I’ve been trying to make a full ensemble piece consisting of woodwinds, brass, and strings. I then discovered BBC Symphony Orchestra from Spitfire Audio, which sounded much greater than the default HALion Sonic VST. However, trying to replace HALion with BBCSO has been a nightmare. Replacing the VST is the easy part, the hard part is getting more than one instance of it to load without the Assigned Instrument part of the Endpoint system to be overridden with one previously made (see image). Even worse, after fixing it in the Track Inspector, it just switches back (see image). I’m so goddamn lost on this plugin that I don’t even know how to approach this problem anymore.
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You should use the correct Playback Template for the BBCSO library. (You can download them here).
Then you only need to do Play>Playback Template…, choose the BBCSO template from the list and apply it, and your playback will be set for all the instruments in your ensemble (assuming they exist in the BBCSO library).
Yes: I’d agree that you should start with the Playback template that’s already available.
However: I think I’m right that each BBCSO VST plug-in only loads one instrument. So you can’t have Flute and Oboe on different channels of the same plug-in.
Yes BBCSO can use multiple channels for the microphones to create Dolby Atmos and the like but not multiple instruments. You can also play mutiple articulations at the same time I think but Innever used that.
It would be desirable to have a possibility to in Dorico switch off this automatic loading and even replacing manually loaded instruments based on the playback template. So you would use the playback template to populate all your instrument slots and would then be able to deconnect it if so desired.
I assume “BBCSO Discorver.dorico_pt” is the playback template from that Spitfire link, but where do I place it? Loading the template just tells me it wasn’t found, so I think it’s trying to find the template in a different part of the SSD that isn’t the zip file it came from?
Alright, figured it out. Just had to import it directly through the Playback Template window. Thank you very much Janus.
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