Included with Finale is an integrated collection of instrument sounds from Garritan Personal Orchestra (also known as GPO). These instruments are professionally recorded sound samples designed to offer the highest quality playback. Here is a description of Garritan Personal Orchestra from its creator Gary Garritan:
“Orchestras are wonderful but not very practical to bring to your sessions. The next best thing is to record each note of every instrument in an orchestra and play them back on a keyboard. Personal Orchestra is just that. It is a complete collection of actual high-quality recordings (or samples) of nearly every note, of each musical instrument, in an entire orchestra. When Personal Orchestra is loaded, and you play a note on your keyboard, a high-quality recording or sample of that note as played by an orchestral instrument is reproduced. What you hear sounds remarkably like the real thing, because it is an actual recording of an instrument. Personal Orchestra gives you an entire orchestra at your fingertips.”
See Garritan Personal Orchestra and Human Playback Tutorial for detailed guidance on using GPO for Finale and the full version of GPO along side Finale.
Finale includes a sample version of the GPO collection of orchestral sounds, which you can use independently, or along side Finale's SmartMusic SoftSynth SoundFont instrument sounds. When starting a new file, you can easily choose to use GPO sounds in the Document Setup Wizard.
See Also:
Garritan Personal Orchestra and Human Playback Tutorial
To use Garritan Instruments in new scores
To load a Garritan Instrument into the Aria Player for Finale
Choosing the appropriate Garritan sound (Player vs. Solo Instruments)
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