Many acoustic instruments require much finesse in capturing articulations.They are huge and immobile the organ doesn’t go to the gig – the gig must come to the organ.Pipe organs lend themselves to encapsulation into sample libraries for a number of reasons: On the other hand, as a hard-core synth aficionado, it’s hard for me not to think of pipe organs as something other than massive multi-timbral acoustic poly-synths. These instruments have always fascinated me and I have a substantial collection of CDs containing organ music from the Baroque period through modern times. In a departure from what this column normally covers (interesting electronica content for Kontakt) today we’ll be looking at a library of an acoustic instrument: the grand and glorious pipe organ. When you consider that the price of a real pipe organ instrument would be prohibitive, assuming you even had a place to put it, this Kontakt incarnation has much to recommend it.
