I think the orchestra that came with Kontakt 2, 3, 4 and 5 is far better then Garritan, by the way, so if you want to improve your old tracks, consider getting Kontakt. My first exposure to a real sample library was Peter Siedlaczek's Advanced Orchestra. Old unfinished songs one day become dependent on abandoned software, very risky.
This stuff happens to everyone, that's why most studio's keep all their old computers and many pro's bounce tracks so they won't need a specific plugin in the future. Virtual Playing Orchestra: It covers all the needs vitalker Downloaded 108,747 times since version 1.0 Virtual Playing Orchestra is a full, free orchestral sample library featuring section and solo instruments for woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion. For example, one available packet allows the G Harmonic Minor Scale (which includes the pitches B-flat, E-flat, and F-sharp) to sound when playing a white-key glissando on your MIDI keyboard. The best thing you can do is keep an OSX 10.5 or 10.6 system next to (or on a seperate partition of) your main working system and if you need to open an old song, open it on the 10.5/10.6 system and write down all the instruments you use. For users who own Garritan Personal Orchestra 4 and earlier, Glissando Harp MIDI Packets can be used in a DAW application to playback different types of scales in any key. Also included are a wide variety of instrument-specific articulations and techniques. See the complete list of 500 instruments.
if you get it to work in the new Kontakt 5 Player, the Kontakt 5 Player will not automatically appear in your songs, you have to replace the Kontakt 2 instruments one by one, so it's as much trouble as using the Aria Player. Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 (GPO 5) gives you everything from pristine solo and section violin, viola, cello, and bass to a complete orchestra including strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, keyboards and more.
The Kontakt Player based GPO works with a Kontakt 2 Player and the Kontakt 2 Player has problems on OSX 10.6 and won't work at all on OSX 10.7 or Logic 64bit.Īnd.