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Jeux / Sven Meier, John W. McCoy Tribute

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

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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







Oberhausbergen / Panos Ghekas Tribute

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. 

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Πάνος Γκέκας – Panos Ghekas
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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)