Pipe Organ1.5 - App Store

Pipe Organ is our most accurate, sweetest-sounding organ simulation yet, with 22 ranks of simulated pipes and a warm, lush reverberation unit to add life and space to your music.

Pipe Organ is extremely flexible, and allows you to use anything from a single USB MIDI keyboard up to 2 keyboards, pedalboard and 2 expression pedals - Swell and Crescendo - for the full Pipe Organ experience.

Pipe Organ is also a Player Organ - it doesn't even need an organist for you to enjoy its sounds and use it in church, at choir practice, or on the streets at Christmas for caroling.

We provide over 30 pieces of music with the app, all recorded live into the app by UK-based organists, and captured from a wide variety of setups ranging rom a simple single keyboard through a full two manual plus pedals organ. You can expand your collection at any time, by recording or importing pieces, and can play them back and freely share them. Hymns, Christmas Carols, Liturgy, Voluntaries, concert organ classics or popular songs. The built-in hymnal can store up to 1024 tunes within the app using our ultra-compact custom file format, which is typically 2 to 2.5x more compact than MIDI. But you can also save and restore your music collection outside the app or even off your device for peace of mind.

As a musical instrument Pipe Organ can be used at home, for choir practice, in schools, in church services.

As a Player Organ it can be used in all the same situations, but removes the need for an organist. As a replacement for 'Worship CDs' of organ music, Pipe Organ has massive advantages. It costs MUCH less than a set of worship CDs. It has enormous flexibility when playing back songs. The organ itself may be customized - the level of reverberation, the organ's temperament, the organ's overall tuning stability ("time since last tuning"), the organ's pitch (415 or 440Hz A), all can be changed to suit. And for each piece of music within a Service / Recital, the tune's tempo and key can be changed - songs that are too fast, too slow, too high or too low can be made just right for your audience, choir or congregation.

Version History • New stop, 16' Trombone in the pedal
• Ability to import / export piston and bank presets from another device or from Church Organ for Mac
• Updated to AudioBus 3.0.12 for bugfixes and unwanted features under iOS 14
• Significant changes to Hymnal and Service interface to work around iOS 14 UIPickerView changes
• "Efficient rendering" mode automatically enable on old (iOS 9.x) hardware for absolutely reliable performance on iPad 2 / iPod Touch 5G 1.5 12/31/2020 A bugfix to remove occasional stuck notes for keyboards that generate MIDI clock and / or Active Sensing. 
Updated help file. 1.4 10/16/2020 Massive increase is sonic fidelity - Pipe Organ now uses 16 rather than 4 wavetables per pipe
Fix to 48kHZ / 44.1kHz pitch issue
Improvements in performance for iOS 9.3.5 (iPad 2 / iPod Touch 5G)
Improvement in Service import / export
Fix to unequal temperaments - these were previously tuned such that C was held constant, which left A not necessarily tuned to International A - e.g Lehman 2005 would be 5.8 cents sharp. This is now fixed, A will not move in the presence of temperament changes. Violinists tuning against the organ will be happy about this.
Fix to 'General Cancel' graphics.
Update to the codebase to be based on the upgrades introduced to support Church Organ for Mac OS. 1.3 09/15/2020 Change to Service file format - previously services were stored flat, so were always 666kBytes. Which is an unfortunate file size for use in church, so they are now stored sparse and are typically less than 40kBytes for a service featuring 10 pieces of music. Any old 'fat' services will still load, but will be saved back sparse, making Service sharing much more efficient.

When Services are imported, instead of blindly overwriting the currently selected service, the Service indicators flash - just touch the service you want to overwrite to commit the import. 1.2 04/03/2020 This version includes 
* improved 48kHz device detection
* an option to reinstall the supplied hymnal to the device
* an 'improved efficiency' synthesis model for old device (iPad 2, iPad Mini 1, iPod Touch 5G)
* increased 'air' frequencies on selected flute stops
* fix to GUI for iPhone SE Hymnal View 1.1 03/19/2020 1.0 03/10/2020