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THE MIDITZER
Introduction
what is the Miditzer
Get Started
download the Miditzer
and set up your PC
 Console Up!
setup and use of the Miditzer

The Console
find out what all the controls do
 
the Keyboards
how organ keyboards are set up
the Stops, part 1
the Stops, part 2
the Stops, part 3
controlling the sound of an organ
  the Other Tabs
couplers and tremulants
the Combination Action, part 1
  the Combination Action, part 2
orchestrating the stops
  the Swell
controlling the volume

Tech Session
make the Miditzer do more
Recording Studio
record your performances

ELSEWHERE
Bruce Miles
cinema organ soundfont creator

If you have never played an organ, all the buttons and keys may seem a bit overwhelming.  Don't worry!  It is actually all very logical.  Just go through these pages at your own pace and you'll be using all the doo-dads before you know it.

If you have experience with electronic organs or classical organs, a lot of the Miditzer console will be familiar to you.  But there will probably be some things that are unfamiliar or which work a little bit differently than you are used to.  Skim through the Console pages to find the areas of interest to you.

If you have played a real theatre organ then you probably can find your way around the Miditzer console without much help.  Almost everything should work as you would expect.  Just breeze through these pages to pick up those few things, like setting combinations, that had to be adapted to squeeze the Mighty Wurlitzer into a computer.  And just to save you a little time, no the second touch doesn't do anything...yet.

If this is your first opportunity to see an organ console up close and personal, just  work through these pages at a pace that is comfortable for you.  It won't take long to learn what all the controls do but you can spend a lifetime exploring the musical possibilities that are provided.

As you learned in Console Up! it take two things to coax sound from an organ, a key and a stop.  The keys on an organ are very much like piano keys.  Stops are pretty much unique to organs.  In the Keyboards you'll learn  how organ keys are like piano keys and yet different.  In the Stops you'll learn about the other half of the team that creates sound on an organ.

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