Re: Robbie's question on Band Organ sounds
By Bill Jelen
Yesterday, Robbie Rhodes wrote:
> How can we play a Midi file of nifty band organ music
> into a synthesizer and get the sound of a real, live WurliTzer 165 or
> 92-key Ruth organ, or whatever?
I've wondered if it would be possible to make a band organ patch. The soundcard on my PC is an Gravis UltraSound Max. The UltraSound card is a wave table card that loads it's instrument "patches" from disk files. The board was bundled with software called "Patch Maker Lite" that lets you create your own instrument patches. If you can get .WAV samples of a few notes from the instrument in question, you can then load those into patch maker, and it will create a patch that can be used with the sound card. You can create a patch quickly by sampling one note from every few octaves, or create a very complicated patch by sampling every single note. The thing I find very nice is that I can specify that Middle C (midi note 60) should come equally out of both speakers, High C (note 72) should be 65% from the right speaker and 35% from the left speaker, and note 84 should be 90% from the right speaker and 10% from the left speaker. This allows me to re-create the sound one would hear if pumping a player piano. There are also a number of settings where you can control the reverb, etc. for each note or section of notes. It would be interesting to collect a few .WAV samples of a real, live Wurlitzer 165 and to see how well Patch Maker can recreate the sound.
--Bill Jelen
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