OdfEdit 2.17

Tool for GrandOrgue organ definition file edition and generation

OdfEdit

OdfEdit is an application (implemented in Python) permitting to edit an ODF (Organ Description File, extension .organ) for GrandOrgue in plain text mode, with objects/sections navigator by list or tree, syntax check, images / wav files viewer and help included. It can be run either directly with the Python file (OdfEdit.py and other files of the src folder) or by using the binary files provided in https://github.com/GrandOrgue/OdfEdit/releases (one for Windows and one for Linux)

Releases notes can be found in github : https://github.com/GrandOrgue/OdfEdit/releases

Way to run directly the script file :

• install Python 3.x on your computer
• install the Python libraries pillow, lxml, audioplayer and sounddevice
• copy the content of the src folder in a local folder of your computer, or install it with pip : pip install OdfEdit
• in the local src folder run the command : python3 OdfEdit.py (or in Linux : python3 ./OdfEdit.py)

The Windows binary has been tested in Windows 10 The Linux binary has been tested in Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS in Oracle VM VirtualBox

From version 2.0, Hauptwerk sample sets can be loaded by OdfEdit which generates a GrandOrgue ODF permitting to use this sample set in GrandOrgue (with some limitations compared to what is possible in Hauptwerk). Here are elements which can be converter by OdfEdit v2.9 from Hauptwerk to GrandOrgue ODF :

• general organ informations (church name/address, builder, build date, pitch tuning, gain)
• panels
• images, labels
• manuals
• stops, couplers, switches (which can be managed in GrandOrgue)
• combinations (Set, General cancel, General, Divisonal)
• tremulants (wave based or synthesized)
• enclosures (including volume tuning sliders)
• windchests (with associated ranks/tremulants/enclosures)
• ranks (attack/release samples, gain, harmonic number, pitch tuning, loop crossfade length, release crossfade length)
• noises (blower, manuals keys press/release, drawstops engage/disengage)