Nevertheless it’s impractical for most persons to have a real organ at home and it’s in such situations that a virtual organ can be very valuable. Not the least important reason is that, even if it’s available at only a fraction of the cost of a real pipe organ, it can sound very convincing indeed.

My hopes are that vpo’s and my efforts with them will help more people enjoy the wonderful instrument that the Organ really is.

My free GrandOrgue samplesets

On this page you can find the samplesets that I’ve created, either on my own or in collaboration with others. The samplesets are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license, Swedish jurisdiction. For details look at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ to get an idea of what it means.

Please note that (almoast all) the samplesets are intended for GrandOrgue 0.3+ versions, so be sure to have a recent version of GrandOrgue installed. Especially the new GrandOrgue packages that eliminates the un-packing step for the user needs 0.3.2078+ to work reliably, but for them you can just drop the whole package into the organ package folder and the organs will be registered at startup.

Magne Nilsen has kindly offered to mirror the samplesets on his server in USA, so the lower link that goes to his server can now be used also. For the Piteå School of Music sampleset Dell Anderson offers another download link in USA.

Also note that there are patches for some of the samplesets below to extend their features and/or correct things.

Organ image Sampleset Instrument Stops Version Download link File size
Samplesets for GrandOrgue to download
An image of the organ in Bureå Funeral Chapel Bureå Funeral Chapel Man + Ped

6 (orig. B/D)

+3 ext.

1.0

Use with recent version of GO!

Burea_Funeral_Chapel.rar

 

92.2 MB

(216.2 MB uncompressed)
An image of the organ in Bureå Church Bureå Church 3 Man + Ped 33 in orig. 63 in ext. beta 2

Burea_Church.7z

Burea_Church.7z (USA)

1.03 GB

(1.895 GB uncompressed)
Facade of Kalvträsk church organ Kalvträsk Church Man + Ped, (2 Man + Ped in ext.) 7 in orig. 33 in ext.

beta 2

To be used with latest dev. version of GO!

(at least 0.3.1.1240)

Kalvtrask_Church.rar

ca 1.2 GB

(ca 2.1 GB uncompressed)
Organ facade in Piteå School of Music Piteå School of Music 3 Man + Ped 35 in orig.

20160115

Use with 0.3.1.2078+ version of GO!

PiteaMHS20160115.orgue

ca 379 MB
Bureå Church choir organ Man + Ped 7

20160108

Use with 0.3.1.2078+ version of GO!

 BureaChoir20160108.orgue

ca 643 MB

Patches for the samplesets above

patch1-Burea_Church-beta2.7z (1.7 MB)

patch1-Burea_Church-beta2.7z (1.7 MB from USA)

BureaChurchUpdated0.3patch.7z (3.7 MB) Updated GUI thanks to Larioants work from Grahams HW images updated with fixed graphics and no log warnings (rev 1422)

Patch_BureaChurch_rev1422warnings.7z (12.8 kB) Updated ODFs no log warnings (rev 1422)

Patch2_BureaChurch.7z (6.3 MB) Fix some samples in PEDPrincipal8

Patch_BureaFuneral_rev1422warnings.7z (5.2 kB) Updated ODFs no log warnings (rev 1422)

Checksums for verifying donwloads (md5sum):

1d1a44aae37911f1f81f781b64eb668e  Burea_Funeral_Chapel.rar
956d68e9d7c3e648fd61a08ba3662fda  PiteaMHS20160115.orgue
a3a93c50b770b05dd7bfefd9d49c4187  Kalvtrask_Church.rar
561f5c8653e3cfbf97fab8accfceed19  BureaChoir20160108.orgue

GrandOrgue unique ID (sha1sum):

5873CA5BA3624AC5EC0045020361834AEDAA62F4  BureaChoir20160108.orgue
4BA36A9F0498037E5FC42CCD65B36C0749DE02F7  PiteaMHS20160115.orgue