The initial goal of the virtual Barton Theatre Organ project, by the members of the VTPO Yahoo Group, was to re-create the Barton Theatre Organ of the Redford Theatre in Detroit, Michigan (see http://redfordtheatre.com/organ/) from the samples recorded by group members Joe Hardy and Lynn Walls. The project first released the Barton 3-7 Beta sample set during December 2011, as those ranks had been processed and were ready for testing. The Alpha release of the Redford Barton 3/10 sample set took place in March 2012, and now an extended version based on these ranks, with the inclusion of the two string ranks recorded together, is ready for testing.
As all the recorded ranks of the organ have been processed and made available for testing, the next phase of the development of the sample set will be to re-do some of the processing to see if we can get the sample sets sounding even better than they already do.
The Redford Theatre has served as a Metro Detroit entertainment center since it opened on January 27, 1928. The non-profit Motor City Theatre Organ Society owns and operates the Redford Theatre at 17360 Lahser Road, Detroit, MI 48219. Please visit the theater for some fun if you are ever in the area!
Barton 3/12 Beta Release
This project, although free for personal and non-commercial use, will be donationware based and released by Melotone Sound Productions. Your donations to the project will help us to continue to develop new sample sets and improve the equipment and techniques used in their creation.
Projects like the Barton Series and the Freedom Morton Series are time intensive and are released on the understanding that users will donate towards the time spent on creating them. Please go to the PayPal Donations page if you are able to make a donation.
Then go to the Orders Barton Series Order Form page to fill in your information, and we will send you the link to download the sample set. The update for the Hauptwerk v4.1 Piano Sustain issue can be downloaded from: Barton3-12UpdateforHW4.1-v1.00.CompPkg_Hauptwerk_rar .

Please Note: This is a SEMI-WET theatre organ sample set. Some of the acoustics of the Redford Theatre are part of the release portions of the samples, so if you are using additional reverb you will either need to use Hauptwerk's truncate release settings to make the ranks more dry, or you will need to reduce your external reverb.

The samples are in 16-bit 48khz Stereo, and the set uses recorded tremulant samples, not the Hauptwerk tremulant model.

The Stop List: Barton 3-12 Specification

Console View (click on the image to load the full size):

Stops View (click on the image to load the full size):
Second Touch View (click on the image to load the full size):

As some people have asked if they can help by contributing to these projects and future projects by donating funds to me I have added a page for PayPal Donations.

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Attributions:
The following ranks were recorded by and are the property of Joe Hardy:
Diapason
Tibia
Tuba
Viole d’ Orchestre
Vox Humana
Oboe Horn
Kinura
Chimes
Auto Horn, Steam Boat, Chinese Gong, Thunder
Traps
Xylophone
The microphones (AKG 414 BULS) were positioned about twenty feet into the auditorium.
The following ranks were recorded by and are the property of Lynn Walls:
Flute
Clarinet
Tibia 16' Extension
Tuba 16' Extension
Chrysoglott
Bell, Siren, Bird Song, Fire Gong, Snare Drum
Piano
Solo Strings
The Noise Reduction of these ranks was done by Graham Goode (ggoode.sa@gmail.com) using Nick Appleton's Noise Reduction application. The photos used to great the graphics were provided by Paul Jacyk and Lynn Walls. The looping and placement of release makers within the samples was done by Graham Goode. The Hauptwerk CODM and rank extensions within the Hauptwerk sample set were created by Graham Goode.