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...
I've put together a wealth of information about ARIA Player and the Garritan libraries, over and above the existing documentation. These include List of Errors in GPO5 instrument definition files....
There was no mention in the announcement about Garritan products. Are they end-of-life as well? I mean, they haven't been developed since 2016 in any case, but....
Hope it's alright to 'advertise' this: I just came across a company who is making piano samples that will work in the ARIA Player. https://www.productionvoices.com/sforzando-libraries/ Production V...
GPO5's Concert Grand Harp is a really nice instrument, but it's far too loud. It goes well into the red at the slightest provocation. I'm convinced that this is an error, not a deliberate decisi...
As Finale 27.2 is now Apple Silicon 'native' -- including the ARIA Player -- I would hope that we will see updates to the purchased Garritan libraries that include the new ARIA Player, and any othe...
The Finale 27.1 installer seems to install the plug-ins in TWO locations: one in the 'usual' location (on Mac) of: /Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale27/Plug-ins and also in the folder ...
The Release Notes to Finale 27 state that "All fonts shipped with Finale are now available for use under the SIL Open Font License." However, this is not mentioned in the EULA at all. SIL fonts m...
If you install the Finale 27 DEMO onto a Mac which already has Finale 26, (and even if you say No to deleting F26), then your copy of F26 will be damaged by the deletion of various files inside the...
5 minutes into testing the new release, and I'm so disappointed by the interface. 1. The new tool icons are weak, and lacking in contrast. They look like an old photocopy. 2. The problems with Da...