Hello MS!

1. Show the plugin. Click connect. Select the Server. To learn the first steps with the Vienna Ensemble Pro software, I recommend checking out our tutorial videos and the manual.
https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Vienna_Software_Package/Vienna_Ensemble_Pro#!Video_Demos
https://www.vsl.co.at/en/MyVSL

Details on how to use our instruments with Sibelius can be found in the "Optimizing Sibelius Playback" manual.
https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Notation_Related

2. With the buttons at the lower left you can add instruments.

3.) For the use with Sibelius (or any DAW) don't run any of our standalone programs like Vienna Instruments Pro standalone or Vienna Ensemble Pro standalone. On Windows only one audio application can use the ASIO driver. The audio application you start first will take the driver. If you start another one, it cannot use it. Just start Vienna Ensemble Pro Server and Sibelius.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Thorny!

I'm afraid I didn't fully understand your setup. It doesn't make sense to me that you only hear an instrument, if this one instrument is soloed, but you don't hear anything when nothing is soloed. Can you send screenshots of the Finale Score Manager and Vienna Ensemble to ?

Best regards,
Andi

Hello MS!

In my first response I didn't know that you have Vienna Ensemble Pro. With Vienna Ensemble Pro, please start Vienna Ensemble Pro Server first. Then you can connect the Vienna Ensemble Pro plugin to the Vienna Ensemble Pro Server. Vienna Ensemble Pro is an instrument host. So you will need to add instruments inside to hear something. In your case this will be two Vienna Imperials. Once these instruments are added, you can go to the mixer page and set the panorama.

Best,
Andi

Hello Thorny!

Thanks for the update. I'm glad that it's working now.

Best,
Andi

Hello Thorny!

Vienna Ensemble is our instrument host. You can load Synchron Player and Synchron Pianos inside Vienna Ensemble on different channels.

I would be interested to see a screenshot of your username\Library\Preferences folder after removing the Finale preference files and before opening Finale. Anyway, it seems from your description that you have not removed the files, but you have renamed them. I"m not sure if that is enough. Please remove them from the folder.

Best,
Andi

Hello Thorny!

Can you send screenshots of the username\Library\Preferences folder after removing the Finale preference files and your available AU-Instruments list in Finale to ?

By the way: I recommend using Vienna Ensemble inside Finale. Did you install it yet?

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Software_Installers

Best regards,

Andi

Hello MS!

I recommend the following changes to your Playback Configuration:

- Use Vienna Ensemble instead of two instances of Vienna Imperial. You can load two Vienna Imperials inside Vienna Ensemble.

- On the Manual Sound Sets page reserve two channels for the program “Bosendorfer”. Leave program change and bank change unchecked.

- Make panorama settings in the Vienna Ensemble mixer.

Don”t make channel, output or panorama setting in the Sibelius mixer. If you have already made channel settings there, reset all outputs to (Auto).

Best regards,

Andi

Hello Pro-Arte!

The Cubase Expression Maps for the SYNCHRON-ized Special Editions only appear for users who have registered at least one of the SYNCHRON-ized Special Editions. According to our records, you don't have one of these libraries registered.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello!

Cubase Expression Maps for SYNCHRON-ized Special Editions are now available for registered users.
https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Notation_Related

Best regards,
Andi

Hello!

Cubase Expression Maps for SYNCHRON-ized Special Editions are now available for registered users.
https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Notation_Related

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Barton!

In Sibelius I recommend adding Vienna Ensemble. You can load Synchron Player inside Vienna Ensemble.

For SYNCHRON-ized Dimension Strings, please add instruments from the Sibelius "Add or Remove Instruments" menu with “[VSL Dimension Strings I]” at the end and programs on the Manual Sound Sets page with “SYzd Dimension” at the beginning of the name. If you are unsure what to load for the "VE Strings" sound set, you can always check in the "Optimizing Sibelius Playback" manual at the beginning of the "VE Strings" chapter.

You can find more possible reasons and solutions for your problem in the Troubleshooting chapter.

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Notation_Related

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Pro-Arte!

As Bill writes, the rules for the VI Special Editions are provided by Presonus. I’m afraid we simply can’t fit it in at this point, and to be honest, the demand for Notion sound sets has not been overwhelming. Busy times in Vienna, so let’s see what the future brings.

Best,
Andi

Hello Mike!

The quoted paragraph mentions VI presets with CC11 assigned to Velocity XFade, but not that you should assign CC11 to Synchron Player presets.
If you look a bit further down on the same page, the following is written:

Note for SYNCHRON-ized Special Edition users: The steps described in this chapter are not necessary with the sound set “VE SY Special Edition”. Velocity X-Fade gets automatically turned on for rolls and turned off again after the rolls.

I will try to make it a bit clearer for the next manual version.

Best,
Andi

Hello Mike and Paul!

Please use the Synchron Player presets as they are with Sibelius. That includes CC2 for Velocity XFade. Otherwise dynamics will not work properly. Mike, where did you read that you should change Velocity XFade to CC11?

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Cyril!

We are not planning to make Logic articulation maps ourselves. Audio Grocery offers some articulation maps for our Synchron libraries. I don't know, if they are planning to make such maps for the SYNCHRON-ized Special Editions.

http://www.audiogrocery.com/sy-art-tools.htm

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Simon!

Cubase VST Expressionmaps for the SYNCHRON-ized Special Editions will be released very soon.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Mike!

I've got good news. Our developer looked into the CPU usage of Synchron Player components and he was indeed able to improve the CPU performance for instruments that use Room Reverb and remain silent. This optimization will be included in the next Synchron Player update. It should make a big difference for your template.

I'm not sure, if I understand the problem in your latest post. The Sibelius instrument "Horn in F" has the Sound ID "brass.horns.french horn". The program "French Horn" from the sound set "VE SY Special Edition" has exactly the same Sound ID. If an instrument plays on the wrong channel, this can have different reasons. Please check out the Troubleshooting chapter of the "Optimizing Sibelius Playback" manual.

Best,
Andi

Hello Pro-Arte!

There are no Notion playback rules for the SYNCHRON-ized Special Edtitions. So using these libraries with Notion may be cumbersome. With Notion I still recommend using the VI Special Editions.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Clayking!

I was able to reproduce your problem. To me it seems that this comes from a limitation of Finale indeed. You can assign different layers to different channels in the Score Manager, but as far as I can see, the Expressions can only be assigned to one channel. So they will only work for this one channel.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Mike!

Yes, you will need VE Pro 7 to do that. As you have suggested, you can group sections in folders and enable/disable the whole folder.

By the way. VE Pro 7 also supports HiDPI resolution.

Best,
Andi

Hello Mike!

You could disable channels in Vienna Ensemble Pro 7 that you don't need for a particular piece. Enabling/disabling channels can be automated by MIDI commands with help of the automation mapping in Vienna Ensemble Pro.

Best,
Andi

Hello Clayking!

Maybe the controlers you have set in the Vienna Instruments player for VelXF and in the Finale Human Playback Preferences/Dynamics menu don't concur. I would use CC11 to control Velocity XFade with Finale. To avoid double dynamics I would set the Expression fader to another free CC (or none).

I hope that helps.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello DaddyO!

You can copy the CONTROL and PERFORM tabs from one preset to the other. So you don't have to make all settings anew for every preset. Simply rightclick PERFORM or CONTROL and copy and paste. I recommend copying the CONTROL tab before the PERFORM tab.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Gil!

The "Synchron Strings I" collection doesn't include harmonics. The SYNCHRON-ized Special Edition volumes 1 PLUS and 2 PLUS include harmonics.

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Mike!

Good to read that using the correct instruments solved your problem. The same Sibelius instruments are needed for the VI Special Edition as well.

SYNCHRON-ized instruments need more CPU, because the impulse rendering for the reverb needs CPU that the VI version didn't need. You can try the "Use Light Convolution" option in the Synchron Player Preferences under "Engine" or use one of the algorythmic reverb mixer presets ("noCon") at the end of the name. Please note that the "Use Light Convolution" option has been added recently. So you might have to update your Synchron Player.

Best regards,
Andi