Garritan Personal Orchestra 4

I am looking for a good strings plug in and am thinking of buyting the Garritan Personal Orchestra 4.  It seems reasonably priced and has decent reviews.  Would anyone care to comment of their experience with the software and if there may be better choices available in that price range.
 
I saw a previous post about the different ones available but the posts were from 2008 so I thought I'd see if the opnions were the same.
 
Thanks. 

BTW, NO, You will not beat the price for this kind of quality and function! PERIOD!

if you have x1 you can get it cheap here - http://www.store.cakewalk...ductid=36-GTEP4.00-20E otherwise it's $169...

don't rule out miroslav philharmonic either, it's the other contender at this price: audiomidi have the full (7gb) version on sale at $99 - http://www.audiomidi.com/...hilharmonik-P8352.aspx

Yeah, I was looking at the Esoundz group buy and am probably going to order the Miroslav.  Thanks for the referral information MESH...I will definitely put you in there for it.

For the money, GPO is a good deal, sounds good too, and right now, Cake has a 20% off everything sale.


It is a nice string library in it's price range. there are better sounding strings but expect to pay more for them.

Mesh

If you do jump in this deal and you're ready to buy, there's an option to include the name of a referal....mine is MESH. When you do this, we both get bonus epointz for future purchases...it's a win-win situation.

Good luck!!

OK Mesh, I ordered Miroslov from the Group Buy and put you in as the referal...you should have some bonus epointz waiting for you   Thanks for the help.

GPO is good for the money but I found it hard to make sound good.  It takes some serious midi chops.  

Miroslav is good, great even, but it has a particular character that might not be useful for every project, though I love it's woodwinds and at times it's brass is exactly what I need.
GPO4 is more "generic" (and I certainly don't mean that in a bad way) and will lend itself to a broader selection of projects. I have all the major orchestral libraries and I can honestly say that GPO4 never ceases to amaze me for it's price. Actually I hesitate to say that because GPO4 is great regardless of price!

DIM/LE & GPO  >>>> http://www.store.cakewalk...ductid=10-DMLE1.00-20E   

with the TAKE20 sale.... you're looking about $40... a really good price for all that you get....DimLe and GPO in the same package.

This is the one I bought some time back .... BTW, you should look into the store every so often. Cake runs unbelievable deals in there from time to time and really doesn't bother to tell anyone. I think they just want to see who checks the store for the specials.....BECAUSE... when I found it, they had marked it down to $20 complete!!!!! Needless to say I didn't wait to order it the next day, I placed the order right then and there.

You gotta check in the store and from time to time..... people who spot these deals will post an announcement in the SOFTWARE forum, which, IIRC, is what I did.

Also, in the software forum you get announcements of other cool deals.... for example, I happened to see, and subsequently picked up a FREE copy of a limited, but highly useful version of East West instruments..... it was removed about a week after I got it.

Stay on your toes and keep your eyes open, and be ready to jump on the right deals when you see them.

I'm still trying to determine if I can order the GPO "Elite" pack ($79) if I don't own the current version of Sonar.  Will it work with other programs as well or is it only designed to work with Sonar?  I'd like to use it as a standalone or with GarageBand as well.

Thanks.

Kurry, it will work since it is a VST... you can load it into any DAW that supports VST's.

Miroslav Philharmonik  is really good. They are planning to upgrade the software as well. My guess would be 64bit. GPO is good also. It came with Finale and I like it for what it is.