Viscount Physis+

[LePhantom]

Thought I'd post some belated pics of the Viscount Virtuoso 359 at church and the Cantorum Trio+ I have at home. Both use Viscount's new Physis+ technology, where there are no samples. It's all Physical Modeling, no sampling in any of the Viscount lines now. Each organ has three pipe sets, American Symphonic, Baroque and Romantic. Stop labels are for the Symphonic, but a flute tab will always have a flute of the same pitch, at least at this level. There are a number of different voices for each tab and you can create up to three pipe sets of your own. Again, the pricier models give you more bells and whistles and lots of customization, they'll pretty much build whatever you want. You can customize almost all of the parameters of any given stop, more chiff, more wind, slow attack, whatever you want. You can adjust variations of wind pressure that happen at full organ, adjust volume on individual notes of any given stop. I like the ability to set a tremolo on an individual stop. These models have four output channels and yes, you an vary the chest layouts or let the organ do it. The harpsichord is so perfect that you can hear the quills release from the strings, at least with headphones on, or if it's quiet. The Trio+ is a great practice organ, coming in at under $10k MSRP, my only grips is that the included music rack isn't any good. The rack I have is custom made by a carpenter that my local dealer uses for some of his installs. We have some crown molding in the back up the church and they added shelving for the speakers that looks like it's always been there.

[JeffW]

Sorry if this should go somewhere else (the original topic "New! Physis Plus technology" is closed)...

Another puzzling demo from Viscount on an Opera 450 in which Constanze Hochwartner plays her transcription of Davy Jones (song originally composed by Hans Zimmer):
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There's an awful lot of voix celeste stop with bells/chimes and a moderately loud section, but there doesn't feel like there's enough content to demonstrate much in the 3:42 video. At least the overdone bellows wind sag isn't present and a full piece is heard, but now I kinda wished they'd have cut this demo short like they did on the 1:04 demo of an Opera 250 playing Bach's Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645...it might have made me want to hear more, but it didn't : (

[JeffW]

Digital Pipes recently uploaded a Cantorum Duo Plus YT video. The piece he's playing is "Nei cieli s'oda risuonar" by Luigi Picchi.

Paolo describes the Duo Plus's sound as not being "out of the box." Among the changes, he "had to make some stop modifications, adding a 16' flue stop in the pedal division, and a 16' reed to the Great. I also added two octave couplers: II-4-I and II-16-I." Also, for the recording he writes, "I do not use anything fancy for the recording: the instrument's outputs go into Reaper. There is of course some magic happening in between..." That "magic" is his reverb voodoo that does make a gianormous impact on the recorded Duo Plus sound.

Cheers!

[ahlborn]

Paolo performances and recordings are, as always, excellent. And his taste in voicing is also unquestionable.
I agree that factory voicings are always very limited.
I worked a few months to get three satisfactory pipe sets (and will publish them soon).

[Martin Robinson]

Does anyone have any clues about how he added those octave couplers? I would quite like that option sometimes on our Domus 5?

[JeffW]

how he added those octave couplers?

Someone noted earlier (somewhere) that Paolo (@Digital Pipes) converted the Orchestra registers to MIDI couplers as described on page 38 (printed page number 36) of the manual: https://www.viscountinstruments.com/...eManual-EN.pdf

However, as I don't have a Physis (nor Plus) that may be a guess by whoever said it here somewhere. However, it may be the way (part of the way?) he did it because the Uno Plus has separate hardware buttons to raise Manual I (upper half of keyboard defined by a split point) an octave and lower Manual II (lower half below split point) an octave as seen on page 7 (printed page number 5) of the above manual.

Do post when you find out!