My Hauptwerk Setup: How to get Started

Hello everyone, I'm Laura an organist from Madeira, Portugal. Recently I bought my first organ and I decided to share my experience with you.
Hope you enjoy!
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:54 - Organ Components
01:48 - Connections
02:39 - Computer Setup
03:24 - Playing Schumann
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►Computer: ASUS G14 2021
-AMD R9 5900HS
-40GB RAM
-1TB NVME
►Headphone: Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro
►Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
►Midi Interface: Roland UM-One MK2
►Organ: Organ Concerto made in Italy
►Organ Software: Hauptwerk
►Recording Sample: Sonus Paradisi Caen - St. Etienne - France
►Music: Schumann Canonic Etude Op.56 No.4
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Description tags: hauptwerk, music, organ, organist, musician, setup, concert, player, homemade, studio, pedalboard, console, keyboard, keys, instrument, practice.
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Video Shot and Edited by André Gonçalves / @imm3rs1on
If you wish to get more information about the organ, please leave in the comment or send me an instagram message.
Thanks For Watching! More content coming soon!

[@johnwilson-mr6pw]

I'm 82 years old and in my day access to an organ was via the local church and there weren't may opportunities to get practice time way back then, 70 odd years ago when I was just a boy) There must be a great many budding organist around these days with setups like this, (and I've seen much more sophisticated ones than this), so whilst a lot about the modern age is wretched, home made hauptwerks isn't one of them. I wish I was young again with my very own 'rig' and a life time ahead of me to make my own music.

[@BodybuilderKingViky]

Well you can still do it.

[@adamdrummer1991]

@@chopholtz4950he said home made hauptwerk setups weren’t wretched!

[@leviseo9536]

​@@chopholtz4950:(

[@WilliamJohnson-ly1yb]

Digital organs like Content and Allen are a lot better, but also a lot more expensive. I have a Content three manual and pedalboard with 30 stops. I love it. Lastly, what is so "wretched" about the present time?

[@fromthepeanutgallery1084]

82? You still a kid. buy one and make music for next 20 years.

[@JamesMichaelStevens]

Thanks for your demonstration of your Hauptwerk setup. Very interesting to watch and fine playing as well.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@andrewhall2554]

Thanks for sharing your new Hauptwerk system and also your playing. I was unfamiliar with this lovely piece by Schumann and now I will be looking for a copy of it to study. I like how compact and simple the console is. That makes it very practical to install in a small space. And the sound is quite beautiful, but what else should I expect from a sample set taken from such a wonderful instrument!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you!

[@AlejandroConsolacionII]

Innig is one of my favorite pieces by R. Schumann. Wonderful playing and you have a wonderful set up. Congratulations!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@james.flores]

Congratulations on your setup. Looking forward to your future videos.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much James! Your videos are super helpful! Keep going 👌

[@nicobester8053]

This is a very lovely choice and thoughtfully plaved, Laura. Thank you.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you!

[@myke49]

Congratulations on your new Hauptwerk setup and your playing. Back in 2013 I built my first Hauptwork setup using two then three midi keyboards and a home midi converted pedal board. I have been having fun ever since. I am now waiting for an organ builder in Australia to build me a console very like yours. Even the timber is similar. Pioter Grabowski in Poland has some great free organ samples. His Friesach sample is a real beauty. I learned piano as a kid but I regret that I did not learn organ when I was younger. Much Younger. Mike in Australia

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you! Looking forward to see your set up!

[@OldPannonian]

I have been dealing with Piotr for quite some time, buying and getting Hauptwerk sample sets from him. My setup has about 20 different organs on it, and I could install more, if my energy level allowed me. I am 80 years old, but in bad condition health-wise. I have had consoles from the Content factory in Holland and It was fun to play on them.

[@DanielMasmanian]

Hi Mike, how's your console going? - Daniel, Fremantle ;)

[@salemsokiredor9225]

Excellent! You have a very nice setup and will certainly enjoy exploring it for various compositions. I hope to see interesting future recordings! Congratulations!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@mitpfeiffenundsayten]

Congratulations on your new setup and also the interesting KZbin-channel! Many greetings from Germany!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much for your support!

[@dyslexiamusic2552]

Very nice set up Laura. Also, you play very well. Please post more videos!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much! I will post more videos soon!

[@CraigRodmellMusic]

It is one of my great regrets that my late Father, who was an organist, did not live long enough to see Hauptwerk. He actually had a console of a 1960s(?) electric organ, which he attempted to get going ( it "Sort-Of" worked). He could probably quite easily have adapted this to act as a controller for Hauptwerk, and he would have had a ball!

[@thomaslai5303]

Wow, a new member to the KZbin organists community! Welcome!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@tomhamp2915]

Absolutely brilliant!!! Well done!!!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@philipaggesen]

Huge congratulations on your hauptwerk setup. It looks wonderful!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@curtissnider6815]

Sounds great❣️🎶 Congratulatons on your awesome organ setup! 🎹👍🏻

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@pauldiffenderfer]

Wow !!! amazing, thanks

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@tearsinraine]

Great playing. Love the console too.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@StrahlerAchtundsechzig]

great sharing ur experience -thank U

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you!

[@jsahn6101]

Thanks a lot for sharing your experience. It will be a great help to me! Now I also have a plan to buy midi-console.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

I am happy that it help you! Feel free to ask if you need help I will try to help!

[@jsahn6101]

@@laurasilvamendes9185 Could you provide me with the website of organ company in Italy?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

@@jsahn6101 they don't have an website yet but if you send me and email to [e-mail] then I share there details

[@johnbostrom8467]

You are a very charming and musically gifted lady!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much!

[@orgelbaron]

60% all Hauptwerk organs. Details in our YT-channel.

[@WilliamJohnson-ly1yb]

I have a Content three manual digital organ with 30 stops. I prefer it to Hauptwerk setup. A lot more expensive, though.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you for your message ! I personally prefer the hauptwerk!

[@DiegoDourado]

Magnífico

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Muito obrigada!

[@JohnViolinista]

Laura você é Brasileira? 🇧🇷 Que órgão lindo! Um dia eu monto meu Console Hauptwerk 🙏🏾🙌🏻

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Olá! Eu sou portuguesa! Obrigada e espero que sim!

[@micheledallalba8950]

Nice one! I have an identical setup in my home, expect I'll get their new pedalboards, not from viscount and also wooden expression pedals

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Great! I also had the option to ask for wooden expression pedals but I am happy with these ones !

[@micheledallalba8950]

@@laurasilvamendes9185 I actually didn't have the option, it was either those or no pedals 😅

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

@@micheledallalba8950 well that ones are also good I suppose 😀

[@ehd8399]

Que lindo, uma abraço desde o Brasil.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Muito obrigada e igualmente!

[@glasss1978]

Hi Laura, thanks for the video and especially for the connection diagram! Where did you order your keyboard stack please?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Hi! Thank you for your message! I bought to an Italian organ builder! If you want more information send me an email to [e-mail]

[@danieldavis184]

I’m not an organist and now I want to buy an organ 🙈

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

That's amazing 😍 thank you so much for your support

[@josebraulioramirezguerrero9650]

excelente

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Obrigado

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Obrigada

[@Bass-guitarist]

you have confused me in your diagram and explanation, I have always connected Midi In from the computer to Midi out on the instrument and Midi Out from the computer to Midi In on the instrument but your Roland UM-One shows Midi In to Midi In on the Console?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

I tried exactly as you said but it did not work so I switched things around and it worked!

[@cmtwei9605]

Hi there, very capable person for DIY assembly. I have a few queries if you have time. Thanks. I don't see any real stop knobs or tabs, so they are all vitual on the computer? In your connections diagram, there're no connections from the two expression pedal outputs. Would they need to go to the midi unit? I don't see any speakers, where are they? Does the same builder build the table stand to put the manuals on and the bench? 😊

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Hi! Thank you for your message! Answering to your questions: don't see any real stop knobs or tabs, so they are all vitual on the computer? Yes they are all virtual on the computer In your connections diagram, there're no connections from the two expression pedal outputs. Would they need to go to the midi unit? No, the expression pedals are together with the pedal, the expression pedals come with the cables and you only need to connect them to the pedalboard! don't see any speakers, where are they? I don't use speakers because I live in a flat, but it's ready to connect speakers if I want to! Yes the builder made the bench, console support etc

[@andrewriver5523]

Olá ,Laura . Parabéns pelo excelente trabalho de interpretação. Estou entrando nesse mundo maravilhoso do órgão litúrgico. Gostaria de saber se você poderia me dar umas dicas sobre os equipamentos que você comprou para montar seu console ,como os teclados, controladores, etc.... Desde já sou eternamente grato...

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Olá! Sim claro, manda-me um e-mail para [e-mail] e eu explico tudo em detalhe!

[@andrewriver5523]

GRATIDÃO!!!!!

[@vewilli]

Very cool. Congrats! You say „Connect the Midi Out of … to the Midi out of …“ twice in this presentation. Now as far as I know you can‘t connect a MIDI out to a Midi out of one instrument to a Midi out of another instrument with the traditionell Midi cables (via USB it’s possible). Please tell me if I‘m wrong.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much! In my instrument it works in that way midi out to midi out. But in your instrument it can be different

[@suzanneozorak1212]

Dear colleague, I am very interested in buying an instrument like this. Where did you buy it?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Hi. Thank you very much for your message. Please send me an email to [e-mail] and I will give you all the information!

[@JohnWeinert]

Great setup. How do you manage the noise of the pedal with your neighbours? Do you have special protective measures?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much! It does not make much noise! My neighbors never complained about the playing.

[@JohnWeinert]

@@laurasilvamendes9185 Thanks

[@anonymmuss7090]

Wonderful setup! I can’t find the console online. Do you have a link to it?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Hi! Send me your email an I can give you more details!

[@johnwilson-mr6pw]

We could have done with a lot more info and a bit less playing although the playing was very nice. How much does this cost, how do you change your stops, etc etc. Anyway, looks like a nice set up

[@peckmike]

Thank you! I'm trying to find the Italian "Organ Concerto" brand online, but I can't fine them. Might you be able to provide a link to their website? Thanks again!

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Please send me an email to [e-mail] and I will give you all the information

[@stuartmclaren2402]

Thank you for the beautiful playing. What is the make and model of your organ ? Looks fantastic! I have been looking to buy a new organ.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much! This organ was made by an Italian company organ concerto. I am really happy with the instrument. It was a good choice! Feel free to ask if you want to know more!

[@stuartmclaren2402]

@@laurasilvamendes9185 Thank you and what part of the World are you from? it is always nice to know the organ make/model and a few details. It looks fantastic and so pleased you are happy with it. Very interesting and I had not heard of Organ Concerto ( which was on the label)and neither can I find any web site. I am from far away in New Zealand and while there is a small but strong Organ Federation here we suffer from being so remote. While Haupwerk organs are becoming so popular in Europe, USA and even Australia, there are only one or two in New Zealand which the owners have built themselves. I know of no manufactured Haupwerk organs here like yours. The Australian organ maker which uses Haupwerk, cannot do any work outside Australia. I hear Haupwerk is not so easy to set up especially with large 3+ manuals and pedalboard and I hear those who have tried to set up one have really struggled. We have no service backup apart from what is available online. For that reason I don’t have the confidence to try and build one myself. I have been offered a large 3 manual Viscount digital organ (also Italian made) which is in New Zealand. It is not Haupwerk but I am going to travel to the city to see and try it. The problem is shipping costs have risen sharply and the $ NZ is well below the € lie making it a very expensive purchase. So I have to consider what Is available locally. When I saw the video of your organ it looked like a Content (Netherlands) but I couldn’t find it in their product range. Content are a very good organ maker but a little more expensive than Viscount and probably others made in Italy. If I choose not to buy the Viscount I will be looking for alternatives and interested to see what is available. Thank you once again Laura. Stuart

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

I am Portuguese but I am currently based in London. Yes the brand still do not have an website so if you want me to pass their details send me an email to: [e-mail]. I see but have a look on that viscount because you can connect and use hauptwerk with that. I spent more than 2 months looking for options between viscount and other brands like content and etc. In my case I needed an organ that could fit the elevator since I live in an apartment and the "normal" electronic organs are in 1 piece, a part from the pedalboard. For my experience with hauptwerk the setting up of the organ was easy, (it came everything well organised and in parts easy to assemble) but what can be more difficult is the software, how to configure everything etc. The advantage of hauptwerk is to have the opportunity of playing in several organs and the sound is more realistic!

[@CACUHA]

Can you link to the company that makes that console?

[@alvinwalther3406]

...this organ looks wonderfult, where did you buy it ?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

I bought from an Italian builder

[@DominicKumar06]

very nice organ. what is the cost in GBP ? do they provide sales in UK ?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

For more information send me an email to [e-mail]! And yes they ship to the UK

[@alanmartin2016]

No mention of your audio system...are the monitors built in?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

I use : Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2

[@user-dg8ym4yi1j]

Hello, I am an organist living in Korea I want to buy pedals only for foot practice, but I wonder where you bought them Thank you ^^

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Hi! My pedalboard is from viscount! You can find them on www.thomann.de/intl/acessorios_para_orgao_sakral.html

[@Tocsin-Bang]

Only had to hear the first few notes fort me to like and subscribe! I'm English, living in Portugal with my Portuguese wife, Maria Fernanda, (we met in England). I love all kinds of organs and organ music, but don't play.

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Thank you very much! And I am a Portuguese living in London !

[@KenzyysBlitz_]

where to buy all of these(the keyboards, the pedals and the hauptwerk setup)? can you give the link?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Send me an email to [e-mail] and I can give you all the details

[@anbinhorgan]

where to buy pipe organ as like you, please, I live at Vietnam

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Hello! I bought mine in Italy. If you want me to give de information of the organ builder send me an email to [e-mail]

[@alexgrey880]

Hello 👋🏽 could you prove the details of where I make a purchase for an instrument like this ?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Hi ! Send me an email to [e-mail] and I will give you all the information!

[@yoonkyungsoh3039]

hello What kind of midi interface are you using? Do you only need an audio interface?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

I am using the Scarlett for Audio interface and the Roland midi interface

[@yoonkyungsoh3039]

@@laurasilvamendes9185 Thank you!!!!

[@michaelangelusaiesu2037]

Saudações, Laura. Qual é o site para ver e eventualmente comprar?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Ele ainda não tem site mas se me enviares o teu email para [e-mail] eu entro em contato com ele!

[@michaelangelusaiesu2037]

@@laurasilvamendes9185, obrigado.

[@cleofasmosha9879]

how manya cost?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Send me an email to [e-mail] and I give you more information!

[@purplecosmopolitannights3330]

What is the name of the piece in the intro?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Is Schumann canonic etude n4

[@purplecosmopolitannights3330]

@@laurasilvamendes9185 Thank you

[@Excalibur-Hells]

Você vive em um país maravilhoso! Aqui no Brasil eu levaria 13 anos trabalhando para comprar um deste! Brasil governado por criminosos! Você é feliz e não sabe!

[@davidaldrich4590]

Please will you provide a link to the manufacturer of your console?

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

Hi! Please send me and email to [e-mail] and I can send all the information you need!

[@JariMyllymaki]

is that organ made by yourself??

[@laurasilvamendes9185]

No, its made by the Italian organ builder Organ Concerto

[@JariMyllymaki]

Kiitos tiedosta 👍