Hi,
I've been fiddling with this for hours now and reading other forum questions about this but I am now stumped.
I am attempting to set up playback of a number of VSL instruments in Sibelius - I have seemingly done everything I need and still I am getting staccato playback of, for example, the loaded oboes (1 and 2). The score has minums and I'm getting short staccato notes meaning that the score is not being read properly by Vienna Ensemble Pro.
I gave up trying to use the individual soundsets together and reduced everything to play back via the Special Edition soundset and have rempoved the big sets samples and loaded the instruments from the Special Editions. (I have updated all the soundsets with the lastest software from VSL.)
I've been getting the classic lack of two instruments, both on separate channels, playing back without muting the other.
I'm getting one oboe not playing notes above a certain range even though the loaded sample in Vienna Ensemble has those pitches, and they are well within the oboe range (they play back fine using Sibelius' own sounds)
'Use same slot for different instruments' is unchecked - as it is by default anyway. So that doesn't explain it.
Oboe 1 and 2 have different midi channels both on the Playback Devices page, Sibelius' mixer, and Vienna Ensemble itself.
Writing legato in Sibelius as an expression doesn't work - and it would be bizarre to have to write legato at the start of a score to get sustaining notes anyhow - the note value (an adagio minum!) should surely send some kind of message to Vienna Ensemble to trigger a sus sample!
Utterly baffled here. Playback in Cubase with the same midi file doesn't have these issues (there are other ones, of course) - so why is it so complicated to get a reasonable playback with VSL in Sibelius.
Thanks!
On a related matter - if an instrument doesn't have a soundset, such as the Cembalo, what to do then? Should one not select any VSL soundset in Sibelius' Playback Devices?