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Garritan Personal Orchestra

Award-winning orchestral sounds for Sibelius

Garritan Personal Orchestra Sibelius Edition gives you all of the instruments from the award-winning Garritan Personal Orchestra sample library, one of the highest quality collections of orchestral instruments ever sampled.

It includes all the major instruments of the orchestra - strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion - as well as ones not found in other orchestral libraries, such as a Steinway concert grand piano and a Stradivarius violin. With 270 pitched instruments and five unpitched percussion ensembles containing 58 separate percussion sounds, the collection even contains subtly different versions of the same instrument to distinguish players, allowing you to hear your score played back with stunningly realistic quality.

Garritan Personal Orchestra integrates seamlessly with Sibelius 4, 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.

The collection comes with a special version of the acclaimed Kontakt sample player from Native Instruments, which lets you play 32 different sounds at once, and includes a range of adjustable parameters - reverb, brightness, tuning and other audio characteristics - so you can control the sound of each instrument individually. You can even export an audio file to create a CD of your music, or convert to an MP3 file.

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Sounds

The list below shows the instruments that are included, and indicates where there are multiple sounds for an instrument. Some instruments have an accompanying MP3 file to demonstrate them; you can also hear samples of more individual instruments on the Garritan site.

Tip: listen to the MP3 samples with good headphones or through a hi-fi. Most computer speakers aren't good enough to give an accurate impression of them.

Woodwinds

• Piccolo Solo (three sounds)
• Flute Solo (three sounds) (129K MP3)
• Flute Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Alto Flute Solo
• Alto Flute Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Bass Flute Solo (two sounds)
• Bass Flute Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Oboe 1 Modern Solo (234K MP3)
• Oboe 2 Modern Solo
• Oboe 3 Modern Solo
• Oboe 1 Modern Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Oboe Classical Solo
• Oboe D'Amore Solo
• English Horn 1 Solo
• English Horn 2 Solo
• English Horn 1 Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Eb Clarinet Solo (172K MP3)
• Bb Clarinet Solo
• Bb Clarinet Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Bass Clarinet Solo (131K MP3)
• Bass Clarinet Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Bassoon 1 Solo (187K MP3)
• Bassoon 2 Solo
• Bassoon 1 Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Bassoon 2 Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Contrabass Clarinet Solo
• Contrabassoon 1 Solo
• Contrabassoon 2 Solo

Brass

• French Horn 1 Solo (two sounds)
• French Horn 1 Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• French Horn 2 Solo
• French Horn 2 Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• French Horn Solo Mute
• French Horn Ensemble instrument Mute (three sounds)
• French Horn f overlay (two sounds)
• French Horn ff overlay
• Trumpet 1 Solo (two sounds) (462K MP3)
• Trumpet 1 Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Trumpet 2 Solo
• Trumpet 2 Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Piccolo Trumpet Solo (two sounds)
• Trumpet Solo Straight Mute
• Trumpet Ensemble instrument Straight Mute (three sounds)
• Trumpet f overlay (two sounds)
• Tenor Trombone Solo (two sounds) (506K MP3)
• Tenor Trombone Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Tenor Trombone Solo Mute
• Tenor Trombone Ensemble instrument Mute (three sounds)
• Trombone f overlay (two sounds)
• Bass Trombone Solo (three sounds)
• Tuba 1 Solo (86K MP3)
• Tuba 2 Solo (two sounds)
• Tuba f overlay (two sounds)
• Contratuba Solo

Strings

• Stradivari Violin Solo (512K MP3)
• Stradivari Violin Pizzicato Solo
• Gagliano Solo Violin
• Gagliano Violin Pizzicato Solo
• Guarneri Violin Solo
• Guarneri Violin Pizzicato Solo
• Viola Solo
• Viola Pizzicato Solo
• Vuillaume Cello Solo (188K MP3)
• Montagnana Cello Solo
• Gofriller Cello Solo
• Gofriller Cello Pizzicato Solo
• Double Bass Solo
• Double Bass Pizzicato Solo
• 1st Violin section (eleven sounds)
• 2nd Violin section (eleven sounds)
• Gagliano Ensemble Violin (three sounds)
• Stradivari Violin Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Guarneri Violin Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Viola sections (eleven sounds)
• Viola Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Cello section (eleven sounds)
• Cellos Lush Mutes (nine sounds)
• Vuillaume Cello Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Montagnana Cello Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Gofriller Cello Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Double Bass Ensemble instrument (three sounds)
• Full String section (eight sounds)

Percussion

• Basic Orchestral Percussion
• Timpani (197K MP3)
• Bass Drum
• Snares
• Cymbals
• Crotales
• Handbells
• Tubular Bells
• Glockenspiel
• Xylophone
• Marimba
• Grand Symphonic Marimba
• Vibraphone
• Percussion Toys
• Wind Machine

Keyboards

• Steinway Piano (two sounds) (479K MP3)
• Steinway Piano Lite
• Steinway Piano Duo (two sounds)
• Harpsichord (164K MP3)
• Celesta
• Glass Harmonica
• Pipe Organ (462K MP3)

Harp

• Venus Chromatic Harp 1 (two sounds) (152K MP3)
• Wurlitzer Chromatic Harp 2 (two sounds)
• Venus Glissando Harp
• Wurlitzer Glissando Harp
• Venus Harp Harmonics
• Wurlitzer Harp Harmonics

Example sounds

Orchestral pieces:

• Claude Debussy: La Mer, second movement "Jeux de vagues" (excerpt). ( 663K MP3)
• Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espanol, op.34, first movement (Alborada). (1.1M MP3)
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no.3 "Eroica", op.55, trio section of third movement (scherzo). (1.4M MP3)
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture, op.84 (excerpt). (3.0M MP3)

Smaller combinations of instruments:

• French Horns 1 and 2 (147K MP3)
• Vibraphone and Marimba (839K MP3)
• Alexander Borodin: Wind Quintet, first movement (excerpt). Arranged from String Quartet no 2. Arrangement Virgil Barstad. (2.3M MP3)
• Several instruments in the string section (536K MP3)
• Several instruments in the percussion section (681K MP3)

System requirements

Requires 2GB hard disk space (in addition to Sibelius 4); Windows XP (or some Windows 2000 configurations); Mac OS 10.3.9 or later; DVD drive; Sibelius 4.

Additionally:

Scores that use up to about 8 different sounds:

Scores that use up to about 20 different sounds:

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