garritan personal orchestra 5 review amazon

These are separate from the solo instrument samples – the solo samples are more expressive and colorful. One unusual aspect of the library is that while violins or French horns are sampled as a whole section and as solo instruments, there are also samples of individual section players which can be used to build a section of the size that’s needed.

There are also various subtle background noises, to add some realistic organic noise and keep recordings from being too clean and perfect, but none of the really distracting ones like coughing, talking, tripping over music stands etc. The choirs can sing a few different vowels and are quite complete, with men, women, boys and children and even a soprano soloist. If you don’t know what that is and need to look it up, don’t worry – I had to look it up too, and it’s apparently an instrument that hasn’t been used much since about 1820. There aren’t a lot of exotic or unusual instruments – no flugelhorn or cimbasso – though there’s a huge selection of percussion including some pretty rare stuff, a harpsichord, a celesta, and two versions of a glass harmonica. The instruments are essentially everything that would be found in a modern symphony orchestra – the usual strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, harps, keyboard instruments and choirs. The samples are compressed, so the total raw sample size would be a much larger number if they were WAV files. Taking up approximately 12 GB of disk space, Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 is several times larger than GPO 4 was, but still compact by the standards of orchestral libraries these days. It is a 32/64-bit plugin and standalone application for Windows and Mac, and is a complete symphony orchestra.

Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 ($149.95 or $49.95 upgrade) is a major update of Garritan’s classic orchestral library.

Garritan personal orchestra 5 review amazon