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Audio Units Instruments dialog box

How to get there

From the MIDI/Audio menu, choose Instrument Setup > Audio Unit Instruments.

What it does

With this dialog box, choose a desired Audio Unit Instrument for use with Finale. Finale includes the Aria Player, which is designed to use Finale as its host sequencer and includes an accompanying library of Garritan Personal Orchestra sounds. You can use this dialog box to load any other Audio Unit instrument library, select and edit Audio Unit effects, and adjust the volume for each Audio Unit selection.

Finale Channel • Audio UnitInstrument • Edit. Each one of these popup menus displays all the sound libraries installed on your computer. The Aria Player is included with Finale. Choose "Instruments for Finale 2010" to load the Garritan instruments included with Finale 2010. Click the adjacent button to open the selected player where you can add instruments and make other changes.
FX. Each one of these popup menus displays the Audio Unit effects installed on your computer, including the ones installed with your operating system. Click the adjacent button to open the selected effects interface where you can make adjustments to them. Finale includes the Ambience Reverb Audio Unit effect. Choose this option to apply Finale's included reverb effect to playback of Audio Unit sounds. To adjust reverb settings, click the Edit button.

AU FX plug-ins are installed as dll files that usually appear in the same folders as the AU Instruments. If you do not see the one you are looking for, you can identify any AU plug-in installed on your system by choosing it from the Manage AU Plugins dialog box.

Bypass. Check this box to bypass the chosen effect.
Volume • Clip. This volume slider applies to the volume of the selected bank of channels and their selected Audio Unit selection and effect(s). Finale illuminates the Clip indicator if clipping is detected. Clipping is detected if the signal goes beyond the bounds of a standard range. Click the clip indicator light to reset it.
Master FX • Master Volume. Use these options to apply effects and volume to the master mix. Changes to this section apply to all Audio Unit instruments
Close. Click Close to apply your settings.