I just bought the Orchestral Colors package. The sounds are amazing. But I still can’t figure out how to use them in combination with a Dorico score. I assume there must be a playback template that I have to import.
Is there a (short) specific video tutorial anywhere that shows how to make this work.
Sorry, but no. You will have to create your own Expression Maps and Playback Templates (unless and until someone else has had a go!)
Here’s the Dorico tutorial on playback templates
Is there anyone who has already created a template for Orchestral Colors? And if so, can you make that template available for other users? Can the Steinberg team make one and make it available via this page: Playback Templates for Dorico – Dorico
That would be a great help for me. Thanks.
It seems to me that, like Spitfire’s Tutti Orchestra, this is designed much more for DAW use than for notation. I don’t see how they’d be very practical for use in Dorico. How would these ‘pre-orchestrated’ voicings sound in Dorico? What would they look like on the staff? What would be the point of printing parts with single notes that represent in fact, a combination of string parts blended together? I freely admit I don’t understand much about DAWs and composing for them, and this isn’t a criticism- just musings from my curiosity. 
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OK I bit.
Here’s a very basic playback template.
Orchestral Colors.zip (1.6 MB)
Since there are no keyswitch articulations, each instrument has to load a separate instance of Halion with its relevant articulation patches and the expression maps use relative channel switches.
Here’s how it sounds (no strings in this little ditty)
I was pleasantly surprised.
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