You will get enough instruments to realize 90% of all classical orchestral works.
This orchestra is REALLY complete and is lacking in only a few small areas. But your computer will when it doesn't have to have it's ram allotment chewed up by eight layers of samples for a single trumpet or a clarinet! I thought I would miss the sound of these other softer layers, particularily with the strings and some brass, but to tell you the truth, I can't really hear a significant difference. By throwing away all those dynamic layers and using Kontakt's power to modify a sample's sound by midi control, you can just play with your finger on the modwheel and hand on the keys and get all the dynamic contrast thats been lacking in orchestral mock-ups and has been difficult to achieve. I was never able to get a convincing swell with my Gigastudio brass, in particular. The kind of totally smooth swells and diminuendi you can get with these strings and in fact the whole library, are truly unique. The string sections are derived from the famous Garritan String Library and though they don't included the myriad articulations and don't offer chromatic sampling, they are excellent and expressive.
GARRITAN ORCHESTRA VST FULL
The included pipe organ has the most commonly-used stops and a full organ version and it sounds spectacular, on a par with the piano. These can sound almost totally realistic.
GARRITAN ORCHESTRA VST PROFESSIONAL
The harps are also truly excellent (what else would you expect from Garritan, a professional harpist?!) and offer unique versions which utilize 'harp packets' you insert into your sequencer track to allow you to 'strum' chords and scrolls with different voicings of chords. This piano is not a resource hog! There is a lite version and two 'duo' versions. Use the (wrapped) VSTi version and you will experience NO problems with GPO.Īlong the lines of this 'complete' package for orchestration is a Steinway 9ft grand piano which is so good it's worth the price of the whole package alone. The DXi version (like all of NI's DXi) suffers from an unusual 'tempo bug' where changing tempo while notes are still sounding causes all note after them to get stuck 'on'. For SONAR users not on 3.0, or on Home Studio/Plasma platforms, I would seriously go with Cakewalk's own EXCELLENT VSTi wrapper.
GARRITAN ORCHESTRA VST MAC
wav file (sorry MAC users).Īs can be seen, GPO is a really complete package, though I use it with SONAR 2.2 XL with no problems. The included GPO host app designed by Plogue from their "Bidule" will allow eight GPO instances to be loaded with the built-in Ambience reverb so you can hear imediately what you are entering into your scoring program and even render it to a. And btw, GPO comes with it's own excellent reverb plug-in at no extra charge! This in addition to a 'lite' version of Cubase VST to get you started (it may be all some people will need)and a fine scoring program. I have been able to render each brass instrument to it's own track where I can apply delay, compression, eq and convolution ambience as needed, then mixing the ensemble with an overall reverb. This eventually gave way however as I found that GPO lets you treat each individual instrument in a section in much the same way as real a orchestra. At first, I could not get a satisfying attack for aggresive parts.
GPO uses a single articulation in a sustained sample which is then modified to get staccatos etc. While the woodwinds are simply among the very best out there at this time and are quite complete, I intially experienced some frustrations with the brass instruments. The amount of realism you can achieve will depend on how experienced you become after using it for awhile.
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