Hi Forum:
Now that I’ve mastered Dorico input (not!!!) I’d like to use my Garritan instruments in Dorico.
I’ve followed as well as possible the various tutorials, but when I add the Aria multi player
It looks like ARIA isn’t finding any of your Garritan libraries.
If you launch the ARIA Player app, is it any different?
No; it looks exactly the same as in Dorico; here’s the Aria player opened as a standalone.
You probably have to manually enter the path to the samples in the Garritan preferences file. Check out this article:
OK, so it’s an ARIA configuration issue.
ARIA isn’t picking up any libraries – not Instruments for Finale, not GPO5, nor whatever others you might have.
Has something changed? Did it work previously?
ARIA uses a plist file in /Library/Preferences/ (that’s top level, not user library) called com.plogue.aria.plist. That contains information about the libraries that are available.
Each of those libraries has its own plist, like com.garritan.InstrumentsForFinale.plist. Those files contain the filepath to both the samples (usually /Users/Shared/) and the instrument definitions, (usually /Library/Application Support/Garritan/).
The easiest thing is probably just to reinstall the Garritan libraries; or find the plists from a backup.
Thanks benwiggy et alia.;
Reinstalling Garritan libraries was the fix:
@benwiggy also made a very nice Playback Template for GPO5; it has given new life to my Garritan library.
I’d add @benwiggy has written an outstanding piece of documentation about the library along with the playback template. A must-read.
