How to make the Sibelius Soundset for Vienna Special Edition compatible with Vienna Ensemble. Step by Step.
1. Close Sibelius
2. Open the Sibelius Sound Set Editor.
3. File - Open... - Open the "VSL Special Edition.xml" Sound Set File.
4. Set Number of Channels to 16.
5. File - Save
6. Close Sound Set Editor
7. Start Sibelius
8. Open your Sibelius Project
9. Play - Playback Devices
10. Remove your Vienna Instruments or Vienna Ensembles from the active Devices List
11. Add Vienna Ensemble
12. Set Sound Set to "VSL Special Edition"
13. Go to Manual Sound Sets
14. Set Number of Channels to 16
15. For each Channel choose your desired Program
16. Apply for each channel before you go to the next one
17. Save your Configuration
18. In Vienna Ensemble choose the desired Matrix file for each instrument and set it to the same MIDI channel as in Sibelius.
19. Save your Vienna Ensemble Project.
20. In Sibelius save your Score.

I hope that was helpful. 

Andi

 Hi Andi,

Thanks for taking the time to write out the instructions.  This all makes sense to me, except that I can't seem to actually find the "VSL Special Edition.xml" file. 

I was assuming that it would be here:

/Users/your username/Library/Application Support/Sibelius Software/Sibelius 5/Sounds

However, it is not.

Any thoughts?

Omid 

Hello Omid. 

My description was refering to a windows PC. As I can see now you are working on Apple. I think the sound set files you get with Sibelius (like the VSL Special Edition sound set) are hidden (on Apple) or not available for users for editing. However you can make additional sound sets and put it in the folder Users/username/Library/Application Support/Sibelius Software/Sibelius 5/Sounds.
Please contact Sibelius if they know a way to edit preinstalled sound set files on Apple or if they can send you the xml.file to edit. The way of editing should be the same as on Windows PC.

Andi

 Thanks Andi!  Will do.

Omid 

 So, here is what Daniel said on the Sib site.  I will try it in a moment.  I would never have figured this one out on my own, so perhaps this info will also help some others out there.

"On Mac, the default sound sets are built into the application. You can
find them by right-clicking (or Control-clicking) on the Sibelius 5
application icon, choosing Show Package Contents, then going into
Contents/Components/Sounds.

I suggest you make a copy of the VSL sound set to avoid changing the one
in the package: put yours in the location you originally looked for it,
and Sibelius will thenceforth use your copy in preference to the one
included inside the application package."
 

ok guys  special edition came today  everything works great and sounds nice  BUT  where is the vsl xml soundset  file  this is on windows xp and not a mac   i cant find it anywhere including the folders in sibelius 5 and in vienna instruments  it seems i appear to be missing it 

can someone send me it   please  i need to strat work asap 

thanks

timmy

probably this is a useful link

http://www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/resources/soundsets.html

christian

ok  in vienna enesmble  how do  i select which instrument  goes to which channel.  i have set them up in sibelius  the piano is channel 1  how do i get it to mtach so sibelius will playback correctly?

thanks

tim

let me add: i think you don't need to execute any LAA hacks on sibelius, since VE is a seperate application and is using its own address space (and is of course large address aware) - however make sure you run the 5.1 version and the latest VE

christian

Hello Tim!

The Sibelius guys made a nice pdf-document how to work with Sibelius 5.1 and VSL Special Edition. You can download it from here:
http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/helpcenter/search.pl?com=search&words=A555&language=1
This should also answer your question.

Andi