Incredible value!
My Church was quoted $160,000 to repair their organ. I found the Markus Sigg apps and tried a couple of the free versions. I bought the Pitea package. For under $1,000 I got an iPad, camera connector, Nektar GX 61 controller, apps and Mackie Thump 112 XT. We supplemented the inoperable stops with this setup. The range of Pitea sounds far exceeds the capabilities of the real pipe organ, blends seamlessly with pipe organ, and provides power, tone and volume the old pipe organ never had. It sounds like a multi million dollar cathedral organ was installed in the church! Absolutely incredible detail and skill were involved in creating this app. It is absolutely stunning sounding in the church and the organist loves it. I have no doubt the parishioners will start asking why the church spent a fortune repairing the old organ! Little do they know…
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Great value. Great pipe organ sound.
Enhancements that would be very helpful: 1.transpose +/- full octave
2.add pipe stop expression adjustments to the stop buttons to show after a long press
3.separate main screen expressions for great, swell, choir, and pedal.
4.english labels for the organ manuals as a configuration option
5.more 4', 8' couplers
2.add pipe stop expression adjustments to the stop buttons to show after a long press
3.separate main screen expressions for great, swell, choir, and pedal.
4.english labels for the organ manuals as a configuration option
5.more 4', 8' couplers
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THE BEST
I've been using this app (and others from the same developer) for 3 and a half years. I absolutely love having a beautiful sounding organ in my backpack at all times, in my iPad. I use these apps every week. I use this app with 2 midi controllers. It’s just an incredible app. It’s worth every penny.
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Wonderful pipe organ that I use every day
This is by far the best pipe organ app for iPad, iPadPro, iPhone, and Macs.
The musical sound quality is superb.
The musical sound quality is superb.
fantastic reliability and ease of setup
we have a two-manual digital organ now finding second life as a VPO controller. I tried installing the GrandOrgue as well as Hauptwerk, but had various problems. I now have eight of these "little" VPO apps from Markus Sigg, and they are just fantastic. We run them on MacOS and iPad, with various midi-adapters from m-audio and PreSonus. The USB MIDI devices with analog audio-out work best with iPad so you don't have to fiddle with the headphone jack. Be aware that the larger bus-powered adapters will require the "USB 3" version of the iPad camera adapter to provide enough power. The same setup works with the iPhone, but the small screen is better with the "Mini" or harpsichord apps with fewer stops (otherwise they're difficult to tap)
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Great pipe organ sound at an excellent price
The Pitea pipe organ synth has been very helpful as a way to test MIDI music for real pipe organ, and add voicing to smaller real pipe organ. Pitea is the backup we use for a real church setting with real organ as well.
The app works just as well on MacOS, iPadOS, and IOS. It's a wonderful gift to the musical world that's far, far easier to implement and maintain compared to other pipe organ synths, including the most expensive ones.
The app works just as well on MacOS, iPadOS, and IOS. It's a wonderful gift to the musical world that's far, far easier to implement and maintain compared to other pipe organ synths, including the most expensive ones.
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Fantastic app
Really enjoyed using this , I have all the VPO apps, created by Herr Sigg, but for study use the Esmuc VPO And used this one the other day and really enjoyed the sound of a largish instrument . It will be well suited when I start studying French Romantic Repertoire .I use headphones as I wish to continue a good neighbour relationship I can strongly reccommend all of these apps which are much more reasonable to buy than Hauptwerk .
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A great iOS instrument!
I’ve used this app with a 35+ year old Allen organ to play live at Sunday Mass. Routing my iPad audio through the Allen amplification and tone cabinets was a huge upgrade in sound to the very dated Allen samples. These samples are not by any means the most advanced but as an out of the box solution for a venue with no organ or a dating instrument with a midi in, it provides a balanced instrument with a good selection of stops without too much setting up. The midi detect feature made it very easy to get this working with a midi keyboard and then with the 2 manuals and pedalboard of the organ mentioned. Great investment! It’s not Hauptwerk, but as a portable iOS instrument, it covers a niche where a portable hauptwerk setup would be overkill.
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Best Pipe Organ App
The sound quality and playabiity of this app are undeniable. This will blow your mind and well worth the cost of admission. If It ever becomes an AU plugin, I'd think every studio/music producer on the planet would want a copy. All of Mr. Sigg's organ apps are impressive, but this one takes the cake IMO.
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The King?
I have several iOS organs and all I can say is just “wow!” It’s worth the money. I’m a big fan of Crudebyte. A huge fan in fact, but iCathedral can’t compete in my ear. Omenie is great, but their 2 organs don’t compete though they are light on the memory and processor. I truly enjoy all those apps, but this is simply a different league plain and simple. It struck me so much I tried another from this developer, the Esmuc V1, and I am equally blown away even though it’s half the price of this and has less stops. I’m a bit lost for words. If you love pipe organs, you’d be silly not to get one of these. I have a feeling that the others would be enjoyable as well even if they are of a different flavor. You don’t eat the same meal everyday, so why play the same organ?
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Response from developer
Many thanks for this enthusiastic review. I would like to add that a great deal of credit must go to Lars Palo for creating the Piteå School of Music sample set and for allowing to use it in this app.
