Garritan Personal Orchestra

A Complete Orchestra at your Fingertips
Garritan Personal Orchestra is an award-winning orchestral library that has become the industry standard. Affordable, easy-to-use and comprehensive. Includes all the major instruments of the orchestra - strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion and keyboards.
Highest Quality Orchestral Instruments

Includes the highest quality collection of orchestral instruments ever sampled. Quality instruments such as a Steinway® grand piano, Stradivari and Guarneri violins, concert harps, celesta, concert pipe organ, and many other fine instruments.

No Sampler Required
The collection comes integrated with the acclaimed Kontakt sample player from Native Instruments and works as a virtual instrument. No need to purchase a separate sampler. You can adjust a number of parameters – variability, tuning and other audio characteristics – so you can control the sound of each instrument individually.

Easy-to-Use
Create great sounding orchestral music quickly and easily. Just load your instruments and play. Standardized controls allow you to become familiar with the library quickly and master all the instruments easily. Express your musical ideas fast and with minimal effort.

Realtime Playable Instruments No piecing together samples after the fact, or piecing together articulations. The instruments in Personal Orchestra were designed to be played in realtime. Play articulations in real-time and get expressive human-sounding performances.

Ensemble Maker
Garritan Personal Orchestra provides individual instruments from which you can build your own ensembles and sections the way you want. Construct solos, duos, trios, quartets, chamber groups, ensembles, sections or a full symphony orchestra.

Notation Integration to Play from the Score
Garritan pioneered the use of samples with notation programs and remains at the forefront of notation playback. You can play your orchestrations directly from your Sibelius score. Garritan Personal Orchestra integrates seamlessly and automatically reads and interprets performance indications such as articulation marks, playing techniques, slurs and dynamics (including hairpins on sustained notes) to make full use of GPO's advanced sample programming, providing an exceptionally lifelike performance of your score. You can even export an audio file from the score.

Universal Format
Supports all popular formats, Mac and PC, as a standalone program or as a plug-in (VST, DXi, RTAS, and OS X AudioUnits), works with supported notation programs, and will also load into KONTAKT 1 or 2 Native Instruments' flagship samplers. An entire orchestra can be loaded on a single PC or laptop.

Suited for Everybody
Professional film composers can use this collection for quick orchestral sketches and capturing creative ideas. Hobbyists can use it for adding orchestrations to their tracks. Educators and students can use it for scoring projects or studying orchestration. Imagine orchestrating on a beach, or on a plane, or anywhere!

Expandable
Personal Orchestra will offer new feature sets and will expand as your needs grow. Add-on instruments, features and enhancements will be offered so your investment is protected as technology progresses.

"An Orchestra for Every Musician"
Whether you're a professional film composer who needs to produce orchestral mockups at a moment's notice, a hobbyist who wants to create great sounding orchestral music, or a student who is studying the art and craft of orchestration, Personal Orchestra will simplify creative work at a price that won't break the bank. In the studio, at home or on the road, Personal Orchestra is for every musician.

System requirements:

Macintosh

Requires 2GB hard disk space (in addition to Sibelius 4)

Mac OS 10.3.9 or later

DVD drive

Sibelius 4. Additionally:

Scores that use up to about 8 different sounds:

Mac: G4/G5, 1GB+ RAM (1.5GB+ recommended)

Scores that use up to about 20 different sounds:

Mac: 1.8GHz processor or faster, 1.5GB+ RAM

Scores that use reverb or more than 20 different sounds will need a faster processor and more RAM.

Windows

Requires 2GB hard disk space (in addition to Sibelius 4)

Windows XP (or some Windows 2000 configurations);

DVD drive

Sibelius 4. Additionally:

Scores that use up to about 8 different sounds:

Windows: 1.8Ghz processor or faster, 1Gb+ RAM (1.5Gb+ recommended), preferably ASIO compatible sound card

Scores that use up to about 20 different sounds:

Windows: 2.5GHz processor or faster, 1.5Gb RAM. ASIO-compatible sound card strongly recommended (not sound chip on motherboard), preferably separate graphics card

Scores that use reverb or more than 20 different sounds will need a faster processor and more RAM.