To that end, high-quality, expressive and affordable software instruments should be within the reach of every musician. Everything we do is aimed at helping musicians realize and maximize their creative potential. Gary has revolutionized music creation by ensuring that professional-quality software instrument sounds are within every musician’s reach. Garritan sounds are widely used in television, film, game audio, and on the world’s greatest concert stages. Other acclaimed sound libraries include Jazz & Big Band, World Instruments, Classic Pipe Organs, Concert & Marching Band, and the revolutionary Instant Orchestra. Garritan Personal Orchestra set the standard for sample libraries, has won several awards, and is used by top people in the industry. Over the years, many award-winning virtual instrument libraries continue to be developed. The GigaHarp was an unqualified success and thus began my start as a sample developer.”

Nothing like it had been done before and the GigaHarp set the standard for quality, expression, and performance not only for harps but for all other sample libraries. The ability of Gigasampler to stream megabytes of gigabytes of samples, play multiple dynamic levels in real-time was a revolution. In need of quality harp samples for my performing, I developed the GigaHarp one of the very first independent and detailed libraries for the then groundbreaking Gigasampler ®. “It was in developing an electronic MIDI harp that I first became acquainted with the world of sampling.

When a harp teacher moved to the area, I had the opportunity to begin lessons and thus began my love affair with the instrument which grew every day.” “From early childhood I wanted to play the harp after seeing Harpo Marx play it in a movie. “The harp has held a special place in my heart since early childhood,” said Gary Garritan.

Garritan founder Gary Garritan is the Director of Instrumental Sciences at MakeMusic. Garritan products are a tremendous addition to MakeMusic’s growing portfolio of solutions. acquired the Garritan Corporation, the world’s leading provider of virtual software instruments, on December 30, 2011.

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