Garritan Harps is an innovative new virtual harps collection. This sound library is the next step in the revolution that GigaHarp started over a dozen years ago. Garritan Harps takes the virtual harp exponentially further. In addition to pure, pristine recordings of each note and a full range of harp articulations, new technologies give you advanced glissando emulation, sampled acoustic spaces, and much more.
Listen to the Heavenly Sounds of Garritan Harps
Garritan Harps features a variety of harps including Salvi Pedal, Venus Concert Grand and Lyon & Healy. Innovative technologies allow you to easily bring beautiful harp sounds to your music. The Garritan Harps sampled sound library integrates the uniquely powerful and high-performance ARIA Player.
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
Harp 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.
