The Player (Plr) designation in a Garritan instrument name indicates it has been designed exclusively for use in an ensemble setting. These player instruments are derived from the corresponding solo instrument and constructed so that none of the three numbered Player instruments have any samples in common with one another. Each Player instrument has been mapped starting with a different note (e.g. C, C#, D) and using every third sample in the mapping. This allows all three instruments to be applied to unison ensemble lines without having common samples for any given pitch. For their designed function these instruments containing "stretched" samples work well together despite the samples sometimes sounding less than ideal if played by themselves.
Only the "Solo" instrument is intended to be used in a solo context. Also, the "Solo" instrument should never be used along side any of the "Plr" instruments if a unison is to be encountered in the writing. Again, this is because the "Plr" instruments all have samples in common with the "Solo" instrument from which they are derived and this can cause phasing problems.
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