- GARRITAN PERSONAL ORCHESTRA 5 WITH BAND IN A BOX FULL
- GARRITAN PERSONAL ORCHESTRA 5 WITH BAND IN A BOX PORTABLE
- GARRITAN PERSONAL ORCHESTRA 5 WITH BAND IN A BOX SOFTWARE
I won't be buying one myself - at least not yet.
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The SD4 has also been recently released - it costs more but supports USB. One solution that may attract some is an external MIDI hardware synth - Ketron have a unit called the SD2 which I've heard great things about - but it's a reasonable cost and needs external power and a MIDI interface - and you still need to plug the audio output back into your sound card - or an external amp. Overall though, the biggest problem I have is that my beloved Yamaha XG softsynth will NOT work in vista and is no longer available so there will be no updates either PGMusic's Band in a box ships with the Edirol VSC DXi GM synth (DX plugs into vista) - of course, BiaB is a DX/VST host too. This is much too complex for most of us when we simply want easy, reasonable sound quality.
GARRITAN PERSONAL ORCHESTRA 5 WITH BAND IN A BOX FULL
The biggest problem I have here is that I am yet to find a full GM VSTi synth - they all seem to be single instruments. Though I have yet to explore VST to any extent, with the advent of vista and the changes m$ is forcing on us in the sound arena it is perhaps time that NWC became a VST host too. but that's another story.Īctually Richard, I don't think it is another story. Quote from: Richard Woodroffe - 08:40 pm Now if NoteWorthy and VST. Last Edit: 10:42 pm by Richard Woodroffe.
GARRITAN PERSONAL ORCHESTRA 5 WITH BAND IN A BOX PORTABLE
So I thought that I would relay all of this so that anyone else trying to get decent sound reproduction using a Vista portable will at least know the steps I have tried and the potential of a future version of GPO. I'm not sure what to make of the "most likely" but there it is. However, they did say quote "this fall we'll be coming out with a new version that most likely will interface with Noteworthy." end quote. They replied that Northern Instruments would not permit this. So the connection between NoteWorthy and Garritan Personal Orchestra version 3 cannot be made.Īn email was sent to to Garritan to enquire if, after purchasing Garritan Personal Orchestra version 3, you could then download Kontact player version 1 and thereby be able to use it with NoteWorthy Composer. This uses Northern Instruments Kontact Player version 2 to play the samples and guess what ! Garritan studio cannot use Kontact Player version 2.
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So I thought I would go ahead and purchase Garriatan Personal Orchestra.
GARRITAN PERSONAL ORCHESTRA 5 WITH BAND IN A BOX SOFTWARE
In addition, you need to use some software called Garritan Studio to link NoteWorthy Composer to Garritan Personal Orchestra. Garritan Personal Orchestra uses Northern Instruments Kontact Player version 1 to play the sound samples. This worked brilliantly although it is not as easy to manipulate as a soundblaster soundcard with sound fonts. I next tried Garritan Personal Orchestra - Version 2. I next tried synthfont with midiyoke as the device that fed the output from NoteWorthy to Synthfont.
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They would not say if there were plans to make a soundcard for Vista portables that supports soundfonts. But it doesn't.Īfter several emails to Soundblaster, I discovered that not even their external USB soundcards support soundfonts under Vista. Soundblaster now make an Express card sound card (X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook)and you would think, wouldn't you, that this would also support sound fonts. On my old XP portable, it had pcmcia card slot in which I could use a Soundblaster pcmcia Audigy card (Audigy 2 ZS Notebook) which supported sound fonts. I have recently been forced to buy a new portable, this has Vista as an operating system.