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The definitive organ for film scoring: Millennium Organ - SoundOnSound Special!

vienthousiast said:
It was super fun to watch simeon playing it live. Glad I bought it during pre-order (even though the download really took a while, around 1h for just 8GB of samples). Maxime, will there be any manual links to download in case NI servers are slow?
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Sure, just send me a DM here on VI-Control or directly via this form. I usually respond in the next 10 minutes, as my phone sends me live notifications about new messages. Not sure I can sustain the 10 minute timing if we continue to grow, but as long as it's doable, I'll do it ;)

Nantho Valentine said:
Man, I didn't know I needed this until this morning...
Instant buy, already using it for a soundtrack I'm working on right now ^^

Bien joué Maxime ;)
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Merci beaucoup !

If any of you guys reading this has ideas to complete this organ series, please write them down!
We are very pleased and humbled by the positive response to our library.

Actually, I'm quite surprised I gotta say. For me personally, it was quite a challenge to show how special this particular organ is. Because honestly, who needs "another organ library" when there are other good ones out there and some even for free?! Well, as I said many times: this library didn't just capture the organ, it also captured the whole savoir-faire from the organist we worked with—he knew exactly where to place the microphones to get the absolute best sound possible and knows this organ like no other. This isn't a thing one can just "learn" quickly or improvise on the go. And one more thing: we could have sampled any organ actually... We had a list of ~12 ones and decided to go for the cleanest one, the "youngest" also (constructed in 2006), but which was built with respect for all traditions. And then there is the preset thing... Well, there are "only" 25, I guess, but each conveys a unique timbre and instantly sets up a specific mood. For me that was really fun to work on this one, and a pleasure now to share it with you all.

That's it for the insight! Enough writing for today :)
Cheers,
Maxime
 
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@Maxime Luft - I just bought this yesterday, haven’t had a lot of time to play with it but it sounds absolutely lovely. I’m not an organist so I don’t have any particular expertise or insight, but from a short half-hour of playing, my sense is that this is a very flexible instrument, capable of both a smaller, more intimate and agile sound as well as the classic “huge organ.” In deed ideal as a scoring instrument, I think.

Also, just wanted to mention that although I’m American, my parents live in France not far from Aix-en-Provence. I really picked this up out of nostalgia, I guess, as I have visited Aix many times. But very happy to have the instrument - congrats on a really wonderful release!
 
Colin O'Malley said:
I bought this yesterday, and love it. Great clear and warm tone. Interface is also very nice. I don’t usually love presets/snapshots, but these are clearly designed by someone who understands the instrument more than I do. Great job.

Colin
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Thank you very much, @Colin O'Malley . It's a big honour for me to read that—and truly encouraging.
Especially since I'm still getting started with Streamtech and often wonder where I stand in this niche. So yeah, thank you once again! This definitely pushes me to try to improve things even more with every new project we do.

vienthousiast said:
Very cool to see Maxime's instruments reaching some of our most prolific members here, chapeau.
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It's quite an honour, indeed. Thank you for your kind words @vienthousiast !

danstein said:
@Maxime Luft - I just bought this yesterday, haven’t had a lot of time to play with it but it sounds absolutely lovely. I’m not an organist so I don’t have any particular expertise or insight, but from a short half-hour of playing, my sense is that this is a very flexible instrument, capable of both a smaller, more intimate and agile sound as well as the classic “huge organ.” In deed ideal as a scoring instrument, I think.

Also, just wanted to mention that although I’m American, my parents live in France not far from Aix-en-Provence. I really picked this up out of nostalgia, I guess, as I have visited Aix many times. But very happy to have the instrument - congrats on a really wonderful release!
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Glad to read that! I am very happy we did it there in Aix-en-Provence. At the time when planned the recordings, my younger brother was still studying there and John Belinguier, who was always an invaluable source of information for me (through his stereo recording techniques series), was in Aix too. So I thought why not start doing this? Everything went super fine, we had the church booked for a couple of days and I even had to play the organ for the people doing the organ tuning! ... which definitely made a bit stressed, I never did any organ tuning before! So I had to watch every documentary that I could find about organ tuning, and only then I felt a bit more confident:grin: But spoiler alert: You just have to play octaves and it really feels like an actual sampling session.
 
Loïc D said:
Oh you’re in Aix? Very nice place indeed. :)
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Unfortunately I don't! Still living between Strasbourg and Freiburg, so in this French-German area which I really like :) But I have many friends in Aix and also some musical projects next year happening in Nice. As someone coming from Toulouse, southern France always feels like home to me! That's also part of why I enjoyed the Millennium project so much.
 
Maxime Luft said:
If any of you guys reading this has ideas to complete this organ series, please write them down!
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What about a deep-sampled organ like in Dresden (Frauenkirche) or even Notre Dame de Paris (which I heard should still be intact despite the fire)? Or also simply any organ with some 64' or even 128' stop would be amazing really. I like to put some RBass on Millenium to increase the subs, but I think having an option to do that naturally with very subby stops (and perhaps a new organ in a different style) could be interesting.
 
Maxime Luft said:
If any of you guys reading this has ideas to complete this organ series, please write them down!
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I live in the Dutch city of Groningen. We have two revered organs here. This one is pretty great:



Edit: apparently available for Hauptwerk already

www.noorlanderorgels.com

Introduction sample set Martinikerk Groningen - Noorlander Orgels

Nu beschikbaar voor bespeling in uw eigen woonkamer - Full surround 8-kanaals (direct, diffuse, distant, rear) - Kwalitatief uitmuntende samples - Alleen geschikt voor Hauptwerk V
www.noorlanderorgels.com www.noorlanderorgels.com
 
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musicisum said:
What about a deep-sampled organ like in Dresden (Frauenkirche) or even Notre Dame de Paris (which I heard should still be intact despite the fire)? Or also simply any organ with some 64' or even 128' stop would be amazing really. I like to put some RBass on Millenium to increase the subs, but I think having an option to do that naturally with very subby stops (and perhaps a new organ in a different style) could be interesting.
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i'm not sure that there are any true 128' ranks out there... like the majority of 64's, they're probably derived from acoustic trickery. in any case the 128' thing is a bit silly and sort of the territory where just doing it artificially would make more sense anyway.

also i very much doubt notre-dame will be in recording condition soon....

not to be a party pooper... there are *many* wonderful organs out there to be lovingly sampled, and it would be great for more of that outside the hauptwerk ecosystem. my personal pick would probably be the instrument at saint-sulpice in paris, or st. patrick's cathedral in nyc (hint: i might be able to help with that one, maxime)
 
Between the Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris (Olivier Messiaen) and Saint-Eustache Paris (Jean Guillou) there is plenty to do...
 
annatar said:
i'm not sure that there are any true 128' ranks out there... like the majority of 64's, they're probably derived from acoustic trickery. in any case the 128' thing is a bit silly and sort of the territory where just doing it artificially would make more sense anyway.

also i very much doubt notre-dame will be in recording condition soon....
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Two valid points, I agree. Shows how deep my knowledge is:2thumbs: But yeah, I think the more "flashy" the concept doesn't necessarily mean the better the sound. It's cool to make an impression in regards to marketing, but the Millenium organ (which doesn't seem to be the most famous one on Earth) has proven that it's better to make a decent library with experts who know what they're doing.
 
doctoremmet said:
I live in the Dutch city of Groningen. We have two revered organs here. This one is pretty great:



Edit: apparently available for Hauptwerk already

www.noorlanderorgels.com

Introduction sample set Martinikerk Groningen - Noorlander Orgels

Nu beschikbaar voor bespeling in uw eigen woonkamer - Full surround 8-kanaals (direct, diffuse, distant, rear) - Kwalitatief uitmuntende samples - Alleen geschikt voor Hauptwerk V
www.noorlanderorgels.com www.noorlanderorgels.com
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I think even if it's already been sampled for Hauptwerk we can always optimize things a bit. Also, I guess most of people here on VI-C don't have Hauptwerk installed? Even I don't...
Anyway, this one sounds brilliant and massive! And I really like the reverb here too :)

annatar said:
my personal pick would probably be the instrument at saint-sulpice in paris, or st. patrick's cathedral in nyc (hint: i might be able to help with that one, maxime)
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Sounds super cool. If I manage to make things work for such a NYC project, I'd write you for sure. That would be so nice! In the meantime, doing things in France is a bit easier for simple practical terms (I have friends and family both in Paris and in southern France) but I certainly don't want to limit the scope of our future libraries to what's easiest - so I'm taking note of St. Patrick.

So thanks for your input @annatar ! Just one question: When you say "might be able to help", is it in terms of logistics? Most of time that's the most difficult part, where it's about reserving the place for a certain time, knowing the right people to talk to etc...
 
Maxime Luft said:
we can always optimize things a bit.
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Exactly. I mainly mentioned it to show that the people managing the organ are up for the idea. I used to be the auditor involved with the organization of Martinikerk, and I remember their board members being extremely protective of the organ.

The church does have a great reverb. Many CDs have been recorded on the organ and just the other day my son and I attended a little concert of a string quartet playing Hans Zimmer pieces, which sounded gorgeous.
 
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