Neat gambit about using the Source, I'd never have thought of it, and no one showed me that trick before. Very Cool! And me just being a high school Stage Band, Marching Band and Symphonic band drummer and rock drummer, and wanta-be jazz drummer--well the EastWest one may be better, but as I haven't heard the demos, the UI is inaccessible, and this just grabbed me--and much less expensive than the hardware synths that don't sound nearly as much like what I expect to hear of a modern movie orchestra or recorded symphony orchestra... Yes, I know that was one Geoff Chapman run-on sentence, but this just got my motor runnin... Now, I finally get the point of MIDI, and for the first time understand why one might choose not to have the joy of hardware... I'm sure not going to be able to play all of those instruments to get anything I'd be happy with. But time, one track for player in a section, each section a stem, each sectional stem mixed down to where they all should be heard from as a section on stage, and the sectional stems mixed down to two track or surround sound... What a lovely way to spend one's weekends and evenings! I'd have it in a heart beat as a band director, and let my assistant slave his way through getting each section the way I wanted it to be, then use that to train the ears and sensibilities of the students, then, they could better pick out and appreciate their parts in a real Wind Ensemble or Orchestral transcription of the piece on vinyl, or CD. Me, I sure would like to find a way to cadge those promo discs Sheet Music Publishers send to band directors! And from there, to buying the actual full-length recordings of my favorites on those... Anyway, thanks for getting my classical ears back on. I haven't done that much at all since 1999 since my Classically Trained Piano and Voice Major bride died. And as it turns out, the sonorities are much more comforting than most of my rock--think I'll be listening to XM and Live365 stations a bunch! Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Omar Binno" <omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:03 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Trying to find good demos of Garritan Phil, Thanks for sharing these. Much better! ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Muir To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:25 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Trying to find good demos of Garritan Found these on: http://www.garritan.com/index.php/products/personal-orchestra Bill, you may wish to keep these somewhere handy for customers wishing to hear the product before purchase. Took me a while because I had to pull the links out of the source code. Anyway, 18 demos below. Off to make a cup of tea now. Catch you all in a bit. Enjoy! http://www.garritan.com/mp3/gpo4/AlongthePath.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/mp3/DP-KnightsAndMagic.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/mp3/DP-Wings%20Of%20Dreams.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/mp3/Beethoven-5thSymphony.mp3 http://garritan.com/mp3/fm-CombinedStrings.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/demos/My_oboe.mp3 http://garritan.com/mp3/DvorakconductedbyDanKury.MP3 http://www.garritan.com/mp3/Flight_of_the_Bumblebee.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/demos/Handel_Organ_Concerto.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/mp3/rf-The_Earth_Heaven.mp3 http://garritan.com/mp3/HummieMann-Alaska.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/mp3/MARS-MP3 http://garritan.com/mp3/ShenandoahGPO.mp3 http://garritan.com/mp3/TuscanAffair.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/mp3/nd-TchaikovskySuite1Opus43.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/mp3/LuciferAndGandhi_KV.mp3 http://www.garritan.com/demos/On_the_way.mp3 http://garritan.com/mp3/EasyWinners-Ragtime.mp3 Regards, Phil Muir Accessibility Training Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK +44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.accessibilitytraining.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren H Sent: 22 September 2010 21:47 To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Trying to find good demos of Garritan Hey, can you provide a couple of direct links to demos, because the ones I found on the Garritan site didn't work, and the Youtube ones were really piss poor. excuse my french. I'd actually really love to be able to say what I've heard so far has blown me away, but they either are very poor, or the demos I've heard aren't official demos and just uploaded by wallies. Cheers Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Tyo Sent: 22 September 2010 21:42 To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Trying to find good demos of Garritan Here-here! I also heard the new Jazz and Big Band stuff, and it's pretty good. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Muir To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 16:30 Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Trying to find good demos of Garritan Will respectfully agree to disagree. If you want good orchestral sounds the Garritan Personal Orchestra is fantastic! Way better than Dimension Pro. The strings on Dimension Pro are good but the Garritan ones are in a different league again. I purchased it just for the strings but, if I were into orchestral stuff, I would purchase it for that as nothing else comes close. I don't use orchestral stuff much here however, I will be using the strings on some of my backing tracks in the future. In fact, I may even revoice some of the tracks that I have with the Garritan strings. Also, playing them is a dream. They just respond as you would expect. Regards, Phil Muir PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subjectúq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq