User Manual
13A User’s Guide to Garritan World Instruments
Regarding Sound Cards, Audio & MIDI Interfaces
e quality of the audio interface will have a signicant eect on the quality of the sound you will
hear from Garritan World Instruments. It will also have a substantial eect on performance (both
latency and polyphony). erefore, a good sound card is one of the most important components in
optimizing the sound and performance of Garritan World Instruments.
In theory, any audio or sound interface that the manufacturer supports for your operating system and
computer, and that has good drivers should work. However, you are unlikely to get the best sonic re-
sults from a sound card designed for computer games or system sounds. Most computers come with a
consumer-grade sound card, and we recommend that you get a good quality sound interface beyond
the one built into your computer. Older SoundBlaster sound cards (that do not support multiple
sample rates) and gamer-oriented or home system sound cards may be problematic. It is not possible
for us to test all built-in or third-party sound cards, and some interfaces do have problems on some
platforms, so please see the specications page on the Garritan website if you are considering buying
a new sound card to run Garritan World Instruments.
A low-latency audio interface with ASIO 2.0 or WDM/WaveRT drivers (Windows) or Core Audio
drivers (Mac) is required for World Instruments to work as a standalone program. ese drivers are
normally installed with the audio interface, or the most recent versions can be acquired from the
manufacturer’s website. Contact the manufacturer of your sound card for more information.
Any MIDI interface the manufacturer supports for your system should also work with Garritan
World Instruments.
Please note:
When Garritan World Instruments is running as a plug-in, it uses the audio driver selected by the
host’s setup. If the host (typically your sequencer or notation program) is set up properly and works
well, then the ARIA Player plug-in should pass through the same audio and MIDI setup. For this
information, please refer to your sequencer’s, notation program’s, or host’s manual.