GPO 5 / Aria Player does not show up in Dorico 4 (Apple Silicon Mac)

[sinakr2009]

Hello, I just updated to Dorico 4.3.3 from Dorico 3.5 and my GPO 5 / Aria Player no longer appears in Dorico and I have not been able to make it work so far. I have a M1 Max MBP + macOS Ventura 13.1.
I tired the following steps:

1. Installed the latest Apple Silicon Aria Player from here and rebooted.
2. Added the following to the vst2whitelist.txt in Dorico 4 application content:

ARIA Player VST
565354474152416172696120706C6179
ARIA Player VST Multi
565354474152616172696120706C6179

3. Followed the instructions in this Steingberg Support page BUT there is no allowed and blocked lists in the VST-plugins settings in Dorico 4 preferences for me!!! (There is in Dorico 3.5!) See the attached photo
   
   

I am not sure why I don’t have those lists.

I have not been able to get it to work yet…Aria Player does not show up in the drop-down menu in my play mode

I am out of options now…please help me set up GPO 5 in Dorico 4.3.3

[Ulf]

On native Apple Silicon we don’t support VST2 any more. But you could start Dorico in Rosetta mode, then it will still work.

[sinakr2009]

Aria Player supposedly supports VST3.

I also tried opening Dorico 4 in Rosetta and it still does not show up in the VST rack.

[Ulf]

Then please do in Dorico from the menu Help > Create Diagnostics Report and attach the corresponding zip file to a reply here. Thanks

[sinakr2009]

Here it is

Dorico Diagnostics.zip (1.4 MB)

[Ulf]

Thanks for the data. According to what I see in the logs, Aria does get detected and it shall appear in the dropdown list under the Garritan vendor category. Can you please check again?

[benwiggy]

GPO5 won’t show in your Playback Template by default, unless you create or download a Playback Template for it. Dorico doesn’t come with knowledge of every conceivable sample library. But if you had one for 3.5, I think it should bring it over.

If you click on VST and MIDI, you should be able to add an instance of ARIA Player.

I have created some expression maps and templates for GPO5 here:

Dorico Expression Maps for GPO5

I’ve updated the Brass and Woodwind expression maps, with some of the newer features in Dorico. I think I’ve made them much more usable. The Brass is mostly for the SAM Solo and Section instruments. GPO Ex maps.zip (24.1 KB) Documentation is also revised, including a list of errors in the SFZ files, and how to fix them. GPO5 Docs.zip (289.1 KB) There’s another thread about the GPO5 Custom Organ Console here:

I’d recommend reading through the Version History PDF, to see all the changes that have been made since 3.5.