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Using Garritan Libraries and Finale’s Human Playback in Logic Pro X

January 9, 2019 | Jon Burr

In a DAW, Human Playback equals Mix Automation Creating a compelling performance with MIDI data in a DAW depends on the manipulation of Continuous Controller Data (“CC”) and MIDI Key Switches (“KS”) for dynamics and articulation. In Finale, this data is created automatically from score markings when Human Playback is turned on. The conventional wisdom [more... ]

Cyber Monday: Free Garritan Library with Finale v26

November 26, 2018 | Garritan Official

Finale version 26 is here! Users and reviewers alike are praising how it automates music creation with articulation stacking, new chord libraries, and slurs that snap into place automatically. Now through the end of the week, you can get a free Garritan virtual instrument library when you purchase, trade up to, or upgrade to Finale [more... ]

Z-Fest Film Festival Trailer Contest

February 21, 2014 | Baseball Beth

The Z-Fest Film Festival is an annual event in Minnesota where dozens of teams write, shoot, produce, and show short films. The films are around seven minutes long and cover a wide range of subject matter. There is always something for everyone. Every team submits a film and a 30 second trailer. Before the first screening, [more... ]

More Film Scoring Tips with Instant Orchestra

February 10, 2014 | Scott Yoho

In this month’s installment of “Get to Know IO,” Garritan Product Manager Fred Flowerday shares some more Instant Orchestra tips, again with the emphasis on quickly scoring to video: “As musicians we can often imagine melody and harmony fleshed out for full orchestra, but this can sometimes be a challenge for our clients. With Instant Orchestra [more... ]

Get to Know IO: Film Scores Fast with Garritan Instant Orchestra

January 15, 2014 | Fred Flowerday

Welcome to the first installment of “Get to Know IO,” a series of blog posts and videos aimed at getting the most out of the incredibly powerful toolset known as Instant Orchestra. Our goal for the series is to share techniques that will help maximize your creativity with IO. Have you ever had a great theme [more... ]

Celebrating 20 Years of Garritan Virtual Instrument Libraries

May 8, 2019 | Scott Yoho

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the first Garritan virtual instrument library. While twenty years at any pursuit is a remarkable accomplishment, in the world of music software it represents several lifetimes. To commemorate this milestone I spoke to the company’s founder, Gary Garritan, about his roots, some highlights of the [more... ]

Peter James Reviews the Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand

April 19, 2019 | Garritan Official

Peter James is a pianist/keyboardist from Sydney, Australia. He’s a session musician, songwriter, instrumental/film-score composer, sound designer, and touring performing artist. He’s also well known for his work with Hillsong Church – having been a keyboard player and programmer on more than 45 Hillsong albums – and for his software review videos on YouTube. Peter [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... ]

Announcing the Garritan Anthology

January 24, 2019 | Garritan Official

Have you ever discovered – in the middle of a project – that you don’t have the right equipment for the job? Whether you’re baking a cake, painting a seascape, or fixing the car, it can be frustrating to not have all the ingredients, colors, or tools at hand. It’s no different with music creation. [more... ]

The Lowdown on Updated Installers and Downloads

December 13, 2018 | Jon Tschiggfrie

New Installers Earlier this year I reported that we were in the process of updating all Garritan installers, primarily to support current Macintosh operating systems. That work has been completed, for every library, for some time. Since then, however, we have updated all the installers again, this time to improve compatibility with Finale version 26, [more... ]

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