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There's a software that I used to emulate a pipe organ (and also harpsichords). I used it for years and it has a library with a lot of historical organs around the world: https://www.hauptwerk.com, as far as I know this is the only commercially supported PC/Mac software dedicated to this.

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There are quite a few high-quality sampled pipe organs out there, most of which run in Native Instruments' Kontakt sampler software. My personal favorites are the RAH (https://www.royalalberthallorgan.com/) and the Rugby and Union Chapel organs from Spitfire Audio (https://www.spitfireaudio.com/symphonic-organ)

Hauptwerk beats Kontakt in this department, I'm afraid. Certainly the latter two can't compare to the full-featured models that are on offer for Hauptwerk, which include wind models for tremulants and all. If you're not after trying out all registrations, but just want the sound, Kontakt is good enough.

oh, sure. Hauptwerk is definitely the way to go if you want the "real organ" experience, since it can also do multiple manuals, pedals, etc. Me, I just want to rattle peoples' teeth with the RAH's virtual 32' reed stops. :-)

Or you can use open source Grand Orgue. I am using it with default sound set and it sounds good enough for me.

https://github.com/GrandOrgue/grandorgue

There also seems to be this: https://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/aeolus/

And: Grandorgue, J-Organ, another commenter mentioned Organteq and there is Digital VPO and quite probably others that I've never encountered.

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