Welcome to Our Blog!
Hello, and welcome to the all-new blog for Viscount Organs North America. We are proud to bring the very best in technological innovation for a wide array of musical instruments, including classical electric and digital organs. As we begin our official launch of US product lines, we could not be more excited to share our family’s rich, 100 year history and knowledge acquired producing church and digital organs with people across the world.
Our rich history
The decorated history of the Galanti family began with Antonio in the 19th century and tells a story of a family whose name is synonymous with music. The family has since developed a reputation for producing musical instruments that, for more than a century, have spread the name from Mondaino, Italy throughout the world.
Antonio’s son, Egidio, was his successor, as was his son Marcello. In 1959, Marcello Galanti founded Viscount International. In the 1980’s, electronic musical instruments were completely re-born thanks to the advent of technology that enabled digital organs. This would create a new evolution of quality and performance which would include keyboards, pianos, and even classical electric organs.
Where we’re going now
With the beginning of the 21st century and heightened global competition, the company faced a new challenge, responding with an innovative sound-generation technology based on physical modeling. This technological innovation offers our electronic musical instruments exclusive performance advantages, and enables us to compete with any international instrument company. Now, we are excited to bring Viscount’s organs and instruments to the United States, we hope you’ll continue to join us in this journey!
The Unico series is a line of classic organs developed with Physis® physical modeling technology, entirely designed and patented by Viscount’s Italian research facilities. With this new approach, based on physical modeling of the pipe organ, you will enjoy the most faithful and malleable sound on the market today.
Thanks to accurate audio reproduction and powerful reverberation effects, Viscount has transferred the magnificence of a large pipe organ into the convenience of a compact instrument.
The Unico series has a rich library of customizable settings and parameters which allows you to select, assign and store hundreds of additional registers. Features are easy to access through a discrete backlit main control display.
The SONUS series is a line of classical organs developed with exclusive Physis® technology - designed and patented by Viscount’s laboratories. Based on modeling the physical phenomena involved in pipe organ sound generation, the sound generated is incredibly authentic.
On top of Physis® sound generation technology, we have designed a revolutionary new audio system called RAR (Real Audio Rendering). Thanks to RAR technology, you can totally manage the impression of three-dimensional space in which the instrument is placed – from the smallest room, all the way up to a large cathedral setting. The new Viscount RAR (Real Audio Rendering) technology represents a significant step forward in terms of definition, spatiality and body of the sound, which is the most authentic way yet to create that magical effect of the most important organ stop – ‘the ambience’. Sitting at the console of the new Viscount Sonus, you will experience the most realistic impression of the instrument and its setting available from any digital organ you may care to play.
The OUVERTURE is an organ with 3 keyboards, complete pedalboard and 55 registers - each of which can select hundreds of organ and orchestra voices. There is also an orchestra register for every section of the organ which can be selected from the numerous options available.
The organ comes with 8 organ styles (4 fixed and 4 programmable) that allow the organist to create and store an infinite number of combinations, either in the 128 internal memory locations or externally via USB memory. The parameter settings are easily accessible through the graphic display on the front panel. The “Tracker Action” style keyboard accurately detects touch by obtaining the speed of actuation of the keys, making it possible to feel a "Tracker Touch" effect, i.e .the correlation between the "touch" of the organist and the transient attack of each virtual pipe.
Developed with the award-winning and patented Physis® physical modeling technology, which reproduces the physical phenomena involved in the sound generation of the pipe organ, the Ouverture is capable of generating the highest-fidelity, most authentic church organ sound.
Chorum instruments faithfully reproduce the sounds of a pipe organ with proprietary ARTEM technology (Advanced Real TEchnology Music) designed by Viscount's Research and Development labs in Italy.
The richness and beauty of stops are enhanced by an accurate reverberation system, able to recreate a great variety of acoustic environments, from a small chapel to the largest cathedral.
Chorum organs are highly functional, yet simple to use; you can store a large selection of memories and recall your stop combinations.
Unico Collection
Our flagship Viscount organ line powered by our patented Physis® (Physical Modeling) Technology.
Chorum Collection
Our sampled-sound based Viscount organ that beats all others in price & value for the money.
