Early Music VSTs for use with Dorico

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Miroire from Orchestral Tools is one of the few ones. It contains ‘quite reasonable’ Violins and Violas, Oboes, Flutes, Trumpets and Horns, and a generic ‘Basso Continuo’ instrument that’s doubled Cello and Contra, plus bassoon.

It suffers from a number of problems: the sustain only lasts 5 seconds; there’s no pizz artics and OT libraries can be difficult to control in Dorico. I think I’ve finally got command of it now (But I need to update the Ex maps and template I’ve posted here, yet again!)

Miroire OT Experimental Ex Maps

After around two weeks of messing around with Orchestral Tools’ SINE Player and the Miroire Library, I’ve got an experimental set of Expression Maps for Oboes, Flute, Brass, Strings and Basso. The maps are probably most useful (or rather only useful) with the SINE Player presets that I’ve also made. You can load these .otsave files into the SINE Player. They are still a bit crude and a ‘work in progress’, but I thought I’d share them, to see if anyone else can use them or improve on them. I’v…

I also use another OT library: Tableau, which is a string quartet, but the Cello, set to no Vibrato, works well with the Miroire strings as an alternative to the Basso instrument, as here:

For theorbo, I use Garritan’s GPO5 Harpsichord, set to the Buff stop!