Playback Template for Garritan Instruments for Finale

[crodriquenz]

Hey all, I’ve actually been a Dorico user for quite some time but recently I’ve gone in with the news of Finale’s demise and exported a few of my old Finale projects to Music XML files so that I can have them in Dorico and not lose them.

When I went back into Finale to take a look at some of these old projects, I realized I very much enjoy the Finale sounds… they’re not great in terms of realism IMHO, but there’s something about them that is endearing to me and I miss that sound when writing. I’d LOVE to have access to those sounds again, and of course I could create my own playback template in order to make sure that I have access to them (and I have all the necessary sounds from Finale downloaded to my system) but I quite honestly do not have the patience nor the time to create a playback template. Does anybody have a playback template for the Garritan Instruments for Finale that they would be able to share with me?

[benwiggy]

Are you on Mac on Windows? (It matters, because the Mac version of ARIA is incompatible with the Windows version.)

There are a LOT of instruments in the whole GIFF – about 400! So producing a complete template would be a lot of work.

Most instruments will respond to a simple Expression Map – the “GPO Default” map in my GPO5 template would work.

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:

[crodriquenz]

Thanks for that, I’ll try that out!

I’m on Mac, apologies didn’t realize that would be relevant in this case.