To
use a metronome click with VST
MIDI instruments and VST instruments cannot playback simultaneously.
Therefore, if a VST product (like Kontakt for Finale with
GPO) is chosen as your playback device in MIDI Setup, extra steps are
required to sound a metronome click during your HyperScribe Sessions:
- From the MIDI/Audio menu, choose Instrument Setup > VST Instruments. The VST Instruments dialog box appears.
- Click the 1-16 drop-down
menu and choose Instruments for Finale 2010 (if it’s not chosen already). Then click the
Edit button to the right. The Aria Player for Finale appears.
- For channel 10, load the Basic Orch
Percussion sound. If all eight slots are full, replace one of the
instruments with the Basic Orch Percussion sound and reassign the replaced
instrument on a different set of channels.
- Close the player and click Close
to dismiss the dialog box. Setting the channel to 10 ensures the
metronome click will play normally if MIDI is set as the playback device.
- From the MIDI/Audio menu, choose Click and
Countoff. The Click and Countoff dialog box appears.
- Change the Note fields for both Down Beats
and Other Beats to 56. This will produce a side drum hit when using
the Aria Player for Finale and a cowbell when using MIDI.
Note that you could
use a different VST product instead of the Aria Player for Finale, although the sound and patch number for the click sound would
be different than the one used for these steps.
