Building a Digital Organ using a few years of hard knocks
For a lot of years now I've been developing electronics, techniques, and designs to optimize designs for digital organs. With my partner Jon Orwig of Evensong Music , we have developed some amazing sample sets of American instruments. We're super happy with this part of our business. I've been developing electronics to create MIDI interfaces for digital organs for the last several years. The designs have had many iterations, but I'm narrowing down to a pretty optimized design. This review is for a practice/teaching instrument for St. John's Lutheran church in Orange, CA. The plan is for a 3 and pedal manual instrument using our St. Olaf, Minneapolis sample set. One challenge for this instrument is that it's going in the music office, which is a house built in the 1920's, and has very narrow doorways. A traditional case, even ones that are designed to go through 32" doors, will not work for this application. A "flat pack" design has t