Dimension strings and Sibelius

[Oceanview]

I have a question concerning the best way of working with Sibelius (7) when using the Dimension strings to their maximum.

If I want the 8 violins to work as 8 single players and load them accordingly does this mean each one will need its own stave in Sibelius? That would mean creating 8 staves and then hiding 7 of them in the score. I'm assuming that the 8 players are playing the same notes (not divisi).

Is there a more practical, quicker, elegant way of doing this?

Thanks in advance.

[andi]

Hello Oceanview!

If you want to play all players individually, you will need 8 staves and load all single player presets on different channels. To be honest I don't understand, why you want to hide staves when they are playing individual parts.

If you want them to play the same part, you can use one staff and load the All-Players preset or the single player presets in more VI/VI Pro instruments with the same MIDI channel.

More help can be found in the "Optimizing Sibelius Playback" manual under "Which presets to load with the Dimension Strings".

Best regards,
Andi

[Oceanview]

Thanks for your reply, Andi. To clarify, I thought it would be necessary to have the 8 staves set up to make it possible to apply different humanize settings to the 8 players - with each loaded on a separate VIPro within a single V Ensemble. Are you saying that this isn't required to get this level of control?

I should add that this was forward-planning [;)] - as although I have bought the Dimension Strings I do not yet have any of them (I'm waiting to be able to get them all on a hard drive, not a download) so I don't yet know what the presets will look like when I load them and try to do this.

[andi]

You can load all players in the same VI Pro with different Humanize settings.

On the other hand I want to mention that, if you want individual EQ settings, MIR positions or other plugins for every player, you might want to load a VI or VI Pro instance for every player. Still you could let them play on the same MIDI channel and this way you will only need one staff. If they all should get different MIDI information (like different note lengths, velocities, ...), you will need individual staves.