Hi Jayb,

no problem, glad to be of help, and also Andi's comments on the soundset and tricking Sibelius 5 are spot on. I did discover the same thing recently. I had two different staves, each for a duplicate of each SE flute patch, and could not work out why the legato was dropping in and out. I decided to try to go to the manual playback settings, and set it up so that I had flute 1, and flute 2 in the soundset settings for the two staves, and then it worked fine.

Yes, maybe in the school holidays when I get a break I will get onto getting some of the Beethoven, and other symphonic works by Bach and others, into sibelius 5 playback set up for SE specially. Which means you know how exactly a certain melodic, chordal, or instrumentation technique will sound in playback through SE, which hopefully will give one much more confidence to orchestrate better, and also to learn from the Master composer/orchestrators such as Beethoven, Bach, and Rimsky Korsakov and others,  right in front of them on the computer.

Glad to be of help.

best,

Steve.[:D] 

Hi Steve et al - as the person who started this post, i just wanted to say thanks for all of the helpful information, and sorry for the radio silence - my day job has taken over again of late and I can only look wistfully at my VSL server setup lying dormant next to my desk.  I appreciate your help, and look forward to having the time to take advantage of the advice you've given.

Best regards,

Eric

 Hi Eric,

I understand very well! I feel swamped under also, so I only get time to write some helpful posts not that often, and then can't get time to check back also as much as I would like. I do hope you get some time to get back into vsl though!

best,

Steve[:D] 

 Hi Laurent,

thank you  for the nice compliment[:D]. I think after teaching school pupils music from the ages of prepatory  school right up to the last years of high school forced me to break every presentation of information down into the tiniest steps, [so that things could be understood] has probably helped me develop any skills in this area. I have actually thought of doing a tutorial specifically aimed at sibelius 5 / Special Edition users, and also sib 5/any vsl library users. 

Thanks again and regards,

Steve. 

Steve, for what it's worth I would bite your hand off for a good text tutorial on the Sib/VSL interface. I would even pay good money for it, published or not.