

Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 can be launched by itself and played live via MIDI keyboard or other MIDI controllers. The same MIDI channel can be assigned to more than one slot for combinations and mixtures. This will bring up the drop-down menu shown on the left, from which you can click on the desired MIDI channel. MIDI channel assignments can be chosen by clicking on the assignment number for the slot. If you also use the Garritan Instruments For Finale set that comes with Finale, here is the list of keyswitches for that.Note: Each ARIA Player slot has an assigned MIDI channel. Just duplicate one that's already there and edit it to reflect the settings for the articulation you want listed in the two charts mentioned above. NOTE: You'll need to create new articulation settings yourself on that tab for any of the articulations beyond the basics (e.g.

Techniques tab of Human Playback Preferences correspond to these settings will save tons of headaches. Make sure your GPO5 articulations listed on the Instr. Same thing with the Garritan Personal Orchestra Keyswitch Triggers chart, also from the Finale manual. The MIDI Note To Pitch Table in the Finale manual was a lifesaver for me and I keep a printout of it next to my MIDI controller. Also, it's essential that you use the Notation set of GPO5 instruments and not the Standard set (the Notation instruments have an "n-" before their names), as the keyswitch pitches for the Notation set are located two octaves below those of the Standard set, well below the range of the soft keyboard you see at the bottom of the Aria player.

I had to re-assign the proper MIDI Notes to the keyswitches I wanted, and then the articulations triggered properly. Techniques tab in Human Playback Preferences. I had similar issues and the problem turned out to be the Instr.
