The VSL ones have comprehensive maps, they are what I use.. They can be expensive though.
Thanks. I will check them out.
I loved my Garritan Personal Orchestra. All the instruments are brilliant. However, the multichannel version is not usable. And I donāt use VST2 anymore. So I just use midi channel 1 and make a few instances if I need more Garritan libraries. I donāt think theyāll even be around much longer. A real shame.
The main benefits of GPO were the overall lightness in terms of resources, how comprehensive it is, and the separate attack control that made it more agile, combined with the integration with notation software back then. And, the inexpensive cost.
But it always been weak in the sonic department, it sounds pretty bad compared to most libraries out there. Even 20 years ago this was the case. I remember going on the old Northern Sounds forum around 2006, a forum for discussing virtual instruments. Then Garritan started to sponsor the site, and after that, people were banned for saying anything negative about Garritan. So the banned escapees founded VI-control where they could speak truth about virtual instruments without repercussion, and Northern Sounds became a de facto Garritan fan club of sorts where the Garritan faithful would listen to peoples really bad sounding GPO mockups and rave about how realistic they sounded. It was a bit weird, I got a lot of āEmperorās New Clothesā vibes from that place. I didnāt hang around too much longer after that, and it only hobbled along for a few more years before shutting down.
Iām a retired aerospace engineer. After I retired I finally had time to finish the second half of a musical I started work on in in 1987 with a Mac II, a Roland D-10 synthesizer and Finale, which I purchased in 1987 at the Mac Music fest at Paramount studios, just over the hill from where I now live in Burbank. But in 1987 I had just moved into an apartment in North Hollywood. After the Mac II came the dead years with a PowerMac, with ever crushed hopes that a decent sound card would ever be made for it. Then came the little tangerine iBook, which could actually run Finale and Unity DS1 (software synthesizer) in conjunction. Then came an Intel Mac desktop and Garritan and Native Instruments and more responsibility and a house with less and less time for composing. Iām loving my time now being able to focus on the musical, despite all of the challenges that come with it.
Iām on holiday at the moment, using my iPad, but the ARIA Multi-output VST3 plug-in works fine for me, as far as I can tell,
Plogue are planning a new āSforzando 2.0ā, which hopefully will address many of the issues.
Iām happy enough with Noteperformer, though I still use ARIA for my own choir sounds, āBassiā instruments with octave doubling, most keyboard instruments (including things like Glockenspiels and Celesta).
Doing a little more research on ARIA plug-ins. I had stated in an earlier post that Logic Pro on my setup is using ARIA Player 2.026 and that it has no problem with using all of the channels. But Logic Pro does not support VST plugins. It uses AU plugins, and ARIA Player 2.026 does have an AU plugin so that has to be what I am using with it. So, perhaps the ARIA AU plugin doesnāt have the channel problem. Unfortunately, Dorico doesnāt support AU plugins, so I canāt test it on Dorico. I do not have the 2.026 plugin (which only comes as VST3) installed in my audio plugins folder. Iām leery of installing it and adding it to Dorico, but if it can support only one channel there is not much point in doing it anyway. Setting up my project for that would take as much work as moving to more future proof sound libraries and setting them up.
FYI, Dorico 6.2.30 is now out with a fix for the issue of not being able to select MIDI device/port/channel for an individual component of a percussion kit.
Thanks. I installed the update this morning but havenāt tried it yet.
I did finish transferring my musical from Finale to Dorico. Still a lot of work to do cleaning up mistakes and omissions.
It probably wont do anything for your strange map setup but now you can set up the maps the correct way and that should work.