Aquincum  Organ from the Holy Spirit Church in Győr (Hungary)

                                                                                             History
 Győr is one of Hungary's major cities, with 130,000 inhabitants, and is the seat of the West Transdanubia Győr-Sopron county.
In the place In ancient times, the Roman settlement of Arrabona was located on the site of today's Győr. This is where the town's German name Raab comes from. After the conquest, István I established the diocese of Győr in 1001, of which the city became the center in 1009; this is when the cathedral was built. During the Turkish wars, Győr Castle was an important defender of Vienna. After the expulsion of the Turks, Győr became a thriving industrial and cultural center. Even in communist times, Győr continued to develop, especially its machine production was world famous. Ányos Jedlik, the inventor of the dynamo, was born in the city. Clay sculptor Margit Kovács, pediatrician Ágost Schöpf-Merei and martyr bishop Vilmos Apor, victims of Soviet soldiers. Worthy of mention is the Győr Ballet, the world-famous company of Iván Markó.

In the mid-1970s, a large housing estate was built on the outskirts of Győr, with about 30,000 inhabitants. The church asked the communist leadership to build a church on the housing estate. This was not a common request, as no new churches were built at that time. After a long tug-of-war, the city management allowed the construction of the new church, but not in the housing estate, but next to the public cemetery close to the housing estate. The construction of the church designed by Péter Ráskai began in the spring of 1985. The church was built mainly with public donations, with the support of foreign churches, and with the physical labor of the faithful. The completed Church of the Holy Spirit was consecrated on June 6, 1987.

Already when the church was consecrated, there was a small, 1-manual and pedal-operated, 8-register Klais organ in the church, which was donated to the church by the parish of Plöckendorf. This small organ is still functional, but not in use.

The church's three manual, 42-register mechanical sliding box, mechanical keyboard and electronic registration organ was built by the Aquincum organ factory based on the plans of Gábor Trajtler and Lukács Áment. The organ has 3,300 pipes and the reed registers were made by the Giesecke company. The blessing of the completed organ took place on December 17, 1989. The organ is currently the best concert organ in the city of Győr.

The following friends helped me to make and publish the sample set (in alphabetical order): Dominique Dantand, Gérard Lefranc, Nagy István and Jean-Pierre Silvestre. If something's done well, it's thanks to them. Thank you for their work. I owe special thanks to the organist Ruppert István, who is a professor at the University of Győr and the organist of the Church of the Holy Spirit, and it is thanks to his intercession that the Church allowed the recording to be made.

Features
Sample quality 
The sample sets are available in wave format 48kHz/24bit, stereo, multiple loops (1-12) and multiple releases (3 levels). a=440 Hz
The sample sets are made in three forms. 

a. A version of wet (front) stereo (far)

b. A verion of semidry (near) stereo (near)

c. A Surround version (3 pairs of stereo recording: near,  front and in the background.

In the surround version you can adjust the perspective by setting the volume of the near, far and rear recordings. (Suitable HW loading and channel settings can be used to give wet or semidry stereo modes or 4 channel surround mode too).   

The sample set reverb is 1.5 s reflecting the original  dry acoustics of the modern church.  

Hauptwerk v4.2 or v5-v9 supported for the Organ Definition Files.

Keyboards, Pedal 
The original organ compass of the manuals are 58 keys, the compass of the pedal is 30 keys.
Operating Instructions:

RAM requirements (GB)

2 channels sztereo

6 channels surround

 

16 bit

24 bit

16 bit

24 bit

Arrabona-Aquincum

8

10

16

20
The data is for information only. They depend on the operating system and other apps.
Specifications  

Pedal  30 keys

Principalbass 16', Subbass 16’, Quintbass 10 2/3',

Oktavbass 8', Gedacktbass 8’, Choralbass 4’,

Mixtura 4f’, Posuane 16’, Trompete 8’

I. Kronpositiv  58 keys

Holzgedackt 8’, Prestant 4, Rohrflute 4’, Octave 2’, Terzian 2f,

Scharf 4-5f’, Holzkrumhorn 8’

II. Hauptwerk  58 keys

Bourdon 16’, Principal 8’, Rohrgedackt 8’, Gemshorn 8’

Oktav 4’, Flute 4’, Sesquialtera 2f, Superoktav 2’, Mixtura 5f, Zimbel 3f

Trompete 8’

III. Schwellwerk  58 keys

Gedacktpommer 16’,

Holzprincipal 8’, Bourdon 8’, Salizional 8’, Vox coelestis 8’

Violon oktav 4’, Blockflute 4’, Nasat 2 2/3’, Schweizer pfeife 2’

Terz 1 3/5’, Sifflute 1’, Mixtura 4-5f, Fagott 16’, Oboe 8’, Clarion 4’

Couplers

Orig.: P+I, P+II, I+II, I+III, II+I, II+III

Extend: P+I 16, P+I 4, P+II 16, P+II 4, P+III 16, P+III 4

              I unison off, I 16, I 4, I!II 4, I+III 16, I+III 4

              II 16, II 4, III+III 16, II+III 4, III 16, III 4

Tremulant

Orig: I, III, Extend: II

Enclosure

Orig: III     Extend: I

Pictures

Audio demos

Playing Dominique Dantand, Nagy István, Ralph Paland and Jean-Pierre Silvestre
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Try the the demo sample sets before you buy!
The Trial Versions of the Aquincum Organ from the Holy Spirit Church in Győr (Arrabona) has a limited compass of C2-C3 (048-c to 060-c) in the pedal, C2-G5 (048-c to 079-g) in the manuals. All other functions work. 


(First install the pack01 file. After installation, you can use the stereo-far version. Then install the pack02 file. After installation, you can use the stereo-near version. Finally, install the pack03 file. After that, you can use the 6-channel surround version. The order of installation is important, you cannot deviate from it!!) 

The acoustics of this modern church are very dry. This is good for practicing organists, but many users prefer the nice and rich reverberation. Therefore, it is advisable to use IR reverb in Hauptwerk versions 5-8, and to use an external reverb app for Hauptwerk 4.2 users.


Surround vs Stereo mode

If you do not have a surround sound system, but there is enough memory (RAM), I suggest you also install the surround version. If you activate the front and rear stops too, then you will get a more compact and fuller sound than the simple stereo.

Guide: simple stereo from surround, how to?  

Buy the full (stereo and surround) Arrabona-Aquincum Organ sample set (You can pay in dollars or euros.)


99 EUR
109 USD