Extract text from GrandOrgue sample sets (ORGAN)
To convert ORGAN Sample sets to another format, you need GrandOrgue or other Settings software.
To convert other file formats to the "Organ Definition File" file type, you need software like GrandOrgue or a similar tool.
The .organ file is an Organ Definition File (ODF) specifically built for GrandOrgue, an open-source virtual pipe organ simulator. It serves as a structural map, telling the software how to connect user inputs from MIDI keyboards and pedalboards to specific audio samples (usually massive folders of WAV files). It dictates the layout of virtual stops, manuals, and acoustics.
The primary disadvantage of the .organ format is that it causes massive user confusion. Users frequently attempt to play or convert .organ files expecting to hear music, but the file contains zero audio data. It is strictly a plain-text configuration file. Sharing an .organ file without its associated gigabytes of audio samples renders it completely useless. Furthermore, the format is highly localized to GrandOrgue and is entirely incompatible with rival virtual organ software like Hauptwerk, which uses its own complex XML structure.
Converting a .organ file to an audio format like MP3 or FLAC is technically impossible directly. Instead, the best conversion targets are text-based formats like TXT, XML, or INI so you can read and manually migrate the sample mapping data. Because it relies on proprietary syntax, standard audio converters fail instantly when processing it.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ORGAN file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted MP3 and MIDI files.
If you want to convert ORGAN file to MIDI, MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC or APE, you can use GrandOrgue or similar software from the "Virtual Pipe Organ Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to ORGAN, try GrandOrgue or another comparable tool in the "Virtual Pipe Organ Configuration" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ORGAN converter.