I’m a newbie from Finale.
Can someone please point me to a video which explains how to do this?
I have watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDCavA7zyw many times, but it is different to Dorico 5.1. When I go to the PLAY tab, it doesn’t show the list of instruments with a drop down list for each.
I have been trying to do this for 3 days now .
I want to add my own VST3 CFX piano, for example.
This interface is not very user friendly IMHO.
I would appreciate any advice
Welcome to Dorico, @macgregor.choo — hope the surprise learning curve has a nice slope!
Are you working in Play Mode with the Track Inspector to assign your virtual instruments.
yes. I select my CFX for the piano. But it puts it into the flute track as well.
I can’t see a way to separate the sounds for each instrument (I only have two)
Thank you Judddanby,
I managed to work it out, finally. I was looking (unsuccesfully) for a reasonable flute sound in Dorico. I managed to allow Dorico to load the Aria solo flute sound (just OK!) from Finale. My problem was making sure the correct channels were selected. Sorry to trouble you and thanks for helping.
No trouble at all — that’s exactly why this forum is here!
Not knowing the details of what you were going for, I’m glad I could manage to offer something in the form of the online manual link.
Regarding playback sounds, Dorico assigns instrumental sounds to players based on the combination of what libraries you have installed and Playback Templates, found in the Play menu.
(N.B. The Play menu is not the same thing as Play Mode, the tab you click to see the Key Editor etc.)
What version/level of Dorico are you running (SE, Elements, Pro) and what instrument library/-ies do you have installed? (Since you’re using the Aria player, I’m guessing GPO5 is one…?)
For a great instrumental library, I can recommend highly NotePerformer. It’s a brilliant third-party library that “plays very nicely” with/in Dorico right out of the virtual box. Generally abbreviated here in the forum as NP, you’ll see it pop up all over the place in discussions. The (IMO meager) cost of $129 — which I believe is a lifetime license (!) — has to be among the best 129 smackolas I’ve ever spent.
Finally, for future reference you’ll find that the best way to let us know what you need help with might include a screen grab if it’s a simple enough kind of question, and/or an actual Dorico project file.
You’ll be able to upload them once the new-forum-member limitations (totally understandable from Discourse’s perspective, but kind of ironic in this case, since our newest Dorico users are among those likely to need help). Daniel wrote great instructions in section 4 of this post:
I’m grateful for this advice.
It’s Dorico Pro crossover; so it’s version 5.1 on an MSI laptop.
My needs are small. A good piano sound (hence my CFX) and not much more. I record against that with my shakuhachi.
Now I’m up to speed with most of my basic Dorico needs.
I still am having trouble working out the Halion 7 interface. But maybe I don’t need that, at least for a while.
I see others are having similar issues as I had. When I was installing Dorico, the assistant was less than helpful.
There was a list of programs and effects. How to decide what to download? Having a powerful computer, I usually check the “complete installation” box. Everything in the list was a mystery for a newbie. Surely Halion 7 is better than Halion? Download it! Not even knowing what it was. I have since paid for it, thinking maybe it had some better instrument sounds. Probably I’ll never use it.
But we’re up and running, happy to report. Thank you again.
I’ll check out Note Performer.
Right now, I’m using the familiar sounds of Aria.
I’m sorry. Yes, screen grabs are useful. It’s just that I’m not good at it. Although I have a technical mind (Civil Engineer), my 74yo brain has some limitations in some areas.
Thanks again.
Andrew