Hi John,
Did you move any GPO folders after you installed them? That VST error message suggests that something went awry in your installation. I would suggest doing a full reinstall of GPO and GPO Studio and seeing if that fixes the problem.
Also, once you've got Finale talking to GPO properly, don't forget to download all of the GPO updates! Unless you got a boxed version of GPO 2.0, there have been considerable revisions since the original release, and you should download all the patches.
Also, here's an important tip for Finale Mac -- GPO Studio allows eight "Players," each of which can accommodate eight sampled instruments, for a total of sixty-four different sampled instruments. But in the Mac version of Finale, when you go to MIDI Setup, at first, it looks like Finale will only accommodate four GPO Studio Players, (i.e., 32 instruments max) because there are only four boxes. In fact, a recent article in Keyboard magazine on GPO and notation software alleged that four GPO Studio Players was the maximum for FinMac.
But that's not true! Here's how to get all eight players:
In Finale's MIDI Setup, chose your MIDI keyboard for the Input Device (Channels 1-16). Next, for the Output Device for Channels 1-16, first choose "GPO Studio: 1." This assigns the eight instruments in GPO Studio Player 1 to MIDI Channels 1-8.
Now comes the trick: hold down the SHIFT key, then click on the *same* Output Device pop-up menu you just used -- the one for Channels 1-8. Select "GPO Studio: 2". If you did this correctly, you should see *both* "GPO Studio: 1" and "GPO Studio: 2" in the same Output Device box -- the one for channels 1-16.
Now, repeat the procedure: assign Channels 17-24 to GPO Studio: 3 and GPO Studio: 4; Channels 33-48 to GPO Studio: 5 and GPO Studio: 6; and Channels 49-64 to GPO Studio: 7 and GPO Studio: 8.
[By the way, if anyone from Coda is listening, this is a serious PITA and we all really wish the MIDI Setup in the Mac version worked like it does in the PC version, where you actually have eight Output Device boxes, instead of four.]
Also, be sure to turn on "MIDI Thru" (I set it to "Smart") so you can hear the GPO instruments play back during Speedy Entry.
Now, you're not *quite* done yet -- you also have to tell GPO Studio what you've done. And the MIDI Channels listed in the GPO Studio Players aren't the same as the ones in Finale -- they are *relative*. In other words, in GPO Studio, the MIDI Channel numbering only goes up to 16, then it starts all over again. So, for instance, if you look at GPO Studio: 3, the eight instruments *say* they are on MIDI channels 1-8, but for Finale purposes, they are actually on MIDI channels 17-24. What's more, GPO Studio doesn't know that you've assigned two "Players" to each bank of 16 channels in Finale.
If none of this makes sense yet, don't worry about it. The upshot is, you have to modify the default MIDI Channels on all the odd-numbered GPO Studio Players (and *only* the odd-numbered Players). You do this by clicking on the MIDI button in the GPO Studio Player, which is located directly below the "CPU Usage" meter. Assign the first instrument in GPO Studio Player 2 to MIDI Channel 9, the second to MIDI Channel 10, etc., so that the eight instruments in the Player are using Channels 9-16. Now, repeat the procedure for GPO Studio Player 4, Player 6, and Player 8.
In other words, all the odd-numbered GPO Studio Players should be set to use MIDI Channels 1-8 (as they are by default), and all the even-numbered Players should be set to use MIDI Channels 9-16.
So, here's a summary of which GPO Studio Players are assigned to which MIDI channels, both internally (i.e., the number that shows up in the GPO Studio Player itsefl) and in Finale (i.e., the channel you use in Finale when you want that instrument):
GPO Studio Player 1: internal channel 1-8: Finale channel 1-8 GPO Studio Player 2: internal channel 9-16: Finale channel 9-16 GPO Studio Player 3: internal channel 1-8: Finale channel 17-24 GPO Studio Player 4: internal channel 9-16: Finale channel 25-32 GPO Studio Player 5: internal channel 1-8: Finale channel 33-40 GPO Studio Player 6: internal channel 9-16: Finale channel 41-48 GPO Studio Player 7: internal channel 1-8: Finale channel 49-56 GPO Studio Player 8: internal channel 9-16: Finale channel 57-64
Now, the other thing to remember is, you're not going to see the GPO instruments in Finale's Instrument setup list, and the *only* setting here that matters is the channel (the "program" option has no effect). You need to create a separate instrument for each staff (or, in some cases, a separate instrument for Layer 1 and Layer 2), and assign it to the *channel* that corresponds to the desired instrument in your GPO Studio.
For example, let's say you have loaded "French Horn 1 Player 1" into the first slot of GPO Studio Player 3, and "French Horn 2 Player 1" into the second slot of Player 3. And let's say you have Horn 1 and 2 assigned to the same staff in Finale, with Horn 1 in Layer 1 and Horn 2 in Layer 2.
So, in the instrument list, you would click the arrow to expand your "Horn 1/2" staff, create the instrument "Hn1," assign that to Layer 1, and choose Channel 17 (GPO Studio Player 3, first slot = Finale's MIDI Channel 17). Next, create the instrument "Hn2," assign that to Layer 2, and choose Channel 18 (Player 3, second slot = Finale's MIDI Channel 18).
Be sure to save your GPO Studio Setup when you are done! It's a lot of work setting up even a moderately large ensemble, but once you've saved it, you can load it again in a single step.
This all sounds needlessly complicated -- and it is. But you'll get the hang of it soon enough.
The only thing I can't figure out is how to get Finale to remember the choices I made in Finale's MIDI Setup. Even after setting up everything and saving preferences, every time I launch Finale I get the same error message:
"Finale is expecting the following devices, but they are not found in your current Audio MIDI Setup configuration. Check your configuration in Finale MIDI Setup and in Audio MIDI Setup.
Devices: GPO Studio: 1, GPO Studio: 2, GPO Studio: 3, GPO Studio: 4, GPO Studio: 5, GPO Studio: 6, GPO Studio: 7, GPO Studio: 8"
Anyone have any ideas how to fix that?
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
_______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
