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Garritan Weekend Challenge – April Fools

March 28, 2014 | Baseball Beth

What better way to celebrate April Fools day than with a Garritan Weekend Challenge celebrating Joseph Haydn and PDQ Bach? If you’re not a music history buff, you may be scratching your head at the connection. Haydn is famed for his sense of humor. His compositions contain many little musical jokes within their measures. Haydn’s [more... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Celtic Music

March 14, 2014 | Baseball Beth

Welcome to another Garritan Weekend Challenge! St. Patricks day is just around the corner, and we’re challenging you to try your hand at composing celtic music. If you’ve been curious about the Garritan World Instruments library, there is certainly room for it in this challenge. The Garritan World Instruments library includes several irish flutes, including [more... ]

Create a Variety of Moods with Instant Orchestra

March 6, 2014 | Scott Yoho

I thought I had a great idea for a Garritan ad: “Instant Orchestra includes more moods than a bus full of teenagers.” While not everyone found this appropriate, it’s true. By simply selecting from a wide variety of presets identified by mood, you can begin creating powerful music — across a broad spectrum of emotions — [more... ]

Using Garritan in the Classroom – Marshall Shaw

March 5, 2014 | Baseball Beth

5th grade students study composition using Garritan, GarageBand, and Finale. Photo courtesy of Marshall Shaw. March is Music in our Schools Month, and we’re delighted to welcome educator Marshall Shaw to the Garritan blog. Today Marshall tells us how he uses Garritan libraries in partnership with programs like GarageBand, Logic, and Finale, to enhance his lesson [more... ]

MakeMusic Receives 2014 TI:ME Award

January 31, 2014 | Baseball Beth

The TI:ME award, co-sponsored by the producers of the TEC Awards, recognizes companies that have made exceptional contributions to the evolution of music technology use in the modern music classroom. Companies were nominated by members of TI:ME and from the submissions MakeMusic was selected as the recipient by the TI:ME Board of Directors. MakeMusic [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... ]

MakeMusic Cyber Monday Sale: Save 50% on Garritan and PrintMusic Today!

December 2, 2013 | Carol Spenillo

Looking for a MakeMusic Cyber Monday Sale? We’re offering two! Save 50% on Garritan Jazz & Big Band or Concert & Marching Band – Today only $74.95 Are you creating music for band? Whether you’re writing for a jazz combo, big band, marching band, concert band – or something entirely different using band instrumentation – Garritan’s Jazz & Big Band and/or Concert & [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... ]

Garritan Interviews Composer Adam Beamer

October 4, 2013 | Baseball Beth

Sell music on Amazon at ReverbNation.com Each year, the 48 Hour Film Project tours the world, challenging teams of film makers to write and produce a film in under 48 hours. Each team pulls their genre out of a hat at the kick-off event to ensure that no team is able to get a [more... ]

Using Garritan in Reaper

September 25, 2013 | Erin Vork

Welcome to the next in our series of blog posts about using Garritan libraries in other software programs. Garritan libraries are designed for use in DAWs or Notation programs, and many MakeMusic employees do just that. If you’ve never used a VST, Audio Units or RTAS plugin in your favorite DAW or Notation program before, [more... ]

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