This being largely a wind library, I can't imagine that he wouldn't give MIDI Wind players access. Somehow I think I'll be pleasantly surprised, because Garritan is no idiot, and he knows what musicians demand from a good library. I could elaborate further, but that covers the buy/don't-buy points. Hopefully, it will let me sustain and release the sound at my will, and not follow an envelope when not using Velocity. Hopefully it's smart enough to fade in and out of sample layers as the numbers go higher and lower, no matter which controller those numbers come from. At the very least, give us Velocity control (which I abhor on a MIDI wind instrument), Breath Control, Expression, and Volume. The most important thing is to be able to use any controller you want for playing it. I haven't used it yet, so I don't know if that's true or not, but if it lacks some of the capabilities of Kontakt Player, then that's true, and it would be sad for us. Whereas Kontakt is a little intimidating, my fear has been that this Aria player is going to dumb things down. (amazing library) The library (GJ&BB) has nice touches that were put there by people who certainly know what they're doing.

Well, that is, until Wallander made all his WIVI libraries available for one low price. I'll let you decide which, but moving on, the library has instruments you can't get anywhere else. that either means I don't understand enough about music to discern that it's a bad library, or I do understand enough to know how to get GJ&BB to work for me. To further the theme Dave Polich started, I've always been a fan of the Garritan J&BB library.

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