JABB Garritan use for dummies

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The Multi_x64 is just the name on Windows for the Multi VST on Mac.

The Multi VST can output each slot on different channels, so that each one is on a separate mixer slider in Dorico.

The VST3 plug-in can handle polyphony perfectly well: but it only receives on channel 1, and only outputs one channel. If you’re using custom Endpoints, you’ll probably have one instrument on one VST anyway. ARIA is so lightweight that 32 VSTs with one sample each loads just as quickly as 2 fully loaded VSTs.

But presumably, Plogue will update this plug-in with full features, if MakeMusic are interested…

I’ve written a load about GPO, some of which may be relevant to JABB

Dorico Expression Maps for GPO5

Here are my Expression Maps for using GPO5 with Dorico. The package includes: documentation of what I’ve done, so that you can understand it and adapt it to your needs; a spreadsheet of what switches and CCs various instrument groups use, and which Brass instruments use which maps. There’s also a general-purpose Garritan Ex map, which should work (to some degree) for other Garritan libraries, such as the bundled Finale instruments. Let me know how you get on, and if there are any egregious pro…