Two playback configurations at once

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BlackDorito
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Sibelius Version: 8
Operating System: Windows

Post by BlackDorito » Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:46 pm

I would feel better if I had some documentation on the following situation. If I load a Sibelius score with a complex playback configuration (many instances of Kontakt attached as VSTs), and then I load another score with a similar but not identical playback configuration, perhaps with the purpose of copying some bars from one score to another, can Sibelius 8 separately maintain two active configurations at once?

I worry that somehow Sibelius has only one active configuration at a time. Why would I say this? I went into Play - Setup - Manual Sound Sets - Show and brought up the Kontakt interface for my Strings. This Kontakt seemed to be used by both scores (!)

Perhaps someone can explain how it should work and I can test it further.

Thx,


c64audio
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Sibelius Version: 8.19
Operating System: Windows

Post by c64audio » Wed Apr 22, 2020 1:41 pm

You're correct. It can only have one playback configuration at the same time. But that doesn't mean you can't do that you want to do.

You would do this:
Load score 1 and playback configuration
Load score 2, and refuse to switch playback configuration
(at this point, if you saved score 2, it would now be using the score 1 configuration)
Copy bars from score 2 to score 1
Close score 2, do not save changes
Save score 1

Chris

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