Now the shades open all the way and sound swells around the chapel. But the real magic is the immense versatility that technology brought to the old organ. Second, the addition of digital memory has increased the preset options. The buttons that preset selected stops and register the organ in preselected configurations have grown from eight to, well . . . Then we have the manual presets, eight for each manual.
Memory makes all the difference.
Organ notation includes instructions for registration changes, altering the musical color by adding, deleting or changing the combination of open stops. You can set up your whole series of presets the way you want them to be. With this sequencer, I could change the registration on every single beat. I no longer have to jump all over the keyboard. Before, Shelton had to have people stand on both sides of the organ to push or pull stops.