Features

Hauptwerk's features allow musicians to take advantage of experiencing the most realistic sounding virtual pipe organs, high quality original instruments, and maximum adaptability to the most current as well as older computers and hardware and nearly all digital organ consoles with MIDI output. Hauptwerk is constantly being developed and improved to maintain its status as the world's most advanced virtual pipe organ. View the features datasheet for an extensive list of Hauptwerk's complete features.

 Features Datasheet

Key features:

Historical Instruments

With Hauptwerk you can play the most realistic sounding virtual instruments, and also experience musical history from many centuries and styles of organ building. Hauptwerk has an extensive library of instruments available from 3rd party developers capturing musical history from countries all over the world. Play a baroque organ one minute and change over to a romantic or theatre organ the next minute! View all instruments >

State-of-the-art software
for state-of-the-art hardware

Hauptwerk is fully optimized for the latest generation of Mac and PC computers and supports multi-core/multi processors as well as full 64 bit support on both PCs and Macs for accessing more memory and giving you ultimate performance. Hauptwerk also runs perfectly well on older computers while still offering powerful performance options. View requirements >

Free Instrument Included

The 1907 Brindley and Foster organ of St. Anne's, Moseley, Birmingham, England is included free with Hauptwerk to get you started right out of the box. This instrument contains 30 stops featuring chromatic pipe samples, expression pedal, blower noise, stop action noise, a fully adjustable 40 stage crescendo pedal, photo-realistic console including displays optimized for dual touch screens, numerous playing aids and more! Learn more >

Professional Audio

Hauptwerk supports up to 32 bit 96kHz audio sample resolution and supports Apple's Core Audio and Steinberg's VST and ASIO technology, the standards for professional audio. Listen >

Multiple Audio Output Support

Hauptwerk supports up to 512 channels of audio offering complete freedom to route audio channels according to your requirements. Advanced settings are available for routing individual pipe ranks to various channels for the ultimate flexibility in sound reproduction. Expand your instrument over time and add more Hauptwerk outputs as you add more speakers. (Advanced Edition only ) Learn more >

Pipe Voicing Controls

Hauptwerk's pipe and rank voicing tools allow you to fully customize an instruments tonal characteristics to your acoustical environment. Voicing tools include amplitude, tuning, EQ, tremulant/expression control and more. (Advanced Edition only). Learn more >

Multiple Monitor Support

Hauptwerk supports multiple monitor displays for use with two or more touch screens and other applications requiring more than one monitor display. Support for up to 16 display pages is available for organs that support it. (Advanced Edition only).

Chromatic Pipe Recordings

Hauptwerk has the advantage over nearly all other digital organs by using full length natural pipe recordings sampled chromatically, note for note from the original instrument, retaining the natural attack, sustain, release and decay of each pipe. Using long samples, some over 10 seconds long, allows the pipe's tone to develop and the unique randomness of air flow is fully retained. Other digital organs do not have the memory or computing power to compete with Hauptwerk and the large amount of processing power that modern computers offer.

Digital Organ Compatible

There is no need to replace your current digital organ to get the most realistic digital pipe organ technology. Transform your existing console into the latest in virtual instrument technology by connecting it to Hauptwerk with a single MIDI cable. Hauptwerk's advanced MIDI settings support nearly all digital organ manufacturers MIDI output messages allowing you to easily control the virtual organs from your existing console. If your console has MIDI output then you can use it with Hauptwerk.

MIDI Sequencing

An additional MIDI sequencing version of Hauptwerk is included allowing you to configure your MIDI sequencing software to interface with Hauptwerk while retaining settings for your stand-alone version. This is useful for those using both a digital organ console and a MIDI sequencing program for playing back MIDI files which may send different messages than the console.

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