A lot of the issue is not Garritan. It has a lot to do with how human playback is set up. However, just for kicks, I placed a pizzicato in one of the violins at measure 83. When it plays back (HP on, GPO5-solo violin 1 KS) the pizzicato is oddly loud and the other strings are very muted. I can't find any way to fix that other than to change to the included Garritan sounds (violin solo 1 KS), but that messes up other things in the balance etc. Bottom line-playback is far from optimal in Finale, and this is taking away time from actually writing music to futz with playback issues. I realize Finale is ultimately a notation program. But given how much focus the program has on playback, along with incorporation with the (additionally purchased) GPO samples, it should at least be reasonably straightforward to use. 

Pizzicato strings are governed not by the expression controller but by MIDI note on velocity. Sorry, I'm no Finale expert but somehow one needs to program HP to take account of that.

JohnG.

Interesting. Does MM know this? 

They wrote the manual for GPO4 and 5, describing how it all works, so I would assume they know.

It is well worthwhile downloading a copy of the GPO4 manual and reading the sections about the use of MIDI controllers for various instruments and articulations.

JohnG.

Well if I change that violin to the built in garritan solo violin ks (so not GPO5), the pizzicato is not too loud and balanced with the other instruments. Why is the same instrument as such in GPO5 such that when it plays pizzicato, the other instruments are nearly silenced? And no, that shouldn’t require me to have to figure out how to use controllers. This is silly. I’ve used similar GPO strings previously without such issues.