
If your music uses a lot of world music instruments, you may wish to purchase a third-party sample library that includes them. If you are a jazz or pop composer or arranger, you will probably want to acquire the Garritan Jazz and Big Band library. If you do a lot of writing for orchestra, you may want to upgrade to Full GPO to gain access to the expanded range of orchestral instruments.

Play back the staff using the best available substitute instrument. If your score requires instruments that are not included in the VST instrument libraries you own, you may be wondering what to do. It’s either one or the other - you must choose either standard MIDI playback, or VST playback. That means it is not possible to mix sounds from an external synthesizer/sound card or a software soundfont (like the SmartMusic SoftSynth) with Garritan Instruments. When Play Finale Through VST is turned on, regular MIDI playback - including SmartMusic SoftSynth Playback, and MIDI sent to external devices - is disabled. Any of these instruments can be combined with the instruments from Garritan Instruments for Finale, full GPO, and JABB - the only caveat being that instruments from separate AU/VST libraries must be loaded into separate banks (unless they have been updated for the Kontakt Player 2) - (see the section on Channels for more information about banks). Finale 2012 was designed to take advantage of the best audio plug-in architecture, allowing Finale to load virtual instruments (like the Garritan instruments) and effects (like Ambience Reverb) directly, without having to rely on a separate application to host them.įinale also supports a whole range of additional VST samplers, synths, effects, and instruments - see the Finale website for details. VST plug-ins, like Audio Units plug-ins, can be virtual instruments or effects, which can then be used by any audio application that supports VST plug-ins.

VST stands for “Virtual Studio Technology.” VST is an audio plug-in standard developed by Steinberg (creators of the Cubase, a digital audio workstation application). MIDI Playbackįinale users without prior experience with sampling or digital audio software may be somewhat confused by the new and possibly unfamiliar terminology relating to Garritan playback in Finale. You are here: Finale Tutorials > Garritan and HP Tutorial > AU/VST Playback vs.
