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With Garritan you are stuck with what you get, i.e. no expansion.


Well, not exactly. While not as prevalent as Kontakt, all the Garritan libraries run using the Aria Engine (in the Aria Player).

Everything from Garritan runs through the Aria interface, just like you run multiple instruments through the Kontakt interface. Aria is kind of the big brother to Sforzando, which does everything Sforzando does plus a lot more (such as bundling sounds into libraries, like the Garritan instruments).

Garritan Personal Orchestra is just one of many sound libraries available along wit the CFX Grand Piano, Classic Pipe Organs, Instant Orchestra, Jazz and Big Band, Concert and Marching Band, Harps, and World Instruments, all of which use the Aria Engine and presented to the user by the Aria Player (much like the Kontakt interface).

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What is the ARIA Engine?

The ARIA Engine is an audio sampling and synthesis Engine, developed by Plogue Art et Technologie Inc in collaboration with Garritan Corp now part of MakeMusic, Inc.

It is fully compatible with 32bits and 64bits architectures on OS X, Windows and iOS. It can be used as a standalone application or as a VST, Audio Unit, RTAS or AAX plugin. It is based on the SFZ 1.0 / SFZ 2.0 open file formats for instrument programming and the Scala open file format to define scales and temperaments.

The first software instrument in the ARIA engine was the Garritan Authorized Steinway Virtual Model D Piano Library, endorsed by and in cooperation with Steinway & Sons. Today, the ARIA Engine can be found in various software from Garritan, Plogue, AKAI, Sony, Microsoft and MakeMusic.

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