PiteaApp Version: 4.6
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Pitea is an application which allows you to play Lars Palo's sample set of the Grönlunds organ of the Piteå School of Music, Sweden, on up to three MIDI keyboards and a MIDI pedal connected to your iOS or macOS device. Pitea is based on the Napo framework. Please read the Napo documentation and in particular the Napo user manual to learn about its features and limitations.
Pitea makes use of the Piteå School of Music sample set in the edition of 2012-02-24. The app's Gallery view shows photos that are part of the sample set. The app's background image is derived from one of these photos. The stop button images are from the sample set, as well.
The relative volumes of the stops of Pitea are configured as in the organ definition file of the sample set. However, as Napo is currently not capable of playing different pipes of a stop with different volumes, this part of the sample set configuration could not (yet) be taken into account for Pitea.
If you don't need three manuals but would still like to get a virtual pipe organ based on the Piteå organ, then have a look at the PiteaMini app, which offers you a subset (Huvudverk and Pedal) of the Piteå organ. Both apps are also available as an app bundle for the same price as Pitea itself. PiteaMini is included when you purchase Pitea, so to speak. Furthermore there is an app bundle with Burea,Pitea and MenzelOrgan, including the Mini versions of Burea and Pitea, for a price that is only slightly above that of Pitea itself:
Pitea + PiteaMini | Burea + Pitea + MenzelOrgan |
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The Piteå School of Music sample set is provided by Lars Palo, Graham Goode and Panos Ghekas under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license, see creativecommons.org. For your convenience, all needed files of the sample set are included in the app, but you can also download the sample set independently from familjenpalo.se if you would like to use it with other software (e.g. GrandOrgue).
The license of the sample set demands that changes or extensions of the sample set are provided under the same license. While starting with version 4.3 the app uses the original directory and file naming scheme of the sample files, we have changed some sound files. These are included in the app. If you would like to use them with other software, then here they are:
The changed files, which are included starting with version 4.3, are these:
Rank | Files | Cause of Change |
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HVPrincipal8 | 069-A, 072-C, 081-A, 082-A#, 083-B, 084-C, 085-C#, 086-D, 089-F | audible loops |
HVOktava4 | 067-G, 074-D, 076-E | audible loops |
HVDubbelflojt8 | 084-C, 086-D, 090-F#, 092-G# | audible loops |
SVMixturV | 060-C | audible loop |
POSPrincipal4 | 069-A, 072-C, 075-D# | audible loops |
POSPrincipal4 | 076-E | disturbing blowing sound |
The problems with audible loops are resolved by crossfading, which – in contrast to moving loop markers – is a destructive operation of the sound data. The tone with a disturbing blowing sound in the Principal 4' stop of the Öververk is replaced by a transformed neighbor tone.
Because a clattering noise can be heard in the original file, on user request we have, by pitch-shifting the C#, created a new WAV file for the lowest C of the pedal's Subbas 16'. This is included in the following ZIP archive:
As needed, you can import this archive into the Pitea app (and also the PiteaMini app) by the entry Import Samples of the action menu of the Settings view. Use 24 Bits, no crossfading. Before this, drop the ZIP file in the documents directory of the app. With version 4.4 and later, the change will be included in the app, and an import will not be necessary anymore.
According to Lars Palo's documentation, this organ was built in 1989 by Grönlunds Orgelbyggeri AB. It is a three-manual (61 keys) instrument with 28 manual ranks and a pedal (32 keys) with five own ranks and two ranks transmitted from the Swell (Svällverk). This is the stops specification:
Huvudverk (I, Great, C-c4) | |
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Gedacktpommer 16' | Oktava 2' |
Principal 8' | Mixtur IV |
Dubbelflöjt 8' | Cornet V (f0-c4) |
Oktava 4' | Trumpet 8' |
Öververk (II, Choir, C-c4) |
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Gedackt 8' | Waldflöjt 2' |
Fleut d'amore 8' (c0-c4) | Ters 1 3/5' |
Koppelflöjt 2' | Scharff III |
Principal 4' | Cromorne 8' |
Kvinta 2 2/3' | Tremulant |
Svällverk (III, Swell, C-c4) |
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Borduna 16' | Piccolo 2' |
Borduna 8' | Mixtur V |
Fl. harmonique 8' | Oboe 8' |
Gamba 8' | Tromp. Harm. 8' |
Voix celeste 8' (c0-c4) | Clairon 4' |
Fl. octaviant 4' | Tremulant |
Pedal (C-g1) |
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Subbas 16' | Basun 16' |
Oktava 8' | Trumpet 8' (Swell) |
Gedackt 8' | Clairon 4' (Swell) |
Oktava 4' | |
Couplers |
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SV/ÖV | HV/P |
ÖV/HV | 16' /III |
SV/HV | 16' III/II |
ÖV/P | 16' III/I |
SV/P | 4' /I |
Starting with version 3.3, the app is able to control the lamps of a Novation Launchpad MK2, see the corresponding section in the Napo user manual, and includes a default configuration for this, which can be loaded via the action menu of the Settings view. For this app, it would have been unfavourable to put the buttons for the combination banks and combinations in the bottom two rows. Instead, they are in the right two columns, which allowed an allocation where the stop buttons are arranged exactly like in the portrait mode of the Console view and like at the real organ:
In accordance with the Console view, the left top is the Huvudverk, the left bottom the Pedal, the right top the Svällverk, and the right bottom the Öververk. Basically, white buttons represent principals and flutes, red is for reeds, yellow for mixtures and similar stops, orange for tremulants, and green for couplers. On behalf of an easier assignment, we put the couplers below the stops of the respective division (other than at the Console view or the real console). Only for the coupler 16' / III of the swell, no nice place was left, and so it was omitted. If needed, you can yourself assign this coupler to a button of the Launchpad. But be careful not to use a button twice. For example, if you put the coupler to the lowest button of the seventh column, then you need to remove the assignment of this button to combination bank 8.
With thanks to Andreas Lesch:
Composition | Audio |
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God save the Queen (organo pleno) | |
God save the Queen (organo tutti) | |
Andreas Lesch, Improvisation (organo tutti) | |
Georg Friedrich Händel, Minuet (from "Berenice") | |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BWV 739) | |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Jesu bleibet meine Freude (BWV 147) | |
Ave Maria | |
John Stanley, Trumpet Voluntary | |
Der Mond ist aufgegangen, Improvisation | |
Der Mond ist aufgegangen, Improvisation | |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio sonata E♭ major (BWV 525) | |
Meditation about Heilig (Gotteslob No. 198) | |
Glorwürd'ge Königin (Gotteslob No. 869) | |
Engelbert Humperdinck, Abends will ich schlafen gehn |
For more demos, see PiteaMini.