To use Garritan Instruments in new scores:
- From the File menu, choose New > Document
with Setup Wizard. Or, in the Launch Window, select Setup Wizard.
Page 1 of the Document Setup Wizard appears.
- Choose a Document Style and Ensemble if you'd like and click Next. If you choose one of the ensembles marked "Garritan," Finale will load the Garritan instruments on the next page automatically. (See also Document styles.) Page 2 appears.
- From the Instrument Set drop-downmenu,
choose Garritan Instruments for Finale 2010. The available
Garritan instruments appear in the subsequent lists. (If you chose a Garritan ensemble on the previous page, the instruments added to the right column are indeed the Garritan sounds regardless of the state of the Instrument Set drop-down menu).
- Select the desired category from the left options
in the column. Double-click the instrument you would like to add.
Your selections appear in the right column. Use the up and down arrows
on the right to adjust the score order manually. (Or, choose a preset
order from the Score Order drop-down menu.)
- Click Next.
- Enter a Title, Composer, Copyright, and
other information and click Next. The final page appears.
- Make any additional settings and click Finish to complete the wizard.
Your new document opens. The instrument
staves that appear are automatically configured for playback using Garritan
sounds. For detailed information on setting up Garritan sounds, see Garritan Instrument Setup.
While notating into staves set for GPO
playback, be sure all entries are within the range of the selected instrument.
Notes outside of an instrument’s range will not playback. For a list of
instrument ranges, see GPO
Finale Edition Instrument Details.
Some instruments contain “Keyswitches”
which are notes outside the range of the instrument that trigger a patch
change from, for example, arco to Pizzicato. For a list of Keyswitches,
see GPO
Finale Edition Instrument Details. See also To add Keyswitches as Expressions.
Note that if Human
Playback is enabled, it will recognize, for example, “arco” and “pizz,”
and add keyswitches automatically. See the GPO & HP Tutorial Supplement for additional information.
Note your GPO setup
is not compatible cross-platform. If a file that is setup to use Finale
GPO is opened cross-platform (from Mac to Windows or vise versa), the
GPO sounds will need to be manually loaded. See below for details.
