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Peter, Thanks for kicking off a topic that I very much hope will gather contributions. By the way the forum seems to not accept new contributors at the moment, a glitch we are working on. As you say the voicing can absorb a lot of time if you really want to create a very personal instrument. I see you attached a photo which can be downloaded, did you try to attach your organ .all file? That would be the easiest way of letting others see your work but your file then will only help other owners of the Envoy 350. Perhaps a spread sheet with the voice name and all the parameter settings that can be loaded to any organ with that voice is better but of course quite time demanding to implement. Good Luck David
Peter - thank you for this forum. I am interested in other voicing but also interested in sharing other set-up possibilities. I am lucky enough to have a 356 but wanted the room or building to be the most important stop on the organ. To that end I purchased external an external speaker system from my supplier. You know - those people in Biscester. While the built in sound is very good I am now immersed in sound. Over and above the Physis range enables the programming of each stop to pan over a set of speakers. The factory default seems to be a set of four speakers in a row. In my case the organ speakers are in stereo pairs. I now have a .ALL file where each stop is programmed to emulate the display of pipes. I have three banks of speakers so have arranged the different divisions to come from those. The result is a very lively and accurate emulation of the sound you get as the music comes from pipes arranged in the display you see. The sound literally dances across the room as it would if you stood infront of the pipes. I am happy to share this set-up for those interested. With the builtin speakers and/or a good woofer/base you do not need to source large full range speakers but small mid to upper speakers so you can live in the same room as the organ. Antiphonal effects can also be very successfully set-up this way such as fanfares from the west end answering the full organ to the east. Any views.
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Many thanks for setting up this forum, David, hope it goes well.
I've got an FV350 at home, and play regularly on a custom 2m in a local church - both Physis technology. I've done a lot of work on developing the voicing characteristics for three user-defined profiles - English, Baroque, and French Romantic. I'm very pleased with most of the sounds and the blend, but some stops aren't yet 'just right' after a year of tinkering - it's still a work in progress! Aside from the settings backup files on the USB stick, I keep a running note of the settings for each stop on a spreadsheet printout. What's the easiest way to exchange this sort of information between those of us who spend hours on it? I'll try out the 'attach file' function. Or, would anyone be interested anyway? 🙂