Using the Garritan Aria Library

New to Dorico. I want to use the Garritan Aria Sound library instead of the Halion sound library. How do I do that? Newbie question!

First of all, are you on a Mac or Windows?

Have you bought any of the Garritan libraries, like GPO5, Jazz and Big Band, etc? Or do you just have the Finale-bundled sounds?

First of all, I’d make sure you’re up to speed with basic Dorico usage, before you start complicating things with additional third-party libraries.

There are some playback templates for GPO5 (which I made), and for the Jazz library (JABB); but not for most of the others. However, the Garritan libraries rely on fairly similar principles, so it should be easy to adapt expression maps and templates for other libraries.

I would make sure you read through the documents I’ve written, which you can download in this thread, along with some helpful Dorico files and expression maps.