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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... ]

Composer Spotlight – Jacob Hamil

May 23, 2014 | Baseball Beth

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136268473″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] This week MakeMusic and the Garritan Blog interviews composer Jacob Hamil. In his interview with us, Jacob describes his background, workflows, tips, and inspirations. MM: Tells us where you’re from! JH: I’m originally from Odessa, TX but, now live in Lubbock, TX. MM: What is your background in music? [more... ]

Composer Spotlight – Arun Sol

April 23, 2014 | Baseball Beth

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/27996807″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] This week MakeMusic and the Garritan Blog interviews composer Arun Sol. Arun describes how he recommitted himself to his writing while working in a rather un-inspirational warehouse, and how he now makes time every morning to compose… MM: Tells us where you’re from! AS: I was born in Melbourne, [more... ]

Composer Spotlight – Adam Weiss

November 11, 2013 | Baseball Beth

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/users/28180419″ width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] This week the Garritan Blog interviews composer Adam Weiss, a 17 year old high school student with an impressive list of completed works. If you’re interested in learning more about how younger generations are using virtual instrument software as a part of their career development, this post is for [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... ]

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... ]

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... ]

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... ]

Combine GPO 5 with Reaper for Ultimate Flexibility

May 17, 2018 | Chad Johnson

It’s a brave new world in music production today. The tools available to the common musician, which would have been unimaginable a few decades ago, have leveled the playing field like never before. With a little knowledge and attention to detail, we can create stunningly life-like soundscapes that rival the pros in all aspects. And [more... ]

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