Garritan Instrument not playing in finale playback

Channels in Playback Console have instruments loaded in Aria and I have increased the volume sliders in the Aria mixer. When I select audio Units as the Midi Device and Aria Player opens I have then loaded instruments (using one of the Ensembles). One thing I noticed was that when I downloaded X2 Pro with Garritan (that wouldn't install) it was a massive file but when I downloaded everything separately they were all much smaller files and their sizes wouldn't add up to the all-in-one file size. Musitek then told me how to install Garritan and Aria, which I did. Sure enough, SmartScore with Garritan wouldn't install so I installed the version without Garritan. If so, return to this download page and download SmartScore X2 WITHOUT Garritan Sounds.' It is possible that SmartScore X2 WITH garritan Sounds installer may fail to install completely. When I downloaded Pro there was a message saying 'Garritan and Aria installers predate OS 12 (Sierra) enhanced security features. When I upgraded, I did so by download, so I do not have SmartScore CD/DVD. I have seen other threads with similar issues but nothing I do seems to work. I do get sound when I playback through Internal Playback. I can't get any sound when playing back through Aria. I have recently upgraded to SmartScore X2 Pro (from SmartScore Lite that came with Finale PrintMusic). The gold standard is of course Vienna Instruments, but last I checked it was $20000 to legitimately obtain 'the cube' and access their full 500 terabyte library of sounds and articulations.Sign up ( learn about it) | Sign in ( lost password?) It's all a big pain in the rear to get running, but sounds great. Seriously, it's good enough to use on a professional recording and it's free. Also there is an unbelievable free pipe organ, the 'Leeds organ' I believe. If you do a search for 'free orchestral kontakt libraries' you'll find a decent number of libraries, including full orchestras with each instrument it section individually tracked and catalogued, but also stuff like Ivy's trombone library and drum library, which sound great. I think the free player also works this way, as a VST, but not as many libraries work with that free version.

At least in Sibelius, you load the full version of Kontakt as a VST and Sibelius acts as a midi player piano that triggers the sounds in Kontakt. Not quite, and I'm not sure if finale works the same as Sibelius. Is this basically using the Kontact Player for audio playback instead of VST? Everything in kontakt will sound better than garritan. So you can use the free orchestra sound libraries that are out there, or go crazy with Vienna instruments. I believe all the new notation softwares support Kontakt.

Garritan Instrument not playing in finale playback