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Ben Byram-Wigfield commented,
I doubt this forum will still be active in September. I'm not convinced that there are many 'newbies' of Garritan software, either. MM have been silent on the fate of Garritan from September; but t...
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Ben Byram-Wigfield commented,
There is Groupe des utilisateurs francophones de Dorico on FaceBook for French Dorico users.
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Ben Byram-Wigfield created a post,
ARIA Engine update 1.981: June 2025
Plogue have released a new version of their Sforzando player. (Plogue are the people who made ARIA for MM/Garritan.) The installer contains a new version of the ARIA Engine, which is used by bot...
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Ben Byram-Wigfield commented,
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- Finale - Problems & Questions
- Finale 27 in macOS 26 Tahoe — so far... Not ready but it works (sort'a' kind'a')
There are several problems with interface controls. The playback Stop button doesn't work (though you can press space). And under certain circumstances, menu items can become greyed out. In the ...
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Ben Byram-Wigfield commented,
All the Garritan installers contain all the sample data as compressed files, with file extension ".data". These are unpacked and resaved as ".audio" files in the installation process. If the instal...
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Ben Byram-Wigfield commented,
If you don't already have CFX installed on your Mac, then yes, you'll need to install it! ;-) If it's already there, then installing a new version of ARIA Player won't (shouldn't) break anything. T...
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Ben Byram-Wigfield commented,
- Community
- Garritan - Problems & Discussion
- So this NOOB bought Garritan cheap on another site - why does it want me to use discs?
Garritan libraries haven't used Kontakt since 2009 and earlier. It's likely that those old products used the CD-ROM as a form of software protection -- no CD, no work. Whatever it is you've got, it...
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Ben Byram-Wigfield commented,
ARIA offers 445 Hz as an option. Is that close enough? ;-) You might have to do it with pitch shifting in your host software.
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Ben Byram-Wigfield commented,
Plogue have released a new version of Sforzando, which installs ARIA Engine 1.980. This version no longer flags an error when loading a VST saved state with a higher version number. So if you in...
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Ben Byram-Wigfield commented,
Try a different octave, because there are so many competing view of whether Middle C is C3, C4 or C5..!