Garritan Uses Sonic Morphing Technology to Launch New Virtual Musical Instruments Libraries at CES

Garritan Uses Sonic Morphing Technology to Launch New Virtual Musical Instruments Libraries at CES

Award-Winning Company Adds Virtual Jazz & Big Band Collection and a Virtual Stradivari Violin at 2006 Consumer Electronics Show

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Garritan Libraries, developers of affordable and high-quality computer-based soundware, announced new virtual instruments. Following the phenomenal success of its award-winning Garritan Personal Orchestra, the company announced the Jazz & Big Band library, and the virtual Stradivari Solo Violin. Garritan also plans to release a consumer version of Personal Orchestra. The products will be demonstrated during the show at Booth Number 20570 in the CES South Hall. Users can hear the quality of these soundware packages by visiting http://www.garritan.com/ and listening to many demos in a range of styles.

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With the Jazz & Big Band virtual instrument, Garritan is doing for jazz composers what they did for orchestral composers. The Jazz & Big Band virtual instrument is the world's first with a library of samples designed specifically to recreate the full range of sounds and articulations of a large jazz ensemble with soloists. It features over 50 individual instruments, including: 16 different saxophones; 5 trumpets (with the full complement of mutes, plus a "scream" trumpet); 5 trombones (with the full range of mutes); flutes, clarinets and tuba; and a complete rhythm section with 3 guitars, a Steinway jazz piano, vintage electric piano, acoustic and electric bass, jazz drums, vibraphone, accordion, Latin percussion and more.

The Stradivari Solo Violin virtual instrument sets a new standard for realistic performance in a sample-based instrument. It virtually places the sound of one of the world's best violins, three hundred years old and worth millions, in the hands of any performer with a computer and keyboard. A vast range of realistic fingering and bow articulations are possible in real-time performance using Garritan's controller techniques. Thrilling dynamic and timbral changes can be created within a single note or phrase using Garritan's exclusive "Sonic Morphing" technology, which phase-aligns a series of samples into cohesive gestures that blow away anything previously achieved by cross-fading or other techniques.

Garritan Personal Orchestra provides the sounds of all the major instruments in a symphony orchestra, including strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion and keyboards. A new and even more affordable "light" version is perfectly suited for budding musicians to learn, compose and play realistic orchestral music from a computer. Even a beginner can add an orchestra to songs and transform Standard MIDI files into lush arrangements.

"Pretty amazing!" said J.J. Abrams, Creator & Executive Producer of the hit series Lost and Alias. "A few years ago, if you'd told me that I could own a beautifully sampled, truly portable symphony orchestra, I would have thought you were nuts. But today it exists. The Garritan Personal Orchestra is a composer's dream ... I can write orchestral music anywhere. I love it."

Garritan Orchestral Libraries is an award-winning developer of affordable and high-quality orchestral software libraries. Its flagship product, Garritan Personal Orchestra, has won accolades from celebrity musicians and music press alike. The product has been used in a variety of applications: from popular TV shows, film and attractions to video games, live concerts and ballets. In addition, hundreds of schools and universities have chosen Garritan Personal Orchestra for use with their music curriculums. For more information about Garritan Orchestral Libraries and to hear a wide array of demos, visit http://www.garritan.com/.

For further information, please contact:

Gary Garritan
360-376-5766
gary@garritan.comhttp://www.garritan.com/

Press contact:

Sarah Waffle
503-922-2686
waffle@noretainerpr.comhttp://www.noretainerpr.com/

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Source: Garritan Orchestral Libraries

CONTACT: Gary Garritan of Garritan Orchestral Libraries, +1-360-376-5766
or gary@garritan.com, or Press contact: Sarah Waffle, +1-503-922-2686 or
waffle@noretainerpr.com

Web site: http://www.garritan.com/

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