After a bit more playing with GPO5, I can say that most of my hopes were realized, though not spectacularly. As for Garritan Orchestral Strings, the pizzicato (i.e. plucked strings) is better than the regular GPO strings, but there's not a lot of difference otherwise, aside from more articulations. The brass is quite a bit better, and will allow me to shelve Vienna Sp. Ed., which just is too problematic for me. I liked their trumpet and Eng Horn, but now I think I can get by without them. And I can use EWSO pizzicato, especially if I run Reaper or upgrade my Sonar 8.5. (Otherwise the EW basses will crash Sonar if I'm not careful to not stop the music suddenly while they are playing. A real problem if you haven't saved lately).

Download is only 4,5 GB for 16 GB of samples.
Edith says: that's some heavy compression.

Downloading here too...    

Haven't used 5 yet but threw it into some projects to swap out with GPO 4. I must say the results so far are stellar! While it is not EastWest quality, it stands on its own.  The GOS content really fills in the void of what 4 should have had all along. Now to decide between the 4 or 5 libraies I have. It has crossed my mind to just stack all of them together! Who wouldn't love to be at the conductors podium in front of a 500 piece orchestra? SHEESH!!!!!!!!

Just listened to those demos. Man. Nice.

I just shelled out for the upgrade from GPO4 - it's a good deal at $49.

I got mine installed just now and checked out a few samples. This'll be fun to explore. It's working when I open it in Sonar, but the sounds in stand alone, must be playing at the wrong rate. They sound half speed/pixelated. The interface (18i20) was correctly set at 44.1khz for either mode.....
Anyone?
I'm recovering from food poisoning yesterday, and am very "fuzzy", so any help would be appreciated. I'll figure it out, but my thought processes seem to be off....way off! LOL
Michael

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I got mine installed just now and checked out a few samples. This'll be fun to explore. It's working when I open it in Sonar, but the sounds in stand alone, must be playing at the wrong rate. They sound half speed/pixelated. The interface (18i20) was correctly set at 44.1khz for either mode.....
Anyone?
I'm recovering from food poisoning yesterday, and am very "fuzzy", so any help would be appreciated. I'll figure it out, but my thought processes seem to be off....way off! LOL
Michael

It's an awesome product. I once got a hold of some classical midi's - did the whole Nutcracker Suite in GPO4 - darn thing has over 500 DL's on SoundCloud - it's that good. Not bad for an amateur.

FWIW, the standalone version seemed to be OK here when I tried it last night.    I'm using an 18i6 so a very similar interface.     I hadn't updated the Aria player in quite some time and there were settings I hadn't noticed before.... I would poke around the interface settings  and Aria Player settings to see if anything jumps out. 
 
Although I've only had about an hour to play around with it I do think it was well worth the $50 upgrade.   But what I'm really curious to do is a side-by-side comparison between GPO4 and GPO5 since both now display.   The drag n' drop from list to slot is really nice... 

Yeah, I thought that too, while I was playing around with it(the drag and drop).
I figured there must be some settings off and will mess around with it, when I'm feeling more able to tackle it.
I'd it was a no brainer upgrade, especially for the price.
Michael