You don't need anything to run it. It should run just fine. Especially since you have a large amount of ram.
If you wanted to use the Garritan player for a software synth for live performance, then you'd need to get a sound card that could give you tolerable latency (ie: the delay you'd hear when you press a note and hear it......). But for playback with Finale, it should be fine. My old athlon XP machine which is now 5 years old can play Garritan sounds through it's internal sound just fine. On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Dalvin Boone<[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using finale 2005, and now I want to install Finale 2010 and start > using the Garritan instruments/sounds. My computer is a Dell Insp. 518, > Intel core2quad processor with 4 GB of RAM. The sound and graphics are > "integrated" (i.e., there's no PCI sound card or graphics card). > > What do I need to add in order to use the Garritan instruments? A > SoundBlaster card? Do PCI Card audio interfaces (e.g., M-Audio Audiophile > 2496) cover the same ground? According to a booklet that came with my > computer, it (the computer) has a PCI 2.3 slot, a PCI Express x1 slot and a > PCI Express x16 slot, whatever that means. > > The Finale website says: > "A soundcard (including a DirectSound AS20 recommended driver) is required > for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows." > > Dalvin Boone > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
