ORGUE DE SALON

Kontakt 2 version

We are pleased to present you this soundbank of a small house organ, with 250 pipes, 5 real stops on two
manuals (plus a coupled keyboard), built in 1988.
This is not an extraordinary instrument, a study organ, and it was impossible to avoid a big noise of
organ-blower during the recording, because it stood in a flat, and the microphones could not stand far
from it. But, finally, after some numerical treatments, we think that the result is not too bad, and we give
it to you as close as possible to the real thing, without changing many of its defaults...
There is no natural reverb in the rather small room where it stood, and the sound is dry and a bit
agressive, specially in the high notes, because it is the sound of the original instrument, and it is also the
result of the numerical treatments.
SOUND ESTHETICS
This bank has been created according to the following aims : we tried to produce the best soundbank
possible, and you can hear the original study organ as it was in august 2005.
1) According to this, there is one sample for each note.
2) You may find this recording too dry, not reverberated enough. It is not only for the reason stated
above, but also a deliberate choice, because we want this bank to be used in many contexts, mainly in a
sequencer. So, it is possible to modify its sound, and add some reverberation or other effects, exactly as
the user likes, what would have been impossible with a less neutral sound (for ex : church).
3) The organ is tuned to A 440 Hz and to equal temperament.

LICENSE

"Orgue de Salon" : CONDITIONS OF USE

Copyright by Eric BRICET et Jean Yves GARET. August, 22th 2006

The soundbank Orgue de salon has been sampled by Eric Bricet and Jean Yves Garet, in August 2005.
The authors have decided to distribute it freely to anyone who will find it useful.
The free licence grants you the right to use the soundbank according to these conditions :
1 - The licence is granted for an indefinite period of time. Were the obligations of this contract not
respected, we could require the user not to use the bank anymore.
2 - It is forbidden to sell this soundbank or to insert the samples in any commercial application. It is
forbidden to modify the samples (except for a strictly personal use). However, it is possible to create new
mapping files (for any software) but this has to be reserved for personal use, and these creations have to
be transmitted to the authors, who might distribute them freely.
Public use and recordings are accepted freely.
3 - Even if it is distributed without any restriction, the authors keep property and rights on the
soundbank Orgue de salon .
4 - If the user do not comply with these conditions, it could lead to legal prosecution. The court of
jurisdiction will be in France. The french version of this contract will be applied.
Commercial distribution of this soundbank is illegal and can lead to legal action.
5 - It is forbidden to distribute this soundbank without permission.