rssIt is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet - Carl Jung
2007, April 25
Family Visit
A visit to my daughter and granddaughter.
A small child in a large world - she heads out to explore.
The family cats resting after a full day of avoiding being child-handled.
The family lives near a small beach and large hills in the central coast of California, great for hiking and exploring. She is becoming an outdoor child.
I spent most of my time reformatting and rebuilding my daughter's computer. It was a good visit, we accomplished a lot, and spent some very good time together.
2007, April 08
Farewell to Sister
Our household is diminished.
This week Sister, a cat who made her home with us, passed away. She had been ill for a long time and at last it was time.
She was the soul of the garden. I hope that where she has gone, she has a large, fragrant and sunny garden all to herself. We miss her.
2007, April 05
More from Hauptwerk
Cool pictures from Hauptwerk.nl.
The organ sounds for Hauptwerk, by Crumhorn labs, are recorded as samples then published by many sample set producers. Hauptwerk.nl has created sample sets for organs in the Netherlands. Below is one of the church organs they have sampled.
Wouldn't you love to do an organ tour of Europe?
2007, March 18
Hauptwerk Virgual Pipe Organ Software
James Pressler uses Hauptwerk to create his music files at Virtual Baroque.
Hauptwerk is a wonderful program from England; your computer can become a pipe organ. It uses sound samples of organs from all over the world; if attached to an adequate sound system, it can serve as an organ for churches, auditoriums, or in outdoor public spaces.
James Pressler uses Hauptwerk to create all his wonderful mp3 organ files on Virtual Baroque. He occasionally has midi files and a few wav files available also.
Using My Super PC and PC Perspective Hardware Leaderboard as starting points, I recently spent some time virtually building a Windows system that would meet Hauptwerk requirements and I was surprised to find that the cost, though self-built, was comparable to an equivalent Mac system.
Then, a few weeks later, the news broke from Hauptwerk:
Hauptwerk is now available for the Apple Mac (Intel and G4/G5) as well as Windows PCs. It performs so well on the current Mac range and OS X that we now recommend them as an ideal platform for Hauptwerk.
So now you can have the best of both worlds, the Mac world and the Hauptwerk Organ world. You can blow your neighbors' socks off with your virtual pipe organ on your Mac.
