Bravo, Brent -- so good to see a Reuter featured -- an unfashionable but great brand! Love that shirt! Ctrl-Z, one of the most useful things anybody has EVER taught me (my brother-in-law).
I wish that there was a bit more playing on the various stops than just chopping at a few chords right in the middle of the keyboard to give a better sense of color along the compass.
I live just under an hour away, so I've heard, and played this organ a few times both before and after the 2018 revision. As for your wondering about the digital voices, in my opinion, each one is kind of hit or miss. For example, the 32 foot reed, when Daniel Roth came to give a recital, you couldn't even tell there was a 32 foot reed stop on the instrument, and neither could my organist friends from OU, its just so anemic. On the other hand, the Open Wood, just absolutely shakes the whole building. But overall, I personally think the digital voices blend pretty successfully with the actual pipe stops.
@@noahpierson4810 Thanks for that! This is the basis for my question as to why the digital stops be excluded from the demonstration. I appreciate that the pipes are the heart of the organ, but to hear the instrument in its entirety would be fantastic, even if it means pointing out the deficiencies and failings in general. I feel it would be beneficial to any organist, church or institution looking to augment their organ with digital stops to have a genuine review &/or demonstration of what has been included. After all, every organ demonstration on RU-vid is effectively a critique of the instrument being played.
The audio was good for the organ itself, but if you have the opportunity to either upgrade the microphone or take classes on recording audio perhaps you should. I had to keep adjusting the volume level on my computer in spite of using digital out to my surround sound system in order to tell what you were saying.
