Rieger Organ from Franciscan church of Szombathely
Szombathely is the oldest recorded city in Hungary. It was founded by the Romans in 45 AD as Savaria (Colonia Claudia Savariensum or Claudius' Colony of Savarians) and was the capital of the Pannonia Superior province of the Roman Empire. Szombathely is known as the birthplace of Saint Martin of Tours, the Duke of Armbrust, and Rudolf Virág, Leopold Bloom's father in James Joyce's Ulysses.
The Franciscan Church, built in Gothic style in 1380s. In 1630 with a tower expanding and slightly modified in Baroque style. The temple main asset a picture of the altar showing the city in 1716, this is the oldest authentic portrayal about Szombathely. On the wall of the sanctuary can be seen a 14th-century Gothic fresco fragments probably depicting St. Elizabeth.
The church's organ was built by the Rieger company in Budapest in 1938, according to plans by Lóránt Pethő. In 1986, the pneumatic organ was changed to a magnetic valves and the organ received new couplers in 2013 but did not change the original disposition.
The sample sets are made in two forms.
a. A version of wet stereo
b. A Surround version (3 pairs of stereo recording: close (near); at distance (far) and in the background (rear).
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 3.5-4 s reflecting the original acoustics of the church
Hauptwerk v4.2 or v5-9 supported for the Organ Definition Files.
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RAM requirements (GB) |
stereo |
surround |
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16 bit |
24 bit |
16 bit |
24 bit |
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Rieger from Szombathely |
4 |
7 |
8 |
15 |
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Pedal (original 30, virtual 32 keys) Subbass 16', Oktavbass 8', Bourdon 8', Koral 4' |
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Great (original 56, virtual 58 keys) Pommer 16', Principal 8', Salicional 8', Oktav 4' Mixtur IV. 1 1/3 Vox Humana 8' (extension) |
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Swell (original 56, virtual 58 keys) Koppelflöte 8', Eolharfa 8', Blockflöte 4', Nasat 2 2/3' Sifflöte 2', Terz 1 3/5', Scharf IV. 1' |
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Positiv (orig: common to the Great, virtual 58 keys) Gedact 8', Rohrflöte 4', Principal 2', Larigot 1 1/3' Vox Angelica 8' (extension) |
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Couplers Grt to Ped 16, Grt to Ped, Sw to Ped, Pos to Ped, Grt to Pos Sw to Pos, Sw to Grt, Pos to Grt, Grt 16, Grt 4, Sw 16, Sw 4 Pos 16, Pos 4, Ped 4 Tremulant Original: swell, Virtual: +positive Enclosure swell |
(Install the part 01 of the stereo-wet version. Install the part 01 and then the part 02 and part 03 of surround version. It is important to sort).
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.
Buy the full (stereo and surround) Rieger Szombathely sample set (You can pay in dollars or euros.)
