Overview

Solid State Organ Systems offers the most comprehensive list of features of any manufacturer of pipe organ control systems. If you don't see the feature you need below, please contact us. Either we offer it already, or we can add it to our list.

Console Features

Console Details

  • Up to 10 fully independent consoles
  • Memory levels shared between consoles, separate for each console, or a combination of both
  • Organ control with any smartphone, allowing tuning by a single user with no keyboard assistant
  • Organ Record / Playback at higher-than-MIDI resolution, controllable from console control panel, or from any smartphone
  • Up to 64 expression pedals of up to 255 stages
  • Piston memory backup using USB sticks or RAID hard drives

    • Keys and Stops

  • 2,000 stops per console
  • Control of 130,000 Ranks
  • 16 Keyboards of up to 128 notes each per console
  • Manual Transfers (e.g. standard options such as Great/Choir and more unusual choices such as Solo/Pedal are possible and available simultaneously)
  • Pedal Divide, with variable set points, each settable on General Pistons
  • Transposer on buttons, up/down with lamps, rotary switch, or digital control panel
  • Pizzicato
  • Sostenuto (timed, substitutive, and more..)
  • Delayed stop / coupler action, eliminating the “blip” when couplers / stops change before stop sliders have moved.

    • Pistons

    • 480 General Pistons
    • 480 Divisional Pistons and Reverser Pistons
    • 1,000 Libraries (named, lockable groups of memory levels)
    • 10,000 General memory levels per library
    • 1,000 Divisional memory levels (optionally per library)
    • 24 settable Full organ / Tutti / Blind Pistons

    Console Memory Controls

  • Memory levels shared between consoles, separate for each console, or a combination of both?
  • Colour digital display with 2 sets of 4 digits for memory level, Divisional Level and Sequencer
  • 5 inch touch display for complete console control
  • iPad remote touch screen control
  • Memory levels also selectable using illuminated pistons or rotary switches
  • Memory level up/down controls in 1s, 10s, 100s
  • General and Divisional level Goto (rapid selection of memory levels using General pistons as a keypad)
  • Up to 16 Jump pistons (user settable piston to jump to any pre-chosen memory level and/or general piston)

    • Crescendo and Tutti

  • 24 settable Full organ / Tutti / Blind Pistons
  • Crescendo Standard as organ-builder set, plus organist-settable Crescendos A, B, and C per library
  • Each crescendo with up to 60 stages
  • Crescendo transferrable to expression shoes, and expression shades transferrable to Crescendo shoe

    • Piston Sequencer

  • Piston Stepper / Sequencer; General Pistons in order
  • Advanced Sequencer Insert/Delete and Refire with up to 26 inserts settable between each General piston
  • All Pistons Next
  • All Generals Next
  • All Divisionals Next
  • All Reversers Previous

    • Special Features

  • Special Features (e.g. Independent Pedal on Swell Pistons)
  • Piston Couplers (e.g. Great and Pedal Pistons Combined
  • Stop Transfers (e.g. Great Reeds on Solo)
  • Dynamic Piston Transfers - customize piston transfers to accommodate unusual stop transfer situations

    • Expression

  • Up to 64 expression pedals of up to 255 stages
  • Expression Matrix Pistons, with optional separate memory levels
  • Expression couplers (e.g. All Swells to Swell, Antiphonal Swell to Choir
  • Full 64 x 64 Expression Matrix settable on General Pistons

    • MIDI

  • Record/Playback using external devices
  • Controlling external MIDI devices
  • Being controlled by external MIDI devices
  • MIDI Stops/Couplers and Ranks

    • On-Site Programming and Set-up

  • Piston Scope functionality for easy configuration, soon to include the ability to Scope General Cancel
  • Commissioning Mode for easy default configuration
  • Web based diagnostics and system configuration
  • System updates from the factory using a mobile phone or computer

    • If you can dream it, we can build it!