Glad you are happy with this. Just so all who read this understand, I wasn't the one who manipulated the Garritan sounds for the arranging book. Gary found a smart and musical guy from Brescia, Robert Soggeti, who did all that good work.
Chuck On Dec 26, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Girard Bowe <[email protected]> wrote: > I asked this question early this month, and the consensus seemed to be that > at $75 (the sale price then), it was worth it, although few seemed to be > able to replicate the quality of the samples on the Garritan site, or the > samples used by Chuck Israels for his Exploring Jazz Arranging book. I'm > thinking you'd get better results if you were using the Garritan sounds with > a DAW rather than a notation program. > > That said, I bit at the $75 price for the Jazz & Big Band collection, and I > found a significant improvement in sounds and volume. Perhaps it is because > I spent a bit more time with the Aria player once I purchased JABB, but in > any case, I'm glad I went for it. > > Most of my work is transcribing and arranging for smaller horn sections with > rhythm section, and I use playback as an audible spellcheck, so I don't need > commercial quality playback, but it's nice having something that sounds > closer than the resident Finale Garritan sounds. The trumpet sounds still > suffer most, but are an improvement. > > You'll have to decide if it's worth waiting another year to save another $25 > - assuming they'll offer another half-price sale next Christmas. I think I'd > still be pleased had I spent $99. > > Giz > > |-----Original Message----- > |From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > |Dalvin Boone > |Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 6:57 PM > |To: [email protected] > |Subject: [Finale] Garritan libraries > | > |I would like to have better sounding Finale files; are the Garritan > libraries a > |significant improvement over what comes with Finale, and are they generally > |worth $99.95 (each)? > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > Chuck Israels 8831 SE 12th Ave. Portland, OR 97202-7097 land line: (503) 954-2107 cell phone: (360) 201-3434 <www.chuckisraelsjazz.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
