sliders, rotary controls, modulation wheels and drum pads. If you choose to use a Novation LaunchKEY keyboard, everything you need is at your fingertips without having to set up anything inside the app. The LaunchKEY's Mod Wheel by default acts as a Swell Pedal, the first 4 rotary controls operate to control the in-app reverberation, the fifth rotary control acts as a Crescendo pedal, the volume slider changes the application's overall volume, and the 16 drum pads operate the apps' Pistons and Piston Banks. 7 banks of 8 pistons give you the ability to access 56 programmable registration presets at the touch of a button.
Automatic bass pedal - helps pianists create an authentic 'organ' sound
When played without pedals, the Auto Pedal feature adds an automatic bass note in the pedal division. An option to fold the pedal note into the lowest octave of the pedal division gives a very convincing impression of an independently-played bass line. When playing with a single USB MIDI keyboard - you may be at home, in the studio, or a remote, infrequently-used church without a pipe organ - the combination of the Swell to Great coupler and Auto Pedal means that every sound the organ can make is available at your fingertips through a single keyboard.
Combining the best of traditional pipe organ sounds with MIDI convenience
Modern MIDI controller keyboards contain useful sliders, rotary controls, modulation wheels and drum pads. If you choose to use a Novation LaunchKEY keyboard, everything you need is at your fingertips without having to set up anything inside the app. The LaunchKEY's Mod Wheel by default acts as a Swell Pedal, the first 4 rotary controls operate to control the in-app reverberation, the fifth rotary control acts as a Crescendo pedal, the volume slider changes the application's overall volume, and the 16 drum pads operate the apps' Pistons and Piston Banks. 7 banks of 8 pistons give you the ability to access 56 programmable registration presets at the touch of a button.
Integrated Player Organ - huge Hymnal storage, flexible playback options, export to wav file
Church Organ contains an integrated Hymnal and music playback system, driven by ultra-compact 'hymn' files. The in-app hymnal can store up to 1024 different pieces of music, yet consumes very very little storage on your computer by utilizing a custom file format that delivers complete timing and performance accuracy at less than half the size of a MIDI file.
A recorded performance of a single piece of music can use up to 8 different registrations of stops during the performance (a single Bank of 8 Pistons), and registration changes are captured during recording so that the played back music is as close as possible to the recorded performance.
5 separate 'Services' or Recitals can be stored in the app, and can be freely shared between computers running Church Organ or iOS devices running Pipe Organ or Organ Player. You can choose to share single hymns, an entire service or your entire hymnal.
When played back as part of a Service or Recital, playback options allow the key of the song to be transposed up or down by up to 5 semitones relative to the recorded key, and the playback speed can be modified to be up to 2x or down to 0.5x the recorded speed.
Think of what you can do with a gorgeous-sounding Church Organ that can play itself - choir practice or a church service can still go ahead, even when your organist is indisposed. Best of all, with a small battery-powered amplifier you can take an organ and organist with you when you go Christmas caroling ...
A recorded performance of a single piece of music can use up to 8 different registrations of stops during the performance (a single Bank of 8 Pistons), and registration changes are captured during recording so that the played back music is as close as possible to the recorded performance.
5 separate 'Services' or Recitals can be stored in the app, and can be freely shared between computers running Church Organ or iOS devices running Pipe Organ or Organ Player. You can choose to share single hymns, an entire service or your entire hymnal.
When played back as part of a Service or Recital, playback options allow the key of the song to be transposed up or down by up to 5 semitones relative to the recorded key, and the playback speed can be modified to be up to 2x or down to 0.5x the recorded speed.
Think of what you can do with a gorgeous-sounding Church Organ that can play itself - choir practice or a church service can still go ahead, even when your organist is indisposed. Best of all, with a small battery-powered amplifier you can take an organ and organist with you when you go Christmas caroling ...
Turn an old, unloved Mac into a wonderful musical instrument
Church Organ runs perfectly on any Mac that can run OS 10.15 Catalina. Anything modern enough to run Catalina will have performance to spare, as this codebase runs flawlessly on a 10 year old iPad 2.
Video and Audio - watch, learn about Church Organ, and enjoy the music
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Exporting a piece from the Hymnal to a .wav file
Note the 'power user' trick - open up the Reverb Settings window by clicking on the image of the organ in the middle of the screen, and keep the reverb window open as you enter the Hymnal. You can then tweak reverb settings while previewing the piece to get the sound just right before committing to the wav recording. To export, touch the 'wav' button to the left of the trash can - it will start to flash green - then hit play. Exporting involves a full playthrough of the piece, and stops a couple of seconds beyond the end of the piece to allow the reverb tails to die away. The exported wav file is placed in the "Church Organ Exports" folder in your Mac's "Music" folder. You can see that the folder is empty before the export, and has "Flute Piece.wav" after the playthrough is complete. |
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By purchasing Church Organ you provide financial support for Friends of Friendless Churches. The Friends of Friendless Churches was set up in 1957 to save disused but beautiful old places of worship of architectural and historical interest from demolition, decay and unsympathetic conversion. Working across England and Wales, they are an independent, non-denominational charity which cares for over 50 former places of worship and has helped hundreds more. |
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Thanks to Piotr Grabowski for permission to use his 'Friesach' samples as the basis for these wavetables
Our wavetables were derived from the beautifully-recorded sample set of the 'Friesach' organ, recorded by Piotr Grabowski in Friesach, Austria. For more details about the Friesach Organ, and to download the sample set to play on a PC-based Virtual Pipe Organ, go here. Our process took a selection of Piotr's Friesach samples, extracted the harmonic fingerprints from the sounds, reconstructed the pipe's attack and decay dynamics, and rebuilt them into this lovely organ, of much smaller scale and very different sound to the orginal, but retaining the pipes' characteristic harmonic content.
Our wavetables were derived from the beautifully-recorded sample set of the 'Friesach' organ, recorded by Piotr Grabowski in Friesach, Austria. For more details about the Friesach Organ, and to download the sample set to play on a PC-based Virtual Pipe Organ, go here. Our process took a selection of Piotr's Friesach samples, extracted the harmonic fingerprints from the sounds, reconstructed the pipe's attack and decay dynamics, and rebuilt them into this lovely organ, of much smaller scale and very different sound to the orginal, but retaining the pipes' characteristic harmonic content.