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Garritan Weekend Challenge – April Fools

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

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... ]

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... ]

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... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Breaking News

It’s time for another Garritan Weekend Challenge. This weekend, we’re challenging you to write 30 seconds of Breaking News music. We’ve all heard that opening blast of music on network television, or been held in exciting suspense during the average daily weather report. The world needs more Breaking News music, and we think you’re the [more... ]

Garritan Instant Orchestra Sale

Announcing a Sale on Garritan Instant Orchestra Offer expires 10/31/2013 Now, for a limited time, we are offering Garritan Instant Orchestra downloads for $134.96 – that’s 25% off our everyday price. You may have heard about this library and asked yourself what the difference is between Garritan Instant Orchestra and Garritan Personal Orchestra 4 (GPO4). [more... ]

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