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MIDI instruments and VST instruments cannot playback simultaneously. Therefore, if a VST product (like Kontakt for Finale with GPO) is chosen as your playback device in MIDI Setup, extra steps are required to sound a metronome click during your HyperScribe Sessions:

To use a metronome click with VST

  1. Choose MIDI/Audio menu > VST Banks & Effects. The VST Banks & Effects dialog box appears.
  2. Choose Bank 1-16 > Instruments for Finale (if it’s not chosen already). Then click the Edit button to the right. The ARIA Player for Finale appears.
  3. For channel 10, load the Basic Orch Percussion sound. If all eight slots are full, replace one of the instruments with the Basic Orch Percussion sound and reassign the replaced instrument on a different set of channels.
  4. Close the player and click Close to dismiss the dialog box. Setting the channel to 10 ensures the metronome click will play normally if MIDI is set as the playback device.
  5. Choose MIDI/Audio > Click and Countoff. The Click and Countoff dialog box appears.
  6. Change the Note fields for both Down Beats and Other Beats to 56. This will produce a side drum hit when using the ARIA Player for Finale and a cowbell when using MIDI.

Note: that you could use a different VST product instead of the ARIA Player for Finale, although the sound and patch number for the click sound would be different than the one used for these steps.

 

 

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