It also includes specific articulations for specific instruments as well as different playing techniques. (I know there’s Albion ICENI which is a jack of all trades but I think whether it covers fast legato runs. Fortunately, you don’t have to imagine it, because the Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 plugin provides that.
Big Choirs, Orchestral Strings, Pianos, Guitars, EDM, Epic Sound Design. Thats all changed now, though, as v4 features Garritans own sample playback engine, Aria.
In the intervening time, the rather clunky shift to Kontakt Player 2 (and Universal Binary support) caused much frustration for users - and for Garritan, too, no doubt. You don't even need a sampler to get started, as Garritan Personal Orchestra comes with the Aria player for out-of-the-box music-making. The Philtre team is working on a series of music sample libraries and iOS. Until the end of July, Time + Space is offering 33 off Garritan Personal Orchestra 5. Its been over five years since the first edition of the Garritan Personal Orchestra.
The things what I’m definitely missing from my current pallet are some strings that can do fast aggressive staccatos AND legato transitions. The Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 software instrument delivers all the major instruments of an orchestra, in an easy-to-use, affordable sample package. On the other hand, I can get EWQL Hollywood orchestra which is being sold for $599 right now (crazy sale), but my worry is that I won’t even be able to run these on my low end PC! EWQL are a beast on resources I’m told… They all sound great and they all seem to be all around the same price with the only exception that LASS Lite 2 is much cheaper now with their discount ($299) – which is tempting! So far I have done much research behind 8dio adagietto, CS2 and LASS Lite 2.
Its going to be while before I save up for a proper PC (+$2k) so I’m stuck with this small setup for now. I currently run a very low end PC with access to only about 8GB ram, so the string samples I need have to be able to be light on RAM. Garritan Personal Orchestra has always been about democratic orchestral-music making for all, at an affordable price.