
I’ve seen quite a few orchestra libraries over the years, and they keep getting better and better. I give Instant Orchestra 4 out of 5 subs, it’s a good sounding library with lots of usable patches in a clean and simple interface. It gives you quick access to nice sounding ensembles, combinations, and layered instruments. I think this library does what it says it’s going to do. Overall I think there’s a lot of good usable sounds in here, but I also found some things that weren’t that impressive. The idea behind that is so that you can quickly pull up a group of instruments that fit a particular mood or musical style you’re working in. They also have some ready to go ensembles that are organized by mood/style, I didn’t show them in the video but basically it’s a group of sounds with some layered and some on different MIDI channels. Some of the things like the harps and keyboards are just ok, nothing too special, but those layered patches are really cool. I really like a lot of the mixtures and blended patches that mix strings and winds, or strings and brass.
GARRITAN ORCHESTRA AUTOMATION FULL
There’s some nice full patches in this library. I like the sound of that, as I find many orchestra libraries require too much work when it comes to making sections, ensembles, and large patches. So you won’t find a bunch of solo violin or cello instruments in this library, it’s main purpose is to give you full sections that are mixed, blended, and ready to play. This is supposed to allow you to make fuller sounding orchestrations quicker, with less sequencing data required. So unlike Personal Orchestral, you’re not required to take the solo sections and build your own ensembles. The concept behind Instant Orchestra is to provide you with ready to go sections, mixes, combinations, and orchestral effects. Well I’ve seen a lot of libraries since then, so let’s see how this one stacks up I changed it.Today I’m back with a review of an orchestral plugin by Garritan.Ī few years ago I did a review on Personal Orchestra, it was one of the first orchestra plugins I had encountered.
GARRITAN ORCHESTRA AUTOMATION DOWNLOAD
Or you can download it again here if you'd like. Resaving it with that set full left and right is a quick solution. So the preset panning would not be apparent when changes in the score are made. The Notion mixer was not spread left and right in the above uploaded template Console_ file.

Hope some folks will make some music using the template file Console_

I'm getting good control of the Studio One instruments sound characteristics using rulesets in Notion. Another quick footnote to mention is that I'm using the Studio One instruments too with Notion. The GPO5 is nice too and beyond previous GPO4 it has the added GOS (Garritan Orchestral Strings.) along with other nice instruments that opens up things a lot as far as some better and alternative sounds I think. I think the COMB 2 library is my favorite of the bunch. I've taken the time to get the most out of those libraries using Notion. A huge selection of sample's for a variety of texture complexities and variations to blend. The two work together and compliment each other. The Aria player and it's samples have a light CPU load and similar to the Notion LSO Sounds large orchestra sizes can be used in Notion scores easily. Also, I'm going to try and tackle rulesets for the World Instruments and the Jazz and Big Band 3 libraries too. Hope to make availability my full and complete rulesets for the GPO5 and COMB 2 libraries.


Also to define and except what I can't get Notion to do too.Ĭonsole_demo.notion (299.77 KiB) Downloaded 203 times And to find and create the workflow I think is best for me. Time spent finding way's to avoid hangups. The generally target being audio recordings. Spent a lot of time trying to learn how I can get better at using Notion. Wanted to keep it simple and short.īeen wanting to experiment on different ways to get more automation within my Notion scores, forever. The music demo example I've added isn't that impressive or complex. Console- uses the GPO 5 Custom Organ Console preset. Hopefully this template will make it simple and fun to compose organ parts in Notion after getting used to how it works. Cool if they put some work they've made with it here for us to listen to.Ĭomposing music should be the majority of the time spent using Notion. I'm hoping folks will download and try it. The Notion document file is called -Console. If you have the GPO 5 (Garritan Personal Orchestra 5) library here's an upload of a empty song template and simple demo's I've made.
