Garritan have announced the release of the GPO Studio. GPO Studio is a VST host application for Windows and Mac, created specifically for the Garritan Personal Orchestra. Foremost, it manages up to 8 instances of Garritan Personal Orchestra, allowing you to play up to 64 instruments simultaneously on 64 separate MIDI channels. GPO Host also allows Garritan Personal Orchestra to be used with virtually any notation program including the bundled GenieSoft Overture SE notation program, as well as Finale and Sibelius. For the first time, notation program users can play high-quality orchestral sounds from their scoring program. GPO Studio will also interact with any from other MIDI programs or sequencers that don't directly support VST plug-ins.

GPO Studio will be available free to all registered users of Garritan Personal Orchestra and they will be developing GPO Host even further and are working on adding more features and capabilities.

You can save and load sessions in GPO Studio. You can also load pre-configured orchestral templates to match those in Overture SE for a tighter integration between the two applications. GPO Studio provides 8 virtual MIDI ports (16 MIDI channels each), which you can access from within your MIDI program. For example, you can send MIDI data to the first instance of GPO launched within GPO Studio by routing output to the Personal Orchestra 1 MIDI port, as displayed in your notation or sequencer program.

GPO Studio also manages an instance of Ambience Reverb, which automatically places the GPO instruments in a room, hall, cathedral, or similar space of your choice. Within GPO Studio, you can modify every instance of the GPO Kontakt Player and Ambience Reverb by double-clicking an icon in the main GPO Studio window. You can even configure your audio card settings with just a few mouse clicks. GPO Studio achieves latency of 6 milliseconds or lower, provided your sound card supports ASIO or Core Audio. GPO Studio also supports non-ASIO and non-Core Audio sound cards (or internal audio), though the latency will be noticeably higher.