GPO4 not loading

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Vanessa McClintock Posted September 24, 2020 21:43

Windows 10 Pro, Finale 26 Current // // I also posted this on the Garritan side; please excuse my impatience :-)

I just purchased a custom-built computer and downloaded and installed Finale 26 to it.

I also downloaded and installed GPO4 and then GPO5, in that order.

Finale default instruments, SmartMusic SoftSynth, and GPO5 show up in the Device List in Score Manager, but not GPO4.

I found a thread that is four years old that addresses this, but nothing current. I did "Manage VST Plug-in Directories" and found the VST2 folder with Garritan, but to no avail.

I also did Restart a few times, and did apply the Keycards to ARIA player for both GPO4 and GPO5, and I did try reinstalling GPO4 twice.

I did update ARIA Player to 1.959, but it is for ARIA Player x64. The (brown) ARIA player is v.09

Also, when I open Aria Player by itself, I get an error message, "Check Preferences. Maybe the current driver doesn't support this sample rate."
The sample was preset to 44199Hz

Any current ideas?

Thank you,
:-)
Vanessa

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J ADRIAN VERKOUTEREN Posted September 24, 2020 21:56

I can open Aria Player VST_x64 and load GPO (which is what GPO4 is called internally) into the player and play instruments from it.

I never use the VST_x86 players in Windows 10 (64-bit), and I only use the Multi VST_x64 player inside Dorico to send different slots to different output channel in the Dorico Mixer.

I have the same Player version you do and have the 1.967 version of the engine.

The GPO4 installer loads an out-of-date version of the Aria Player (the brown one). I got rid of it. IIRC Garritan claims not to support GPO4 any more, but that may affect Mac users more than Windows 10 users. (I find I do still have GPO on my Catalina Macbook Pro from 2012.)

Vanessa McClintock Posted September 25, 2020 00:34

Hi Adrian,

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, I did get the antiquated ARIA player, and updated it to v1.9 (see above).

In the screenshot, one can see for ARIA Instruments: Finale Default Bank, GPO, and Personal Orchestra 5.
So, I guess GPO--in this case--is GPO4.

The problem remains the same, however, and that is GPO4 does not load in Finale -- see this screenshot:

...and that is what I am trying to fix--getting GPO4 to load within Finale.

Help!? ;-)

:-)
Vanessa

J ADRIAN VERKOUTEREN Posted September 25, 2020 16:03

Go to https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217663758-Setting-up-Garritan-libraries-with-Finale-and-PrintMusic , download the setup file, and use the instructions for Finale 25 to place the files in the proper places. You cannot get to this page via current Finale 26 help links, and I hope mods will leave this up for those who have the GPO files and want to continue to use them (alongside GPO5) as long as they work with the current Aria Players.

Vanessa McClintock Posted September 30, 2020 01:30

Hi J Adrian,

Thank you for the great tip. Once I got to the page it looked familiar--I remember, now, that I had to do this before.

BTW--the instructions for Finale (26) worked.

:-)
Vanessa

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