Crowned One
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Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra libraries give the ability to instantly produce orchestral music easily and are on offer from 1st-30th September with a huge 40% off.
Personal Orchestra is an award winning high quality orchestral library that has become the industry standard. It has developed an enthusiastic following for its versatility and ability to create realistic sounding orchestral music quickly and easily.
Instant Orchestra is for those who do not want to spend time building orchestrations with one instrument or section at a time. It provides pre- packaged groups of instruments, combined sections, orchestral effects, and mood-based presets. Instant Orchestra is designed for those who know little about orchestration or do not have the time to build them. The idea is to provide a large variety of lush, playable orchestrations with the least time and effort.
Until September 30th, 2014, Personal Orchestra and Instant Orchestra are available at the discounted price of £57.95 GBP and £69.95 GBP respectively. http://www.timespace.com/productlist/3/999995/garritan.html
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SmokeyJ628
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/04 10:00:29
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Personal Orchestra is okay. Good in the right hands, but takes some patience.
On the other hand, Instant Orchestra is fantastic. Best of the Garritan bunch that I own by a country mile (as I also own Personal Orchestra and World).
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bitflipper
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/04 11:17:34
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Listened to the audio demo for Instant Orchestra. It does sound pretty good, and $115 is a good price compared to similar products. I use Indiginus' Solid State Symphony which, although based on synthetic rather than sampled instruments, uses the same concept of layering multiple sections for quick 'n dirty orchestrations. I love it (btw, it's only 40 bucks).
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/04 14:29:12
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I started my adventures with virtual orchestras with GPO (actually GOS, but that was just strings). I learned quite a bit from my time using it.
But both my ears and the world of sampled instruments have matured over the the last dozen of so years.
I still recommend GPO and JABB as excellent training tools, but I also suggest that they may not be all that useful as your orchestration and arrangement skills improve. If you can swing it I think it makes sense to consider more modern libraries, even as a starting point.
Instant Orchestra, on the other hand, left me somewhat underwhelmed. Maybe at $115, but there are so many similar libraries that are considerably more up to date. Think about tools from Sonokinetic, Project Sam or Spitfire, depending on your budget. I think you'll get a lot more mileage from the newer tools.
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JohnKenn
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/04 15:16:05
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Bit,
Great tip on Solid State Symphony...There goes my beer money...again...
John
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stevec
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/04 21:16:47
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+1 I've got the Indiginus page open right now, and the demos sound nice. I particularly like how the Velocity Orchestra brings sections in and out, which from the videos seems like a natural thing to do.
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/04 22:21:26
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Solid State Symphony is the only sample library that I just sit and jam with. I like to layer it with piano, then strap on the cans, close my eyes and go all Yanni for a couple hours.
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mixmkr
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/04 22:54:33
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and that would work with the free Kontact 5 player??
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dcumpian
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/05 10:33:44
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I will say that I completely misunderstood the intent of IO when I bought it and was underwhelmed. It gathered dust for a long while as I learned EWQLSO (and others). Lately, however, I have found that taking instruments from several packages and adding parts for them together makes for a much more dynamic sounding result. Still don't like IO on its own though...
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SmokeyJ628
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/05 11:42:26
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mixmkr
and that would work with the free Kontact 5 player??
Solid State Symphony will *not* work (without limitation) in the free player. Pretty much any cheap-ish library won't work in it because it costs quite a hefty licensing fee to get a library to work in the free player.
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JohnKenn
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/05 14:01:24
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Don't want to derail the OP's original thread because this is about Garritan. Have GPO and it is great for layers...
Went for Bit's recommendation on Solid State Symphony for $40. The thing is incredible!! Best money I've spent on any Kontakt library. Got a synthetic touch that die hard purists may not like, but as close as it gets otherwise, with the ability to warp things if needed. The differential velocity for the layers gives unique expressive power.
Clarifying the free Kontakt player limitations Smokey mentioned. 15 minute time out before having to reload again is the issue.
Bit, owe you a cold sterno or two if you wander this way down south.
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kitekrazy1
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/06 00:48:17
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GPO is great for messing around. Once you got a mockup then you can replace it with VSL or EWQL. GPO was designed to make an affordable orchestra for hobbyists. He got flack from other developers for doing that.
BTW anyone wanting orchestra sounds are short changing themselves by not having the full version of Kontakt. If I had to keep on plugin it would be Kontakt.
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kitekrazy1
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Re: Garritan’s Personal and Instant Orchestra - 40% off
2014/09/06 00:48:21
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GPO is great for messing around. Once you got a mockup then you can replace it with VSL or EWQL. GPO was designed to make an affordable orchestra for hobbyists. He got flack from other developers for doing that.
BTW anyone wanting orchestra sounds are short changing themselves by not having the full version of Kontakt. If I had to keep on plugin it would be Kontakt.
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