Garritan library templates! For GPO and JABB

[Sherry C]

Hi friends,

For anyone else who would like to create your own templates for any Garritan Libraries, here's my check-list method for creating those templates.

1. Create a new file with a single blank instrument.
2. Use the Staff/Setup dialog to do most of the setup.
3. “Add” the number of staves for all the instruments, including two each for KS instruments or keyboard instruments (so can make two-handed for real musicians’ printouts.)
4. Match channel numbers to the Aria player’s grid, making sure that KS instruments have two staves with matching channel numbers. Same for keyboard instruments.
5. Select a close match for the instrument from the GM grid. This is not necessary as the channel number is what dictates the instrument in the Aria player, but this is convenient if someone wants to use the .not template file for other than the Garritan player device.
6. Set the KS staff Volumes to 1.
7. All staves have Mod Wheel value of 8000 (easiest to enter a set value for one, then copy/paste that data to other staves in Graph Over Notes.)
8. Use each Staff Select button to do final name for staff (the big Staff/Setup dialog has a bug in naming right now.)
9. KS staves all are bass clef to accommodate the KS “notes”.
10. Check clefs and set them for their most frequently used clef (eg. Bass clef for contrabass, and the transposition as well)
11. Add a note at the end of each track, use File/Export as .mid, then re-open the .mid file. This will save typing the staff names in the Parts listing J
12. Use Staff/Transpose Instruments, and then “Look up all”. Undo the KS Track staves though – those should not be transposed.
13. Add a “Conductor’s Print Score” by using Part/Define parts, “Add” and “Select all”, then eliminating all the “KS Track” staves.
14. Don’t forget to delete the notes from the template before the final “File/Save as template”.

You can use this method for creating any template, really, just leave out the "extra KS staff", and the "Mod wheel" bits. If you're using the GM grid, then you don't have to worry about matching up channel numbers either

Enjoy!
Sherry

The videos are a great help, Thanks!

However, having loaded the GPO template I assume that I have also to download some additional software but I cannot find the link. Also when I had tripped over the link (now lost again) it appeard that the software was NOT free. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Best Wishes,
Ray T

[Sherry C]

Hi Ray,

Originally Posted by maximise

The videos are a great help, Thanks!

I'm glad that you (and others) are finding them useful

However, having loaded the GPO template I assume that I have also to download some additional software but I cannot find the link. Also when I had tripped over the link (now lost again) it appeard that the software was NOT free. Am I looking in the wrong place?

The link to the Garritan website is www.garritan.com and you are correct that it is not free I only included the templates because we do have a lot of users who also have some of the Garritan libraries, Personal Orchestra (GPO) and the Jazz and Big Band (JABB) being two of the favorites. Folks who have those libraries can use the .not template files that I created to quickly set up Musician or Composer to match the ensemble templates that are included in GPO and JABB.

They are not free, but they are probably the best "bang for the buck" libraries to get really excellent instrument sounds for backing tracks or even just for really nice play-along sounds for practicing with Notation Musician or Notation Composer. I have some, and use them for making backing tracks for musicals and such. With some massaging of the performance parameters in Notation Composer, you can get some really realistic sounding performances.

ttfn,
Sherry

[homeboy26]

Sherry
thanks and I am sure this is really good stuff.......but I think I would get the idea better from a personal demonstration for a couple of hours.

My breins, she is not verkink as fast as wunce woz!

Anytime you are in OZ and available for a Tutorial Booking ...please let me know!

Cheers

Poppa

[Sherry C]

Hi friends,


I was reminded by a user query that I should update this thread for the later versions of our software


Here is the full listing of where to unzip the .not Template files, depending on what version of Musician or Composer you have.

v 2.6.3 (which is now considered obsolete and no longer supported)

C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Notation\Templates\


v 3 (latest release is 3.1.4)
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Notation_3\Templates



v 4 (latest release as of this date 4.0.2)
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Notation_4\Templates




After unzipping the files and putting them in the above folder(s), you should see them show up when you use "Create new" in Notation Composer.

If you are unable for any reason to copy these template files into the above folders or they don't show up properly in Create New, you can always simply unzip them into any folder, use File/Open in Composer to open them, and then immediately use File/Save as Template to save it to the Template folder for future use. You can then continue to work with the open file, changing the key signature, etc, just as you normally would any .not file (which is really all it is). You'll have already saved a "template" copy for using again later.


Enjoy!
Sherry