WatsonMIDI vs PistonLink

WatsonMIDI™ is the professional MIDI recording and playback app for pipe organ and electronic organ musicians. Developed with over 20 years of organist input, WatsonMIDI™ captures, organizes, and shares your musical performances. RECORD & PLAYBACK Capture performances with a single tap. Records all MIDI data including notes, expression pedal movements, and registration changes. Play back through any MIDI-connected organ exactly as performed, or route to virtual organ software like GrandOrgue and Hauptwerk. ORGANIZED LIBRARY Build a recording library with custom folders for each venue, season, or occasion. Search instantly across hundreds of recordings. Import existing MIDI files from other systems. SERVICE PLAYLISTS Create playlists for worship services, concerts, recitals, and special events. Arrange recordings in any order and play through them seamlessly. Perfect for substitute organists. HYMN BUILDER (Symphony) Assemble a complete hymn from your recordings. Record an introduction, verses, and an ending once, set the verse plan, and WatsonMIDI plays the hymn straight through on your organ. Reuse the same pieces across services. PROFESSIONAL FEATURES Instant transposition - shift playback up or down without re-recording Tempo adjustment - speed up or slow down for practice Loop playback - repeat recordings continuously Play-along mode - play live while a recording plays back Listening mode - hear playback through your device speakers MIDI Monitor - view incoming MIDI data in real-time PROTECT YOUR WORK Share recordings with military-grade AES-256 encryption. Set play limits and expiration. Your intellectual property stays protected — only WatsonMIDI™ can play your shared content. MAESTRO - FOR ORGANISTS & TECHNICIANS For musicians who play multiple instruments and technicians who service them: Organ Profiling - capture any instrument's complete stop list, divisions, and MIDI channel mapping. Build a profile library of every organ you play or maintain. Translation Engine - a first for the organ world. Record at one church, play back at another with stops mapped automatically. Tag your existing library with a profile, then translate to any profiled organ — a recording from a Rodgers digital organ can play back on a 43-rank pipe organ. Professional Tuning - chromatic strobe tuner with four display modes, real-time pitch detection, wireless remote tuning via Bluetooth from inside the chamber, historical temperament support, cents offset, chromatic walk, interval checks, and reference tone generation. UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY Pipe Organs - Peterson ICS, Syndyne, Matters, and MIDI-equipped consoles Digital Organs - Rodgers, Allen, Johannus, Viscount, Lowrey Digital Pianos - Yamaha, Roland, Kawai, Nord Theater Organs - Wurlitzer, legacy instruments with MIDI Virtual Organs - GrandOrgue, Hauptwerk via IAC Driver or virtual MIDI Keyboards & Synthesizers - any MIDI-capable keyboard FLEXIBLE PRICING All one-time purchases, no subscriptions: Practice ($1.99) - 5 recordings, 1 playlist Audition ($49.99) - 50 recordings, 5 playlists, folders Recital ($199.99) - Unlimited recordings and playlists Symphony ($499.99) - Encrypted sharing, audio recording, and Hymn Builder Maestro ($999.99) - Organ Profiling, Translation Engine, Professional Tuning, Apple Watch and Console Power Control CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth MIDI or wired USB/Lightning. Auto-reconnect remembers your last device. Separate MIDI Routing for virtual instrument setups. Whether you're a church organist, concert artist, substitute musician, or organ technician, WatsonMIDI™ is the essential tool for modern MIDI organ work. From Watson Pipe Organ Company - Music for Generations.

ABOUT PISTONLINK PistonLink was built for your organ. Save and deploy registration profiles across Great, Swell, and Pedal divisions, or receive them from the organ into a profile that you can take anywhere with you — directly to your organ's memory pistons via MIDI SysEx. No more scrambling at the console before the prelude starts. SUPPORTED ORGAN MODELS - Rodgers 790C, 790B - Rodgers 751A, 751B - Rodgers 795 - Rodgers T788 - Rodgers 835B - Johannus WM-44 - Johannus WM-47 - Allen AP-16 REGISTRATION PROFILES Create a full stop state for your organ and deploy it instantly to any piston memory slot. IMPORT PRESETS FROM THE ORGAN You can connect to the organ, and dump your stops from various pistons directly into a new profile, so manually transferring is a thing of the past. REGISTRATION LIBRARY Browse curated stop suggestions for hymns, verse by verse. Find the right sound and save it straight to any profile — ready for Sunday. ENCORE Record your registration changes and expression pedal moves in real time, then play them back exactly as performed. Capture a piece once and let PistonLink handle every stop change and swell shift automatically. Only available on supported organ models. HANDS-FREE PAGE TURNS Import any PDF and turn pages without lifting your hands from the keys. Wink right to advance, wink left to go back. Never locked behind an in-app purchase. ORGAN DETECTION Not sure what organ you have? PistonLink can help you identify what organ you have if you're not sure. MIDI SYSEX AND PROGRAM CHANGE INTEGRATION PistonLink communicates directly with your instrument over MIDI — writing registrations to the organ's own memory with precision. This also includes a shortcut to access Voice Palette voices from the app, rather than fumbling through the organ menu one at a time. AI HYMN REGISTRANT Can't find a hymn in the curated library? Just ask. PistonLink's AI Hymn Registrant uses on-device Apple Intelligence to suggest organ stop registrations for any hymn — instantly, privately, and without an internet connection. Review and adjust every suggestion before deploying it to your organ. Supports the latest in SIRI AI and Apple Intelligence.