Sound Canvas Pipe Organ Project
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Version: SCPOP98  
Release: 2.0
Date of release: October 2000
Operating system: Win95 and above
Software type: shareware

SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION
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SCPOP software uses the synthesis capability of the Roland Sound Canvas midi modules to recreate the true sounds and the playing style of real church pipe organs. With SCPOP it is possible to play organ stops like "Principale" or "Cromorno", using two keyboards and the pedalboard at home like if you were in a church, with simple and cheap tools. If you own a Sound Canvas and you love pipe organ, this program is for you!

INSTALLATION
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Run SETUP.EXE and choose the directory where to install. The software icon (italian flag) will be placed in the "Program" folder. Please refer to the online help for program's features and settings.

COMPATIBILITY
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This version "SCPOP 98" is compatible ONLY with SC-88 and above Sound Canvas midi modules (SC-880, SC-88 Pro, SC-8850, SC-8820). Another version dedicated to the SC-55 family is available for download at our web site. SCPOP does NOT run on: Sound Blaster, Yamaha synth, and most of all on software synths like the Virtual Sound Canvas VSC-55 or VSC-88!
The SCPOP project is not sponsorized by Roland, but simply a Sound Canvas was the midi synth the authors owned when first had the idea of this project in 1997. We use the Sound Canvas hardware features to its extreme limits, in such a way that is IMPOSSIBLE to run SCPOP on every other midi module except real hardware Sound Canvas. 

SCPOP IS SHAREWARE!
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This version is full functional, but not all the organ sounds are enabled. If you register to the SCPOP project, you will have access to the files with the complete sounds, FOR ALL VERSIONS AVAILABLE NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. You pay only one time, to support authors in the development of the project. Registration costs US $50, and is payable online at Kagi site
http://order.kagi.com/?DSM
by credit card (secure transactions). After registering you will have immediate access to the complete files and you will be also subscribed to the SCPOP mailing list, where technical support and discussions about SCPOP and organ in general take place.

WEB SITE : www.scpop.de
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At the SCPOP homepage there are freely available real executions of classical organ music in Midi and MP3 files, live recorded by organists and composers users of this software.

AUTHORS AND CONTACTS
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Raffaele Diodati & Filippo Tigli (Italy)
We are pipe organ enthusiasts since a long time. We both are engineers employed in the industry and living in Italy. Raffaele has a graduation in piano, his preferred author is J.S.Bach. Filippo instead, altough he has never done formal studies, has a deep knowledge of the baroque music and is able to perform improvisations and counterpoints in that style; he has also played some of the best european pipe organs like that in Alby cathedral, France.
E-mail: diodati@scpop.de, ftigli@scpop.de

