App: StrandOrgan
Developer: Markus Sigg
Genres: Music

StrandOrgan lets you play Lars Palo's sample set of the Strand pipe organ of the church in Kalvträsk, Sweden, on a MIDI keyboard attached to your iOS or macOS device. The Kalvträsk Church sampleset is provided by Lars Palo under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/. If you would like to use the sampleset with other software, you can get it at http://www.familjenpalo.se/vpo/download.

Starting with version 10.0, the app also offers Carillon sounds. These are derived from the Lurie Carillon recordings that are freely available at https://gobluebells.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/lurie-carillon-samples/ .

For more information, please consult the app support page http://polaron.de/StrandOrgan/ , the Napo documentation at http://polaron.de/Napo/ and in particular the Napo user manual at http://polaron.de/Napo/manual .

For hearing sound examples of the app, please visit the support page http://polaron.de/StrandOrgan/ .

Release notes:
Upgraded to Napo 5.18:

- New: User-adaptable font size for various text windows.
- New: Importing sample sets / patches from other places than the app's documents directory, including from iCloud Drive or USB drives.
- New: Combination bank table view shows date of last edit of each bank.
- New: Temperament editor allows numerical input of cent values.
- New: Console view: Visual discrimination of combination buttons from other buttons. Highlighting of last selected combination.
- New: Previous combination / next combination can optionally cycle within the current bank or switch to previous / next bank.
- New: Console view: New stepper window with large buttons for previous / next combination.
- New: Settings view: Buffer duration is set by number of frames instead of milliseconds (which depend on the sample rate). The actual buffer duration is still shown in milliseconds.
- New: A noise generator for preventing certain amplifiers from entering a sleep mode when there is no audio signal.
- Changed: Smaller internal buffers for convolution reverb, to further reduce latency.
- Fixed: Quad convolution mode was broken.