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/).

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[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

[electone2007]

Hi, Gary!

I need this! A must have!

I know this is basic but I wanna ask if the different manuals can be configured to different MIDI channels? Also, adjustable velocity curves means that touch response can be eliminated entirely?

Thanks.

Jun

[skallman]

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;This seems to imply that not every the stops on all seven organs will be sampled, but just a selection of the most used ones will be offered. Am I correct in thinking this? Considering there seven organs in this library, I wouldn't be too surprised if that's the case.

I'm also hoping that one of the organs is an orchestra hall organ, much like what VSL has done with their new library using the Reiger organ in the Vienna Konzerthaus. As nice as some church organs are, trying to blend them with orchestra libraries has proven difficult especially when the long reverb tails of the church is included with the samples. To further elaborate on what someone else requested, a stop list of all the organs would be just great! Swell, even! (Sorry. Couldn't help getting in a pipe organ joke! :p)

As an aside, if any library developer is listening, I'm hoping someone will produce a library of concert hall organs such as the rebuilt A.E. Skinner organs of Severence Hall (Cleveland Orchestra), Symphony Hall (Boston Orchestra) and the new organ in the Kimmel Center (Philadelphia Orchestra). And while we're at it, maybe several of the great organs of Cavaillé-Coll from France, and some of the modern, baroque-style tracker organs of, say, D.A. Flentrop or Christian von Beckerath. (Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?)

Steve

[Nickie Fønshauge]

And while we're at it, maybe several of the great organs of Cavaillé-Coll from France, and some of the modern, baroque-style tracker organs of, say, D.A. Flentrop or Christian von Beckerath. (Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?)
Did you try the PMI/SampleTekk Baroque Organ? It's a beautiful Marcussen & søn (1965) organ.

[skallman]

If this PMI Barogue Organ is the one that is included in the East-West SO Silver Edition, then I'm familiar with it, and have used it in a number of pieces I've done. From the demos on PMI's web site, it appears this a very nice organ for use mostly with baroque literature. But I really need something REALLY BIG for use in playing literature from the late 19th century Romantic era to 20th century modern stuff. I'm hoping Gary's new library will fill the bill for this. And getting seven different organs for only $US199.00, then it's a bargain when compared to the single PMI organ for $50.00!!

Steve