Nitra | The PERFECT Hauptwerk Organ? | Bach Fugue in G Minor BWV 578

NITRA - the latest sample set from Piotr Grabowski - is this the PERFECT organ for Hauptwerk. It's not the biggest, not the loudest but it has been sampled with such detail and perfection that it's impossible to deny just how perfect it is! In today's video I show you the individual sounds of the organ, combine them for some jazzy effects and then play Bach's "little" Fugue in G Minor BWV 578 for you.
Thank you to Piotr Grabowski for this amazing sample set and his continued talent and dedication in providing us with these fantastic sample sets.
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[@nathanparker1879]

I don’t understand how anyone could ever leave a dislike on your videos. From what I do understand, is that you are probably one of the most diverse players on this planet and one of the most virtuosic too!

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thanks Fraser, your Nitra can play a lot more than mine!!! But I'm afraid it's not the organ but my lack on talent... You as The Godfather from the online organ gang can transform every machine in a mighty Baroque or Theater organ like magic! Very Nice! :-) Thanks for this very informative video!

[@EduardQualls]

*_Portun:_* "An open wood stop of medium scale, of 8' and 4' pitch. The finer examples have bodies with a slight outward taper and a slight reediness in their voices. The stop is occasionally found in German organs." -"The Organ" by W.L. Sumner

[@maurofarrugia8546]

You're truly a legend Mr. Gartshore!... I like the way you approach registration - crisp and clean. Can't wait for the Gigue Fugue by Bach with that kind of pace 😉

[@randyreynolds6645]

I really appreciate the stop demonstrations, helping me understand the mysteries of the pipe organ. Thank you.

[@grahamtwist]

Fabulous demonstration of this organ's potential in terms of chorus and solo stops. It is not the biggest instrument for certain, but I think it could handle all the repertoire across the eras pretty well - especially Blues and Jazz, for which it was never designed, but in your capable hands, performs perfectly naturally! Bravo!

[@dulcian3230]

According to Wolfgang Adelung in his "Einführung in den Orgelbau", the Portun is an Austrian invention with its origins in south german baroque Organs. Your comment about the mixture of the Principal, Flute, and string sounds like Suavial to me.

[@james.flores]

I’m just here for the trade secrets! But in all seriousness, your demonstrations are great because you explain the ranks as you’re demoing it. Love the jazz and boogie woogie fragments too!

[@jerrymartin79]

Well... thanks to your wonderful demonstration, Piotr may have made another sale! (You should be getting a commission ;) ) Bravo!

[@vocalchords3609]

Outrageously brilliant!!!!! Fab - from a fellow organist. My day has ended well having enjoyed the intro and then the recital! TVM

[@tahaghaffari2168]

Nice a nother Video i love your Videos

[@peterking2794]

I love your demonstration videos of 'new' organs and what they can do. Great stuff! Before the plague you were able to physically get inside organs and show us the 'gubbins' and how it all works. Thank you, Fraser.

[@markharwood]

Fantastic organ - I will get for my Hauprtwerk!

[@orion777ben]

What a beautiful organ. I like it a lot better than the ponderous dinosaurs!

[@williamralph5442]

The sampling software is amazing. Hopefully you will play the actual organ...can't wait. Thanks Fraser.

[@kenmerola4797]

I love that chiff on that organ! I wish an organ sample was available for the Flentrop organ at Harvard University (Busch Hall) where E. Power Biggs famously recorded Bach’s Passacaglia & Fugue in c minor. NITRA is sounds great (thank you!) and reminds me of that Flentrop, which has reed stops that are... well... amazing (pedals). The flue pipe chiffs are memorable as well for anyone who has heard this modest (33 rank) baroque organ. I know I’m not alone on this!

[@japlunkett6789]

Fraser, awesome video! I haven't heard this Bach piece in probably 20 years... I could remember the opening measures, but not much else, and hadn't heard it since, but always wondered which piece it was. Excellent playing - thanks for bringing back a childhood memory!

[@The_Mental_Christian]

Absolutely love it, even the cheeky bits. The bass is fantastic

[@AttilaSVK]

I live in Nové Zámky, about 30km from Nitra, and I was not expecting to see (and hear) an organ from that close to me. The funny thing is that I haven’t been to St. Emmeram’s Cathedral (Katedrála sv. Emeráma) where the sampled organ is located. If you would happen to be playing the real organ in Nitra, let your subscribers (and thus me) know :)

[@peterallison5021]

What a joy to hear the sound of a beautiful organ, bet BWV 529 would sound near perfect on it...hint hint

[@panlomito]

Very nice organ indeed, not the terrible dramatic organ case but the beautiful voices of this mechanical organ. With an acoustic reverb that is quite pleasant, au contraire the 10 seconds of Nancy... I wil make my notes to recognize the different voices on Great, Choir and Pedal and Friday I hope we can taste more Nitra-nitro !

[@Fearlessfirefighterfred]

Love it on of my Favorites in the contrapunctual writing

[@danw1955]

Wow, love some of those 'chiffy' sounding stops that seem to be common with the older tracker organs. Piotr really has a knack for capturing these samples perfectly! I may have to check out his site and download this one for a try out! Nice demo, thanks Fraser!😉🎵🎶👍

[@josepb4136]

Bravo!, 42:56

[@tom7601]

Now all you need is a Tibia 4’, 8’, and 16’! :-)

[@richardswain3530]

What a sweet sound Lovely

[@robt2151]

31:40 Enter Grandfather (Peter and the Wolf)

[@gsten2116]

I am absolutely in love with the way you play. My wife enjoys the trills. Thank you.

[@88-fingers79]

Wonderful demo - thank you Fraser. I love the crisp clean registration, and the wonderful jazzy feel! Love to hear a little gospel (? Down by the riverside? Swing low sweet chariot?)

[@amangogna68]

Sounds great !

[@qwincyq6412]

A fun organ! I liked your articulation in the G-

[@Lubkramer]

Very nice!!

[@joeberta368]

BRAVO FRASER

[@aBachwardsfellow]

- interesting salicional - very flutey, less stringy but blends well; - the portune reminds me of a gemshorn - towards the flutey side - with a touch-sensitive keyboard might it be possible to replicate the tracker action? - nice g-minor! very clear and articulate in all voices

[@juliangerardcascio1111]

I think Organ is Great !

[@juliangerardcascio1111]

Wonderful !

[@andrewloose3419]

A great baroque sound - but too fast for my liking. I had a recording of this by E Power Biggs in Boston USA when I was in my teens - mid-60s - and it was slower!!

[@HammondDirk]

Cool! I agree that baroque organs are good for Jazz ;-)

[@johntaliaferrothompson6052]

Mr. Gartshore did you know what is the length(in mm) of a 15804.266 hertz(B9) pipe? I'm just curious how short the organ pipe can be I can't imagine it. May I request Mr. Gartshore you to make a video of showing the shortest pipe in the organ to us? Thank You

[@jismo7]

Good question. I know there's something called end correction. They might even make top end of mixture pipes harmonic so they're double length and easier to deal with.

[@johntaliaferrothompson6052]

@@jismo7 Apologize I don't understand your explanation because im not an organ builder and pipe smith. I just want to know the length(in mm) of the pipe note B9. Anyway thank you.

[@jismo7]

@@johntaliaferrothompson6052 Hi John, I 'm not an organ builder either unfortunately so can't tell you the length. It will be less than 10mm as c8kHz is c18mm. What I know is that the hole half way up a pipe cancels out the first harmonic so if 8 foot long, it will play 4 foot C. End correction is as follows: (from google) "In acoustics, end correction is a short distance applied or added to the actual length of a resonance pipe, in order to calculate the precise resonant frequency of the pipe. The pitch of a real tube is lower than the pitch predicted by the simple theory". 32' bottom C can be over 35 feet long in reality.

[@johntaliaferrothompson6052]

@@jismo7 can you list down all the pipe length(in inch if shorrter than inch than use mm to list down) of the B pipe?

[@colincharmley6858]

What did you say at 10:31? The sound glitched out

[@AlessandroSistiMusic]

"almost the same character as the QUINTADE on its own"

[@colincharmley6858]

@@AlessandroSistiMusic oh, it sounded like he said a bad word a cut it out or something lol

[@AlessandroSistiMusic]

@@colincharmley6858 I think he accidentally turned off his mic while getting ready to play. Could have been force of habit :)

[@colincharmley6858]

@@AlessandroSistiMusic ah, that makes sense

[@zbigniewnykiel]

It is really nice sampleset ;) Fraser can I ask fot check something? Middle C in octavbass and the lowest C in subbas. It is ok in your hauptwerk?

[@fjbrady]

Organy sound 😁

[@snoolee7950]

'Wish there was not so much reverb. Is it acoustic recorded reverb (I hope) versus added? The recording engineer may be able to effect this via microphone placement, or maybe not. Definitely subjective where is the chosen sweet spot in the room to position the microphone(s). Thank you for the demonstration.

[@HansLaros]

The acoustics sound very realistic. You seem to prefer the 'organist perspective', whereas organs are voiced to be 'perfect' at the 'listener perspective', which by design has much more reverb.

[@janovlk]

Is it a sample instrument? So it isn't possible to channge a scale?

[@AlessandroSistiMusic]

20:16 Portun!

[@techman85]

Fraser, may I ask what brand of headphones do you use?

[@FraserGartshore]

Sure, I’m using Beyerdynamic, have done for years.

[@techman85]

@@FraserGartshore thank you! May I ask which model you use?

[@FraserGartshore]

I have the DT 770 Pro Series. Good flat frequency response and comfortable to wear for long sessions.

[@zvenzzon00]

Great sound! I have a technical question about recording samples from real organs and simulating that sound with church acoustics: Where do you record, and when you play at home, is it gonna sound like you listen at the organists console position, or is it going to sound like you are listening as a member of the audience down the church? Guess you can't have both?!

[@FraserGartshore]

That is a good question and the answer is yes - you can have both! There are multiple channels of recorded samples taken at different distances from the organ pipes, so you can mix them as you like - more close - more distance - whatever you want!

[@cannedmusic]

Portunus Eradicus! (The spell that they learned on their third day to make bad food selections at meals vanish without question)

[@Thomlille]

Hi Fraser, may I ask you what is your computer specs? Thanks.

[@FraserGartshore]

Good question! I can’t remember - there’s a making-of video on the channel where I go over all that. i9, 256GB ram, tons of storage!

[@Thomlille]

@@FraserGartshore Thanks

[@alexmikhael5061]

was this the one with YOUR PERSONAL PERFECT STOPS put into one PERFECT ORGAN PLATFORM ??? setup??? ....real or not, perfect stops all them... or ... do you need more RAM more puter power to enable ALL ALL ALLLLLLL THE STOPS mode??? :) that 128gigs RAM limit thingy??

[@merourchristian4950]

A little bit too fast for me ! 🤭

[@klausanton3977]

nur noch in englisch jetzt?

[@FraserGartshore]

Nein - die deutsche Version ist auch dabei! kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3OooJ-EdsqDrNE

[@klausanton3977]

@@FraserGartshore Danke! das hab ich wohl übersehen.

[@dominikvoynorovdky2462]

Dear Freser!!, you are an amazing organist! I watched you for a long time and decided to write and ask you for help on how to assemble such a good instrument for this sound at home. I can use my Sonus 60 from Viscount, just what kind of computer, and of course the awlio system, to produce 32 "bass I will be very grateful to you and thank you for your precious time spent on reading my letter.Thank you in advance for your help and God bless you and Merry Christmas!

[@FraserGartshore]

Thank you! There is no easy way to answer your questions! Any MIDI keyboard or combination of keyboards can be used for Hauptwerk (there are other software options out there, some even free!). The main "problem" is always the amount of RAM on your computer system. The more the better! I have 64GB on my old iMac - which is enough for MOST sample sets I have. However, for some larger sample sets, even 128GB isn't enough to enjoy the sets in full multi-channel mode! As for an audio interface - it all depends on what you want. If, like me, you're happy working with headphones alone and 2 speakers in a small room, then a small, inexpensive interface will do the job. If it has onboard MIDI, it can control Hauptwerk too. If you want multi-channel surround sound systems, then you'll need an interface with multiple outputs. The mixing possibilities within Hauptwerk are endless - you can route audio in so many different ways... As for speakers capable of recreating 32' sounds realistically - that's a topic for audio specialists! There are some very good speakers out there capable of shaking paint off the walls, good for large spaces but dangerous for domestic use!

[@dominikvoynorovdky2462]

@@FraserGartshore My situation is not bad, since I have a Sonus Viscount organ, the Stanberg audio card seems to have large Italian speakers, each speaker has a subwoofer, a subwoofer, and then there is also a speaker on the tube, maybe it is not suitable for using Hauptwerk? And thanks for the answer

[@tahaghaffari2168]

Nice a nother Video i love your Videos