NemeSys Introduces Peter Ewers’ Symphonic
Organ Soundware Internationally acclaimed organist captures historic Paris Cavaillé-Coll cathedral organ for the NemeSys GigaSampler®.
October 13, 1999
NemeSys Music Technology, Inc. announced the release
of the Peter Ewers’ Symphonic Organ Soundware for GigaSampler® today.
Digitally recorded in 20-bit resolution, this library captures the powerful sound
of The Grand Cavaillé-Coll Pipe Organ at La Madeleine, Paris.
Priced
at $359 (US dollars), this library marks the first time a world-class pipe organ
has been captured with full performance articulation, as well as its natural acoustic
environment – all playable in real-time with GigaSampler’s state-of-the-art
Behavioral Sampling technologies.
“The recording and editing on this project took thousands of man-hours
to complete. I’m delighted to finally present this instrument to the GigaSampler
community,” enthused Ewers.
“Without GigaSampler’s enormous sampling capacity and Dimensions
performance technology it would have been impossible to capture the essence of
this incredible organ,” Ewers continued. “It is truly a crowning achievement.”
Earlier attempts to digitally sample the original sound of a pipe or a pipe-family
(a “stop”) employed small samples which were artificially looped, often
without their original attack phases, and the characteristic sound of the pipes
was lost. The solution was to employ the patented EndlessWave™ technology
(exclusively licensed to NemeSys by Conexant Systems, Inc.). Via EndlessWave,
digital samples can be streamed from a mass storage device such as a hard disk
without the usual latency access time restrictions of mass storage media.
Additionally - due to the nature of previous digital sampling processes -
the acoustic resonances of a given space, like the St. Madeleine, are lost, requiring
the addition of reverb simulations. Using the key release-triggered sampling capability
of the NemeSys GigaSampler, recorded samples of the church acoustics can be heard
upon releasing the key – with the added benefit of continuous, real-time
control over the volume of the natural acoustic space.
"NemeSys’s mission is to bring immaculately recorded instruments
into the hands of musicians and producers everywhere," added Francis Preve,
Program Director for NemeSys. “This is the only way to achieve the sound
of a perfectly recorded Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ – without travelling
to Paris with a suitcase full of microphones. We’re delighted to be offering
such an incredible instrument at this price point.”
Since its introduction in 1998, NemeSys’s GigaSampler has become the
fastest growing platform for software-based audio sampling. With over 50 soundware
titles available in native format from premier developers like Qup Arts, Miroslav
Vitous, Sampleheads and Best Service, as well as widespread acceptance of its
high-performance/low-latency GSIF multi-channel interface, GigaSampler represents
the state-of-the-art in today’s sampling technology.
In 1846, the organbuilder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899) provided
the Èglise de la Sainte-Madeleine in Paris, consecrated in 1842, with the
organ that today enriches the monumental nave of this church both visually and
tonally.
About Peter Ewers
Peter Ewers was born in 1963 and studied organ with Christopher Grohman. During
his five-year tenure as organist at St. Pius, Wiedenbruck, Germany, he founded
a publishing house for musicology. Peter spent the next five years as assistant
organist at Paderborn Cathedral and in 1996, released his first CD of improvisations
on this organ. One year later, an improvisation CD of Peter playing the Grand
Organ of the Èglise de la Sainte-Madeleine was recorded, winning the “Coup
de Choer” from Professor Jean Ferrard of the internationally recognized “Magazine
de l’orge”
For more information, visit NemeSys Music Technology's web site at www.nemesysmusic.com.
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