New Virtual Pipe Organ Collection from Garritan

[Garritan]

or Immediate Release

NEW VIRTUAL PIPE ORGANS COLLECTION FROM GARRITAN

NAMM, Anaheim, CA (January 17, 2008) Garritan, developer of the world's leading soundware, is introducing a Virtual Pipe Organs collection at the NAMM show.

Found in churches, concert halls, and theaters, the majestic sight and sound of the concert pipe organ inspires and enthralls. Garritan's new Virtual Pipe Organs collection accurately captures the grandeur of a variety of different historic and contemporary pipe organs: a Small (Early) Baroque Organ (circa 1740); a Late Baroque organ ("Bach"- circa 1748); a Gothic organ; a Renaissance organ (one of Europe's oldest circa 1587); a Romantic organ (circa late 1800's); and two Modern Organs - seven different pipe organs in all.

Powered by the robust and reliable ARIA Player developed in collaboration with Plogue, the Garritan Virtual Pipe Organs collection runs on these platforms: MAC OS X 10.4 and higher (PPC32, PPC64, Intel32 and Intel64) and Windows XP and Vista (both 32 and 64 bits) and Linux coming soon. Standalone, Plug-in (VST 2.4 -VST 3.0 -Audio Units -RTAS), and supported notation programs.

Advanced programming makes this a truly "playable" and unique organ library. Among the many features are: a variety of stops for each organ with the ability to combine and mix stops, swellbox, crescendo and tremolo effects; adjustable mechanical noises; adjustable velocity curves; adjustable polyphony; a variety of historical tunings/temperaments and Scala file import; MIDI playback and record in standalone; 3-band EQ; and Graceful Copy Protection (no dongles or challenge response).

"The largest and grandest of all instruments can now be played virtually from one's computer" said Gary Garritan. "This new pipe organs library will be a welcome addition for worship services, education, film music, and to play organ works by the great composers."


Pricing & Availability: Price: $199 - Expected Release Spring 2008


About Garritan Libraries
Garritan is the worldwide leader and pioneer in sample libraries and soundware. Garritan Libraries are the recipient of numerous industry, education, and professional awards and accolades in the music press and among professional musicians. These same libraries are required for classes at leading music colleges and universities. Garritan has also developed the first sample libraries that integrate with popular notation programs, such as Finale and Sibelius. The Garritan Libraries are known the world over for quality, and are an indispensable staple in film, television and interactive productions, as well as live performances. www.garritan.com (http://www.garritan.com/).

http://www.garritan.com/Organ/organ_gui.jpg

[RobertTewes]

As an organist and composer I am soooo excited to hear of this new organ library, covering so many different styles and eras. Thanks so much for this seemingly tailor-made to my needs library. Keep up the surprises!! So much to look forward to in the weeks ahead. Thanks, Gary! )(~ )(~

[DPDAN]

how cool is that.... mmmm,

THE KING OF INSTRUMENTS!

[Michael_uk]

This is a surprise :) Congratulations again Gary.

I am really looking forward to this.

[KE Peace]

Gary,

this sounds wonderful -- I often use organ in my pieces, and recently a friend who is a wonderful organist (has played for over 60 years) has taken me under his musical wing and started introducing my music to local conductors, which has resulted in more organ writing on my part. Although good sounding organ samples exist, there are (as far as I know) the "all stops" sound and there is very little control over anything else. I have often wished for something such as this!!

In combination with your new choral libraries, this will be even more of a knockout :-)

Bravo!

Karen

[tangerine]

Very, very well, Mr. Garritan!!

Maybe I found someone who takes me seriously.
This was something I was looking for, and now is becoming reality!!

That's kool!!)(~ )(~ )(~

[etLux]

Still *more* great stuff! This surely has been one
busy NAMM for Garritan!

Best,


David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
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[valhalx]

Gary,

It seems you're taking over the world, ROFL. Geez, I loved the GPO pipe organ but this is amazing. I guess I know where my tax return is going. Let's see, where did I put that W2?

Bill

[KE Peace]

Gary,

It seems you're taking over the world, ROFL.
Bill

Well, Gary, I hope and expect that at the very least it will be a benevolent kingdom. All odds point in that direction anyway... :)

[Ranger]

how about throwing in a Hammond B3 with that

[CeemDee]

Amazing

I'm gobsmacked! This is way out of left field - not a hint this was coming.

Please - I hope it's as original & cool as the blurb says. I recently downloaded PMI's Baroque organ coz i looked on paper a least more versatile than the GPO organ, but now I'm not sure.

what would be really cool would be a history of the organ - who built it, when, where it lives, where the builder studied etc - plus sceeenshots and anything else of interest.

ColinD

[GrahamKeitch]

Excellent news, Gary! Very much looking forward to this new creation. Thanks, Graham.

[LFO]

Gary, if you keep this up I am going to go bankrupt. :)

The organs in GPO are already outstanding, so I expect this new product will be mind blowing. Lets hear some demos!

-Kevin

[qccowboy]

and please let it work with Finale! (oh, yeah.. and Sibelius) :p

[RickMcGowan]

Wow!

a variety of historical tunings/temperaments and Scala file import;

On behalf of the alternative tuning community, THANK YOU!
This makes my day.

Now, if the next GPO advance also has Scala file import, I'll be jumping over the moon!!

:)

[Garritan]

how about throwing in a Hammond B3 with thatRanger,

This is a Pipe Organ collection. But maybe we can fit a Hammond B3 with pipes ;)

Gary

[Garritan]

what would be really cool would be a history of the organ - who built it, when, where it lives, where the builder studied etc - plus sceeenshots and anything else of interest.Colin,

We'll provide a history and pictures of the organs sampled in the manual. As we get closer to release we can post this information too.

Best,

Gary

[Garritan]

Gary, if you keep this up I am going to go bankrupt. :)

The organs in GPO are already outstanding, so I expect this new product will be mind blowing. Lets hear some demos!

-KevinKevin,

We'll post some demos when it gets close to release. If you liked the GPO organ you are going to love this collection.

Best,

Gary

[Garritan]

Wow!

a variety of historical tunings/temperaments and Scala file import;

On behalf of the alternative tuning community, THANK YOU!
This makes my day.

Now, if the next GPO advance also has Scala file import, I'll be jumping over the moon!!

:)

Rick,

GPO Advanced will also have Scala file import. Wendy Carlos (one of the leading experts on tunings) helped with the temperament section and has provided some extraordinary custom tunings.

I am looking forward to seeing you jump over the moon. :D

Best,

Gary

[RickMcGowan]

GPO Advanced will also have Scala file import. Wendy Carlos (one of the leading experts on tunings) helped with the temperament section and has provided some extraordinary custom tunings.


Gary,

Hurray! Thanks, for that bit of info! I'm really happy to hear it. Scala file support will be a tremendous lift for tuning enthusiasts. Now I really can hardly wait for GPOA! I hope at that time you'll also retrofit the other libraries, too, so your old customers can upgrade those...

Jumping over the moon might be easier than the hoops one has to jump through to get, for example, 15 tones/octave out of GPO today with pitch-bends. I put this page together a while back outlining all the stuff I had to do...
http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/FTS-HowTo/MicroOrchestra.html
And here's a 15 tone demo of GPO:
http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/temp/5min-sym-15tet.mp3

Some instruments come fairly clean, but you can hear how the strings tend to slide around a lot and the tuning isn't so crisp. Scala file support will fix that sort of thing.

As the development progresses, if you are looking to tap people who work with microtuning for testing or opinions, I'd be more than happy to be involved... I know, you've got friends like Wendy, so you're way ahead of me already... :)

Cheers,
Rick

PS, sorry to go so far off topic for this pipe organ thread...

[ceenda]

This is fantastic news! I've generally been quite unhappy with a lot of the organ libraries out there and the quality of GPO makes me think there's a lot to look forward too in this new organ library.

Gary, out of interest, will it be possible to obtain that thick, rumbling kind of grand tutti sound that is so powerful and noticeable in works by Saint Saens, Felix Alexandre Guilmant, Widor etc.? I've always found some organ libraries to be a bit thin on the ground when it comes to the powerful combinations in cathedral organs.

EDIT - in fact, if you would permit me to upload a tiny snippet here ( "Introduction and Allegro", Symphony no.1, Guilmant - CHANDOS records (http://flyingislands.co.uk/upload/guilmant.mp3) 500kb MP3 ) which illustrates the kind of sound I would love to be able to obtain (albeit with good reverb, etc.) in a Pipe Organ library.

Would this new library be a good option for this kind of big pipe organ sound?

[Raymond62]

One day I entered the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and heard that organ play. I got chickenpox. At home again I searched for that "sound" but never found it. Widor is coming very near. Folks, whenever you go to this continent, please visit the Notre-Dame in Paris (or of course that same one in Spain). Hopefully, you will hear the organist do his exercises.

I certainly will buy this organ. After all it is God's own synthesizer :)

Raymond

[Sonare Coeli]

I certainly will buy this organ. After all it is God's own synthesizer :)

Raymond

Haha, very well put!

I am also very excited! Gary, with all of the organs being included, does each have the full group of stops from the original organ, or does each include a subset of stops, made up of the most used, or something to that effect?

[ceenda]

Sorry for the bump, but wondered if there was any news on this new library? :hp:

(unless I'm being a bit thick, there doesn't seem to be anything in the "Update to the Update of the Updates" thread regarding it?)

[GDG]

For Immediate Release

NEW VIRTUAL PIPE ORGANS COLLECTION FROM GARRITAN

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http://www.garritan.com/Organ/organ_gui.jpg

Just wondering about the pedal stops on the GPO Pipe Organ: do they go this low (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=253_1204828211)? ;)

[schneb]

"Introduction and Allegro", Symphony no.1, Guilmant (http://flyingislands.co.uk/upload/guilmant.mp3)
I would love to have a MIDI file of this. Anyone know where I can get one?

[OPMartin]

Advanced programming makes this a truly "playable" and unique organ library. Among the many features are: a variety of stops for each organ with the ability to combine and mix stops, swellbox, crescendo and tremolo effects; adjustable mechanical noises; adjustable velocity curves; adjustable polyphony; a variety of historical tunings/temperaments and Scala file import; MIDI playback and record in standalone; 3-band EQ; and Graceful Copy Protection (no dongles or challenge response).




Hi, Mr. Garritan,

How are you?

This is my first post.

I eagerly look forward to auditioning your upcoming Virtual Pipe Organs product.

I have a question (other than the obvious: when will it be released): Will it be versatile enough to allow one to design one's own custom organ, mixing stops from the different various included organs and eras? Can we modify the sounds?

May the Lord bless you,
Philip

[Michael_uk]

Hello Philip and welcome to our forums.

When the organ was announced at NAMM the expected release was Spring 2008 so I hope it's not too far away now.

We don't have too many details just yet so I don't know the answer to your question but I believe we can expect something special.

[Garritan]

Sorry for the bump, but wondered if there was any news on this new library? :hp:

(unless I'm being a bit thick, there doesn't seem to be anything in the "Update to the Update of the Updates" thread regarding it?)ceenda,

this is taking a little longer than we thought. We're adding new features and need to do things with the ARIA player. So we're looking at late summer the earliest.

Thanks for your interest.

Gary Garritan

[robh]

In other words: Imminent! :D

Rob

[Garritan]

In other words: Imminent! :D

RobNo, not at all. It's "Im-a-nut" ~| ~| :D

[OPMartin]

Hi,

Thank you for your responses.

I am glad you are taking the time to get it right. Thank God for you.

I thought of two more questions:

1. Will the collection include reverb impulses from the halls in which the organs reside? and,

2. Is one of the modern organs a theatre organ?

May the Lord bless you,
Philip

~|~|:D

[OPMartin]

Hi,

Thank you for putting up with my inane questions.

Here are some more:

1. Will there be commonly used presets appropriate for each organ along with their names?

2. Will the player support the Midi Tuning Standard / extensions?

http://www.midi.org/about-midi/tuning_extens.shtml

3. Will there be a general control to adjust how out-of-tune the organ instance and/or rank is? Will we have control over stereo image ?

Will all these things be programmable from the host?

The description I read of the Aria player looks pretty cool.

Please forgive me for asking so many stupid questions.

May the Lord bless you,
Philip
:)

[Garritan]

1. Will there be commonly used presets appropriate for each organ along with their names?


Yes, of course!


2. Will the player support the Midi Tuning Standard / extensions?Yes, we will support Scala tuning files (similar to the Steinway).


3. Will there be a general control to adjust how out-of-tune the organ instance and/or rank is? Will we have control over stereo image ?

Will all these things be programmable from the host? Yes there will be adjustable tuning; and yes, these settings will be user-programmable.




All the Best,

Gary

[Haydn]

Will the organ have realtime tuning depending on temperature and humidity? Nothing like the calliope sound of a pipe organ on a 100 degree, 100% humidity day!

Jim

[Raymond62]

Somewhere he wrote: release spring 2008. Now we have summertime (and playing that song on an organ sounds really great). .. what next?

Just hoping as I just put a organ piece in the LR.....

Raymond

[OPMartin]

Hi, Garritan & co.,

How are you?

Any updates on the Pipe Organs?

May you have a blessed new year.

May the Lord bless you,
Philip