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Introducing the Garritan SoundCloud Group

August 30, 2013 | Baseball Beth

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/88883123″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] The Garritan SoundCloud Group wants YOU: Looking for a spot to share your music, hear feedback from other composers who use Garritan sounds, and collect ideas by listening to more music produced with Garritan libraries? Join the Garritan SoundCloud group, a group created and contributed to, [more... ]

Garritan Spotlight on Composer, Conductor, and Orchestrator Francesco Marchetti

March 14, 2019 | Scott Yoho

Francesco Marchetti is a composer, conductor, and orchestrator who lives in Rome, Italy. In addition to being a long-time user of Garritan libraries, he has also had a long association with the company. Gary Garritan offers this description: Francesco is a conductor, arranger, and orchestrator par excellence; and one of Italy’s best composers. I met [more... ]

Compare Garritan Personal Orchestra with Garritan Instant Orchestra

June 7, 2018 | Garritan Official

Garritan offers two high-quality, affordable orchestral libraries: Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 and Garritan Instant Orchestra. If you’re wondering what’s the difference (or are trying to decide which one would be best for you), you’ve come to the right place. Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 (GPO 5) gives you everything from pristine solo [more... ]

“Timbre” Feature in the Garritan CFX Lite and CFX Concert Grand

January 25, 2017 | Scott Yoho

Captured in historic Studio One at Abbey Road Studios, the CFX Lite is a robust subset of the full, glorious CFX Concert Grand piano (compare both products here). Upon its release, the CFX Lite had some additional features and benefits that were not included in the initial CFX Concert Grand release. (This has subsequently been [more... ]

Introducing the Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Lite

November 9, 2016 | Garritan Official

The CFX Concert Grand In 2014 we released the most detailed and advanced Garritan project ever: the CFX Concert Grand. It began with Yamaha’s remarkable nine foot concert piano, the development of which took more than 18 years. We placed this no-holds-barred instrument in the most legendary recording space in the world: Studio One at [more... ]

Additional Strings in Garritan Personal Orchestra 5

October 25, 2016 | Peter Flom

As a string player I am most excited about the new strings in Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 (GPO 5). With multiple bowing samples for each instrument, a fluid live-friendly playback engine, and the choice between individual, chamber and section string sounds, GPO 5 has a lot to offer those of us who focus on strings. [more... ]

Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 Coming Soon

February 2, 2016 | Garritan Official

At the 2016 NAMM show, we announced that Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 (GPO 5) would be coming soon, and simultaneously placed a “Coming in February 2016” message at garritan.com. We’ve been delighted with the volume of interest (and questions) this advance information has produced. While we will release GPO 5 before the end of February, we [more... ]

Alexandre Desplat on his Imitation Game Score

February 26, 2015 | Scott Yoho

Are you done thinking about the Academy Awards until next year? I thought I was until a coworker shared this fantastic podcast, from Song Exploder, featuring Alexandre Desplat. In it the composer describes the orchestration of the main theme from his Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated “The Imitation Game” score, both in terms of orchestration as [more... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Twelve Tone Serialism

July 18, 2014 | Baseball Beth

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/44217687″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] This Weekend Challenge is truly challenging. During our Weekend Challenge – Piano I included a little trivia about the Fibonacci Sequence and it’s relationship to the piano. Riding that wave of nerdy bliss, I’m motivated this week to challenge you to compose twelve tone music. Don’t roll your [more... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Piano

July 10, 2014 | Baseball Beth

The piano is a very special instrument to me. Here are a few reasons why: First love: For many of us, the piano was the first instrument we learned to play. Versatility: It is an instrument that can be anything composers need it to be. Character: Acoustic pianos are easy to find in our communities, [more... ]

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