OpenPipes: Build your open-source virtual pipe organ system
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#2"... majestic ... remarkable ... empowering ... worldwide ... accessible ... innovative ... democratizing ... traditional ... like never before ..."
Turn the hype generator down from 11, please.
Re: OpenPipes: Build your open-source virtual pipe organ system
#3"... majestic ... remarkable ... empowering ... worldwide ... accessible ... innovative ... democratizing ... traditional ... like never before ..." Turn the hype generator down from 11, please.
Don't forget Arduino - twice in two consecutive sentences! Someone really wanted to hit all the buzzwords and the result was definitely not pleasant to read.
After reading all that, I'm still confused whether this is a physical analog pipe organ, or a software pipe organ simulator.
In these times, I find myself asking "Is this LLM output?"
Re: OpenPipes: Build your open-source virtual pipe organ system
#4"... majestic ... remarkable ... empowering ... worldwide ... accessible ... innovative ... democratizing ... traditional ... like never before ..." Turn the hype generator down from 11, please.
Don't forget Arduino - twice in two consecutive sentences! Someone really wanted to hit all the buzzwords and the result was definitely not pleasant to read. After reading all that, I'm still confused whether this is a physical analog pipe organ, or a software pipe organ simulator. In these times, I find myself asking "Is this LLM output?"
It's a simulator. Download here.[1] Runs on a Raspberry Pi. Playable from a MIDI keyboard, or keyboards. Additional button boxes and controls can be hooked on. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not earth-shaking.
The article also mentions someone who built a mini pipe organ from plastic pipe and laser-cut wood, but that's not what the project is about.
[1] https://openpipes.org/2021/08/20/pipebian-headless-pipe-orga...
Re: OpenPipes: Build your open-source virtual pipe organ system
#5"... majestic ... remarkable ... empowering ... worldwide ... accessible ... innovative ... democratizing ... traditional ... like never before ..." Turn the hype generator down from 11, please.
Don't forget Arduino - twice in two consecutive sentences! Someone really wanted to hit all the buzzwords and the result was definitely not pleasant to read. After reading all that, I'm still confused whether this is a physical analog pipe organ, or a software pipe organ simulator. In these times, I find myself asking "Is this LLM output?"
Virtual, so pipe organ simulator, but this is the hardware side of it.
If you want to do something like this on the cheap: buy an old electronic organ and refurbish it, then run GrandOrgue (free) or the PianoTeq organ pack ($) once you have midi. Sounds great and it isn't nearly as much work as building a whole console from scratch.
I did this with an old Heyligers that I bought from a school here for a song, it came with two fantastic Laukhuff (unfortunately, out of business since June 2021) wooden keyboards. The whole conversion took about a week, it has a touchscreen for the stops. If I would do it again I would search a bit longer to find slightly wider keyboards, these are 61 keys, there is also a 66 version (much more rare), so the highest notes are a full octave rather than that it ends on 'g'.
Re: OpenPipes: Build your open-source virtual pipe organ system
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't forget Arduino - twice in two consecutive sentences! Someone really wanted to hit all the buzzwords and the result was definitely not pleasant to read. After reading all that, I'm still confused whether this is a physical analog pipe organ, or a software pipe organ simulator. In these times, I find myself asking "Is this LLM output?"
It's a simulator. Download here.[1] Runs on a Raspberry Pi. Playable from a MIDI keyboard, or keyboards. Additional button boxes and controls can be hooked on. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not earth-shaking. The article also mentions someone who built a mini pipe organ from plastic pipe and laser-cut wood, but that's not what the project is about. [1] https://openpipes.org/2021/08/20/pipebian-headless-pipe-orga.…
> Nothing wrong with that, but it's not earth-shaking.
Just turn the volume up!
Re: OpenPipes: Build your open-source virtual pipe organ system
#7Story time: I briefly worked in a school that, incredibly, didn't have a working bell system. Since this is obviously idiotic, I decided to hack something together. I got a vacuum cleaner from the thrift shop, an old keyboard for free from the Geek Squad at Best Buy, and hooked a solid state relay up to one of the LEDs to drive the vacuum cleaner (credit to Cryptonomicon for the idea, just with a louder outcome). Copious duck tape connected the vacuum cleaner hose to the blow side of the vacuum.
For the other end of that hose I built a single organ pipe out of 1/4" plywood. It turns out it's pretty straightforward to make a single pipe that isn't tuned to any note, nevermind a whole set. Going down the Internet rabbit hole on organ pipes was a great relief from the general insanity of working in a school.
Unfortunately, I left that position before I finished the software. Probably because instead of using a cron job, I started with writing a lexer and parser for a custom config file.
TL;DR: if you just want to make some noise, it's not hard. Build one pipe, build a whole rank, and go wild from there! You needn't bother with the software simulation from TFA if you just want to hack and annoy your neighbors.
Re: OpenPipes: Build your open-source virtual pipe organ system
#8"Look mum no computer" on Youtube is wrapping up a series[0] where he bought an old church organ and rebuilt it. He cleaned it up and rewired it to interface via midi as well as the console.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PwwRR8deHk&list=PLluPQLh1xz...
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#10In my ignorance, I didn’t know that virtual pipe organs even existed until a couple of months ago, when I happened to hear on BBC Radio 3 a recording of a Bach prelude and fugue that caught my attention. It sounded to me like a regular pipe organ, but the voices were clearer and more distinct than I am used to hearing in recordings. It turned out to have been recorded on a virtual organ.
The organist is Richard Irwin. I ordered his CD and have enjoyed listening to it:
https://www.richardirwinmusic.com/#Major_New_Release_-_Appre...