Announcing the Garritan Harps sound library

Garritan Harps is an innovative new virtual harps collection. This sound library is the next step in the revolution that GigaHarp started over a dozen years ago. Garritan Harps takes the virtual harp exponentially further. In addition to pure, pristine recordings of each note and a full range of harp articulations, new technologies give you advanced glissando emulation, sampled acoustic spaces, and much more.

A sound library of heavenly harps

Garritan Harps features a variety of harps including Salvi Pedal, Venus Concert Grand and Lyon & Healy. Innovative technologies allow you to easily bring beautiful harp sounds to your music. The Garritan Harps sampled sound library integrates the uniquely powerful and high-performance ARIA Player.

Pure, pristine sounds

• Each string was sampled for the entire life of its natural decay.
• The sound of each string is sweet, pure, powerful, and dynamic with minimum crosstalk.

Full range of harp articulations

• Traditional angelic-sounding harp plucks (gentle, soft, medium, and loud)
• Special effects include harmonics, Pres de la table and damping
• You can also perform chords, arpeggios, trills, tremolos, and bisbigliando.

Heavenly Glisses

• Unique built-in keymapping emulates the pedals of a harp so you can play realistic harp glissandi and arpeggios that can be performed in real time and customized to your music.
• Glisses are easily played in Garritan Harps by running one’s fingers up and down the keyboard.

Harps System Requirements

Windows^®

• Microsoft Windows 7 and 8, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP (SP3 required)
• Core 2 Duo CPU or later recommended
• 2 GB RAM recommended. There is a direct correlation between the amount of available RAM and the number of sounds that can be loaded.
• 4 GB of free hard drive space
• Hard drive speed of at least 7200 RPM recommended
• Monitor with 1,024×768 resolution or higher
• A professional sound card compatible with ASIO
• Internet connection for download version, updates and online registration
• DVD-ROM drive required for boxed version installation

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Macintosh^®

• Mac OS X 10.6 through 10.9
• Mac Intel CPU (PowerPC not supported)
• 2 GB RAM recommended. There is a direct correlation between the amount of available RAM and the number of sounds that can be loaded.
• 4 GB of free hard drive space
• Hard drive speed of at least 7200 RPM recommended
• Monitor with 1,024×768 resolution or higher
• A sound card compatible with Core Audio
• Internet connection for download version, updates and online registration
• DVD-ROM drive required for boxed version installation

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Optional

• A MIDI interface may be required if you are using a MIDI keyboard. Many keyboards now use USB.
• The ability to assign controllers within your keyboard, music program, or sequencer is recommended.
• High-quality speakers and amplifier, or high-quality headphones

Computer Music Magazine Review

“Heart-stopping harp sampling….as the creator of the seminal GigaHarp GigaStudio library, Gary Garritan knows a thing or two about sampling harps….recorded using four harps – two Salvi Pedals, two Venus Concert Grands and a Lyon & Healy.”

“A set of six Dynamic and Performance controls come premapped to six MIDI CCs….excellent reverbs – algorithmic and convolution, the latter including some suitably ethereal and majestic harp-orientated presets….Activating Pedal mode brings another level of harping authenticity into play….”

“Our favourite is the Lyon & Healy, but they all sound magnificient and between them cover a broad tonal spectrum. If a virutal harp is on your shopping list, put this one at the top – it’s approachable, intuitive and sonically stunning.”

Computer Music – May 2013, 9/10 stars

MusicRadar – May 2013, 4.5/5.0 stars