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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... ]

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... ]

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... ]

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... ]

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

January 15, 2014 | Fred Flowerday

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... ]

The Garritan Community Christmas album is here!

December 16, 2013 | Gary Garritan

The Garritan Community Christmas album has become a tradition for our Community. The holidays are a time of giving and, for the past ten years, members of our community from around the world have freely given their time and talent to produce our annual Christmas albums. It’s always astounding to experience the talent and creativity [more... ]

Garritan Weekend Challenge – Halloween Edition

October 25, 2013 | Baseball Beth

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 Instant Orchestra Sale

October 10, 2013 | Baseball Beth

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... ]

Request A Post for the Garritan Blog

August 26, 2013 | Baseball Beth

Users of Garritan libraries come from all over the globe and specialize in countless types of music making. Wherever you’re joining us from, and whatever your background is, we’re so glad that you are here. We’re excited to have you as a subscriber, and before we get too comfortable on our soapbox, we’d like to ask [more... ]

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