GPO, GM and samplers

Lately I have reviewed some MIDI/sequencer sampler software. I have fallen in love with Garritan Personal Orchestra when looking for DAW software. They just released a new version - GPO4 - as I already have mentioned.

GPO makes very good sounds for piano, cellos, violins and most of the other instruments they have in their orchestra. And most of the instruments works as expected without any problems at all.

There is to things that I really miss out, and it is:

1. Percussion  - mapped to General MIDI. Today all percussion instruments has to be remapped from general MIDI standards.
2. Guitars. I love the sound of a good guitar.

To solve this I found a very nice tool called ForteDXi. It is a sampler (DXi interface) that gives you all general MIDI instruments not found anywhere. It is loaded with 128 high-quality sampled instruments, and offer a sound quality far better than the standard Windows Midi Synthesizer.