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 course 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 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.