MakeMusic and Garritan to Produce Abbey Road Sound Products
May 1, 2012 | Carol Spenillo
Upcoming libraries will allow musicians to create with sounds made famous by the Beatles, Pink Floyd View press release
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MakeMusic Announces Garritan Composition Contest Winners
April 3, 2012 | Carol Spenillo
Three compositions selected from more than 200 entries, all created with Garritan sound libraries View press release
MakeMusic Announces the “Take Your Music Further with Garritan” Composition Contest
January 19, 2012 | Carol Spenillo
Garritan sounds inspire composers to take their music to new places – and win free air travel view press release
MakeMusic, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Garritan Corporation
December 30, 2011 | Carol Spenillo
Industry-leading virtual software instruments now part of MakeMusic’s broad range of solutions View press release
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... ]
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... ]
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... ]
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... ]
