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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... ]

Creating Realistic Performances for Sustaining Instruments

September 16, 2015 | Jon Cielinski

One of the primary challenges when using a virtual instrument library with a MIDI keyboard is trying to create realistic performances for sustaining instruments. Simply pressing a key harder to play a louder note works perfectly for a piano, but what about when recording a track for an instrument like violin or organ? This method [more... ]

Bicycles and Music

June 8, 2015 | Scott Yoho

June is bike month in Colorado. While MakeMusic will participate in Bike to Work Day on June 24, bikes are a significant part of our world every other day, too. Moderate weather, ample bike paths, and encouragement from our upstairs neighbors at TrainingPeaks all contribute to making our office bike-friendly all year round. That said, when [more... ]

Exploring Velocity Curves in the CFX Concert Grand

March 26, 2015 | Steven Ruud

The Garritan Abbey Road CFX Concert Grand has been getting some wonderful reviews and now has a list price of $199.95. As a result, we’re hearing from more and more people who are using the virtual piano to great effect, and as a result we plan to offer some tips on using the CFX in upcoming [more... ]

MakeMusic and NAMM 2015

January 21, 2015 | Scott Yoho

Do you know the feeling of putting everything you’ve got into preparations for a recital or concert? That’s what the NAMM Show is to folks who make musical instruments, software, and accessories. Each January around 100,000 people from around the world wind up in a convention center in Anaheim, California to be the first to [more... ]

Using Garritan Keyswitches

January 16, 2015 | Steven Ruud

Musicians know there is more than one way to produce sound out of any instrument. When studying orchestration and arranging, we learn the idiosyncrasies of each individual instrument and how to best leverage them. Garritan libraries have a number of instruments that use multiple techniques – a violin can bow or pluck, a cello section [more... ]

Share the 11th Annual Garritan Community Christmas CD

December 4, 2014 | Carol Spenillo

The holidays are upon us once again. I am very pleased to announce that the members of the Garritan Community have come together to produce the 11th annual Garritan Community Christmas album! Download and share the music today! As always, it is a pleasure to work with such wonderful, talented and passionate musicians that create [more... ]

CFX Concert Grand Contemporary Perspective

August 27, 2014 | Fred Flowerday

To complement the woody, organic and nuanced detail of the “Classic” perspective, the team wanted to provide contrasting mic perspectives that gave the piano a bright, modern sound capable of a wide dynamic range with plenty of bite. For this “Contemporary” perspective, members of the engineering team at Abbey Road, known for particularly for their [more... ]

MakeMusic joins Peaksware

August 6, 2014 | Fred Flowerday

Today MakeMusic announced that it will join Peaksware, the umbrella company owned by LaunchEquity Partners, the investment company that took MakeMusic private in 2013. You can learn more about Peaksware and view the press release at http://peaksware.com/. Peaksware is also the home of TrainingPeaks, a complete web, mobile and desktop solution for enabling smart and effective [more... ]

CFX Concert Grand microphone perspectives: Classic

July 24, 2014 | Fred Flowerday

One of the goals in developing the CFX Concert Grand was to create not only a beautiful sounding virtual piano, but also to produce a functional and flexible musical tool to suit as many settings and styles as possible. To this end, we tapped into the engineering talent of the Abbey Road Studios team to [more... ]

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