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Combination Files
You may have an unlimited number of combination files for each sample set. Each
combination file is organized into two sections. This first section allows you to
capture all of the pistons found in the sample set, like memories on a pipe or
digital organ.
(Exemplum Organum Virtual Console for St. George’s Casavant)
As you can see above, the St. George’s Casavant has 15 Generals and five
Divisionals per division. You could access any number of these combination files
by selecting them from a list with your mouse. You could name one set “Vierne
Symphonie VI,” one “Mendelssohn Sonata I,” and one “December program, first
half.” Hauptwerk also allows you to capture 8 complete settings, called “banks,”
for quick midi access through pistons (called standby combination files) for each
sample set.
The second section of the Combination File, which is really a subset of the first
section, is called the Registration Sequencer. The Registration Sequencer
(“Seq” on my piston layout) records the equivalent of 512 ADDITIONAL
generals in 8 banks (each bank assignable to a piston) in each Combination File.
So, for example, a combination file you name “Mendelssohn Sonata I” would
cover all of the pistons you have available in that sample set, plus 512 additional
sequencer settings affecting all of the organ controls - like general pistons. The
thing to consider with the Registration Sequencer is that the combinations are not
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