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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... ]

Z-Fest Film Festival Trailer Contest

February 21, 2014 | Baseball Beth

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... ]

More Film Scoring Tips with Instant Orchestra

February 10, 2014 | Scott Yoho

In this month’s installment of “Get to Know IO,” Garritan Product Manager Fred Flowerday shares some more Instant Orchestra tips, again with the emphasis on quickly scoring to video: “As musicians we can often imagine melody and harmony fleshed out for full orchestra, but this can sometimes be a challenge for our clients. With Instant Orchestra [more... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Valentines Day

February 7, 2014 | Baseball Beth

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... ]

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... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Epic

January 10, 2014 | Isaac Sobczak

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... ]

Garritan Year End Sale!

December 26, 2013 | Carol Spenillo

Announcing the Garritan Year End Sale! From now until Dec 31, you can choose from some of our most popular libraries for just $99.95: World Instruments Jazz and Big Band Concert and Marching Band Personal Orchestra No matter what style of music you’re exploring, these libraries will bring breathtaking realism to your creations. Each is [more... ]

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