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GrandOrgue is a sample based pipe organ simulator. When connected to MIDI keyboards and an audio system, it can accurately simulate the sound of a real pipe organ. This application has builds for Linux, Windows and OS X.

Download GrandOrgue: Release

Samplesets: The Sample Sets wiki page

Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz9AJhjubTdoQoBf6TGADcTSOEyk0X5I

Quickstart-Guide:

  1. Connect a MIDI capable Keyboard to your computer (and if necessary install all required drivers)
  2. Download and install GrandOrgue https://github.com/GrandOrgue/grandorgue/releases
  3. Download (and possibly extract) a sample set, see The Sample Sets wiki page (Many GrandOrgue versions also come bundled with a small demo sampleset).
  4. Start GrandOrgue and File->Open the .organ file (for old style distributions of samplesets), or File->Load an .orgue package that you've previously just moved to the organ packages folder (for new style distributions of samplesets)
  5. Right-click on the on-screen manual, press "Listen for Events" and press a key on your MIDI keyboard, then Ok to close the dialog.
  6. Click on some stops to activate them and start playing.

Support:

GrandOrgue Console Projects

Screenshots of a few different samplesets in GrandOrgue

People involved in the GrandOrgue project