Garritan
Personal Orchestra

An orchestra in your computer

A Complete Orchestra at your Fingertips

Garritan Personal Orchestra is an award-winning orchestral library that has become the industry standard. Affordable, easy-to-use and comprehensive. Includes all the major instruments of the orchestra - strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion and keyboards.

Highest Quality Orchestral Instruments

Includes the highest quality collection of orchestral instruments ever sampled. Quality instruments such as a Steinway® grand piano, Stradivari and Guarneri violins, concert harps, celesta, concert pipe organ, and many other fine instruments .

No Sampler Required

The collection comes integrated with the acclaimed Kontakt sample player from Native Instruments and works as a virtual instrument. No need to purchase a separate sampler. You can adjust a number of parameters – variability, tuning and other audio characteristics – so you can control the sound of each instrument individually.

Easy-to-Use

Create great sounding orchestral music quickly and easily. Just load your instruments and play. Standardized controls allow you to become familiar with the library quickly and master all the instruments easily. Express your musical ideas fast and with minimal effort.

Realtime Playable Instruments No piecing together samples after the fact, or piecing together articulations. The instruments in Personal Orchestra were designed to be played in realtime. Play articulations in real-time and get expressive human-sounding performances.

Ensemble Maker

Garritan Personal Orchestra provides individual instruments from which you can build your own ensembles and sections the way you want. Construct solos, duos, trios, quartets, chamber groups, ensembles, sections or a full symphony orchestra.

Notation Integration to Play from the Score

Garritan pioneered the use of samples with notation programs and remains at the forefront of notation playback. You can play your orchestrations directly from your Sibelius score. Garritan Personal Orchestra integrates seamlessly and automatically reads and interprets performance indications such as articulation marks, playing techniques, slurs and dynamics (including hairpins on sustained notes) to make full use of GPO's advanced sample programming, providing an exceptionally lifelike performance of your score. You can even export an audio file from the score.

Universal Format

Supports all popular formats, Mac and PC, as a standalone program or as a plug-in (VST, DXi, RTAS, and OS X AudioUnits), works with supported notation programs, and will also load into KONTAKT 1 or 2 Native Instruments' flagship samplers. An entire orchestra can be loaded on a single PC or laptop.

Suited for Everybody

Professional film composers can use this collection for quick orchestral sketches and capturing creative ideas. Hobbyists can use it for adding orchestrations to their tracks. Educators and students can use it for scoring projects or studying orchestration. Imagine orchestrating on a beach, or on a plane, or anywhere!

Expandable

Personal Orchestra will offer new feature sets and will expand as your needs grow. Add-on instruments, features and enhancements will be offered so your investment is protected as technology progresses.

"An Orchestra for Every Musician"

Whether you're a professional film composer who needs to produce orchestral mockups at a moment's notice, a hobbyist who wants to create great sounding orchestral music, or a student who is studying the art and craft of orchestration, Personal Orchestra will simplify creative work at a price that won't break the bank. In the studio, at home or on the road, Personal Orchestra is for every musician.

Personal Orchestra Instrument List

All of the major instruments of an entire Symphony Orchestra are included in PERSONAL ORCHESTRA. Some of the very finest instruments were sampled in Garritan Personal Orchestra: Stradivarius, Guarneri, Gagliano, Montagnana, Haynes, Steinway: these are instruments of extraordinary tone and beauty.

Strings

Solo Stradivari Violin
Solo Gagliano Violin
Solo Guarneri Violin
9 Violins for Ensembles
1st Violin Section (12 Players)
2nd Violin Section (10 Players)
Solo Viola
3 Violas for Ensembles
Viola Section (10 Players)
Solo Gofriller Cello
Solo Montagnana Cello
Solo Pierray Cello
9 Cellos for Ensembles
Cello Section (8 Players)
Solo Double Bass
3 Double Basses for Sections
Double Bass Section (7 Players)

See Section String list below for names of the instruments in the section strings.

Woodwinds

Piccolo
Solo Flute
3 Flutes for Ensembles
Alto Flute
Bass Flute
Oboe (Two Soloists)
3 Oboes for Ensembles
English Horn (Two Soloists)
Solo Bb Clarinet
3 Clarinets for Ensembles
Eb Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
3 Bass Clarinets for Ensembles
Contrabass Clarinet
Solo Bassoon (Two Soloists)
3 Bassoons for Ensembles
Contrabassoon (Two Soloists)

Brass

Solo Trumpet (Two Soloists)
6 Trumpets for Ensembles
Trumpet f Overlay
Piccolo Trumpet
French Horns (Two Solo Horns)
6 Horns for Ensembles
Horn f & ff Overlays
Solo Tenor Trombone
3 Trombones for Ensembles
Trombone f Overlay
Bass Trombones (Two Soloists)
Tubas (Two Soloists)
Tuba Overlay
Solo Contrabass Tuba

Percussion

Timpani
Wind Machine
Grand Symphonic Marimba
Vibraphone
Glockenspiel
Xylophone
Tubular Bells
Bass Drum (adjustable fundamental)
Snare Drum
Orchestral Cymbals
Gong & Tam-Tam
Crotales
Triangles
Mark Tree
Cowbells
Hand Bells
Assorted Percussion Toys

Keyboards & Harps

Steinway Concert Grand Piano
Duo 1 & Duo 2 Pianos
Concert Pipe Organ (11 Stops / Pedals)
Harpsichord (3 Stops)
Celeste
Harp 1 (Venus)
Harp 2 (Wurlitzer)
Glissando Harp Package

Section String Instruments

(included in the String Sections of Personal Orchestra)

Violins

Stradivari, circa 1719
Stradivari, circa 1716
Guarneri, circa 1735
Vuillaume, circa 1840
Gagliano, circa 1750
Gagliano, circa 1772
Gagliano, circa 1786
Testore, circa 1758
Pierray, circa 1714
Pagani, circa 1882
Vaillant, circa 1741
Pagez, unknown vintage
Klotz, circa early 1700's
Unknown French Violin, circa 1825
Gemunder, circa 1805
Antoniazzi, circa 1910
Unknown Hungarian Gypsy violin
Unknown German violin, circa 1800
Unkown Hungarian Violin, late 1800's
Homelka, circa 1856
Farvolo, modern
Gatano Gearta, circa 1921
Perisson, modern

Celli

Montangana, circa 1735
Montagnana, circa 1752
Deconet, circa 1765
Dodd, unknown vintage
Betts, circa 1751
VanLeuwen, circa 1908
Pierray, 1720
Unknown Italian, circa 1800's

Violas

Pietro Pallotta , circa 1790
Sgarobotto, circa 1907
Ovington, modern Monnig, circa 1947
Newtorn, modern
Lee, modern
Frirsz, circa 1961
Cavani, circa 1959
Tulchinsky, modern
Baldoni, modern

Contrabasses

Testore/Montavani, circa mid 1700's
Jaquet, circa 1856
Jaquet, circa 1850
Tyrolean, circa 1860
Krutz, modern
German Flatback, unknown, circa 1900
Pollman, circa 1950
Czech made, circa 1950