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 Plater 2 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 the score of supported notation programs. 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. Personal Orchestra is Finale 2008 and Sibelius 5 enabled.

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 the full version of KONTAKT 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.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (for Kontakt Player & Sound Library)

Running Personal Orchestra is dependent on the speed of your computer. The faster the processor the better.

• 2 GB of free hard disk space.
• CD-ROM or DVD Drive.
• Windows XP, Pentium 4 /Athlon 2.4 GHz or better is recommended.**
• Mac OS 10.4 or higher (Leopard updates coming soon), G5 is minimum but may not load the full orchestra. To load a full orchestra a Mac Intelis recommended. **The Kontakt audio engine is designed to make use of the processing power of your computer's CPU. The powerful and complex algorithms of the Kontakt Player work best on modern and fast CPUs. Please also observe the systems requirements of your host application.
• The Kontakt Player needs a soundcard for playing the sounds of Personal Orchestra. Standard DirectSound, MME or ASIO drivers required; Windows-compatible MIDI hardware if required.
• A MIDI interface is required if you are using a MIDI keyboard, another MIDI controller or an external sequencer. The MIDI interface integrated in many sound cards can also be used.
• To play the entire orchestra, we recommend 1 GB of RAM or more. There is a direct correlation between the number of instruments that can be loaded and the amount of available RAM. The more RAM available the better.