I just found this page .... on the Garritan forum
https://www.garritan.com/personal-orchestra-5/
 
here's where I saw it.
http://forums.makemusic.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&p=9324
 
Enjoy
Michael

Wow a lot of sample demos. Sure seems worthy of the renewal price.

I am still skeptical - first, Garritan has been known to miss delivery dates by years, not months, and second, the original GOS was awesome, and somewhat larger than the entire GPO5... think I'm going to wait this time and let some of you all be the trail blazers...

Well, the way I look at it, I'd imagine I will find it more usable (more often) than GPO4. 
 

pentimentosound ....
Yeah, kitekrazy1, I found out about the Aria update here, so I just installed that, myself.
   ...
Michael 
 

Thanks for the heads up Michael. I wasn't aware of an update to the Aria player. Better go check that out,

In my opinion, Garritan PO4 is wonderful. Most orchestra software is so expensive. With patience I finally have been over the years, able to get some nice sounding strings and such. It takes the right amount of reverb and proper layering of sounds and subtle pitch wheel usage. I also have Instant Orchestra. GPO5 looks like a great affordable update for those of us that can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars on orchestra software.😀

Mack
GPO5 looks like a great affordable update for those of us that can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars on orchestra software.😀

That'd be me. 

GPO seems to fit the bill a lot better with modern music, Pop, Rock, Country, Hip-Hop, etc. In my use of Miroslav it exceeds in ballads and quasi-classical music. I am glad to have both in my arsenal and they both see action quite a bit. I never really felt, judging from the demos, that the other libraries out there were worth the amount of money they ask for. As someone who does his own sampling from time to time, I do understand the time and cost involved to do something the size of an orchestra. I don't begrudge them any at all about that. It's just that in most music we listen now doesn't really have need for any other articulations than you get in a smaller, less expensive library. I may take a shot one day at paying for a membership to try one of their competetors out but for right now I'm pretty happy with GPO, Miroslav 2, and LSO.

wst3
... the original GOS was awesome, and somewhat larger than the entire GPO5...

True, but what is GOS doing for them now?  Nada.  GOS was great for its time, but can't compare to some of the mid to high end string libraries of today, so re-purposing it to substantially improve GPO makes a lot of sense.  Assuming they didn't botch it up, the already popular GPO should become even more popular.

Mack
In my opinion, Garritan PO4 is wonderful. Most orchestra software is so expensive. With patience I finally have been over the years, able to get some nice sounding strings and such. It takes the right amount of reverb and proper layering of sounds and subtle pitch wheel usage. I also have Instant Orchestra. GPO5 looks like a great affordable update for those of us that can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars on orchestra software.😀

 That was the point of GPO.  He took some flack from other developers for doing such a thing.  Oddly enough one of the developers has sales on their libraries all of the time.