Garritan Instant Orchestra Reviews and Awards
Keyboard Review and Key Buy Award
Korel Tunador, Keyboard, July 2014 |
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MusicTech Choice Award and MusicTech Value Award
“The mood-based presets provide a great way of ‘jump-starting’ the process of setting up instruments to accompany cinematic images or onstage actions…cover a large range of emotions and atmospheres.” “An abundance of orchestral effects… these sounds will be particularly useful for musicians involved in creating music for film, television and games.” “The Combinations are the meat and potatoes of IO…they’re ideal for filling out existing arrangements when perhaps a conventional orchestral samples library doesn’t provide enough oomph.” MusicTech, April 2012 |
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Sound on Sound Review
“…spend more of your precious time composing rather than fiddling around with obscure articulations and huge MIDI templates.” Dave Stewart, Sound On Sound, May 2012 |
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Computer Music Review
“…we have such delights as Discovering Avalon, Ghost Ship and Instant Cartoon, all sounding just like their names imply…as well as mood-based patches, numerous special effect are included along with an effective array of Blending Textures.” Computer Music, April 2012, received 9/10 stars |
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Electronic Musician Review
“…particularly suited for scoring film, video, and games, because it allows you to create quickly finished-sounding work…” Jon Chappell, Electronic Musician, June 2012 issue |
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Wusik Sound Magazine
“For someone looking for an easy to use, flexible, high quality orchestra GIO is an absolute no-brainer.” Adrian Frost, Wusik Sound, August 2012 |
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“It’s no mean feat to create something simple that can overtake you creatively without overwhelming you technically, and Garritan Instant Orchestra has not just shown it’s possible, but excelled at it. It’s about quickly creating larger-than-life soundscapes with evolving aspects that are playable in real time—the first time. As such, it earns our hearty recommendation for any keyboardist’s or aspiring composer’s “my first virtual orchestra program” . . . as well as our Key Buy award.
“Suitable for pros and amateurs alike, IO is an excellent value-for-the-money cinematic-style library that punches well above its weight.”
“Contains a large variety of unusual and colorful orchestral textures…its musical combinations are imaginative and often inspiring…”
“Instant Orchestra is absurdly simple to use and sounds a lot more expensive than it is. All the production work has been done for you, and Instant Orchestra sounds terrific – very Hollywood, and decidedly Garritan.”
“An innovative library that lets you quickly build orchestral textures and effects. This library is to orchestrators what loop collections are to DJ, dance, and groove arrangers: a way to create instant music that get you well more than halfway to your goal. Packed into this package is a complete collection of orchestral instruments, mixed ensembles, layers, blends, and special effects. Every patch is finished-sounding and designed to save you time and effort.”
“It’s difficult to sum up what is on offer here as there is simply so much…Garritan’s latest orchestral instrument give you everything that you need to score some impressive sounding orchestral pieces without the hassle of having to build up your own ensembles or sections…There are ready prepared ensembles, sub-divided into Moods and then Combos and FX, but you can also load individual sections into any of the Aria Player’s 16 slots.”
