Garritan Personal Orchestra 4 Lite Sample Library Torrent
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I'm an amateur composer interested in purchasing a high quality orchestral sample library like Garritan Personal Orchestra. The problem is that I plan on composing a piece for my schools concert band, and I can't decide between Garritan's "Personal Orchestral" or the "Concert & Marching Band" sample libraries:
I am in the process of reading Rimsky Korsakov's "Principles of orchestration", so it would be ideal to have a high quality virtual orchestra. I would still use the concert band library for other projects, but I plan on pursuing film/video game composing as a career, and these typically use orchestral sounds. I also just enjoy orchestral music more in general.
The stand-alone version of Kontakt Player supplied with GPO. GPO uses the normal Native Instruments challenge-and-response-style registration tool, although this isn't too intrusive. For those users who worry about having to reinstall their systems at short notice, Garritan have provided a 'more generous than most' 30-day grace period for registration. Aside from the copy protection, though, there's also an advantage to users in supplying a sample library linked to a player in this way, since any specific requirements of the library can be accommodated by the software, and the whole package is generally more integrated.
Integration is actually quite an apt word to describe GPO, since Garritan have gone one step further than to merely provide a sample player. The GPO package also includes a MIDI + Audio sequencer, score-writing software, a reverb plug-in, and a VST plug-in host application called GPO Studio, so that as long as you have a computer with suitable MIDI or audio hardware, GPO offers everything you need to get started with computer-based orchestration straight out of the box. These 'extras' will be welcomed by composers who are just getting started in computer-based orchestration, and will surely be appreciated by schools and colleges who have limited budgets to deliver an appropriate music-technology curriculum.
Even if you don't have the budget for Sibelius or Finale, that still doesn't mean you won't be able to use a score-writing package with GPO, as the package includes Geniesoft's Overture SE (www.geniesoft.com). Overture is reasonably intuitive to operate, and can handle anything from a single stave of music to a full orchestral score, with a full range of symbols and layout facilities, including the ability to hide or extract certain parts. Scores created in Overture SE will play GPO 's samples via the GPO Studio application, as previously described, and there's even a GPO menu in Overture SE, enabling you to name the sounds used in each instance of GPO Player in GPO Studio, with preset Soundsets included for the Multi-programs and other templates included with GPO.
While GPO has an obvious market for beginners, it also offers a degree of professional appeal for anyone looking to sketch out orchestral arrangements with a single computer. It's becoming a little bit of a cliché to talk about laptops these days, but GPO will definitely have value to mobile musicians, since the player and small samples make it an efficient solution for undertaking reasonably large-scale work without the library consuming your laptop in terms of hard disk space or battery power and processor usage. GPO is also a good alternative for Sibelius users considering the Gold version of the Kontakt player for Sibelius 3, as some of the instruments are of a slightly better quality. The only caveat is that using GPO with Sibelius requires a little more care in setting up with GPO Studio (this is described in the GPO manual) and in creating instrument definitions for Sibelius ' more advanced performance abilities.
As a package, GPO is pretty unique, but East West/Quantum Leap's Symphonic Orchestra Silver Edition is another product worth considering if you're looking for the ultimate condensed orchestra, although it costs slightly more at around 199. This is a stripped-down version of the full Symphonic Orchestra package, is also based around Native Instruments' Kontakt Player, and offers a similar selection of instruments (including some choir samples), although it doesn't include any of the extras that make GPO appealing. Silver Edition users have an upgrade path to the other members of the Symphonic Orchestra family, although Garritan have also worked out a deal so that GPO users have an upgrade path to products from the Vienna Symphonic Library. Decisions, decisions!
In the commercial world, Goliath usually tramples David, but this intelligent orchestral package may well buck that trend; its affordable price, comprehensive nature and user-friendly attitude are sure to attract many musicians. Although some orchestral sample users will miss the subtly differentiated performance options of larger libraries, others will be glad to work with a simpler set of sounds that do the job quickly and efficiently. For composers and arrangers chasing deadlines, and musicians who like to get fast results, GPO could be the perfect solution. Gary Garritan may not yet have cured the world of 'sample bloat', but by instigating a brave new anti-expansionist policy and keeping the price low, he has struck a blow for all those scorewriters who don't yet have a collection of gold discs in their lavatories.
Thank you for choosing Garritan Personal Orchestra 5. Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 is state-of-the-art software that reproduces the sounds of a symphony orchestra. It has set the standard for orchestral sample libraries.
At its core, Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 contains samples of many meticulously recorded orchestral instruments. Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 integrates a uniquely powerful and high-performance specialized software sampler designed by Plogue Art et Technologie Inc. More than just sampling, the ARIA Player includes specially tailored acoustic programming designed to reproduce the sounds of real orchestral instruments.
Though benefiting from the inclusion of true first and second violin sections, the absence of real brass ensembles was a chink in the library's armour. GPO4 rectifies this by incorporating trumpet, trombone and horn sections created by Project SAM, a European company renowned for the quality of their orchestral brass. The new sections add considerable grandeur, and though (like the rest of the library) they have been whittled down to only one dynamic layer, they sit nicely alongside Garritan's brass and blend very well with the other instruments. A selection of SAM solo brass (trumpet, piccolo trumpet, French horn, tenor and bass trombones and tuba) is also included. Maintaining the GPO house style, they incorporate 'ensemble building' patches that allow you to build duos and trios without fear of sample duplication.
Gary Garritan has always supported composers who rely on notation programs to play back their scores, and the latest version of his orchestra maintains the tradition by supplying a complete set of alternative 'notation' instruments for use with Finale and Sibelius. Aria can also play back MIDI files, and even make audio recordings of its own output. The small but vocal group of users who need custom tunings for their orchestral instruments will be pleased to see that GPO4 can import Scala tuning files, 16 of which are provided with the library. These tunings can't be customised, so users who need ethnic variants like Indonesian pelog or Arabic scales will have to search for them at the Scala web site.
GPO 5 builds on the long-standing Garritan Personal Orchestra legacy, greatly expanding the sample database with new instruments and additional choir sections. Though its sound is less luxurious than contemporary large-scale symphonic collections, it remains an invaluable, easy-to-use tool which provides all the instruments required for orchestral arrangements while retaining its traditional affordability.
Back in 2004, Garritan Personal Orchestra enabled impecunious musicians to engage in the noble art of orchestral writing without having to take out a second mortgage to buy the samples, or attain a master's degree in computer science to work out how to use them. Personal Orchestra's selling points were (and are) its low price, logical approach and thoroughly comprehensive instrumentation. In 2009, a fourth revision, GPO4, made users' lives even easier by porting the formerly Kontakt-formatted samples over to the simple-to-use ARIA sound engine (designed by the French company Plogue). You can read the Sound On Sound review of GPO4/ARIA at /sos/jun10/articles/personalorchestra4.htm.
The 'Super-Light' piano lives up to its name, not by automatically playing a Barry Manilow song when you load the patch, but by offering only one (loud) dynamic layer. While that sounds OK in an ensemble, the lack of soft, quiet samples greatly limits its musical versatility. There again, it's unrealistic to expect to find a deeply sampled grand piano recorded from five mic positions in a library of this size and price. GIO's harp sounds sweet and pleasantly lyrical: GigaStudio veterans may recognise some of its samples (which include an extensive menu of excellent glissandi) from Garritan's turn-of-the-century Giga Harp library.
GIO also has a selection of Ensemble presets located in 'Combos & FX' and 'Moods' folders. These multis provide a variety of imaginatively layered patches and effects, further expanding the already considerable range of musical textures. For a full list of the library's contents, download the manual at www.garritan.com/IO/Garritan_Instant_Orchestra_Manual.pdf.
Enter Garritan Instant Orchestra. For relatively little outlay, you can create a passable impression of a full orchestra, and spend more of your precious time composing rather than fiddling around with obscure articulations and huge MIDI templates. As with GPO, the sampling is less deep than high-end orchestral collections and the range of articulations is limited, but the sheer musicality of the library shines through. They say you get what you pay for, but I think in the case of GIO you get rather a lot more: Garritan has consistently demonstrated that he is on the side of the musician, and his latest library looks set to keep the musical community on board, on budget and creatively engaged.
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