Notes: The rank to audio group allocations (2 audio
channels per group) in the graphic below have been created using a number of
factors:
a. Minimising the number of often
simultaneously used ranks in the same group.
b. Minimising the deployment of similar
ranks (eg Tibias and other sinusoidal ranks) in the same group which are
likely to be used simultaneously.
c. Ensuring that unison and celeste ranks
are always separate from each other.
d. Attempting to have 'best fit' outcomes
for rank, effect, and speaker and dynamic amplifier overhead (eg cymbals
require lots of high frequency power delivery [current and watts] which
tracks without error throughout the frequency range). Three way speakers
deliver superior powerful reed outcomes relative to any two way due to their
better mid range energy and mid range headroom.
Consequently, if you consider the 1st
group below ("KRK") then it is unlikely that all of these ranks, tuned
percussions and effects will be playing simultaneously. However, there are
too many risks of concurrent use remaining in this group for two critical
ranks (the Brass Trumpet and Tuba Mirabilis) when the fullest ensemble is
required, and now that I have 36 channels of audio channel possibilities via
three Echo Audiofire 12 sound cards, then just as soon as I can acquire an
equivalent audio chain (Crown XLS 602 amplifier and KRK 13000B loudspeakers),
then the Brass Trumpet and Tuba Mirabilis will be separated from each other.