Can Garritan instruments for Finale be used with Cubase

So really…one could ramble all day with options and advice.

One thing to look out for when using Instrument tracks, is that you might end up with a lot of unnecessary instances of ARIA in the project as you’re learning you way around (not too hard to get under control once you’re more experienced…but it can make a big MESS until then). These can be good to library licks and grooves for reuse in other projects, as the exported MIDIloops can be auditioned in the Cubase Media Browser without having to load them up manually. Instrument tracks include the ARIA instance end point with all its settings, and only place a single fader on the mixing console. Instrument Tracks aren’t quite as flexible when it comes to routing and mixing, but they do provide a different sort of advantage in that they can be exported as MIDIloops. MIDI tracks offer some flexibility in mixing and routing that Instrument Tracks do not. For typical Big Band charts, it’s probably best to start out with Multi-output ARIA instances in Rack Mode, and use MIDI tracks to build your composition.

You’ll have all sorts of options in what sort of Cubase tracks to use, and how you’d like to route the audio outputs. For FX enhancements to individual instruments, you’ll want to use that Multi-Output version of ARIA and assign each instrument slot to his own audio BUS. If you want to bypass them and use Cubase effects instead, one can usually get a good start by using a Cubase FX Track (Reverb you want loaded on that) and Sends on the ARIA outputs to share a main reverb across all the instances of ARIA Outputs you’ve configured. If you use those in ARIA, understand that the effects are always mixed and are sent to ARIA’s 1&2 channels. Then, there is the question of using built in ARIA effects (sound staging/panning and reverbs), or bypassing those and using the ones that can be hosted in Cubase (several nice ones come with the DAW, plus your third party adds).

In the Jazz and Big Band 3 Library, about the only difference I know of here is what octave of the keyboard key-switches are in. Next big question is if you should use standard or notation versions of the Garritan instruments. There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods. One of the biggest choices is when it’s better to use key-switching variants of sounds vs when it’s better to just spread things out over many tracks/channels. How do you like to compose? Score editor? Key Editor? Real time Playing from a controller? Will you be importing rendered MIDI files from something like Finale, Sibelius, or Dorico to begin the project? If so, this can have an impact on the strategy you might take in setting up your initial ARIA instances inside Cubase. Consider these questions:ĭo you intend to also use Cubase to make printed scores? If so, how important is it for you to have working expression maps intended to go with the Score and Key editors? It can be set up and used many different ways.

Can Garritan instruments for Finale be used with Cubase