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Using Garritan Personal Orchestra and Jazz & Big Band with PG Music productsYou can use 'Garritan Personal Orchestra' and 'Garritan Jazz & Big Band' with Band-in-a-Box ® for Windows, RealBand, and PowerTracks Pro Audio.They are most suited for use in either PowerTracks or RealBand (particularly GPO). The main reason for this is that GPO and JABB don't have a full set of General MIDI instruments, and in Band-in-a-Box ® you can only use one synth for all your tracks. On the other hand, in RealBand (or PowerTracks) you can select a synth for each track individually.This tutorial describes RealBand, but it is also entirely applicable to PowerTracks Pro Audio. For Band-in-a-Box ®, you can use the same information, but there are a few.The Garritan manuals and have full details on installation and use; this tutorial is only intended as a general guide, with some troubleshooting tips and tricks related to PG Music products.We also have an older which describes earlier versions of the products.Last updated: Friday, 09 November 2018. System Requirements. Windows XP or higher operating system. 1GB RAM minimum, 2 GB recommended.

2.8 GHz Pentium 4 or better, 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo or better recommended. DVD drive required for boxed version, internet connection for download version, updates, and online registration. About 3.5 GB of free hard disk space, depending on which libraries you install.Components applicable to PG Music softwareWhen you install GPO or JABB, it mentions a few different components. The one applicable to our software is the VST plugin. The RTAS plugin is not applicable (it's used with Pro-Tools and other Digidesign compatible software), and the notation set is used for notation software like Finale.

AU (Audio Units) only applies to Macintosh users. It doesn't hurt to install all components anyways, if you are not sure.The Aria VSTi plugin is the sampler engine used to load and play the Garritan instruments. The first thing you need to do is add the Aria plugin to RealBand's list of available VSTi plugins. Open the DXi/VSTi window by clicking on the button in the top toolbar.Note:.

VSTi plugins will not by accessible for selection in the MIDI Driver Setup dialog (re-route playback to default synth) until you add them to the list of plugins. Aria is a VSTi synth plugin - the 'i' stands for 'instruments'. These are different than VST plugins, which refer to audio effects like reverb, EQ, and so on. DX/DXi is a different plugin standard. GPO and JABB are not used as DXi plugins.

The ARIA player is where you do all the work selecting and loading instruments. The top section of the player has 16 slots, allowing you to add up to 16 different instruments (one per MIDI channel) The bottom section can be toggled between mixer, effects, and settings panels. The player doesn't respond to Program Changes, so you need to manually load in the instruments.Before loading an instrument, you first need to know what MIDI channel to use. On the RealBand Tracks window, the channel is displayed in the Track information area, or by right-clicking on that area.Note: If the channel is '0' this means that no particular channel is assigned (i.e. There is no 'forced channel' on that track) - instead, you'll need to look at the Event list window to determine what channels are being used.

You can rechannel all existing events to the channels you select in the Tracks window by going to the Edit menu and selecting 'Rechannel all tracks'. To load an instrument, click on the name of one of the slots (intially, they will all be 'empty'), then choose the instrument from the hierarchical menus. Exactly what items are in the menu depends on which libraries you have installed (i.e. Garritan Personal Orchestra, Jazz & Big Band, or other). You may have installed both the Standard and Notation version - you should choose 'Standard' for sequencers like RealBand. 'Notation' is used for notation programs like Finale.In the mixer panel, make sure the volume is turned up for that channel. The instrument should play now.There are full instructions about using the ARIA player in the Garritan manuals, but that is the basic concept.

If you are using Band-in-a-Box ®Here are a few things unique to using the plugin with Band-in-a-Box ®. JABB and GPO don't have a full set of General MIDI instruments. JABB has drums (including a General MIDI drum kit and some brush kits), bass, keyboards, woodwinds, brass, and guitar sounds. This covers many of the instruments used by Band-in-a-Box ® Jazz styles. To select the Aria player: Open Band-in-a-Box ® and go to Opt.

MIDI Driver Setup. Select the Use DXi/VSTi Synth checkbox to open the DirectX/VST window.

On the Synth panel tab, select 'Add VSTi Plugin' from the top 'plugin' pull-down menu'. You can only use one synth at a time in Band-in-a-Box ® - similar to re-routing all playback to a default synth. To find out what channel Band-in-a-Box ® is using for the different tracks, you can go to Opt. Preferences Channels. By default:TrackChannelBass2Piano3Melody4Thru5Guitar6Strings7Soloist8For example, if you were using the style ZZJAZZ.STY (Bass, Piano, Drums) you would load in a bass sound to channel 2, load in a piano sound to channel 3, and load in your drum kit (ZZJAZZ.STY uses the Standard Drum kit, but many other Jazz styles use the Brush Kit) to channel 10.

To open the DXi/VSTi synth window during your session, you can just press the DXi button on the main toolbar (you don't need to get there via the MIDI Driver Setup all the time). Troubleshooting Trouble connecting to the pluginIf you get a message that RealBand cannot make connection to the plugin, or it is not a valid plugin, there are a couple possibilities. You may be selecting the wrong.dll files.

When you installed the Garritan program intially, there was probably one screen that asked you to select your VSTi plugins folder. If you aren't sure what you selected there, try a search for the plugin file, which is 'ARIA Player VSTx86.dll', or try running the installation again until you get to that screen so you can see what folder is selected. It would typically be something like C:Program FilesVSTplugins. Note: If you happen to be selecting portaudio.dll or lbsndfile.dll, those are the wrong files. You may have selected the 'x64' plugin by accident. Select the 'x86' plugin.

Even if you have a 64-bit OS, you need to use the 32-bit plugin with PG Music programs. Less likely, but perhaps you have an older version of the Garritan product that is installed as a DX plugin. Since DX plugins show up in the list of plugins automatically, this is sometimes a source of confusion. Choose the VSTi plugin instead by following the steps in the tutorial above.Playback problems. No sound during playback: You likely need to open the ARIA control panel and add instruments.

Pay attention to which channels you are adding the instruments to, and check those against the channels displayed in the RealBand tracks window. You may find that the on-screen keyboard in the Aria Player doesn't work. If you are using ASIO audio drivers in RealBand, you can resolve this problem by opening the ASIO Audio Drivers dialog ( Options Preferences Audio Drivers) and enabling the 'ASIO Always On' option. DXi play-thru (ability to play an external MIDI controller and hear what you play through the DXi synth) will work as long as you are using an ASIO audio driver in RealBand. You set up your audio drivers in Options Preferences Audio.

If you are using MME, thru playing is routed to the default MIDI output device selected in the MIDI Driver Setup dialog.Miscellaneous. Do you have an old version of the program? Band-in-a-Box ® 2005 and earlier, and PowerTracks version 11 and earlier, do not support VSTi plugins. The latest versions of Garritan Personal Orchestra and Jazz & Big Band are not available in the older DX plugin standard.

Do you have an older version of the Garritan products? Earlier versions of JABB and GPO used the Kontakt player rather than the Aria player. You can still use these with Band-in-a-Box ®, however the exact steps are slightly different. We have an on using the older versions.

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Rjbowers wrote:I have the Garritan Personal Orchestra that is using the Kontakt player. Sebelius 3.1 comes with Kontakt Silver.The Kontakt player included with Sibelius is, currently, set to use only those sounds supplied as part of the package with Sibelius - i.e.

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The Silver set or the Gold. Using GPO with Sibelius is just like using a renderer from a completely unrelated company - you aren't meant to access the Silver or Gold sounds with your GPO Kontakt player, and you can't access GPO from the Sibelius Kontakt player.However, you can drive GPO from Sibelius. Look on the chat pages at and to get good information from the many people who successfully use GPO.Also, hope that in some future licencing deal, Sibelius will do better than the present very unsatisfactory arrangement. Not only is it very awkward to have to use entirely different ways of accessing your sounds, including different ways, for instance, of choosing things like 'pizz' and 'arco', but you pay for GPO and then can't burn directly to CD with it, exchange files reliably with other people, or indeed use Scorch properly. You can use GPO as a standalone (you cannot control from Sibelius), but also as a VST instrument, and that is the interesting part.In fact, if you go to Garritan site, you can download GPO Studio v1.2, that works as a host for VST instances of GPO.

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The Studio create 8 virtual MIDI buses in you computer (PC). Then you can configure it within Sibelius, and use it with/combined/instead of the Kontakt Player Silver or Gold. There's also a tutorial on the Garritan Site.I suppose that for MAC works the same, with the diff. That OSX already has virtual MIDI buses working.Also, if you use PC, look for a little program called MidiYoke. With it you can create 8 more virtual Midi buses, and you can use in fact any sampler or instrument (standalone) connected to Sibelius through any virtual bus. You connect Sibelius to any bus, and the connect any software to that same bus.

I use succesfully with Kontakt Full 1.5.3, EWQLSO Silver (Kompakt Player), HALion, among others.regards. Posts: 4 Joined: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:50 pm. After you've loaded the GPO orchestra program on your computer from the CDs, you then just have to call Garritan and ask someone to help you download the latest GPO Studio and place it properly on your computer. There is no way to figure it out yourself unless you're a computer geek first, composer second.After that, you're largely on your own. Most Garritan users are P.C. Users, and cannot deal with computer novices. So if you have a Mac, you're pretty well stuck.

For instance, I've been trying to figure out how to 'load' a Plugin for keyswitches that would enable my score to perform pizzicatos and arco when using GPO Studio (instead of Kontakt Gold) to play my piece. The plugin is called 'Sibelius Automated Keyswithc Plugin', and is found on this page:But after you find it, what do you do with it?

Presumably, you 'download' the program, and stick it in your Sibelius Applications folder on your computer, then it will appear in the Sibelius PLUG INS pull-down menu. But how do you do this? After corresponding with the person who wrote the plugin program, the final result is:'.I really cannot help you if your problem is that you don't knowhow to download a file to your Mac. Go to another Mac user, or to theGPO site forums, and tell them that you're trying to download the pluginbut that you don't know how; tell them you're using a Mac, and tell themwhat browser you're using. Then someone reading it will be able tounderstand what you're trying to achieve and will be able to offer youhelp.When you get to the point that you've downloaded and installed theplugin and are trying to make it work, ask me againNeil'So, not much help. Until Garritan or someone makes a really good step-by-step manual, computer searchable, GPO is not a good choice for those of us computer illterate composers.