Hello Phil!

It can have different reasons why instruments are playing on the wrong channel. Please check the Troubleshooting section of our "VSL and Sibelius" tutorial.
https://www.vsl.info/en/tutorials/guides/sibelius-integration/troubleshooting

If you can't find a solution there, please send a mail with a reference to your post and the following screenshots to
- Sibelius "Add or Remove Instruments" menu
- Sibelius mixer
- Sibelius Playback Devices menu
- Sibelius Manual Sound Sets page of all loaded devices
- Vienna Ensemble showing one of the instruments that doesn't change articulations correctly

Best regards,
Andi

Hi takaeku!

Thanks for the nice feedback. I'm glad to read that.

Best,
Andi

Hi takaeku!

Here are the sound sets. Please put them in the folder that can be seen on your screenshot.

Best,
Andi

Hi takaeku!

Hmm. I wonder if it has something to do with your Japanese Windows version then. So far we didn't have any error reports like this though. Have the sound sets been installed correctly? They should have been installed to the following folder:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Avid\Sibelius\Sounds

I have attached the "Vienna Symphonic Library" House Style for Sibelius 2020.x with this post. Please unzip it and copy it to the following folder:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Avid\Sibelius\House Style

Best regards,
Andi

Hi takaeku!

For this Sibelius version the "Vienna Symphonic Library" house style should be installed automatically by the VSL Soundset Installer.

Could it be that you have run the VSL Soundset Installer with a different account than the one you are using Sibelius with? Please run it with the account that you are using Sibelius with.

If this doesn't help, do the sound sets get installed, or are they missing too?

Best,
Andi

Hello takaeku and welcome to the forum!

Which Sibelius version are you using exactly (Sibelius First, Sibelius or Sibelius Ultimate; version number)?

Best regards,
Andi

Hello terjewinther!

Welcome to the forum. This is something that you would have to make up in the Sibelius "Edit Instruments/Edit staff type" menu. I would check the Sibelius manual, but there are no specific instructions that I know of on how to do that for our libraries.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Jeffrey!

I have attached a screenshot where you can see where to auto-humanize the preset.

Best,
Andi

Hello Michael!

The artificial harmonics have been mapped one octave lower because of the range of MIDI keyboards. The way they are mapped now, all notes can be played with a keyboard. There are far more users triggering our samples by playing them on a keyboard than by notation software.

If you are using Sibelius, the octave is corrected in the instrument definitions of the "Vienna Symphonic Library" house style. So the correct pitch should get played. If you are using a different notation program, you can shift the octave in the Vienna Instruments (Pro) or Synchron Player.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Jeffrey!

I wouldn't use marcato across the board either. For some passages it will fit, for some other passages legato will fit better.

You can auto-humanize presets or matrices. Presets can be auto-humanized in the VI Pro settings, matrices can be auto-humanized by right-clicking the matrix and selecting auto-humanize.

Best regards,
Andi

Hi Jeffrey!

To get stronger attacks you could use the marcato articulations. To trigger marcato for a single note, add a marcato mark from the Sibelius notepad symbols. To trigger marcato for a whole phrase, add the technique text command "marcato".

If you want to humanize the note starts, you can use the humanize/delay option of the Vienna Instruments Pro player. I would full turn up the Hmz fader on the Advanced/Perform page and turn up the Dly fader to a value that sounds fine for you.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Jeffrey!

You can find detailed instructions on how to use our libraries with Sibelius here:
https://www.vsl.info/tutorials/guides/sibelius-integration/introduction

For a string quartet, I would proceed as follows:

- Import the "Vienna Symphonic Library" House Style. If you only keep the instrument definitions and the playback dictionary selected, your layout will stay the same.

- Make a Sibelius playback configuration with the "VE Strings" sound set and four Vienna Instruments Pro channels inside Vienna Ensemble. Load the prepared VI presets for Sibelius/Strings 3.8/Solo Strings/SSI+II - extended.

- Fine-tune the playback by triggering different articulations and editing notes or phrases with the Sibelius Inspector.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Bill!

That has been done for two reasons.

1.) Not all users have Vienna Ensemble installed. Users who don't have Vienna Ensemble installed might think that it is not working correctly.

2.) With Vienna Ensemble we would have to build templates that include various instruments that might not be included in particular projects. This way the loading time and the used RAM would be higher than necessary.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Daniel!

I have to apologise. You are of course correct. I mixed something up. The presets get loaded with VelXF turned off by default. That has been done because of performance reasons. Big orchestral projects may not play back without problems on some computers when Vel XF is turned on for all instruments. I personally would keep it turned off for most of the time and just turn it on for notes with crescendo or diminuendo. More information can be found here:
https://www.vsl.info/en/tutorials/guides/dorico-integration/quickguide#optimization

Best regards,
Andi

Hi Daniel!

Maybe the order of your steps is wrong. It should be.
1. Create a new file (or load an old one).
2. Apply the playback template.

That's it. All Synchron Players get loaded with the correct instruments and VelXF enabled. There's no need to load the presets inside Synchron Player.

If you load a SYNCHRON-ized Special Edition preset in Synchron Player, VelXF is turned off by default.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Daniel!

Hmm. VelXF was turned on by default from the very first version of the "VSL for Dorico" installer on. Can you send me the exact name of the playback template that you have applied? For which instrument is VelXF turned off in Synchron Player after applying the playback template?

Best,
Andi

Hello Daniel!

If you use our Dorico playback templates for the SYNCHRON-ized Special Editions, VelXF is turned on by default.

The additional sound at the end of your example is a release sample. If your note would be one (or more) second shorter, it would probably fit. If it would be one second longer, it wouldn't be triggered anymore. So I would change the playback note length on the Dorico Play page. Such occurances shouldn't happen too often, unless you try to trigger them on purpose.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Daniel!

Could it be that you have turned Vel XF off? Please make sure that it is turned on. The power button next to the fader should be blue when it's turned on.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello David Louis!

Problems like yours can have different reasons. Trying to make channel settings in the Sibelius mixer and using the Sibelius click track are two possible reasons. One possible reason is in your thread title ("VE Strings"). I have seen in our records that you have registered some VI Special Edition libraries. For these libraries please use the sound set "VE Special Edition" (and not "VE Strings" which is for our more extensive String libraries).

All possible reasons for your problem that come to my mind are listed in the Troubleshooting chapter of our "VSL and Sibelius" tutorial.
https://www.vsl.info/en/tutorials/guides/sibelius-integration/troubleshooting

If you can't find a solution there, please send the following screenshots to with a reference to your forum thread.

- Sibelius "Add or Remove Instruments" menu

- Sibelius mixer

- Sibelius Playback Devices menu

- Sibelius Manual Sound Sets page of all loaded devices

- Vienna Ensemble showing one of the instruments that doesn't change articulations correctly

Best regards,
Andi

Hello jhstrong!

To use the Vienna Instruments libraries with Sibelius, please load the VI presets that come with the VSL Soundset Installer. These presets can be found under PRESET => Sibelius.
https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Notation_Related
https://www.vsl.info/en/tutorials/guides/sibelius-integration/introduction

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Paolo!

You can use your all players preset for desks and individual players as well by activating the channels that you want on the mix tab. We made the desk and single player presets, because they are easier to understand and there's no need to change anything if you don't want to trigger all players.

Best,
Andi

Hi Paolo!

>> First of all, I'm editing the presets containing all the players, like "1st Violins full - All players". Is this type of preset the same as those including only an individual player, like "1st Violins full - Player 1", when I mute all the other players in the All players preset?

=> Yes.

>> If loading the All players presets with all the cells/patches deactivated, I guess that they will only take the memory needed to load that individual player that is playing.

=> Yes, but if you have the option "Enable on MIDI activity" turned on, the slots containing the other players will get enabled as soon as you start playing. If you deactivate all channels but one on the mix tab, only the patches in the slots routed to the activated mixer channel will get loaded to RAM.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Ron!

Please note that Synchron Player is not multitimbral. This means that it cannot play different instruments on differnt channels. So please add a Synchron Player for every instrument that you have in your score to your project. The players can then be assigned in Dorico in the left column of the Play page.

For Dorico projects you can simply apply our Playback Templates. That's the easiest way to set up our instruments for Dorico. How to do that is explained at the link that Paul has provided.

This may not work for imported MIDI files though. I don't know how many instruments of an imported MIDI file Dorico can recognize.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Rich!

Thanks for reporting. I can reproduce the issue. We will take care of that with a library update.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Bogdan and lunar_28664!

You are right about the harmonics. Dorico 3.5 always uses the "Natural Harmonic 1" expression for harmonics, even when you add an artificial harmonic to your score. The harmonics included in the SYNCHRON-ized Special Edition PLUS collections are artificial harmonics. That's why these expressions have been added to the expression maps. I will add "Natural harmonics 1" expressions for the next update as well.

Best regards,
Andi