Decent jOrgan tutorial, from SF2 to working organ?

[ramendik]

Hello,

While I have everything working fine with Hauptwerk free edition on Windows and am testing GrandOrgue on Linux successfully, now I also got interested in jOrgue, and the reason for that are the Allen soundfonts from https://organforum.com/forums/forum/...len-tone-cards . I want to have a very resource-friendly version with the best sound, and Allen did their research back then on sound that does just that. (Sometimes "reboot, stop everything, clean the machine for Cracow" is not exactly convenient).

But I just can't find any reasonable tutorial style document. It seems, from snippets I found, that to harness an SF2 with many stops I would need to create some sort of graphic panel with the stops - but I can't find the details. And I would need to create three couplers too to make this minimally playable.

Any advice please?

[samibe]

There is the jOrgan Discovery website. This is my first recommendation.
There is the jOrgan forum (which you already know about).
There are also some leftover links and files on the now defunct jOrgan mediawiki site.

Bill Skees has a 4-volume reference manual for working in jOrgan and understanding how it functions. I think it has been posted a few times on this forum. It is also available on the jOrgan Discovery site.

jOrgan is pretty flexible so it takes a while to figure out what you want it to do and how to get it to do it. As noted on the Discovery website, it is probably easiest to download some of the dispositions others have created and figure out how they work.

[musicmaker84]

There is an in-depth description somewhere out there on the forums: a step by step write-up how to create a jOrgan disposition from soundfonts. Creating one will be my special project this summer, too.

[ramendik]

It would be nice to have such a writeup. If I unerstand the process, I will try to create a script that creates a rough disposition from a soundfont. After all, the names of the ranks are already in the soundfont.

[musicmaker84]

[j reimer]

Thank you for providing us with that link. In that jOrgan Forum thread, grahamg (the author of the instructions) mentions that it has been placed on the jOrgan MediaWiki Tutorials page. The link he gives is outdated, but samibe in his post above has given us a link to the Mediawiki which is still working at the moment. All you have to do is go to the Tutorials page. I might add that useful as the instructions certainly are, they don't actually explain how it is all working. There is no substitute for opening an existing disposition, going into Construct Mode, and making your own discoveries.

By the way, next to the Add icon is a red "X". It is used to delete whatever Element or Reference has been selected. You need to take care that you do not click on it accidentally!

[ramendik]

Thanks a lot! A lot of stuff to smoke now :)

[j reimer]

A lot of stuff to smoke now :)

Especially in the jOrgan Mediawiki. It can be very daunting. All the information is there, for those sharp in mind. But not so easy for most of us. Especially if you are looking for how to put it to good use.

I am not complaining. Merely giving you a friendly warning. For me, jOrgan is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It has allowed me to produce and hear, from loudspeakers, after 65 years of waiting and hoping, sounds which at last satisfy me.

John Reimer

[j reimer]

Especially in the jOrgan Mediawiki.

Unfortunately the jOrgan Mediawiki is no longer accessible, nor is the Nabble Forum, which was the only way internet users could read up on the discussions by jOrgan users on their Mailing List. Nabble has had problems, and stopped providing that excellent service in mid-July 2021.

18 months ago I created and put online the jOrgan InfoBase. I believe its Tutorials page contains an entry on creating a jOrgan disposition from an existing soundfont. The InfoBase makes available all the information that was in the MediaWiki. The link is https://jorgan.info/base/Index.html

Very recently I created a read-only web-page which makes available to all internet users most of the Mailing List discussions. It is meant to be an interim replacement for the Nabble Forum until such time as a forum providing synchronisation with the Mailing List can be used. Tiki is a possibility, but is proving difficult to set up. My web-page link at the moment is: https://jorgan.info/base/l/Link1.html

I plan to shorten that link in the near future to https://jorgan.info/link.html - and I hope to announce that change in a further post here, if and when it happens.

John Reimer

[j reimer]

I plan to shorten that link in the near future to https://jorgan.info/link.html

This is now the link to be used, with plenty of threads added, and lots of reading for those who are interested.
Because the person hosting it is using a re-direct, some browsers are calling it "unsafe", but this can be disregarded.