The pipe organ as a musical instrument relies heavily on the use of STEP DYNAMICS, where you can instantly move from silent sound to loud sound, or vice versa. Each sum of individual ranks playing together at one time, selected by the organist, is called a COMBINATION. When you first start selecting the sound color for a given musical number in a large pipe organ, you connect together individual pipe rows (RANKS) inside the cabinet, by pulling the wooden stops in the front of the instrument (in modern organs, they can also be electronic switches). When they play together, it sounds VERY authentic, and in my mind I am immediately transferred to a nearby church. It contains real recorded acoustical audio samples of each and every pipe in a great pipe organ. When played, these two rehearsal manuals and the pedal board produce MIDI information, which is then interpreted into music in an iMac, running a software called HAUPTWERK (by Milan Digital Audio Company, USA). Many thanks to Jukka Laaksonen for sharing his story, images, and sounds with us. Learn more about Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ here: Then the actual performance will be in a church, using a real acoustic instrument.' 'The device is now an integral part of a two-manuals and a full two-and-half-octave-pedal organ setup, which I use for practicing church music (mainly J.

Jukka Laaksonen, Organist, Helsinki, Finland

'The X-keys USB Stick serves to instantly activate one of my three favourite pre-set Combinations in Hauptwerk.'

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