Now Thank We All Our God (AOV 1/189)

A hymn from the seventeenth century by Martin Rickert and Johann Cruger and translated in the nineteenth century by Catherine Winkworth.

I’ve put a 2 beat pause after “voices” and rejoices”.

1.	Now thank we all our God, 
	with heart and hands and voices, 
	who wondrous things has done, 
	in whom this world rejoices; 
	who from our mothers' arms 
	has blessed us on our way 
	with countless gifts of love, 
	and still is ours today.

2.	O may this bounteous God 
	through all our life be near us, 
	with ever joyful hearts 
	and blessed peace to cheer us; 
	and keep us still in grace, 
	and guide us when perplexed; 
	and free us from all ills, 
	in this world and the next.

3.	All praise and thanks to God 
	the Father now be given; 
	the Son, and him who reigns 
	with them in highest heaven; 
	the one eternal God, 
	whom earth and heaven adore; 
	for thus it was, is now, 
	and shall be evermore.

Band in a Box 2012 arrived for Christmas.  I usually get the update because it is the most economical way to get the new backings and soloists and I just ignore all the new features I don’t use because that would require thought. One of the new features that I normally would have ignored is the ability to assign VST instruments to individual MIDI tracks. However, as I have whinged that church organ sounds awful in the DX synth native to BIAB, I wondered if a church organ VST existed. It does – here. So not knowing what I was doing really, I assigned the VST instrument to each of the 3 simple church organ tracks created in BIAB and it sounds pretty good.

I’m not sure I’ll use the VST sounds much, as I’m using BIAB as a quick sketchbook rather than aiming for a masterpiece, and it does make rendering to wave files more time consuming, but it certainly does make the church organ sound better.