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When a new sample set is announced or released, most of us get interested about it by the fame of the instrument or its builder... say Cavaille-Coll, Schnitger, Notre-Dame de Paris or Westminster and you can be sure that in no time the thread on the Hauptwerk forum will fill with numerous posts, but say Velesovo built by Mocnik, and most likely you won't see a lot of replies, comments. -Velesovo... from who you said? Mocnik - Ah..Where is it located? Slovenia - Ah... when was it built? 2007 - Ah... so not an historic organ... Bof might be your final comment but you would be wrong. First of all, go to Sonus Paradisi's website and download the 3GB demo. Don't forget to dowload also the patch available on the same page to be able to run the demo, but be warn, this demo is really not a demo! it is a complete 10 ranks organ with couplers and tremulants, it is probably the best free organ available for Hauptwerk. No compass limitation, no "bip" or "sound cut" every minute, it is a fully usable instrument! A very nice gift to the community from Jir Zurek. Maybe, since the organ builder, age and location of the instrument wasn't something to get excited about, Jiri thought that he needs to provide a great demo, the kind that will tease you and make you want more, make you want the complete 38 stops. While is it a *young* organ (2007), it was built upon the Thuringian organ models (Thuringia is the heart of Bach's country ). Voiced very mild, the sound has a beatiful *tenderness" if I can you that word. The pedal division offers among other stops, a 32' Unterstatz and 16'-8'-4' reeds stops. Tremulant is available on ALL divisions. The acoustic (reverb) is just right, the sound remaining clear and thanks to the surround extension (included with the wet version), you have a wonderful immersive sound. Being a *young organ*, you won't have faulty pipes; the voicing is uniform within a rank and a lot less noise reduction was probably needed since the whole mechanism is almost silent. Like the Caen, you have a "sit at the console" sound, with a lot of clarity and a beautiful reverb, especially with the surround extension. Take the time to try individual stops, some are simply "to die for". Five views are available - Console view, left and right jam, bellows anitmation and Sonus Paradisi's voicing (independant from Hauptwerk voicing utility). Since the Caen, Sonus Paradisi is offering dual-jam views. Dual-view allows you to have all the controls split on 2 screens, replicating in some ways a real organ left and right jams. While it is nice to have the controls split, making everything less crowded, it would be nice if in dual-view the controls were larger to make it even easier to register; there is a lot of empty space in this view and larger controls would be nice... small caveat though. The layout is well thought and I especially like the way the stops are arranged for the Oberwerk where it will be possible (in Hauprtwerk 4 possibly) to create a "composed Cornet" with one movement of the hand, from top to bottom. I think that the best way for you to discover this set is by simply downloading the demo version. So, that's it for now... go download the demo and I will go play a few pieces on the Velesovo. Velesovo organ: 340Euros * Photo/screenshots - Sonus Paradisi