As well as incorporating GPO 4’s samples, this major upgrade adds much-requested additional strings, new choir sections, expanded Project SAM brass, two new grand pianos and a host of fresh features, resulting in a greatly expanded sample database of 11.6GB (installed size).Īs with its predecessor, the library runs exclusively on the Aria sound engine, which works stand-alone and as a VST, Audio Unit, AAX and RTAS plug-in on operating systems from Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.8 onwards. This approach proved durable, spawning several updates which have now culminated in the release of GPO 5. The latest incarnation of a long-running library introduces new instruments, articulations and enhancements.īack in 2004, Garritan Personal Orchestra provided a radical alternative to the massive symphonic sample libraries of the day by cramming every orchestral instrument under the sun into a supremely affordable package requiring a mere 2GB of disk space.
