Garritan Harps virtual instrument features a variety of harps and special features including advanced glissando emulation, sampled acoustic spaces, and much more to give musicians, composers and producers the tools to easily recreate the enchanting sound of the harp in their music.
A collection of harps are featured in this instrument including Salvi Pedal, Venus Concert Grand and Lyon & Healy. Special features include full-ranged harp articulations - traditional angelic-sounding harp plucks, harmonics, Pres de la table, picked, dampened, and other types of playing techniques. Through a variety of options, Garritan Harps also makes playing glisses accessible to any musician.
Compatible with both Mac and PC and all the major sequencers, Garritan Harps is designed to be a perfect addition to music notation-based programs, like Finale, as well as to all sequencers and digital audio workstations.
The acclaimed ARIA player, which includes Ambience Reverb and Convolution Sampled Reverb, is included with Garritan Harps. With this technology, the sound of specific performance spaces can be captured and shared. Garritan Harps offers more space perspectives and flexibility than any other professional harp instrument.
The standalone ARIA Player also allows anyone to load and play back MIDI files and produce audio recordings of the MIDI file or live performances, without additional software.
Pure, pristine sounds
Each string was sampled for the entire life of its natural decay.
The sound of each string is sweet, pure, powerful, and dynamic with minimum crosstalk.
Full range of harp articulations
Traditional angelic-sounding harp plucks (gentle, soft, medium, and loud)
Special effects include harmonics, Pres de la table and damping
You can also perform chords, arpeggios, trills, tremolos, and bisbigliando.
Heavenly Glisses
Unique built-in keymapping emulates the pedals of a harp so you can play realistic harp glissandi and arpeggios that can be performed in real time and customized to your music.
Glisses are easily played in Garritan Harps by running one’s fingers up and down the keyboard.
List of Harps
SALVI PEDAL HARP 1
Keyswitch, sustain, picked, harmonics, pres de la table, damped
SAVLI PEDAL HARP 2
Keyswitch, sustain, picked, harmonics, pres de la table, damped
VENUS CONCERT GRAND 1
Keyswitch, sustain, picked, harmonics, pres de la table, damped
VENUS CONCERT GRAND 2
Keyswitch, sustain, picked, harmonics, pres de la table, damped
LYON & HEALY HARP
Keyswitch, sustain, picked, harmonics
SALVI GLISS HARP 1
Sustain, picked, pres de la table
SALVI GLISS HARP 2
Sustain, pres de la table
VENUS GLISS HARP 1
Sustain
VENUS GLISS HARP 2
Sustain
LYON & HEALY GLISS HARP 1
Sustain
Ensemble Presets: Combos
Cluster Harps
In The Clouds
Percussive Space Harps
Ready for the Concert
Super Wide and Soft
Super Wide
This Isn’t a Harp
Wall of Harps
Harps Glisses
Wide variety of preset glisses are provided so you do not have to individually set each pedal. These presets are organized by the tonic note of the scale or chord.
In addition, there are six special scale presets (Blues, Enigmatic, Hungarian Major, Persian, Romanian, Unrealistic) and four whole tone scales.
Press Reviews
"...a beautiful-sounding set of instruments with plenty of options for articulations and tones." - Music Tech (Rating 8/10)
"If a virtual harp is on your shopping list, put this one at the top - it´s approachable, intitive and sonically stunning." - Computer Music (Rating 9/10)
Format
Virtual Instrument
Product Type
System Requirements
Core 2 Duo CPU or better recommended.
2 GB RAM Recommended.
3 GB of free hard drive space.
Hard drive speed of at least 7200 RPM.
Monitor with 1,024 x 768 resolution or better.
Sound card compatible with ASIO 2 or Direct Sound (PC).
A MIDI interface may be required if you are using a MIDI keyboard. Many keyboards now use USB.
The ability to assign controllers within your keyboard, music program, or sequencer are recommended.
Internet connection for updates and online registration
32 bit and 64 bit supported.
Mac Intel CPU or better,
Mac OS X10.5 minimum.
2 GB RAM Recommended.
3 GB of free hard drive space.
Hard drive speed of at least 7200 RPM.
Monitor with 1,024 x 768 resolution or better
A sound card compatible with ASIO 2 or or Core Audio (Mac).
A MIDI interface may be required if you are using a MIDI keyboard. Many keyboards now use USB.
The ability to assign controllers within your keyboard, music program, or sequencer are recommended.
Internet connection for updates and online registration.
