Kinkennon MIDI Resources

CONCEPTS AND RESOURCES FOR THE VPO​

The Virtual Pipe Organ (VPO) has brought state of the art digital pipe organ sound to the musician with an average budget. The focus of this web site is the technology that enables the VPO to produce sound that rivals any of the commercially available instruments at a fraction of the cost. 

While the title VPO can apply to a variety of commercially manufactured digital organs, we will focus on modern circuit designs needed to repurpose an older organ console or to build a more modular organ using some combination of old and new organ parts. For most amateur builders the VPO is made up of a MIDI organ console, a newer, fast PC with plenty of memory, an audio interface, and a sound system utilizing two to dozens of amplifiers and speakers. Headphones are a common option as well.            

The VPO computer runs specialized software such as Hauptwerk along with sample sets of a    huge variety of  organs  from around the world. Sample set vendors provide many free sampled organs as well as many more for sale from less that $100 to $1000+.