**solved**

unsure why. After Installing Synchron Player, Synchron Piano and Vienna Ensemble 7, all the iLok libraries are now listed as "installed".

O_o

Originally Posted by: Paul

Check out the feature "Add existing libraries" in the Vienna Assistant Main Menu. This will only work with iLok content, of course!

Hi Paul. I had to reinstall MacOS Ventura from scratch, i.e. after a complete reformatting of my MacBook HD.

I tried the "Add Existing Libraries" option but it did not work: Vienna Assistant only offers to reinstall the libraries...

Any idea?

Thank you,
Roberto

Originally Posted by: Ben

Hi there,

Of course you can layer multiple sounds, and even more then were possible in the VI player :)

1) Use a dimension and control the selected slot via a dimension controller.
2) Use a dimension with enabled parallel mode to enable crossfading between the articulations
3) Use a dimension with enabled parallel mode and parallel mode set to "Mix" for each slot to simply play everything in parallel
4) Mix 2 and 3 to create some special articulations, for example sustained articulations in mix mode, in combination with short notes or dynamics. Now you can control the amount of accent / marcato vie the dimension controller.

Best, Ben

Hi Ben.

In Synchron Player, can I assign an instrument to a specific voice in a chord as it was in VI Pro? I mean something like Opus Orchestrator.

Thank you!
Roberto

Thank you Andreas, it worked! 

Roberto

Hi.

All the VSL AU plugins don't work in Finale 27, here. I see them in Score Manager but they won't open when clicking on Edit Player... 

Any other plugin, from Spitfire to UVI to Native (except for Reaktor 6) or Omnisphere, will show its GUI as expected, but Synchron Player, Vienna Ensemble Pro, VI Instruments Pro and so on will not.

I'm on a MacBook Pro M1 and Monterey OS, and I tried everything, including reinstalling Finale and rebooting my Mac.

Roberto

Hi.

In Vienna Assistant I see a zero byte Vienna Synchron Strings Pro update. Is this correct?

Thank you,
Roberto

Hi Paul.

Does the Soft Imperial replace the "old" Vienna Imperial (eLicenser)?

thank you, best,
Roberto

Originally Posted by: Paul

Hi, 

So many questions, and so much stress!

We have done our very best to cover all questions in our FAQs and videos. 

Here is the special situation FAQ for all VI Special Edition sections.

No need to rush, your existing setup will keep on working. 

A lot of information, with videos on various topics, tons of FAQs and manuals right here. 

Thanks for taking the time to dive in, it will be much clearer then. 

Best, 
Paul

Hi Paul. Following your link I read this: "YOUR BENEFIT if you have kept the sections of your Vienna Instruments Special Edition Volume 1&2 near and dear: A FREE UPGRADE to the whole Volume (all sections)!"

I have almost all of the VI SE volumes: is there any free upgrade out there I wasn't aware of?

Thank you.

Originally Posted by: fatis12_24918

What I'm missing is how to target a specific one... but I didn't experiment enough yet... maybe it's possible to select one in some way

So far (May 2020) it seems that the minus button only deletes the last created channel...

Originally Posted by: andi

Yes, it's a playback rule by Finale that shorter note values trigger different articulations in some cases. This rule is not set up in the Human Playback Preferences. I don't know, if this is documented somewhere.

Just out of curiosity, how did you find out?

Hi Andi.

I made a short video from my Mac screen. As you can see, here Finale does not distinguish the staccato and spiccato symbols and will assign the spiccato articulation to both.

The last bar, without any articulation symbol, will be played as detaché.

Is this ok?

Thank you!
Roberto

Originally Posted by: andi

Staccato marks make all violins switch to the staccato or spiccato articulations with the SYNCHRON-ized Special Edition Violin PLUS presets and the "VSL - SYzd Special Edition" Human Playback Preferences for Finale loaded here - even with the file that you have uploaded.

PS - Do you mean the Staccato-full stop mark or the text "stacc."?

I will give it another try.
Thank you, Andi.
Roberto

Andi,

in Finale 26, Syzd Special Edition > Violin 1 PLUS won't recognize the staccato symbol (.) and will switch to Détaché instead.

The only workaround I found has been duplicating the Staccato Technique in HP Preferences, add a Custom Text "stacc." and create a text espression "stacc." into the Finale score. After assigning "stacc." to any measure, Finale will correctly send the keyswitch notes 24-36 to Synchron Player.

Am I missing something?

Thank you,
Roberto

With the last update of Synchron Player everything works fine in KK!

Thank you,
Roberto

Finally I was able to load all of the VSL plugin in Komplete Kontrol after performing a Plugin Rescan (Preferences > Plug-ins > Rescan), except the Synchron Player (the Synchron Player Surround will work, tho)

You get the idea?

It's a horrible... tool...
I had to click OK a dozen times before having Synfire running.
Please throw away the eLicenser.
Really.

See also Synful's user demos page (keep in mind that is an 11 yo library: re-imagine it with VSL sounds...)

What do you think, in VSL, about the possibility/opportunity to resume Eric Lindemann's  Synful project, in my opinion too soon abandoned?

IMO it would seem more interesting than chasing epic fashions and releasing libraries of riffs (respect!)

Thank you, all the best,
Roberto

+1

totally disappointing

Hi Paul.

Sorry if I was a little rude, but the elicenser definitely is not my favorite dongle management software. After turning the Mac off and on several times, disconnecting and reconnecting the Vienna Key, the licenses miraculously reappeared and I transferred them immediately and manually, one by one, to the replacement key (before he had second thoughts). Anyway I remain of the idea that the iLok may not be perfect but never created compatibility problems and loops of error messages..

Thanks for the support, I have already written to customer support to deactivate the old Vienna Key.

Roberto