This is the stage setup we had for Idea City 2011, in Koerner Hall for Cameron Carpenter.
Cameron played his transcription of J.S. Bach's Chaconne.
Read more to see 3D View of the hall, Youtube video of the finale and details of the entire setup.
The Hauptwerk instrument is using Milan Digital Audio's Masterworks Skinner sample set. It is a recreation of the E.M. Skinner instrument in Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Chicago.
Again, the big lessons from this event is how much difference it makes to have your speakers up high when doing a system installation. Having the speakers up high and spaced out, contributes to creating a broad, non-directional sound characteristic of a true pipe organ. In this case, the speakers are on the 3rd level with the sub being on stage. The house speakers were also at stage level.
One of the advantages of this setup are that the horns on the line arrays really help the horns and trumpets sound more trumpet-like (doesn't do a lot for the reeds though). Also, having the bulk of the sound coming through the speakers up high, gave wonderful liveliness and movement to the sound.
We also had the curtains pulled back on the 3rd floor which also helped the sound to bounce around. It also gave an extra 2 seconds to the ambient reverb.
This effect is also contingent on having Hauptwerk's audio routed in such a way that you are using all of the speakers all of the time.
The audio system is 14 Definitive Technology SM450, 1 Definitive Technology Supercube Reference Sub, 2 Echo Audiofire12 and 2 Crest CM2208 8 Channel amplifiers. The system is also augmented by the house system to give the overall system a boost.
The Computer system is an 8 core Mac Pro with 2 Keytec touchscreens using drivers from Touch-Base.com
