Alon J wrote:
I'm trying to find a list of the new features of a comparison chart between GPO4 and GPO5 before I go ahead and purchase the update. Anyone knows where I can find one? I'm can't seem to find it on the website.
No, you're quite right, I don't think I've seen one either.
Although there is a list of instruments on the original launch page, here:
GPO5 features and benefits. Click through the various tabs.
Here's a quick summary for you.
The installed library size has increased many fold, standing at about 12.5 Giga Bytes. Many of the new instruments have multiple samples per note at different dynamics.
They've taken across the GPO4 library pretty well in its entirety.
Woodwinds just as they were, with no additions.
** Although a few people do report an improvement in the sound, maybe due to an ARIA program upgrade.
Brass, GPO4 brass, plus a whole selection of additional SAM brass instruments, complementing the existing round up.
Percussion has some extra instruments added to the library.
Harps have a particularly good one added from, I believe, the Garritan Harps library, plus GPO4.
Keyboards have three new pianos added, one of which is particularly good.
Pipe organ is the same as GPO4 but with one extremely useful "custom console" added which adds a huge set of the samples from Garritan Classic Pipe Organs.
The solo strings are as they were in GPO4, the section strings too. (But see GOS later.)
Choirs now have a selection of vowel sounds for sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, as well as a boys and children's choir. Plus a full choir.
GOS. The strings have been added to pretty massively, using what I can only surmise are samples from the old GOS (Garritan Orchestral Strings) library. They have had to be entirely reprogrammed as GOS was Kontakt based, I believe. This is a huge resource of additional samples with many solo and section instruments.
Many of the solo instruments have a much wider variety of articulations.
E.g. a violin as well as normal sustain/legato has col legno, detache, martele, pizzicato, spiccato, and staccato.
That's just a quick summary.
Hope it helps.
John.
Statistics: Posted by SysExJohn — Wed May 11, 2016 2:55 am