A Comprehensive
Virtual Orchestra for $199:
Garritan Personal Orchestra is an award-winning orchestral library that
has become the industry standard. Affordable, easy-to-use and
comprehensive. Includes all the major instruments of the orchestra -
strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion and keyboards.
Highest
Quality Sounds: This
library includes the highest quality collection of orchestral
instruments ever sampled. Quality instruments such as a Steinway® grand
piano, Stradivari and Guarneri violins, concert harps, celesta, concert
pipe organ, and many other 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 so you can become familiar with the
library quickly, master all the instruments easily. Play articulations
in real-time 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.
Works
with Notation Programs
Garritan pioneered the use of samples with notation programs and
remains at the forefront of notation playback. You can play your
orchestrations directly from the score of supported notation programs.
Garritan Personal Orchestra integrates seamlessly and automatically
reads and interprets performance indications such as articulation
marks, playing techniques, slurs and dynamics (including hairpins on
sustained notes) to make full use of GPO's advanced sample programming,
providing an exceptionally lifelike performance of your score. Personal
Orchestra is Finale 2008 and Sibelius 5 enabled.
Universal
Format: Personal Orchestra will run on Mac OS and Windows platforms,
either as a standalone program or as a plug-in (supporting VST,
DXi, RTAS, and OS X AudioUnits). Personal Orchestra instruments
will also load into KONTAKT, Native Instruments' flagship sampler.
An entire orchestra can be loaded on a single PC or laptop and
is designed to run completely in RAM.
"An
Orchestra for Every Musician": Whether you're a professional film composer who needs to produce
orchestral mockups at a moment's notice, a hobbyist who wants
to create great sounding orchestral music, or a student who is
studying the art and craft of orchestration, Personal Orchestra
will simplify creative work at a price that won't break the bank.
In the studio, at home or on the road, Personal Orchestra is for
every musician.
RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS (for Kontakt Player & Sound
Library)
- 2 GB of free hard disk space.
- DVD Drive.
- Windows XP, Pentium 4 /Athlon 2.4 GHz or better is recommended.
- Mac OS 10.4 or higher, G5 minimum - Mac Intel is recommended to load a full orchestra.
- The Kontakt Player needs a soundcard for playing the sounds
of Personal Orchestra. Standard DirectSound, MME or ASIO drivers
required; Windows-compatible MIDI hardware if required.
- A MIDI interface is required if you are using a MIDI keyboard,
another MIDI controller or an external sequencer. The MIDI interface
integrated in many sound cards can also be used.
- To play an entire orchestra, we recommend 1 GB of RAM. There
is a direct correlation between the number of instruments that
can be loaded and the amount of available RAM. Loading the entire
orchestra requires 1 GB of RAM. The more RAM available the better.