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| Re: Trivial BS you guys probably don't care about.....but........... [message #80145 is a reply to message #80141] |
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Deej [4]
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at CD lying around...
Cheers,
-Jamie
www.JamieKrutz.com
Sarah wrote:
> I'm going to upgrade my Sibelius (v.2 to v.4), and I'm thinking of
> either getting their bundle discount on the Garritan Personal Orchestra, or
> spending a couple hundred more and upgrading my Gigastudio (v.2 to v.3).
> It's just for my little composing/arranging station, so it doesn't need to
> be CD quality sound. On the other hand, it's more fun if the sounds are
> expressive and realistic.
>
> Is the Garritan Personal Orch decent sounding? The mp3 samples are OK,
> not amazing or anything, but they're demos are all concert hall reverbed up,
> so it's hard to tell.
>
> Ya think Gigastudio is overkill for a simple writing/arranging setup?
> Is the learning curve gonna make me regret it? If it needs to be on a
> computer by itself, I'm not interested . . . I don't want two computers in
> here.
>
> Opinions? Experience? Inspirational quotes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sarah
>
>Thanks . . . will check that out. :)
Sarah
"Jamie K" <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote in message news:4609faf6@linux...
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> I'm a fan of GPO. I get convincing orchestral sounds out of it; it runs
> efficiently (CPU and HD); and the way they designed the interaction is
> very performable and expressive in real time.
>
> It's been great for arranging and scoring, and has been a handy collection
> of instruments that have found their way onto orchestral soundtrack
> projects; CD projects in a variety of styles that I've produced for
> clients; and here and there on my solo CDs.
>
> Couldn't compare it to Giga, don't have that here.
>
> If you listen to the end of "One" on my "Toward An Attitude" the horns
> that come in at the end are from GPO. Also the pipe organ and tympani at
> the end of the title track. Not major orchestral examples, but since you
> have that CD lying around...
>
> Cheers,
> -Jamie
> www.JamieKrutz.com
>
>
> Sarah wrote:
>> I'm go
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| Re: Trivial BS you guys probably don't care about.....but........... [message #80146 is a reply to message #80145] |
Thu, 15 February 2007 23:54 |
Neil
Messages: 1645
Registered: April 2006
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ing to upgrade my Sibelius (v.2 to v.4), and I'm thinking of
>> either getting their bundle discount on the Garritan Personal Orchestra,
>> or spending a couple hundred more and upgrading my Gigastudio (v.2 to
>> v.3). It's just for my little composing/arranging station, so it doesn't
>> need to be CD quality sound. On the other hand, it's more fun if the
>> sounds are expressive and realistic.
>>
>> Is the Garritan Personal Orch decent sounding? The mp3 samples are
>> OK, not amazing or anything, but they're demos are all concert hall
>> reverbed up, so it's hard to tell.
>>
>> Ya think Gigastudio is overkill for a simple writing/arranging setup?
>> Is the learning curve gonna make me regret it? If it needs to be on a
>> computer by itself, I'm not interested . . . I don't want two computers
>> in here.
>>
>> Opinions? Experience? Inspirational quotes?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sarah
>>chuck duffy wrote:
> I've got to tell you that your posts appear a bit optimistic.
Don't burst my bubble man! Optimism is all I've got left...
> You and I both know that there's no way in hell that anyone is going
> to write a driver that will use paris hardware, mac, pc or linux :-)
Sad but true.
> It requires the intersection of infinite time, infinite passion and infinite
> unbearable long distance testing because no one I know of (at least any more)
> has enough paris hardware to test all the possible permutations.
Yeah, I certainly don't have enough hardware. Then there's that little
problem of being side-tracked actually using it to make music... ;-)
Doug (Ten EDS cards, seven MECs, five C-16's...)
http://www.parisfaqs.comi'd be happier if you were a girl but at my age (and 34 years of
marriage)...ewww...never mind.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:54:29 -0500, Paul Braun
<cygnus_nospam@ctgonline.org> wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:41:41 -0400, rick <parnell68@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>and i'm a sucker for a pretty smile...
>>
>>
>Awwww.... now I'm blushing.
>
>pabwonder if they come with the "petermeter" or if that's extra.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:16:42 -0600, "Miguel Vigil" <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:
>Throbizin
>
>
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>
>That should do it....
>
>El Miguel
>
>
>
>
>"W. Mark Wilson" <
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| Re: Trivial BS you guys probably don't care about.....but........... [message #80154 is a reply to message #80146] |
Fri, 16 February 2007 01:48 |
rick
Messages: 1976
Registered: February 2006
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iscourage you from it, just check out the
> specifics
> before going that route over GPO. GPO is pretty straightforward and easy
> to
> work with.
>
> Regards,
> Dedric
>
> On 3/28/07 12:41 AM, in article 460a0f36@linux, "Sarah"
> <sarahjane@sarahtonin.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks . . . will check that out. :)
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>> "Jamie K" <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote in message news:4609faf6@linux...
>>>
>>> I'm a fan of GPO. I get convincing orchestral sounds out of it; it runs
>>> efficiently (CPU and HD); and the way they designed the interaction is
>>> very performable and expressive in real time.
>>>
>>> It's been great for arranging and scoring, and has been a handy
>>> collection
>>> of instruments that have found their way onto orchestral soundtrack
>>> projects; CD projects in a variety of styles that I've produced for
>>> clients; and here and there on my solo CDs.
>>>
>>> Couldn't compare it to Giga, don't have that here.
>>>
>>> If you listen to the end of "One" on my "Toward An Attitude" the horns
>>> that come in at the end are from GPO. Also the pipe organ and tympani at
>>> the end of the title track. Not major orchestral examples, but since you
>>> have that CD lying around...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -Jamie
>>> www.JamieKrutz.com
>>>
>>>
>>> Sarah wrote:
>>>> I'm going to upgrade my Sibelius (v.2 to v.4), and I'm thinking of
>>>> either getting their bundle discount on the Garritan Personal
>>>> Orchestra,
>>>> or spending a couple hundred more and upgrading my Gigastudio (v.2 to
>>>> v.3). It's just for my little composing/arranging station, so it
>>>> doesn't
>>>> need to be CD quality sound. On the other hand, it's more fun if the
>>>> sounds are expressive and realistic.
>>>>
>>>> Is the Garritan Personal Orch decent sounding? The mp3 samples are
>>>> OK, not amazing or anything, but they're demos are all concert hall
>>>> reverbed up, so it's hard to tell.
>>>>
>>>> Ya think Gigastudio is overkill for a simple writing/arranging
>>>> setup?
>>>> Is the learning curve gonna make me regret it? If it needs to be on a
>>>> computer by itself, I'm not interested . . . I don't want two computers
>>>> in here.
>>>>
>>>> Opinions? Experience? Inspirational quotes?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Sarah
>>>>
>>
>A couple of similar solo plugin are Garritan's Stradivari Solo Violin
and the Gofriller Cello. Check 'em out.
www.garritan.com/stradivari.html
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| Re: Trivial BS you guys probably don't care about.....but........... [message #80188 is a reply to message #80162] |
Fri, 16 February 2007 17:53 |
gene lennon
Messages: 565
Registered: July 2006
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ve
> had with Macs so we're looking at another $249.00 for a total of $4794.00).
>
> I just spec'ed the same basic computer componentry for building a DIY PC
> from Newegg for $2659.90 and this would include Vista Ultimate. That's a
> difference of $2135.00. For less than this $2k difference added to the PC
> you could upgrade to dual quad XEON CPU's, more and faster memory that would
> have the PC running circles around the Mac.
>
> I'm not trying to bash Macs here James (like I usually do ;o) I'm just
> trying to see what the justification might be for paying almost twice the
> price for a Mac when I could build a faster PC in about a day..........a
> goodly part of which time could be spent doing other things while formatting
> all of the drives and l
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