NAMM - Pre-show & Garritan Announcements

[Garritan]

We just finished setting up at the NAMM show. We have two locations, booth #6721 and #6921.

For those that requested NAMM badges on the GPO forum, they will be waiting for you at registration (it is now too late now for me to get any new badges). The registration booth is on the lower level. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you there.

Tom Hopkins, Jeff Hurchalla, Jeanott Welter, Doyle Donehoo and Jim Ortner will be assisting at the booth. David and Seb from Plogue (makers of GPO Studio) will also be at the booth.

New Garritan announcements for NAMM:

The "Authorized" Steinway Piano sample library.
Working together with Steinway and Sons, we have sampled one of their finest pianos. Steinway not only provided one of their finest pianos but their best technician. Different perspectives were recorded at the acclaimed Troy Music Hall. More details will be posted on a separate thread.

We are also announcing a GPO Reason Edition which will be demonstrate at the Propellerhead's booth and our booth. Garritan Pocket Orchestra for Dimension Pro will be demoed at Cakewalk's booth and at ours. GPO for Finale and JABB will be demonstrated at the MakeMusic and our booth. And GPO Sibelius Edition will be demonstrated at the Sibelius booth and our booth as well.

We'll be showing the Stradivari violin in a new Kontakt 2 Player. The Stradivari violin is the first instrument to use sonic morphing technology and this virtual instrument uses instrument body resonances. The Stradivari vionlni has been shipping in a Kontakt 2 library version and the NAMM attendees will get a glimpse of the new Kontakt 2 Player. We are also announcing the cello (using Sonic Morphing technologies) which is under development.

The Jazz and Big Band update will also be demonstrated (with the new updates to the library). We have new big band demos we'll be playing.

2006 is shaping up to be quite a year.We have some major products and innovations brewing which we'll announce in due course.

Lots of major currents - Mac-Intel, Windows Vista, new players, exanding platforms, new music technologies. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. This year's NAMM is going to be exciting. I'll keep you posted.

Gary Garritan

[DPDAN]

Excellent Gary,
get some good sleep tonight :)
Dan

[beach]

Marvellous Gary!!!!

Best,
Roberto

[steve martin]

Great news Gary!

This Steinway piano sample library I am really excited about.
I will look forward to the demo's of this when they become availiable.

Have a good time at NAAM Gary.

best,

Steve M.

[Styxx]

The best teams up with the best! What a winning combination! One favor to ask of you in case you bump into him ... say hello to Tony M. for me. I believe he said he would be there. Thanks. ;)

Now, this is really cool when you think about it. One, I've always wanted a Stradivarius violin, loved the sound and dreamed of owning a Steinway, and was thinking of purchasing a cello some day. Garritan makes it all possible! Huh, what next ... the Hammond B3? ;)

[Christopher Duncan]

Great news about the Stradivari in a Kontakt 2 player. That should really create a market for those of us who don't have the full version of Kontakt. The Steinway deal is also very exciting.

Hope you caught up on all your sleep last year, 'cause you ain't getting any in 2006! :)

[Styxx]

We'll be showing the Stradivari violin in a new Kontakt 2 Player. The Stradivari violin is the first instrument to use sonic morphing technology and this virtual instrument uses instrument body resonances. The Stradivari vionlni has been shipping in a Kontakt 2 library version and the NAMM attendees will get a glimpse of the new Kontakt 2 Player. We are also announcing the cello (using Sonic Morphing technologies) which is under development. Boy when I get my hands on ... :D This is excellent news. Very good news indeed.

[Tony Monaghan]

Excellent news Gary! I'm particularly excited about the GPO Reason Edition since I use Reason anyway and I've always thought that the two would go well together.

This is shaping up to be a good year :)

[Ivan P]

Is there any snippet of the cello? :)

[Styxx]

Next, the viola. We need a dedicated chamber morphed library. Vivaldi, is waiting! ;)
Gee willikers Wally, I can see this morphing into other instruments other than strings in the future!

[JonFairhurst]

Aw, heck with the viola. The violin and cello cover the whole range.

Daddy sings bass. :)

(Well, viola in important for quartets and marketing, but I really love the deep sound of the giant violin...)

-JF

[kurzman]

How is Stradivari going to be packaged after the Kontakt2 Player is released? Will there be separate versions? A pure Kontakt 2 file and one with the player?

More importantly, if you buy the Kontakt 2 version now, do you get the Kontakt 2 Player when it comes out?

I'm kind of strange I guess ... I like Kontakt 2. But sometimes I like to just pull up the simple Player.

[etLux]

I'll tell ya, GARRITAN is a shining example of the "cream rising to the top".

The accomplishments in the last couple of years are nothing short of stunning... racking up the hook-up with both Finale and Sibelius, the excellence of the GPO, then the Strad, then JABB -- now the Steinway!

Gary, you have my well deserved admiration.

Stay on the path, my man, stay on the path...

David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
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