Than you for your answer!

I have tried that and it works fine.

But is there som way to get the typical piano notation, where the right and left hand are tied together with a curly bracket. With two piano staves there will be a bracket for each staff.

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Pekay

Is there som way to adjust the volume balance between the right and left hand on piano?

In my composition the whole left hand should have a little lower volume than the right one.

I am using Sibelius 6.

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Pekay

Excellent!

Very fresh and exciting. What impresses me is that these pieces sound like real compositions full of genuine feeling.

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Pekay

When I launch Vienna Ensemble Pro 5 I get the message "No MIDI devices are configured. Please review audio/MIDI preferences".

I can't get any sound. What should I do?

It has worked before.

I use Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Vienna Ensemble Pro 5.0.10738 (64-bit)

*** I found the mistake I hade made. I had lauched the Vienna Ensemble, not the server.

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Pekay

How can I trigger the first choked cymbal (C#6) in Sibelius?

When I create the Technique Text command "choke", as expained in the 'Optimizing Sibelius Playback', I get the D#6 choked cymbal, not C#6.

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Pekay

I exeperience that the output volume (gain) from Sibelius is very low. That means I have to have the volume on a high level on my sound equipment when playing back from Sibelius.

Usually there's a way to adjust the volume of the sound that goes from a program to the sound equipment. (to take a simple example, you can adjust the volume in YouTube).

But I haven't found a way to do this in Sibelius. Have I missed something?

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Thanks, I'll try that.

Pekay

Now I have tested a little more.

When I deactivate a playback device the other devices lose their connection to the Vienna Ensemble Pro server. And then I lose all the settings in the configuration.

Is there some way around this?

What I'm trying to do is to change Ensemble to Ensemble Pro. First I activate the Ensemble Pro device. And when I'm ready with it I deactivate the old Ensemble device. But when I do this the new Ensemble Pro is disconnected and the settings are lost.

Hope you understand what I mean.

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Pekay

Andi,

Thank you very much for giving me the file location! Something had happened but I could save part of the work by restoring the configuration files from the Time Machine.

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Pekay

When I save a configuration in Playback Devices in Sibelius, it is loaded automatically next time I open the same file.

I worked with a composition and changed the playback device from Vienna Ensemble to Vienna Ensemble Pro. I used a lot of time to set the instruments in MIR Pro, saving the configuration every once in a while.

Next time I opened the same file in Sibelius the configuration was not loaded. It seems as if its gone. This has happened a couple of times before.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there some way to get back the configuration?

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Pekay

As I understand it, you won't be able to put all the instruments on one MIR stage if you use several VE Pro instances. Is that correct?

But the workaround fixes this problem. Is there some disadvantage of using the workaround?

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Pekay

How can I download these presets?

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Paky

Worth the money?

MIR is truly amazing!

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Pekay

Thanks, I'm testing now. It works great so far.

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Pekay

If I order the MIR PRO and Ensemble PRO 5 Bundle, what is the diffierence between "Download" and "Additional delivery on USB Stick"?

The basket contents seems to be the same.

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Pekay

Thank you for your answer. If my cofiguration is not good enough what can I do? Buy more RAM? What role does the amount of RAM play? Or do I have to buy a new computer with more processor power? So, what is the key resource here?

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Pekay

This is my configuation. Is it ok for the MIR Pro?

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Model Name: Mac Pro

  Model Identifier: MacPro3,1

  Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon

  Processor Speed: 2,8 GHz

  Number Of Processors: 2

  Total Number Of Cores: 8

  L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB

  Memory: 14 GB

  Bus Speed: 1,6 GHz

  Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05

  SMC Version (system): 1.25f4

Ok, I tried it and it works fine. Thank you!

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Pekay

I'm writing a score with harp in Sibelius 6. How do a get crescendo or diminuendo?

I'm using Sibelius 6.2 and the latest versions of Vienna House Style and Special Edition Plus sound sets.

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Pekay

Ok, thanks, I'll try that.

Regards,

Pekay

Thank you for your answer!

Maybe a stupid question, but how do I control the velocity (or the loudness) of percussive sounds from Sibelius?

When the player sees an ff mark he hits the piatti cymbals with strength. How do I tell Vienna to play with strength - or softly?

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Pekay

After a lot of experimenting I got the single line staves to work for cymbals and drums.

Well, sort of.

The following problems remain:

I've assigned the velocity x-fade to CC11. But the dynamic marks (p, f, ff etc) don't change the velocity for cymbals and drums, which they do for all other instruments.

I can't make the five-line percussion approach work at all (as explained on page 8 in the Optimizing Sibelius Playback Manual). The notes trigger instruments on other channels, for example the piccolo on channel 1.

I'm using Sibelius 6.2 and the latest versions of Vienna House Style and Special Edition Plus sound sets.

Regars

Pekay

Thank you very much for your quick answer! Yes, it works now. I had forgotten to use the VSL House Style.

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Pekay

In a new composition with a trumpet, I use portato notes. But the portato mark, a small line above the note, does not trigger the portato articulation. What's wrong? In my earlier compositions the portato marks work fine.

To locate the problem I created a Sibelius sheet with only one trumpet. The portato text above the note triggers the articulation but the portato line above the note does not. The problem is the same with any wind instrument.

I use Sibelius 6.2.0, Special Edition Plus, Vienna Ensemble and VI Pro.

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Pekay 

How do I change betweeen Bosendorfer pedal up and pedal down?

I'm using Sibelius 6 and Special Edition Plus.

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Pekay