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127th AES Convention Coverage (New York, NY Oct. 9-12)
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New Pipe Organ Library for GigaSampler
October 12, 1999
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NemeSys Music Technology, Inc. announced the release of the Peter Ewers’ Symphonic Organ Soundware for GigaSampler® today. Digitally recorded in 20-bit resolution, this library captures the powerful sound of The Grand Cavaillé-Coll Pipe Organ at La Madeleine, Paris. Priced at $359 (US dollars), this library marks the first time a world-class pipe organ has been captured with full performance articulation, as well as its natural acoustic environment – all playable in real-time with GigaSampler’s state-of-the-art Behavioral Sampling technologies. “The recording and editing on this project took thousands of man-hours to complete. I’m delighted to finally present this instrument to the GigaSampler community,” enthused Ewers. “Without GigaSampler’s enormous sampling capacity and Dimensions performance technology it would have been impossible to capture the essence of this incredible organ,” Ewers continued. “It is truly a crowning achievement.” Earlier attempts to digitally sample the original sound of a pipe or a pipe-family (a “stop”) employed small samples which were artificially looped, often without their original attack phases, and the characteristic sound of the pipes was lost. The solution was to employ the patented EndlessWave™ technology (exclusively licensed to NemeSys by Conexant Systems, Inc.). Via EndlessWave, digital samples can be streamed from a mass storage device such as a hard disk without the usual latency access time restrictions of mass storage media. Additionally - due to the nature of previous digital sampling processes - the acoustic resonances of a given space, like the St. Madeleine, are lost, requiring the addition of reverb simulations. Using the key release-triggered sampling capability of the NemeSys GigaSampler, recorded samples of the church acoustics can be heard upon releasing the key – with the added benefit of continuous, real-time control over the volume of the natural acoustic space. "NemeSys’s mission is to bring immaculately recorded instruments into the hands of musicians and producers everywhere," added Francis Preve, Program Director for NemeSys. “This is the only way to achieve the sound of a perfectly recorded Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ – without travelling to Paris with a suitcase full of microphones. We’re delighted to be offering such an incredible instrument at this price point.” Since its introduction in 1998, NemeSys’s GigaSampler has become the fastest growing platform for software-based audio sampling. With over 50 soundware titles available in native format from premier developers like Qup Arts, Miroslav Vitous, Sampleheads and Best Service, as well as widespread acceptance of its high-performance/low-latency GSIF multi-channel interface, GigaSampler represents the state-of-the-art in today’s sampling technology. In 1846, the organbuilder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899) provided the Èglise de la Sainte-Madeleine in Paris, consecrated in 1842, with the organ that today enriches the monumental nave of this church both visually and tonally. About Peter Ewers Peter Ewers was born in 1963 and studied organ with Christopher Grohman. During his five-year tenure as organist at St. Pius, Wiedenbruck, Germany, he founded a publishing house for musicology. Peter spent the next five years as assistant organist at Paderborn Cathedral and in 1996, released his first CD of improvisations on this organ. One year later, an improvisation CD of Peter playing the Grand Organ of the Èglise de la Sainte-Madeleine was recorded, winning the “Coup de Choer” from Professor Jean Ferrard of the internationally recognized “Magazine de l’orge” For more information, visit their web site at http://www.nemesysmusic.com/.Recent NemeSys headlines
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