With thanks to Philip Rothman of NYC Music Services, we’ve been published on the Scoring Notes blog with a post about our experience setting up Garritan premium libraries in Finale – “Getting Started with Garritan’s Premium Libraries”
Finale’s Human Playback offers interpretive continuous controller and keyswitch data in order to maximize realism in playback from a sample library. This set of tools from MakeMusic enables composers a reliable means of proofing, evaluating and demonstrating their compositions for their clients.
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Getting Started with Garritan Personal Orchestra
The installer omits essential connective files that must be installed manually.
Setting up Human Playback
Many techniques that are possible with Human Playback are not included in the Finale defaults, but the means to set them are available
Where’s my violin tremolo?
Maybe the presence of this sample in the Finale default set led to the omission of this commonly used sample from GPO
How can I reset a keyswitch in Garritan?
Keyswitches in Garritan start at C–2 – that’s the C five octaves below middle C – and ascend chromatically.
How can I use GPO in a DAW?
Tip: Save banks created by Finale’s Setup Wizard for reuse in your DAW.
Read it here.