

The channel assignments for each instance of the ARIA Player must correspond to the channel assignments in the ScoreManager. If you change an instrument's channel assignment in the ARIA Player, you must also change the corresponding staff's channel assignment in the ScoreManager. You may choose any ARIA Player channel (from 1 to 16) for the selected instrument. You can change the MIDI channel assignment for this slot by clicking on the lower right number and selecting a different MIDI channel from the dropdown menu: The above instrument loaded in slot 1 is assigned to MIDI channel 1. By default, the channel number is the same as the ARIA Player slot number. There are 16 slots in the ARIA Player VST instrument, each corresponding to a particular MIDI channel indicated in the lower right corner of the slot. Clicking the pencil icon next to a bank opens the VST instrument assigned to that bank, where you can set the actual instrument sounds for each channel.


This means your document could play up to 128 simultaneous Garritan instruments assigned to 128 different MIDI channels, distributed across 8 ARIA Player instances with each instance hosting up to 16 Garritan instruments (1 per channel). Noteman says: If you are unfamiliar with the concepts of MIDI channels and MIDI instruments and how they relate to Finale, consult MIDI Terminology before continuing.įinale supports a maximum of 128 MIDI channels for playback, organized into 8 banks of 16 channels each, as you can see in the VST Banks & Effects dialog box:Įach bank is played through a single VST instrument, such as the Garritan ARIA Player. For new scores created with the Setup Wizard and instruments added with the ScoreManager, Finale automatically chooses the best channel assignments for the instruments used in your score. The information that follows is primarily of interest to people trying to manually set up playback for existing scores, such as those imported from earlier versions of Finale. It is strongly recommended that you use the Setup Wizard or ScoreManager when creating new scores. Noteman says: For the best experience in using a Garritan library with Finale, see Setting up Garritan sound libraries in Finale in our Knowledge Base.
