Help setting up garritan instruments for finale?

[benwiggy]

@crodriquenz

Second, of course expression maps need to be made for all of the instruments, and I’ve tried REALLY hard to dive into that process a few times and have never been able to fully figure it out.

You’ll find Expression Maps for GPO5, along with a Playback Template that works on Mac here:

Dorico Expression Maps for GPO5

Here are revised Playback Templates and/or Expression Maps for GPO5 with Dorico 5. As above, note that Windows users may not be able to load the VST state, because the Mac version is a higher number. Sadly, this negates a lot of the work I’ve done of selecting instruments for Dorico Players. In order to make use of Dorico’s Stage and Space templates, I’ve turned off GPO’s Stereo Stage (CC103) in ARIA Player, set the Pan to 12 o’clock, and assigned the Small Studio Convolution (NB: turn off Amb…

There’s also extensive documentation about how to work with Garritan and ARIA in Dorico.

If you only have GIFF, then you only need the ‘basic’ GPO Default map for sustaining instruments; and you can use the Dorico built-in Default map for Percussion.