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| New Garritan Instant Orchestra Sound Library Wins Industry Awards | ||||||
Industry publications have recognized how Instant Orchestra is changing the landscape of virtual sound libraries. Computer Music said, “Instant Orchestra is absurdly simple to use and sounds a lot more expensive than it is,” and Sound On Sound remarked: “Garritan has consistently demonstrated that he is on the side of the musician, and his latest library looks set to keep the musical community on board, on budget and creatively engaged.” Several reviewers have remarked that by facilitating the quick creation of orchestral music, Instant Orchestra is ideal for scoring video and games. Part of Instant Orchestra’s secret lies in its wide variety of pre-configured instrument collections, which are organized by mood. These collections take the guesswork out of what combination of instruments should be used to create the desired atmosphere, whether the musician’s goal is intimate or massive, spooky or sublime, natural or other-worldly. “With traditional orchestral software libraries, musicians create scores by writing music for each individual member of the orchestra, one instrument at a time,” said Gary Garritan, MakeMusic director of instrumental sciences. “Instant Orchestra empowers musicians to quickly create Hollywood-style orchestrations, in a wide variety of moods, by writing just a few staves of music.” “Gary Garritan has done it again,” said Karen van Lith, MakeMusic CEO. “Just as Garritan Personal Orchestra revolutionized the sound of software instruments, Instant Orchestra reinvents the way orchestral music is created, by simplifying and streamlining the process. What’s more, by empowering more musicians to create orchestral music, Instant Orchestra expands the market for software instrument libraries.” Many special orchestral effects and techniques are included with Instant Orchestra: glissandos, rips, clusters and harmonics. These “tricks of the trade” evoke emotions vital to the creation of music for film, television and video games. Instant Orchestra is designed to be a perfect addition to music notation-based programs, like Finale, as well as to all sequencers and digital audio workstations. Instant Orchestra is equally at home in the studio of professional composers and arrangers who welcome the opportunity to quickly generate ideas and sketches, as it is in the hands of music students and hobbyists who will delight in creating their first music for orchestra. Most importantly, the music produced with Instant Orchestra sounds spectacular, with the same authenticity musicians have come to expect from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra, the world’s most popular orchestral library. In fact, because Instant Orchestra is so unique in the way the orchestrations are created, it’s a perfect complement to Personal Orchestra and all other Garritan software instrument libraries. Instant Orchestra is available as a download for $149.98. A boxed (DVD) version is also available for $169.95. Additional information, patch lists, audio sample files and much more can be found at www.garritan.com. For more information: Garritan Instant Orchestra |
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