User Manual
61A User’s Guide to Garritan World Instruments
Putting It All Together for a Real-Time Performance
e basic system is to use your Mod Wheel, Note Velocity, Sustain Pedal, Keyswitches, and other
controllers to play your instruments with nuances and expression. It couldn’t be easier! With the more
advanced controls you can ne-tune your performance. is approach lets you play your articulations
in real time in much the same manner as a player of the actual instrument does.
Using your hands and feet simultaneously to perform the dierent tasks requires some coordination.
e key is to start simple and to realize that you do not have to do it perfectly the rst time. e best
way to learn is to practice playing just the notes with one hand. Learn the ngerings for the notes and
apply the accents where appropriate. Once you are acquainted with the notes and the accentuation
scheme, gradually add the other controllers and use keyswitches. For example, play a wind instru-
ment melody with the right hand. After a few practice runs try riding the Mod Wheel for expres-
sion. en keyswitch a bend attack and add the sustain pedal for legato phrasing. Soon you’ll develop
coordination, and by combining the dierent controls in real-time you’ll have an unlimited amount
of expressive capabilities. Once you get the hang of it, you can play almost anything that comes to
your musical imagination.
Create ensembles of your choosing with individual instruments. With Garritan World Instruments,
you can build instrumental ensembles, one instrument at a time, exactly the way you want. You can
combine world regions and have a hybrid Hawaiian-Afro-Celtic ensemble, or any grouping of your
choosing. When you create a section from separate instruments performed individually, with varia-
tions in timing and expression, you can achieve a very realistic performance. You can assign instru-
ments of a section to dierent MIDI channels so that you can have individual parts for each player,
or you can assign multiple instruments all to a single MIDI channel to create automatic ensemble
unisons.
By using the real-time performance controls to play each instrument expressively and building en-
sembles, the nal result can be extraordinary.