Yes, traditional orch, wind ensemble, and jazz band--all Garritan. Actually, Jazz Band
eats the most RAM because of the programming. A full jazz band with the
"non-lite" versions of inst. eats a goodly chunk of my 2 gB and, with reverb,
maxes my processor .
Wind ens. has 2fl/picc, 2ob, Eb cl., 6Bb cl., BsCl, 2 Bsns, AATBBs Sax (JABB
bass sax is cool), 4 hrns, 4tpt, 3trb, 2 euph (using horns), 2 tubas,
percussion. I combine GPO, Finale GPO, and JABB
2gB RAM, Centrino @ 2 gHz, Echo Indigo Sound Card, ASIO4ALL.
NOTE TO KIM: GPO instruments will be bland & unexpressive "out of the box."
Human Playback will help to a large extent. If you decide to get GPO, read Darcy's tutorial
for GPO and Finale.
There is a currently GROUP BUY for GPO at garritan.com GPO is selling for a
measly $139, I think. Even at the full price, it's a great value.
Wind ensemble demos at
http://www.esnips.com/doc/4e925e9d-a874-4f6d-9342-a036dac131de
and http://www.esnips.com/doc/3f011827-45bc-43ea-aa59-49fd36c64fae ...first 2
movements of Holst 2nd Suite in F.
Jim
From: Randolph Peters
Sent: Mon 11-Dec-06 19:24
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Garritan Sound Libraries and Finale?
Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
I have a good laptop with a gig of RAM and it's a recent vintage, so
the CPU can
handle what Garritan requires.
I'm sorry to disillusion you, but 1GB RAM with any speed processor
will NOT give you the ability to do full orchestral mockups. It will
give you about 5 or 6 tracks with Keyswitching (others might get
more), but not the whole enchilada.
GPO and Finale GPO load the samples into RAM and 1 GB can get used up
very quickly. Kontakt 2 (not Kontakt Player 2) can play samples from
the disk, but with a lot of voices or polyphony, that often yields
poor results.
Is anyone on this list doing full orchestral mockups using only GPO?
And if so, what kind of computer and technical specs do you have?
-Randolph Peters
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