MuseScore to Aria player Garritan Sounds

• Oct 10, 2018 - 19:37

I recently downloaded Garritan Personal Orchestra 5.0 and Aria Player. I want to have MuseScore work with GPO 5. The information on the forums is outdated and incomplete. How can I set up MuseScore to talk to Garritan. If JACK is a must, then how do you set up JACK and GPO 5 to communicate with each other? I see that in MuseScore I can select JACK as an I/O option. I have been successful in getting MuseScore to communicate with JACK but I have not be able to complete the circuit to GPO 5.

Thank you.

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kuwitt

• Oct 10, 2018 - 20:22

There exist two German HowTos for this purpose (for Windows and Mac), maybe use a online translator to translate it:
https://musescore.org/de/node/266851
https://musescore.org/de/node/265225

Other suggestions, maybe it's possible to get run it via midi out, see the comments in this thread: https://musescore.org/en/node/208986

dakndak1

• Mar 10, 2019 - 04:32

Hi, Did you figure out how to do this? I'd love to confirm that this works (well) before investing in GPO 5.
Thanks!

kuwitt

• Mar 10, 2019 - 18:59

I didn't check it. On the one hand I don't find time to set up a Jack connection, on the other hand I'm using Linux and had to adapt it for this OS. These are tutorials with MS 2.x and I read about difficulties with MS 3.x sometimes last time.
Maybe figure it out yourself (and reply); at least here's a (Deepl.com)-translation for Windows:

"Need programs: Musescore, Jack Audio, LoopBe

Under Mac the virtual midi driver is not necessary, here it is.
Link to the manufacturer: http://www.nerds.de/en/download.html

Installation Jack Control and LoopBe
Open Jack Control/Setup: Driver: portaudio Server Prefix: jackd -S -R -X winmme
Start Jack Server to check - then disconnect again
Start Musescore Settings / Input and Output / Activate Jack Audio Server, Important: Uncheck "Use Jack Audio", otherwise you always have to disconnect the audio connection manually under Jack Controll/Connections, otherwise the midi sounds will also be transmitted. But we only want the VST's
Exit Musescore, settings only work after restart
Open aria player: Settings/LoopBe check the box - close Aria again
Ready!
Starting order:
a) Start Jack Control/Server
b) Launch Aria Player - Instruments or profile for the score, activate effect
c) Start Musescore
Tested with the free contact player from NI, Garritan for finale, Garritan Personal Orchestra 5

Occasionally you have to pass on a file as a sound sample. When exporting wav/mp3 directly from Musescore, the sfz in the plug is used in the Musescore folder. Therefore the following solution:

Right click on the volume icon in the taskbar and activate recording devices.
Click in the empty field below and activate "Show disabled devices". Select "Stereomix" and set as default.
Audacity/Settings/Devices: Recording Device: Stereomix
Application sequence:
a) Start Jack Control/Server
b) Launch Aria Player - Instruments or profile for the score, activate effect
c) Start Musescore with score
d) Start Audacity
e) Activate recording - Press play button for Musescore - All is recorded

Good luck trying it out, the screenshots are attached as a file.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator"