Maybe I need to play with them more, but the brass, for example, sounded pretty un-natural. I was using the Dimension LE with the GPO patch loaded... but if I had breath control it might help. Is there something I need to enable to get that functionality? Or do I just tie my modwheel to the volume on Dimension?

Using WIVI, by comparison... it just sounded very GM.

How are the pianos in Garritan Personal Orchestra?
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ORIGINAL: David_C
If you want really nice string sounds, might I suggest Dimension Pro? I was taken aback by the realism in the string samples (I wonder what developer they came from???).

I always thought that the other (non-GPO)strings in Dim Pro sounded better than the Garritan stuff. The Garritan strings sound too square-wavey for my taste.

does GPO that comes with the LE edition of DIMPro have pianos. I think the full version has. most people go for true pianos. as I have heard that that one is pretty defacto!

ORIGINAL: nick8004
Day-um! You guys are a tough room.

I just went to the Garritan site and clicked the "Demo" link in the section "Announcing: Cakewalk bundles Garritan Pocket Orchestra in SONAR Home Studio XL & Dimension Pro." Sounds pretty nice to me. That crescendo towards the middle almost had me reaching for the Kleenex. I'll go so far as to say that if you told me this was a soundtrack for a major film, and I didn't know better, I'd believe it.

The only thing that made me go "hmm" was at the very end, the strings were a little naked and ever-so-slightly loop-ish.

I just listened to same (above). Sounds like ass to me. I have a 10 yr old synth from walmart that sounds as good or better... I don't mean to be bitter, but seriously, not impressive - in fact they should take that demo down, it's not helping them.

ORIGINAL: Silence Dogood
I just listened to same (above). Sounds like ass to me.

It's not THAT bad!

ORIGINAL: jsaras

ORIGINAL: Silence Dogood
I just listened to same (above). Sounds like ass to me.

It's not THAT bad!

Agreed, it's not THAT bad. Sure it doesn't sound like EWQLSO, but listening to that demo I realize I have to do some more investigating... it's much more than I thought you could get out of GPO/Dimension. I wish there was a midi file available for that demo, or a sample project... just to see how it was done.

I just listened to same (above). Sounds like ass to me.

Maybe it's your speakers.
Or maybe it's just personal taste. I, personally, would be very happy to get that kind of sound. But, that said, I don't know how realistic it is to think I can get that sound out of Dim LE.

GPO faces serious competion from DimPro (IMHO) ... for my orchestra wants ..

DimPro 'Grand Piano' (100 MB+/-) has replaced all my piano routines (replacing all those from my Roland SRX-06 "complete orchestra" a venerable ROMpler).

Likewise: DimPro: 'Les Paul' guitars (100MB +/-) are my only guitars, 'Xmas Bells', and 'Strings' are more megabyte intensive than DimLE/GPO.

DimPro/GPO Saxes (only in DimPro) ... are extremely realistic (IMHO).

AKA ... forget DimLE-GPO which is hardly better than TTS GM sounds (IMHO) for 90% +.

DimPro orchestra is the reasonable standard for 80-90% of my orchestra needs (30GBytes worth).

DimPro/GPO Saxes (only in DimPro) ... are extremely realistic (IMHO). AKA ... forget DimLE-GPO which is hardly better than TTS GM sounds (IMHO) for 90% +.

Why is GPO in DimPro better than GPO in DimLE? GPO is GPO, is it not? Is it just that DimPro gives you more controls to breathe more life into the sounds? I'm just asking, I really don't know since I own neither, yet.