As I began to use Aria/GPO4 with an older version of Finale (2008), I was not using Finale's native Kontakt player so I started by just creating a virtual midi cable and sending midi to a standalone Aria. That got me think, the standalone aria player has only 16 channels. In fact, the MIDI spec itself has only 16, I think. So what about big orchestrations that require much more than 16 instruments. Imagining sections, solo instruments, for a full or augmented orchestra... I think that would border more on 32 patches.
Then I got around to hooking up Aria as a VST instrument in Finale 2010. I learned that it is not as closely tied to Finale functionality as the Kontakt player, but with the Instrument Setup window I discovered I could access the aria plugin just fine. It's all dandy.
What I saw in the Instrument Setup window hinted at a new possibility.It looks like there are 128 "Finale channels" which are dvided into sections of 16, and each section goes to a unique instance of any VST instrument.
Well, now that's how you make a lot of instruments! So each Aria can go up to 16, but we can have multiple Arias.
I wonder if there is any similar way to do with through a virtual midi connection to the standalone aria player.
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