From another thread
@Paul said:
Vienna Instruments works on ONE MIDI Channel, but of course you can open many Vienna Instruments in your sequencer on different tracks.
And as Sibelius sends MIDI, the Vienna Instruments can read it, MIDI stays MIDI.
Best, Paul
Well here's the excitment for me - assuming I've understood matters.
Once we've set up the midi route from Sibelius via the VI into Sonar and once we've mastered setting up the various patches and matrixes in the VI and all the midi commands to put into the sibelius score it will now be possible to play a single stave of say an orchestral score (violin 1) with all artciulations in one go into a track in Sonar.
Having got the first VI performance sorted we can then optimize the ram and move on to the next part. In this way, depending on your specs, it may be possible to set up several VIs so that perhaps we could do the whole of one section at a time.
It may well be possible on modest specs to say have four VIs do live playback of a string quartet (that's be my first project with the Solo Strings)
Presumably the midi controller data in the Sib score can be simplified in time with plug ins and the like.
Of course the track laid down in Sonar can be tweeked further as desired.
Reverb/Ambience - I know MIR is coming but presumably we can add whatever reverb we want in Sonar.
I wonder whether a single VI will be able to cope with the entire range of articulations for say a whole symphony so that ideally it would be one take to record the entire 1st violin part.
Just some idle ramblings trying to keep the notation/SC/VI discussion going. [:)]