This post on another forum suggests that you should never use the pan or fader controls on the ARIA player.
http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php/102602-Finale-Garritan-Aria-faders-reset-on-play I created a new default score from scratch (using the wizard, and then assigning all the JABB instruments myself.) I don't really see any relationship between the ARIA mixer settings and the Finale mixer settings. But if I never touch the ARIA mixer, it seems to work consistently, except that the Finale pan doesn't seem to have a very strong effect. I can never get the pan to put a voice ENTIRELY to one side or another. So from what I can surmise, you use the Aria player to assign instruments and to set up the reverb sends, but nothing else (unless you are tweaking the sound of a particular sample (EQ, etc.). Is that how others do it? On 5/3/2013 6:31 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > I posted this on another thread, but maybe it deserves its own thread. > > I am looking for practical advice on how Aria (i.e. the Garritan sounds) > relates to the normal Finale mixer window. > > It appears to me that if I use the faders on either one, they have an > effect, but they are not linked. So it is probably a mistake to use > both. Same situation for the pan controls. So I am moving forward on > the assumption that I should not use the Finale mixer window at all. I > have set the Finale faders all to the same level, set all the pans to > dead center, and then closed that Finale window, never to be used > again. Is that the right approach? > > But that still leaves a problem regarding the Aria faders. I expected > the fader levels to be static, like an un-motorized control surface. I > want the volume to adjust up and down during playback based only on the > dynamic expressions I have entered in the score. I expect to set the > Aria faders once for my starting ensemble balance, and then rely > entirely on the score's dynamic expressions during playback. > > But what I am seeing is peculiar behavior where several of my > instruments are sending the Aria faders up and down, seemingly at random > places that correspond to nothing in particular in my score. It is > acting as if I am using Aria as a plug-in to Sonar or some other DAW. > > I don't want those faders to move once I have set them. Any idea what > might be going on here? Basically it is unusable as it currently exists > because my Aria faders keep jumping around on me. > > Thanks, > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
