mainly by recording the parts cleanly on guitar, then rendering the MIDI by bouncing in real-time at half speed. I've been playing with it for several hours now, and gotta say that for its price, and for my purposes, it fits the niche nicely.Īs my main instrument is guitar, I'm using 'JamOrigin MIDI-Guitar' as a trigger, although there is a fair amount of 'lag' it isn't all that bad, and can probably figure a workaround to get the attack a bit sharper. Thanks for your reply, Jordu7, and based on your response I went ahead and purchased Garritan JABB-3 last night, (downloaded/installed from Sweetwater (here in the US)). I cannot say how it would work with your MIDI guitar. Triggering with a keyboard shouldn't be a problem with Garritan. I'm using mainly the NI Session horns to produce better sounding MIDI for some sax quartets and quintets when I want to play along. I own the Garritan and NI Session horns pro. However, many people think the SWAM instruments come closest to the real thing. The techniques you’ve learned so far can be applied to files using either Garritan Instruments for Finale or Garritan Personal Orchestra. The latter products are rather expensive. Sound on Sound 5/5 Star Award Gary Garritan’s latest product is aimed at the jazz community, offering an enormous number of multi-sampled instruments at an unfeasibly low UK price. If you are looking more for solo instruments I would rather recommend Native Instruments Session Horns Pro () or even SWAM engine products (). And you can always tweak using other tools in Reaper -)

To my (inexperienced) eye, there seem to be not as many possibilities to tweak Midi/channels/input/output as with e.g. The Garritan runs through the Aria player. I think it will be ok if you use the instruments as sections, e.g. Well, the Garritan Jazz & Big Band 3 gives you many sounds, not only many horns (saxes, clarinets, trumpets, trombones) but also some basses, drums, keyboards.

Garritan jazz and big band review