Garritan Virtual Orchestras

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GARRITAN SOUND LIBRARIES

Garritan offers virtual instruments and sound libraries that truly rival the sound of the real thing. Featuring high-quality samples of orchestral, marching band, and big band instruments. Control strings, brass, woodwinds, or a full orchestra and create realistic classical music and soundtracks with your computer.

Garritan Personal Orchestra Second Edition
The Garritan Personal Orchestra library has become the industry standard with a full set of orchestra samples and includes the Native Instrument KONTAKT Player. It encompasses all the major instruments of the orchestra: strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, and keyboards. Garritan Studio for working with notation programs is available for download. Highest quality sounds: This library includes all the instruments of a symphony orchestra—strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion—plus a Steinway concert grand piano; Stradivarius, Guarneri, and Gagliano solo violins; Wurlitzer and Venus concert harps; Haynes flutes; Heckel bassoons; a Mustel celesta; a von Beckerath concert pipe organ; a harpsichord; and many more fine instruments. It even includes multiple solo instruments—everything one needs to create orchestrations of any size. Build your orchestrations one instrument at a time: Build ensembles one instrument at a time from individual solo instruments. This simple and flexible approach represents a paradigm shift in MIDI orchestration. No need to use predetermined section sizes. Personal Orchestra lets you construct ensembles and sections of different sizes from specially designed instruments. Build wind, brass, and string ensembles of any size and variety—solos, duos, quartets, majestic sectional unisons, intimate divisi parts—or larger ensembles and sections as you see fit.Easy to use: Streamlined and standardized controls let you become familiar with the library quickly and master all the instruments easily. Play articulations in realtime and get expressive human-sounding performances. Create realistic sounding orchestral music quickly and easily, right out of the box. Personal Orchestra makes it easy to express your musical ideas in record time. Just load an instrument and play. Performance controls: Garritan Personal Orchestra is one of the most versatile, controllable, and musical sample libraries currently available. Unparalleled control combined with high-quality samples provide almost endless possibilities for musical expression. By using the various controllers on your keyboard, you can emulate many of the techniques that real string players employ. Garritan Libraries has introduced many advanced features to the software sampling world such as Legato tools, alternation, automatic variability, and more.Works with notation programs: Personal Orchestra works with popular notation programs. It can be integrated with Finale 2006 and there is also a special edition available for Sibleius users. Using GPO Studio you can use GPO with most other notation programs. GPO Studio Personal Orchestra Studio manages eight instances of the Personal Orchestra VST plug-in so that you can play up to 64 instruments simultaneously from your MIDI program. You can save sessions, load them again, and load pre-configured templates designed for typical orchestral needs.Universal Format: Personal Orchestra will run on Mac OS and Windows.

Garritan Stradivari Solo Violin 2.0
The Stradivari Solo Violin 2.0 is a spectacular update to the award-winning virtual solo violin software by Garriton. Version 2.0 was created by an Italian team in collaboration with Garritan and integrates the Native Instrument Kontakt 2 sample player. Version 2.0 gives you two violins to choose from: a classical instrument and a lyrical instrument for a fuller, sweeter, and more dramatic tone. Performance and stability are improved with reduced CPU demands. There is improved legato and note transitions, new bow change features, sustain pizzicato, and other features in this new version.The Stradivari Solo Violin is a true musical instrument designed to be played expressively, in realtime. This musical instrument software allows the user to play beautifully expressive and believable sound that can be played and performed as music, in realtime, rather than put together like a jigsaw puzzle or tweaked after the fact.Stradivari is a name synonymous with quality. The Stradivarious Violins are regarded by experts as the best violins ever made and a genuine Stradivari violin is worth millions. A string instrument of this distinction required a unique way to faithfully capture and recreate its sound quality and playability. Sonic Morphing technologies provided the answer. Morphing describes what can be seen in motion pictures where there is a gradual transformation from one image into another. This basic concept has been applied to sound samples allowing sound samples to morph into each other seamlessly. With the Stradivari Solo Violin, using exclusive harmonic alignment technology, you can seamlessly morph between different dynamics and hear authentic timbre changes as notes become louder or softer. Sophisticated modal resonance technology uses instrument body impulses and allows you to control the onset, intensity and rate of vibrato, impart portamento, and much more. In addition, with the powerful AI MIDI processor you can change or create articulations in real time, change the type of attack or bow direction, impart legato, play trills and tremolo, and have an infinite variety of playing possibilities at your fingertips. All this in realtime! The result of these technologies is extraordinary levels of realism, expressiveness, and virtuosic performance capabilities in a way that preserves the natural characteristics of the Stradivari Violin. This virtual instrument leaps to life beneath your fingertips!

Garritan Jazz and Big Band Sound Library
The Garritan Jazz and Big Band Collection is the industry’s first jazz & big band library featuring trumpets, trombones, comprehensive saxophone collection, keyboards, rhythm section - over 50 individual Instruments. Create your own realistic-sounding jazz & big band arrangements quickly and easily. Build your own bands and jazz ensembles! The Jazz and Big Band Collection Includes the Native Instruments KONTAKT Sample Player, and works with most notation programs. This library contains great sounding instruments with expressive control such as tongue/slur articulations, intonation, vibrato, extended ranges of the instruments, variety of mutes & more. Do it all on a single computer or laptop, Mac or PC, standalone, VST, DX, AU, and RTAS. Runs in RAM.

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Garritan Concert and Marching Band Sound Library
Get in touch with your inner Souza or create a unique sample for your latest hip-hop project with the Garritan Concert & Marching Band Sound Library. From flugelhorn soloists and flute groups to snare lines and the always recognizable police whistle, this Garritan collection even has rarer used instruments like the helicon and sarrusophone. The drumline and percussion samples include instruments from the Tapspace Virtual Drumline 2 library. Using the included KONTAKT sample player and the ensemble building feature, band directors can quickly and easily arrange traditional marching band music to see how they’d sound with the size of their band, or recreate popular songs for a concert band environment. They can even synch them up with drill routine software to help their band give them a better feel for their positioning during a field show. But this isn’t strictly for the classroom. Dance and pop music producers can also utilize these sounds, adding a unique old-school twist or flourish to today’s modern song structures.

Garritan Gofriller Solo Cello Virtual Instrument Sample Library
The Gofriller Solo Cello from Garritan represents a major step forward in software musical instrument technology and provides a level of realism and expression never before heard in the industry. This virtual instrument integrates the Native Instruments Kontakt 2 sample player and can be used as a standalone instrument, as a VST, DXi, RTAS or Audio Units plug-in, and can be used with supported notation programs like Finale 2007.Gofriller Cellos (made nearly three hundred years ago) are among the finest cellos ever made and are known for the rich and beautiful tone. Just as real Gofriller Cellos are so well made that they are considered the best of their type, Garritan wanted to produce a sample instrument library that would be the best cello library ever made. The finest instruments are the ones that will allow musicians to express themselves best, whether they are three hundred years old or in the form of today’s software instruments.The Gofriller Solo Cello Sample Library is a true musical instrument designed to be played expressively, in real time. This instrument allows the user to play beautifully expressive and believable sound that can be played and performed as music, in real-time, rather than put together like a jigsaw puzzle or tweaked after the fact.Thanks to “harmonic alignment” technology (developed & patent-pending by Giorgio Tommasini), and using specially devised convolution impulses for the body of the violin, using a technique developed & patent-pending by Giorgio Tommasini & Stefano Lucato, this sampled Gofriller Cello lets you seamlessly crossfade among dynamics ( pp to ff ), continuously control the onset, rate and speed of the vibrato, and shape articulations in real time.”Harmonic Alignment” allows you to morph between samples. Morphing describes what can be seen in motion pictures where there is a gradual transformation from one image into another. First used in the Garritan virtual Stradivari Solo Violin software, this basic concept has been applied to sound samples allowing them samples to morph into each other seamlessly and hear authentic timbre changes as notes become louder or softer. Sophisticated modal resonance technology uses instrument body impulses and allows you to control the onset, intensity and rate of vibrato, impart portamento and much more. In addition, with the powerful AI midi processor you can change or create articulations in real time, change the type of attack or bow direction, impart legato, play trills & tremolo and have an infinite variety of playing possibilities at your fingertips. All this in real time!The result of these technologies is extraordinary levels of realism, expressiveness and virtusosic performance capabilities in a way that preserves the natural characteristics of the Gofriller Cello. This virtual instrument leaps to life beneath your fingertips!