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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... ]

Alexandre Desplat on his Imitation Game Score

February 26, 2015 | Scott Yoho

Are you done thinking about the Academy Awards until next year? I thought I was until a coworker shared this fantastic podcast, from Song Exploder, featuring Alexandre Desplat. In it the composer describes the orchestration of the main theme from his Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated “The Imitation Game” score, both in terms of orchestration as [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... ]

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... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Twelve Tone Serialism

July 18, 2014 | Baseball Beth

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/44217687″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] This Weekend Challenge is truly challenging. During our Weekend Challenge – Piano I included a little trivia about the Fibonacci Sequence and it’s relationship to the piano. Riding that wave of nerdy bliss, I’m motivated this week to challenge you to compose twelve tone music. Don’t roll your [more... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Piano

July 10, 2014 | Baseball Beth

The piano is a very special instrument to me. Here are a few reasons why: First love: For many of us, the piano was the first instrument we learned to play. Versatility: It is an instrument that can be anything composers need it to be. Character: Acoustic pianos are easy to find in our communities, [more... ]

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