No bass sound from Garritan-Aria player

Neatly following the instructions of the Dorico tutorials by Anthony Hughes I try to change the sound of some instruments. I created a special try and error sheet for study purposes. I’m certainly doing something wrong and hope someone can help me out.

So, why is my bass not sounding? When I control the sound on the piano keys in the library it is alright, but in the score I hear nothing.

You’ve loaded it into Slot 6 of the ARIA player.

In the Track Inspector, have you set the instrument to send on channel 6 …?

The default is channel 1, so alternatively, you could put the Bass on Slot 1.

(And set the correct Expression Map.)

Spot on!

Thank you very much, Ben. In slot 1 it works. I had it in six to reserve the lower slots for other instruments. In the Track inspector I had also 6 checked, but apparently that doesn’t work that way. Anyway, I changed the bass in a full score and it sounds but now the tenor sax also uses the bass sound.

If 6 was selected in the track inspector, it should have worked, hmm. I use Garritan w/Aria quite frequently without issue. Glad you found a resolution.

Can you upload a project with the problem?

That suggests that the sax is also sending to the same channel/slot.

I find the easiest way is to create a new ARIA vst for every instrument, and just put one Garritan instrument in Slot 1 of each.
Then assign each Dorico instrument to each ARIA Player. You can even rename the VST in the Endpoint Config, so it’s called “ARIA Sax”, or whatever in the drop-down.

I have had complete success with entering as many as 16 instruments in one Aria Multi player and using the various channels. I wonder if it has anything to do with the Endpoint Setup? I typically adjust that to show all 16 channels.

Thank you very much Ben. This part of the program is still very confusing for me, but I’m learning. Thanks again for your help.