On 1 Aug 2008, at 3:42 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote:
To my ears, it sounds pretty much like the regular synth sounds, only with a lot more reverb.
The Garritan sounds are recorded dry. Reverb settings are controlled by the Ambience Reverb plugin (still not available by default on Intel Macs!), and the default settings are very bad. You will have much better results if you use a more appropriate preset, create your own settings, or turn it off.
And, as Chuck said, you really must use Human Playback when using Garritan instruments. One huge advantage to the Garritan Sounds + HP (versus the SoftSynth sounds) is that HP automatically creates back- accented tonguing when playing back in a jazz swing style, and automatically adjusts the level of swing depending on the tempo and depending on whether notes are an anticipation or not.
When using SoftSynth instruments, every note is always tongued, the level of swing does not scale with the tempo, and anticipations are treated the same as consecutive notes.
Also: I assume you are using good speakers/headphones? If you are just using the built-in speakers on your computer (or cheap computer speakers), then of course you won't notice much of a difference.
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