As you can imagine, the users of the Garritan Personal Orchestra are musical bunch and have just finished the 2nd Christmas Album, an MP3 format collection of Christmassy tracks. 22 composers from the United States, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy and Slovenia have provided their original recordings of holiday favorites. This is the second volume of a holiday musical tradition like no other. Each of the orchestral recordings were made not with large, live orchestras in vast recording studios at huge expense, but rather were created by a single person working on a computer. What they have in common is the Garritan Personal Orchestra, a commercial computer software composer’s toolbox of digital samples of real acoustic orchestral instruments. The frequently stunning realism of the recordings on this album are a testament not only to the sophistication of personal computer technology, but also to the skill of the composers, arrangers and programmers who have used these tools so remarkably well. I'm listening to it now and already feel more festive... Download it here:
http://garritan.com/Xmas.html

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