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. Plugin and are trying to make it work, ask me again When you get to the point that you've downloaded and installed the Understand what you're trying to achieve and will be able to offer you GPO site forums, and tell them that you're trying to download the pluginīut that you don't know how tell them you're using a Mac, and tell them ".I really cannot help you if your problem is that you don't know But how do you do this? After corresponding with the person who wrote the plugin program, the final result is: The plugin is called "Sibelius Automated Keyswithc Plugin", and is found on this page:īut 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.
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. So if you have a Mac, you're pretty well stuck. users, and cannot deal with computer novices. There is no way to figure it out yourself unless you're a computer geek first, composer second.Īfter that, you're largely on your own. 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.Īfter 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. Look on the chat pages at and to get good information from the many people who successfully use GPO.Īlso, hope that in some future licencing deal, Sibelius will do better than the present very unsatisfactory arrangement. However, you can drive GPO from Sibelius. 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. The Kontakt player included with Sibelius is, currently, set to use only those sounds supplied as part of the package with Sibelius - i.e.
Garritan believes high-quality, expressive and affordable software instruments should be within the reach of every musician. We are committed to creating new standards that are consistently in the forefront of music technology, yet remain focused on the human elements of music and real performance. Rjbowers wrote:I have the Garritan Personal Orchestra that is using the Kontakt player. Garritan is the world’s leading provider of quality virtual software instruments.