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Free Update for Garritan Orchestral Strings

The Garritan Orchestral Strings has been supplemented with another FREE update to registered users of the GOS Advanced GigaStudio version. This newest update is over 1.5 gigabytes in size and contains 400 new instruments on two CD-ROMs. Moreover, it expands the total number of CD-ROMs in the GOS library from 16 to 18 CDs, increasing the library's size to over 10 gigabytes. "And there'll be more updates coming later this year," announced Gary Garritan, producer of the GOS string library.

Highlights of the new GOS update include the following:

• Release Triggers for the Sustain Instruments – The first string library to provide release triggers. These high-quality release trigger samples capture the subtle release of the bow coming off the string, the body resonance of the instrument, and the ambience of the recording hall.
• Impulse Response Samples (Concert Hall 1, Concert Hall 2 & Vintage Hollywood) – These are samples of actual halls for use in Sound Forge, Samplitude, Cool Edit and other programs. These effectively place GOS and other sounds in the same acoustic space. Benefit: Consistency of sound!
• Special "Performance Setups" for the GigaStudio DSP Station – These setups pre-pan GOS string ensembles within GigaStudio and apply GigaStudio's NFX Reverb.
• "Grand Sustains" – The Grand Détachés, one of the most popular and expressive instruments, are now looped to provide another sustain instrument.
• "Aggressive" Short Bow Instruments – These offer very hard attacks for yet another articulation choice.
• "Looped" Sustain Instruments – The sustain instruments for the KeySwitch & Lite are now looped.
• "Slides" Toolbox - New up and down slides at various intervals, as well as detailed tutorials on how to use the slides effectively.
• New "Key Switch" Instruments
• "Tender" Long Bow Instruments – For soft, intimate passages!
• "Variability" Short Bow Instruments – This inventive programming produces small variations for repeated tones within rapid short-bow passages. The user can control the intonation, character, brightness, attack and other parameters.
• Custom Modifications & Combo Key Switches - by composer Jeff Beal
• "Exaggerated Range" Instruments
• All "WARM" Library – For a "warmer" sound across the entire library
• Extended Range (Short Bow Instruments)
• Maintenance Files
• "Ambient Noise" Samples – Contained within a single .gig file, these are samples of the "air" of a concert hall, as well as low-level murmurs, body movements, shuffles, chair movements, instrument muffles, coughs, rustling, and other common sounds in a concert hall.
• MaestroTools XP – This latest, easy-to-install version now works with Windows 2000 and XP.
• Virtual MaestroTools for the Emagic Logic Audio Environment – by Roman Beilharz
• String Writing Course - Excerpts from Alexander University
• GigaStudio Mastery Tutorial - Excerpts by Dave Govett
• The Guide to MIDI Orchestration - Excerpts by Paul Gilreath
• Translator Demo with Giga File Viewer - from Chicken Systems

Garritan Orchestral Strings is a comprehensive and musically expressive string-ensemble sample library. It was recently crowned the "Strings of the Millennium" by PC & Musik magazine. This library is so innovative that it was the first sample library ever to win the Editor's Choice Award from Electronic Musician. Sound On Sound magazine hailed the Garritan Orchestral Strings as "a vast and groundbreaking piece of work," adding that "Once you're fully acquainted with this library's depth and scope, you should be able to use it to produce string ensemble performances of great subtlety, expressiveness, and realism."

Recorded at the world-renowned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the stringed instruments in the GOS collection are among the finest in the world (Stradivarius, Guarneri, Gagliano, Montagnana, Testore, among many other exquisite instruments). The GOS library has a consistent and balanced orchestral sound and offers unparalleled control: Expression Control, Vibrato Control, Warmth Control, Key Switching, etc. It also comes with an exclusive MIDI program called MaestroTools for the automatic alternation of bow strokes (up-bows and down-bows), as well as for producing expressive legato lines, either in standard polyphonic mode or monophonic (mono) mode.

This update expands the library with new and unique features while maintaining the original introductory price of $995. Tom Hopkins brilliantly most of the new features in this update. However, some of the features have been created by users, making GOS an evolving, open-source library.

Suggested Retail price: $995 US with free updates for registered users.

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