The Jeux Soundfont is what inspired Sven Meier to create jOrgan. John W. McCoy released Jeux 1.4 on July 4, 2000,
and users have borrowed from it, repackaged it, and even tried to expand it. In Jeux, John W. McCoy brought together
sounds from many sources. The main sounds were taken from Jeuxdorgue 1 (see below), and from a now impossible-
to-find AWEPOP soundfont. Some ideas were gained from the Sound Canvas Pipe Organ Project. Many other sounds
were taken from orchestral soundfonts, electronic organs, a bell from the University of Michigan, and items in his
kitchen! Before Polyphone (soundfont editor) did pipe stereo spread and celeste tuning automatically,
John W. McCoy did them manually in Jeux.
Sven Meier wanted to play Jeux with a MIDI keyboard and a computer, and developed jOrgan to control it with virtual
stops, ranks, couplers, switch filters (for things like tremulants), continuous filters (for things like swells), presets,
captors (set buttons), regulators (to control transposers, variable voices, and combination sequencers), combination
memory, and later, synchronizers and continuous synchronizers so that organ elements could be linked to one another.
With the tools Sven developed in jOrgan, every element of classic and theater organs can be replicated and played as a
virtual organ.
In this Tribute Package is a tribute version of Jeux 1.4 that is mostly compatible with previous versions (tremulant
settings are done differently than the original). Every rank has note by note stereo pan and scaled releases. Some of the
short-looped samples have been resynthesized with Spear and lengthened for better looping. The top end of almost all
ranks has a scaled volume adjustment.
The Tribute Package includes a main disposition that tries to use most of the ranks, a disposition based on J. A. Silbermann
(Arlesheim) and another based on Cavaille-Coll (Jeux Romantique). An untouched copy of Jeux 1.4 is in the Archive
folder.
Download: Jeux_Tribute.zip
English Organ / Bruce Miles Tribute
Bruce
Miles
1927-2016
Bruce Miles was an early contributor to jOrgan, did work with pipe sound synthesis, and made it all available for free.
Bruce Miles’ English Organ and Village Organ are in this Tribute Disposition Package. The dispositions are updated with
the English Cathedral Organ skin, and include twelve-step transposer and Fluidsynth reverb. The soundfont is updated
with scaled releases and note-by-note pans as suggested by the settings in the original soundfont.
An Archive folder in the zip file includes the original dispositions and soundfont.
Download: English_Organ_Tribute.zip
This is a tribute disposition package, remembering disposition creator Panos Ghekas and also a tribute to one of the
first sampled organ soundfonts, Jeuxdorgue1.
In memory of Panos, his disposition has been updated for jOrgan 3.20. For convenience of the user, the elements have
been sorted into groups, and some graphics were renamed. Only one significant change was made to Panos’ disposition:
a Fluidsynth reverb system was added.
Πάνος Γκέκας –
Panos Ghekas
+2015
Panos Ghekas was an enthusiastic musician and a creative innovator in the world of virtual organs. He worked with both
jOrgan and GrandOrgue virtual organ softwares. He passed away in September 2015.
In 2010 he made his version of Jeuxdorgue 1, the G. F. Walther organ in Oberhausbergen, which was available as a
soundfont through http://www.jeuxdorgues.com/
The soundfont had a mild stereo pan added, along with scaled releases. A few samples were relooped. The mixture was
resynthesized, but retains the original harmonic profile. Zip file includes Jeuxdorgue1 soundfont.
Download: j3.20_Oberhausbergen_FS.zip
Words of appreciation from John Reimer:
Paul, thank you for all the work involved in creating all these jOrgan dispositions and making them available
to us, along with this Tribute. It's good to be reminded of those people who played an important part in
creating jOrgan and developing it to become the magnificent software it is. (Added September 2025)