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Z-Fest Film Festival Trailer Contest

The Z-Fest Film Festival is an annual event in Minnesota where dozens of teams write, shoot, produce, and show short films. The films are around seven minutes long and cover a wide range of subject matter. There is always something for everyone. Every team submits a film and a 30 second trailer. Before the first screening, [more... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Valentines Day

It’s time for another Garritan Weekend Challenge! In the spirit of Valentines day, we’d like you to compose the perfect valentines day music. Your version of romantic music could be light and funny, or serious with lush strings, or perhaps the classic sultry bass and drums groove fits your valentines day. I invite you to [more... ]

Get to Know IO: Film Scores Fast with Garritan Instant Orchestra

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... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Epic

It’s time for another Garritan Weekend Challenge! This weekend, we are looking for something EPIC – the bigger the better. Your challenge is to create 30 seconds (or more if you’d like) of music using Garritan sounds. You may remember how our challenges work if you are a regular to the Garritan Weekend Challenge. If you’re new [more... ]

Welcome to the new Garritan Forum!

Hello Everyone, We have our new Garritan Forum! Over the past twelve years, we have built a very special community together . The Garritan forum was a unique place for inspiration, collaboration, sharing, learning, good will, and fun. In recent years; with the acquisition by MakeMusic and the uncertain state of Northern Sounds, the community [more... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Holiday Music

Welcome to another Garritan Weekend Challenge! We’ll throw out the topic, and you write the music, for no reason other than it’s fun. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Garritan Holiday Album!  Since 2004, the Garritan community has celebrated the season by creating an album of holiday-inspired music, free to anyone! Written, produced [more... ]

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

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

[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 Weekend Challenge – Halloween Edition

Welcome to the Halloween edition of the Garritan Weekend Challenge. You’ve guessed it, your challenge this weekend is to write 30 seconds of music that belongs in a horror film. From spooky, to action, to eerily sarcastic, this genre pretty much covers it all. Of course to accept the Garritan Weekend Challenge, there is no purchase [more... ]

Using Garritan in Digital Performer 8

Welcome to the next in our series of blog posts about using Garritan libraries in other software programs. Today we’ll explore using Garritan in Digital Performer 8. Digital Performer’s particularly strong MIDI toolset and scoring-to-picture capabilities make Garritan sounds a perfect complement to this industry standard DAW. Garritan instruments are used in Digital Performer by opening the [more... ]

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