Hi,
I own the Great Rieger Organ Sampleset for a few days now and are super happy with the interface and the sound.
Some things caught my attention:
The original Rieger organ is different. It has 5 manuals + pedal, this version here skips one manual and has some of the stops from the missing "Fernwerk" in the Solo.The Fernwerk also has 2 pedal stops.
- the Glockenspiel from the Positiv is missing (ok, not really an organ stop, but why not include it for some carillon style organ music?).
- the Tuba mirabilis, Ophicleide and Clairon harmonique in the Solo are actually part of the missing Fernwerk according to Wikipedia and Rieger Company sources. (?)
- in the original Rieger organ there are 3 more pedal stops: Vox Humana 8, Fagott 16 and Bassethorn 8.
- from the Fernwerk these 11 stops are missing: Zartgedackt 16. Hornprinzipal 8, Lieblich Gedackt 8, Rohrflöte 8, Viola d'amore 8, Vox angelica 8, Gemshorn 4, Traversflöte 4, Piccolo 2, Mixtur 2 2/3, Schalmei 8.
- from the Fernwerk Pedal these 2 stops are missing: Subbass 16, Oktave 8.
However: Rieger Organ: 116 stops, VSL: 99 stops.
- the octave couplers are missing as well as a General Crescendo or Crescendo Walze.
- the Vox coelestis is originally meant to be a "chorus effect" register. This stop is usually slightly detuned (as a whole) so in combination with a similar sounding regular stop (here obviously the Aeoline) the chorus effect is produced. But HERE the Vox coelestis is not detuned at all, I had to tune her up 10 cent to get it working. Maybe someone in the developer team was really working hard with the "detuned" stop...
- historic tunings are missing totally. A lot of other organ libraries have these options.
So here are my wishes for a major update:
- add the missing Fernwerk and all missing stops and the Glockenspiel, thus 116 instead of 99 stops.
- change tuning of the Vox coelestis.
- add choice of historic tunings, along with self customizable tunings.
- add the octave couplers.
- make the window free scalable, not only 5 values.
- add a custumizable "Crescendo Walze": Kind of a "playlist" of a chosen order of stops, assigned to a midi controller so the increasing or decreasing number of activated stops can be controlled e.g. by a foot controller.
I may sound a bit picky, but given the advertising slogan "biggest organ of Austria" the product should deliver all the goods.
Also, I am teachiing organ studies and this software could enable me to show so many things, that's why I want the tunings...
Anyway, it's a really good sample library.