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Church Organ app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 4496 ratings )
Music Entertainment
Developer: C.BARATAY
0.99 USD
Current version: 3.6, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 25 Jan 2009
App size: 20.98 Mb

Did you even dreamed to carry a big Church Organ in your pocket, to play while travelling or sitting in your sofa?

It is now possible, thanks to Church Organ!

Church Organ will enable you to play a big pipe organ with your iPhone / iPad, with a "wide" range of sounds for the size of the device. It offers pipe organ realism that you will really enjoy!
It is suitable for any music, religious or profane. Obviously, due to the size of the instrument, musical pieces needs some adaptations to be played. But still, youll get pleasure to play our digital organ pipe. We are currently working on improving the use of the keyboards and octaves.

Our church organ is composed of two independent keyboards or 4 octaves. On every keyboard, you can assign one or 2 voices, among a choice of 6 voices. You control them with the two sets of 6 stop knobs above the piano keyboard. It can do automatic transposition. You can play in any key with the same keyboard position. You just need to select the note to play on the C key of the keyboard.

The sound is processed from high quality uncompressed sound samples, for bringing you the best musical experience. We selected the voices among the most common and famous sounds.

Upper keyboard may play one or two voices from:
- Big church organ, with big, warm and full sound (subwoofer offers good results for the lowest octave)
- Warm organ, with simpler sound, very interesting
- Synthesizer, crystal and warm sound
- Piccolo flute, which brings the light flute sound
- Recorder
- Clarinet, with the typical vibrating reed sound

Lower keyboard may play one or two voices from :
- Big church organ
- Warm organ
- Synthesizer
- Trombone, a large and low pitched brass instrument
- Tuba, very close to Trombone. Playing them is pair is interesting.
- Recorder

Depending on the instrument, we advise you to select the proper octave on the keyboard for the best sound. For example, the recorder sound is interesting from octave 2 to 4 (not so much in first octave).

You can play up to 5 notes at a time, from any keyboard. You should not push the volume at the maximum within Church Organ preferences, otherwise some clicks may appear in the sound. We included a feature to auto adapt the sound level according to the music played to always have the maximum volume without clicks.

An option is available for sustaining the notes after releasing the keyboard keys. Three choices are available: no sustain, sort sustain and long sustain. This option increases the realism of the church organ!

You may use the following tunings :
- Modern tempered scale,
- Pythagorician scale (pre XVI century),
- Meantone scale (1600),
- Werckmeister III scale (1691),
- Bach/Lehman scale (1722)
- Hindustani harmonic scale (suits also Carnatic music)

For getting the best sound from this instrument, it is advised to use a good headphone or a pair of speakers with subwoofer.

Pros and cons of Church Organ app for iPhone and iPad

Church Organ app good for

Well I skeptically downloaded this app and was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. Sounds much better on headset or external speakers. Nice work team! Look forward to updates!
Great Sounds.Sincerly Dj Lyndon(SUMOrg Intl & SUMO Rec)Canada*Japan.est 1984
Good classic organ sound. Better than Logic pro organ presets. I will use it for a theatre performance.
I like your pipe organ... Quite easy to use, its good you separated the keyboard like that. Thanks for the latest update, it corrected the tuning problems I encountered.
This is a program that I am using to give right tone in rehearsals. I am working with a few professional music groups and we are using higher a (443hz). The sustained tones are good and loud enough. Good tool for decent price.
Their harmonium and shruti box are top notch and this one is too. Thumbs up!

Some bad moments

I really do wish we could try apps before buying. The sound is not really good and the interface could be improved.
You cant even play more than two notes at a time, which is lame. Probably should have been free, not worth $0.99
I give 1 star and hope in an upgrade fastly... Sounds no good quality, Abnormous latency, the app is unplayable! Is impossible for me to think a Church Organ without REVERB!
It absolutly stinks dont bother buying it I dont like it for what I was going to use it for
Some nice features, but alas, the sampled sounds are not pipe organ sounds. The pipe graphics are misleading. Think reeds and theatre organs...not pipes and Chartres...not St. Marks. What a shame. Also, with two manuals, it would be nice to be able to play more than four notes at a time.
Wish the keys would "move". If you know what I mean...... I play gospel music and thought this app would b fun....it didnt impress me much