Virtually all of my experience has been with electronic organs except for about 10 minuets on a small pipe organ over 30 years ago. So at the risk of revealing my total ignorance... :)
Regardless of whether there was a swell pedal and or a crescendo pedal all of the instruments that I have played had an overall expression pedal which I of course used quite a bit. In much of the music I play I have had a need for gradual overall level changes of the manual or manuals and pedals together. I am looking into doing some VPO projects and of course a virtual pipe organ is based on a pipe organ.
I understand that the volume on the great will be controlled exclusively by pulling or pushing stops whether by hand or via. the crescendo pedal but when playing on the swell and using the swell pedal how does one keep the pedals in balance with what you are doing with the swell? Do you have to use swell to pedal couplers so that at least some of the pedal ranks are also in the swell box?
Do theater organs differ from classical organs in any ways related to this?
Thank you for your patience?
mike
Regardless of whether there was a swell pedal and or a crescendo pedal all of the instruments that I have played had an overall expression pedal which I of course used quite a bit. In much of the music I play I have had a need for gradual overall level changes of the manual or manuals and pedals together. I am looking into doing some VPO projects and of course a virtual pipe organ is based on a pipe organ.
I understand that the volume on the great will be controlled exclusively by pulling or pushing stops whether by hand or via. the crescendo pedal but when playing on the swell and using the swell pedal how does one keep the pedals in balance with what you are doing with the swell? Do you have to use swell to pedal couplers so that at least some of the pedal ranks are also in the swell box?
Do theater organs differ from classical organs in any ways related to this?
Thank you for your patience?
mike
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