On 14 Mar 2005, at 2:26 PM, John Bell wrote:
FinMac 2005b
I'm trying to get GPO to work at all with Finale. I've read Adam Burford's tutorial, which says "You’ll see 8 Players: Player 1, Player 2, ... Player 8. Click on one of the Player buttons and up pops an instance of the Kontakt Player".
This is my first problem. Clicking on the player buttons does nothing. I can open Kontakt player and load up to 8 instruments, no more, but don't know how to access them in Finale. In Finale's Instrument List window GPO Studio shows up, but opposite that is a list of 128 numbered patches. Selecting one of these does not produce any of the sounds I have loaded into GPO.
No reply so far to my email to GPO Support.
Hi John,
First off, it sounds like you are maybe using the wrong application. You need to launch the application called "Personal Orchestra Studio," otherwise known as GPO Studio -- NOT "Personal Orchestra," AKA the GPO Kontakt Player. The GPO Kontakt Player does not talk to Finale -- only GPO Studio does that.
GPO Studio is not installed by default, you have to install it separately.
So, Step 1 -- make sure GPO Studio is installed.
Step 2 -- Launch GPO Studio. (Do NOT launch "Personal Orchestra." Do NOT launch Finale yet.)
The GPO Studio interface window says "Garritan Personal Orchestra Studio" in the title bar, and has eight little keyboards labeled "Player 1, "Player 2," etc.
When you click on "Player 1" it should spawn a new window, with "Garritan Personal Orchestra 1" in the title bar. If this doesn't happen for some reason, there is a serious problem with your installation of GPO and you should delete everything (including preferences) and reinstall.
As I have said a couple of times before, the General MIDI instrument names you see in Finale's instrument list have NOTHING TO DO with the instruments you load in GPO Studio. The ONLY thing that influences what sound you hear in Finale is the staff's CHANNEL NUMBER. So, if for example, the top staff in your Finale score is set to Channel 1 in the instrument list, then it will play whatever instrument you have loaded into the first slot of Player 1 in GPO Studio -- that is, provided Finale's MIDI Setup options are set correctly. And, as we have been talking about in this thread, you have to re-do your MIDI Setup options in Finale every time you launch Finale.
In addition to re-reading Adam Burford's tutorial, you may want to check out the GPO forum at Northern Sounds:
http://northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=39
This forum is monitored by Gary Garritan himself, as well as lots of GPO "power users," so if you find you still can't figure things out, you might want to ask your tech support questions there.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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