Fredonia Grand Organ
Harness the grandeur and majesty of the grand organ, from delicate to massive.
$129
Audio Demos
- Judgement (Dressed) Ben Hicks 1:53
- New World Symphony - II. Largo Antonín Dvořák (arr. Andrew Aversa) 1:36
- The Sun Summoner Andreas Wimmer 1:26
- Renaissance Dracula Pixelee 1:16
- Summer Hymn (Softer Stops) Fredik Häthén 1:12
- Justice Steven Cravis 3:06
- Carousel Henning Nugel 0:50
- The Sun Summoner (Naked) Andreas Wimmer 1:26
- Judgement (Naked) Ben Hicks 1:53
- Summer Hymn Fredik Häthén 1:15
Overview
The Fredonia Grand Organ places the power and majesty of a full pipe organ at your fingertips with unparalleled depth and range — 39 stops that can be combined for endless possible tones. Featuring one of the biggest sounds you’ve ever used, easily adjusted from a delicate to an almost cosmic scale.
Product Info
All 39 stops individually sampled
Mix and match anywhere from 1 to all 39 tones to create your own sound. Original volumes preserved for accuracy.
All four divisions included
Swell, Positiv, Pedal, and Great. Each with their own unique set of stops and tones.
4 mic positions plus stereo master mix
KM184 XY, Mid-Side, Opus, QTC40 AB, and a pre-mixed, memory-efficient position.
Pristine 24-bit recordings
Over 19,000 samples included.
Meticulous chromatic sampling
Every key recorded with long, looping sustains.
Features
Beautiful custom UI
Multiple methods of control
Crescendo and swell pedals
Deep editing controls for power users
CONSOLE FX rack and mixer
Requirements
14GB disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
4GB RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Apple M1, Intel I5 or equivalent CPU
A faster CPU with more cores will allow you to play more simultaneous voices.
Kontakt 6.5+ Player
This library will run in the FREE Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OSX
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update).
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Library Walkthrough
Largo Demo Walkthrough
Pipe Organ Basics Ep 1
Pipe Organ Basics Ep 2
Pipe Organ Basics Ep 3
Featured Artists & Composers
Simon Franglen
Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water
Impact Soundworks make detailed, emotive instruments. I’ve happily bought over two dozen of their libraries which should say everything. They get used every day.
Lena Raine
Celeste, Chicory, Minecraft, Guild Wars 2, Deltarune
Instruments from ISW are a staple of my soundtrack work for games. Vocalisa has been a mainstay vocal aesthetic of nearly every game I've worked on including Celeste & Chicory: A Colorful Tale. Shreddage 3 has also given me the confidence to write some really fun guitar riffs & solos despite not being able to play a real one. I've started incorporating Tokyo Scoring Strings into the acoustic side of my scoring work, and can't wait to try out more from ISW in the future!
Richard Jacques
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Mass Effect, Overwatch 2, James Bond 007: Blood Stone
"I'm a huge fan of the Ventus Winds series. They feature rare instruments deep-sampled to an incredibly high level of detail. It's so liberating to have such a wide range of articulations & phrases that perfectly capture the nuances and performance style of these instruments... from beautiful to haunting, celebratory to sorrowful. Each is expertly recorded and the sound quality is superb, sitting in the mix with ease. If you want to add authentic world winds to your palette, then look no further."
To create the Fredonia Grand Organ, we sampled the magnificent Schlicker Pipe Organ at SUNY Fredonia. Every pipe organ has a unique voice, and this one has a particularly powerful sound with incredible versatility.
Capturing the nuance and fullness of a pipe organ is no easy feat, but an instrument as grand as this deserves extra care. We’ve replicated many features of a real organ, including crescendo and swell controls, so that it plays like the real thing. Its 2,469 pipes have been deep-sampled with four mic positions and four registers (Swell, Positive, Pedal, and Great).
We sampled every single stop — a total of 39 — individually to give you full control over the instrument’s sound. Combine any or all of these to customize the tone however you’d like. Additionally, we’ve emulated the behavior of the instrument’s six couplers, so you can add or subtract octaves with the press of a button. And if you’re looking for a brilliant sound right out of the box? We’ve provided an array of powerful presets with different stop combinations and signal chains in our Console FX rack and mixer. From the delicate-voiced rohrflöte to the earth-shaking thunder of the whole instrument in chorus, the Fredonia Grand Organ will take your breath away.
Console is a fully-featured mixer, modular effects rack, and pedal board, designed to give you full control over your mix. Effects include multiple EQs (digital and analog-style), compressors, spatial FX, modulation FX, amps, distortion pedals, reverbs, and more.
Each mic channel can be loaded with up to 8 FX in any order, plus another 8 slots on the master channel, with support for send routing as well. For Fredonia Grand Organ in particular, the “Galois Reverb” added in Kontakt 6 Player sounds fantastic as an alternative to our included custom IRs.
Reviews
Fredonia Grand Organ – Simeon Amburgey
“The thing about this particular organ library is the fact that you have the option to turn on and off individual stops…it’s got a really beautiful sound to it…they’ve given you just so much flexibility with this organ here.”
Simeon Amburgey (10/21)
Fredonia Grand Organ – SoundBytes Magazine
“The clarity and depth of the sample content is amazing and the Console section lets you easily balance it all out to your own liking. The ability to have each division on its own MIDI channel lets you approach this instrument as you would a real-world pipe organ, but the virtual implementation also allows you to take it places that no real-world organ could go. FGO has a rich and powerful sound that is tough to beat.”
Rob Mitchell (SoundBytes Magazine)
Fredonia Grand Organ – Synthsonic
“Fredonia Grand Organ is capable of producing a wide range of pipe organ sounds, from the magnificent scale of cinematic sounds to the soft and warm sounds used in churches. And even though the sound is massive and organic, it’s capable of a considerable breadth of musical styles… With so many possibilities, the capabilities of this virtual instrument are truly vast. It’s not just a “pipe-organ-like” sound. This library is truly a genuine, authentic pipe organ.”
Synthsonic (07/2021)