Player Organ - an organ music player for church services
A companion app for Pipe Organ, Player Organ contains the same premium-quality Virtual Pipe Organ and reverberation engine, but wrapped in an interface which is easier and safer for use by non-musicians in a worship service context. Player Organ was designed for use by priests as vacation or illness cover for organists, or for use when the church's pipe organ is out of action. However, at this time when Coronavirus social distancing measures are in place and the organist and priest are not able to be in the church building at the same time, Player Organ is an excellent solution.
PLAYER ORGAN IS AVAILABLE FREE DURING UK CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN VIA PUBLIC BETA - if you want to use Player Organ during the Coronavirus lockdown period, we are providing a fully-featured version via Public Beta. So rather than purchasing Player Organ from the App Store, instead download Apple's 'Testflight' onto your device, then go to this link - https://testflight.apple.com/join/wSBxqWB1- to download the Public Beta. We will keep this Public Beta available until churches are once again allowed to have congregations with no restrictions on numbers or proximity.
PLAYER ORGAN IS AVAILABLE FREE DURING UK CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN VIA PUBLIC BETA - if you want to use Player Organ during the Coronavirus lockdown period, we are providing a fully-featured version via Public Beta. So rather than purchasing Player Organ from the App Store, instead download Apple's 'Testflight' onto your device, then go to this link - https://testflight.apple.com/join/wSBxqWB1- to download the Public Beta. We will keep this Public Beta available until churches are once again allowed to have congregations with no restrictions on numbers or proximity.
Using Player Organ
In short - Pipe Organ is used by organists to record and prepare organ music, Player Organ is used by priests and worship leaders to play back that organ music in a worship service.
An organist / pianist will use Pipe Organ and one or more MIDI controller keyboards to play pieces of organ music, and record the performances as ultra-compact 'hymn' files. When the individual pieces of music are in place, the organist will arrange them within Pipe Organ as a 'Service'.
The Service is then 'shared' (typically via email) to the priest, who can then use Player Organ to reperform the pieces in the service. The Service files are very, very small - a typical service of 12 pieces of music, including voluntaries, hymns and sung eucharist, will only be 20-30 kBytes in size, easily emailed from organist to priest even in areas with very weak internet connectivity.
Player Organ contains the same Virtual Pipe Organ model as Pipe Organ - go here for some video examples to hear how it sounds.
An organist / pianist will use Pipe Organ and one or more MIDI controller keyboards to play pieces of organ music, and record the performances as ultra-compact 'hymn' files. When the individual pieces of music are in place, the organist will arrange them within Pipe Organ as a 'Service'.
The Service is then 'shared' (typically via email) to the priest, who can then use Player Organ to reperform the pieces in the service. The Service files are very, very small - a typical service of 12 pieces of music, including voluntaries, hymns and sung eucharist, will only be 20-30 kBytes in size, easily emailed from organist to priest even in areas with very weak internet connectivity.
Player Organ contains the same Virtual Pipe Organ model as Pipe Organ - go here for some video examples to hear how it sounds.
