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Importing Hauptwerk version 1 organs The File | Import Hauptwerk version 1 organ menu function allows the current version of Hauptwerk to use Hauptwerk version 1 sample sets for backwards compatibility:
Hauptwerk cannot load or install version 1 sample sets directly, so this importing stage is necessary before a version 1 sample set can be used. During the importing process, Hauptwerk automatically 'compiles' the version 1 organ definition file to the format required by the current version and installs its samples in appropriate folders. Once imported, the sample set will behave fully as a normal native sample set, and can be loaded from the options on the Organ menu as with any other sample set. Note that Hauptwerk version 1 was a much less powerful and less realistic system than the current version, and its organ definition files contained only a tiny fraction of the information held in the current file formats. Because the information for many current features (such as the shapes of tremulant waveforms for each pipe and the wind supply model parameters) was simply not available in version 1 sample sets, Hauptwerk can only use simple defaults when importing. Imported sample sets will look and function much as they did in version 1. They will sound much better because of the core improvements in audio quality and sample play-back inherent in the current version, but they won't be nearly as functional or realistic as a native sample set in Hauptwerk version 2 format and above. It is thus highly preferable to obtain an official upgrade of a sample set to version 2 format or above from its supplier to simply importing its Hauptwerk 1 version in this way, since an official upgrade should contain the necessary extra media and data to take best advantage of the features available in later versions of Hauptwerk. Official upgrades are available for the vast majority of version 1 sample sets from their suppliers, or are expected in the very near future. Please contact the supplier of your sample sets for this information and for upgrade pricing. A list of all Hauptwerk sample sets is also maintained on the Crumhorn Labs website. If you have a Hauptwerk version 1 sample set that you wish to use, the process is as follows: First, if you have a Windows PC, and you have not already installed the sample set, install the version 1 sample set into a temporary folder using the instructions supplied with it. The default installation folder for version 1 sample sets was C:\Program Files\Hauptwerk\Organs or C:\Program Files\Hauptwerk Version 1\Organs:
Note that Hauptwerk version 1 had no native component installer and the appearance of the installer and installation method may vary between sample sets. If you have any problems installing a version 1 sample set, please contact its supplier for advice. Important: Hauptwerk version 1 was available for Windows PCs only. Since, unlike the current version, it had no native multi-platform component installer, many of the original third-party version 1 sample set installers will not run directly on Apple Mac computers. To import such sample sets you would either need to install them temporarily onto a Windows PC, then save the resulting extracted sample set to a CD/DVD that could be read from your Apple Mac and import from there, or contact the supplier of the sample set to see if the version 1 sample set can be supplied in a format that can be read by an Apple Mac, such as a ZIP file. Once the version 1 sample set has been extracted so that it is readable on an Apple Mac, it can be imported in Hauptwerk as normal. Check that no installation or extraction errors occurred during the installation process. Now use File | Import Hauptwerk version 1 organ in the current version of Hauptwerk to navigate to the folder into which you installed the version 1 sample set and select its organ definition file, which will have a file extension of .organ:
Wait until the importing process has completed. Now load the sample set as normal using Organ | Load organ in the current version of Hauptwerk to verify that it is working and has been imported successfully:
Finally, you can delete the version 1 sample set files from wherever you installed them temporarily. The original version 1 files are no longer needed once the sample set has been imported. |
