Credits and acknowledgments

Credits

Produced by: Gary Garritan and MakeMusic, Inc.
Product Management: Fred Flowerday, VP of Product
Director of Programming: Chad Beckwith
Convolution, Morphing and DSP Programming: Jeff Hurchalla
Lead Orchestral Architect: Robert Davis
Human Playback Integration: Will Jones
Select Brass Samples: Project SAM
ARIA Engine Development: Plogue Art et Technologie Inc
Art Direction and Graphics: Chris Gilbert
Manual & Documentation: Jonathan Tschiggfrie

Acknowledgments

Producing the Garritan Personal Orchestra would not have been possible without the combined help, talent, and support of many extraordinary people. I am grateful to those who have contributed and would like to thank as many as possible.

Many thanks to MakeMusic, Inc. and especially Andy Stephens for making this project possible. And a special thanks to Fred Flowerday for managing this complex and challenging project.

A very special thanks to the musicians from around the world who have played their instruments for this collection. I wish there was space to list you all. Thanks for enduring the endless scales, sore fingers, and numb lips.

I especially wish to thank Tom Hopkins who helped initially conceive and program Personal Orchestra. Tom left a valuable legacy to follow. And a heartfelt thanks to Chad Beckwith who did the programming for this most recent version. This library would not have been possible without Tom and Chad's magic.

The custom-made ARIA sample engine for Personal Orchestra 5 was developed by David Viens of Plogue Art et Technologie Inc. David Viens, Sebastien Beaulieu, Eric Patenaude, and their team took up the task brilliantly, and brought forth the super-charged and technologically stunning ARIA sample engine used for this project. Thanks to Eric Patenaude for ARIA graphics and GPO GUI. I wish to thank Magnus Jonsson for providing a special edition of Ambience reverb. Thanks to Maarten Spruijt, Vincent Beijer, and Marco Deegenaars from ProjectSAM for their outstanding brass samples.

A special thanks goes to Jeff Hurchalla for his morphing and convolution programming. And hats off to the League of Extraordinary Beta-testers. I wish to thank Kirk McNally, Jim Williams, Dan Kury, Bill DeWitt, Jack Cannon, David Sosnowski, Jim Ortner, Randy Bowser, Peter O'Regan, Francesco Marchetti, and others. And thanks to Chris Gilbert for the fantastic graphics. Thanks to Frank Spitznagel for his diligent work and efforts that laid the cornerstone for developing this library. And a special thank you to Wendy Carlos.