What is Hauptwerk and who uses it?
Hauptwerk is an advanced computer organ system – a virtual pipe organ that takes full advantage of the enormous processing power of the latest computers to provide very complex pipe organ modeling and per-pipe sound shaping, while maintaining the enormous polyphony necessary to model a pipe organ successfully. At its core, Hauptwerk is a powerful and high-performance specialist software sampler, specifically designed and optimized for modeling pipe organs through the use of MIDI. Hauptwerk may be used: • For study and practice at home by organists, organ enthusiasts and music students. • As a church organ, theatre organ, or concert hall organ where a real pipe organ may not be possible. • As a high quality sound module to power digital organs and voice expanders. • To upgrade old digital/electronic organs to the latest audio technology and realism. • In commercial and home recording studios to provide unparalleled pipe organ sound. • For music composition and arrangement. • For histori