I recently bought Dorico 6 and have what seems to be a common problem - Garritan audio engine making Dorico crash. Initially I used Dorico successfully on my Mac for a project using the Halion sounds then tried to get better sounds by opening Garrison Jazz and Big Band but couldn’t get multi outs to work. I tried various things on forums etc and have now made it considerably worse - Dorico won’t open at all and crashes immediately saying it can’t connect to the audio engine. Obviously I can’t do anything in Dorico preferences as it won’t open. The VSTaudioengine doesn’t appear in the Activity Monitor unless I open it from the Garritan Aria Player folder in applications. It then appears in Activity Monitor but Dorico still crashes on opening. I’ve tried rebooting, temporarily moving VST files and opening Logic Pro X first but nothing seems to make any difference. I’m not great on computers so I’ve probably moved things so much they’re in the wrong place now. I’m thinking of uninstalling and re-installing all Garritan and possibly all Dorico software but thought I’d ask on here first before doing something drastic.
First of all, what macOS version are you on, and what Mac? Do you have any external audio interface hardware?
ARIA Player should work absolutely fine with Dorico. I don’t think there are “common problems” with it. Make sure you’ve got the latest version, which you can still download from MakeMusic here:
Note: if you re-install any of the Garritan libraries, then that might install an older version of the ARIA Player. There probably isn’t a need to reinstall the Garritan libraries for the time being.
This doesn’t quite make sense: the VST Audio Engine is a Dorico sub-process. You can’t open it via the ARIA Player.
Make sure that Activity Monitor is showing All Processes in the View menu. You can search for a process name in the search field of the titlebar. If it’s not showing, then you should be able to launch Dorico. At most, restart the computer.
Thanks - I’m on Monterey 12.7.6 on an Intel i5 iMac with a UA apollo twin. The only VSTaudioengine I can see is inApplications/Garritan Aria Player/VSTAudioEngine 6.app. That’s the only one that comes up in Activity Monitor. It says All Processes.
OK, that’s very weird, because the VST Audio Engine app is normally INSIDE the Dorico application bundle, and normally ARIA Player doesn’t install a separate folder called “Garritan ARIA Player”.
So I suggest that you delete that folder, and then use the Steinberg Download Assistant to reinstall Dorico 6 and everything it needs. Then re-install ARIA from the link I gave.
I absolutely second here what benwiggy wrote.
I had to uninstall and reinstall Dorico as it wouldn’t open at all but it all seems fine now and my Garritan instruments work - probably something weird I did wrong. Thanks for your help.