Garritan General MIDI Collection

[Pierre Laroche]

Hello,

www.finalemusic.com lists a new Garritan product named " Garritan General MIDI Collection".

Can we have some information about it ?

Thanks,

[danpowers]

Yeah! Can't wait to hear those Garritan goblins!

[Garritan]

Finale beat me to the announcement :D

The Garritan General MIDI collection is a library for those who like to work in General MIDI. General MIDI is a specification that's almost universally accepted that provides for a industry-standard soundest to make music with. General MIDI follows a standard that assigns 128 instrument sounds that are assigned to specific numbers. The idea behind General MIDI was to allow files to be used among different synthesizers, sound modules and devices with predictable results.

Over the years an incredible body of work has developed based on general MIDI files. All the major sampling keyboard manufacturers (Roland, Yamaha, Korg, Kurzweil) have GM sets, modules like Sound Canvas were based upon it, Finale and other notation program users scored with the GM softsynths over the years, General MIDI files are available on the internet in abundance(e.g. Classical Music Archives).
The concept of General MIDI is still very much alive and a great deal of music continues to be made with General MIDI. The Garritan General MIDI collection was developed to provide better sound quality and to provide greater performance control over the General MIDI sounds.

We will provide more details about the General MIDI collection soon.

Gary Garritan

[KeithW]

The Garritan General MIDI collection is a library for those who like to work in General MIDI. General MIDI is a specification that's almost universally accepted that provides for a industry-standard soundest to make music with. General MIDI follows a standard that assigns 128 instrument sounds that are assigned to specific numbers. The idea behind General MIDI was to allow files to be used among different synthesizers, sound modules and devices with predictable results.

Over the years an incredible body of work has developed based on general MIDI files. All the major sampling keyboard manufacturers (Roland, Yamaha, Korg, Kurzweil) have GM sets, modules like Sound Canvas were based upon it, Finale and other notation program users scored with the GM softsynths over the years, General MIDI files are available on the internet in abundance(e.g. Classical Music Archives).
The concept of General MIDI is still very much alive and a great deal of music continues to be made with General MIDI. The Garritan General MIDI collection was developed to provide better sound quality and to provide greater performance control over the General MIDI sounds.


This is indeed good news. Perhaps now I can retire my Roland "XV" hardware synths for good. I have hundreds of GM files and this will be much easier than trying to edit the GM files to fit GPO, JABB, etc.

Great work again, Gary!

Keith Walls

[etLux]

Still another darned good idea!

With the absolutely enormous amount of .MID music out there,
there are going to be one whole lot of new Garritanites!

David
www.DavidSosnowski.com

Wish I'd thought of that....

[C J Pro]

If I remember right, General MIDI includes a choir sound...so does this foreshadow a choir library? Also, I think there is a distorted electric guitar in General MIDI also...so a Garritan Rock Band library also in the works?

[etLux]

If I remember right, General MIDI includes a choir sound...so does this foreshadow a choir library? Also, I think there is a distorted electric guitar in General MIDI also...so a Garritan Rock Band library also in the works?
I'm really interested in the Garritan GM helicopter
sound, myself.

Rumor has it, Gary ran into a few problems with
the sampling:

http://www.nynewsday.com/media/photo/2005-12/21174970.jpg

David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
.

[C J Pro]

GM Helicopter may have posed some problems. But apparently the Applause sample posed a problem...

http://www.mobap.edu/info/events/venue/images/promopics/auditorium.jpg

Apparently, not telling anyone about this library ended up with a small number of people showing up to help out in the applause.

I have heard that he managed to get a bird tweet sound though in the bird's natural habitat. And he also, during the same recording session got a gunshot sound...of course he had to find a new bird to record a different pitch.

[Garritan]

GM Helicopter may have posed some problems. But apparently the Applause sample posed a problem...

Apparently, not telling anyone about this library ended up with a small number of people showing up to help out in the applause..
Later that evening the Girlie Men gave a concert and we were able to get that Applause sample:



http://garritan.com/images/clap.gif

[Garritan]

I'm really interested in the Garritan GM helicopter
sound, myself.

Rumor has it, Gary ran into a few problems with
the sampling:

http://www.nynewsday.com/media/photo/2005-12/21174970.jpg

Yes I did run into a few problems. It was when I was recording the gunshot samples just as the helicopter arrived :o

[efiebke]

ROTFLMAO!!!

Just lurking about. Stumbled unto this thread. Glad I did!!

LOL!! :D

By the way. . . very cool idea to have a "Garritan General MIDI collection"! ;) Looking forward to the helicopter and gun-shot sounds! LOL!! :p

Cheers! :)

Ted

[etLux]

Yes I did run into a few problems. It was when I was recording the gunshot samples just as the helicopter arrived :o
Somehow I always wind up being the straight man... lol.

David
www.DavidSosnowski.com

Where's my yarmulke....
.

[Leaf]

I have always wanted to meet General Midi.

[Robert P]

Great news!

I have been personally looking for a decent Seashore sound (#123) for a long time, but according to unofficial report, Gary got into issues while interviewing the performer:

http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.mcdonald/talk2/tsunami/tsunami.jpg

(perhaps that was just Admiral MIDI?)

[C J Pro]

I guess that is what happens when you record near the Cascadia Subduction Zone...

And Gary, don't try to rush recordings. Welding instruments together isn'g going to make it go any faster...I hope you had an air compressor to play this creation of yours:
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/122500/122659jPRO_w.jpg

[Nickie Fønshauge]

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/122500/122659jPRO_w.jpg
What do you call this bastard? A Saxpet Horn? :D

[C J Pro]

Apparently, Gary called it a four-for-one deal (there's a trombone slide in it). His reasoning was to pay less for the musicians, they cost more than these instruments put together (literally).

[Hardy Heern]

Gary, will this be every bit as good as Colossus but at a fraction of the price?

Frank

[Garritan]

Gary, will this be every bit as good as Colossus but at a fraction of the price?

FrankWhat do you think? ;)

[Hardy Heern]

What do you think? ;)

What do I think?

I think you don't want to say!;)

Frank

[thesoundsmith]

Gary, what could make this lib much more attractive (to me, at least, as a Receptor owner) is the ability to issue a patch change to a particular MIDi channel and have the sound available immediately, without having to load in a large sample.

The problem with the Kontakt player universe is that every time you call up a patch, it reloads a sample set, and the music must stop while this occurs. in performance, I may wish to play an acoustic guitar part where I never did before, I need to send a patch change and have the sound available within 0.5 second or less, these NI players just don't DO that...

So if you can get this out and make it available for Receptor, you definitely have at least 1 customer (whoopee...)

[SteveMitchell]

Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, <SIGH> Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Patiently waiting, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock.

Uh, hey Gary do you need any BETA testers? I grew up on MIDI.

Stevemitchell

[Reegs]

Are you planning to have different ringtones available for the phone ring patch?