That's not actually correct. In recent versions of Finale, the Aria player also plays back the SmartMusic SoftSynth sounds.
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 14 Oct 2011, at 3:47 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: > On 10/14/2011 12:49 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >> Giz: >> >> While my first inclination would be to echo the suggestion of those >> suggesting addition of a hard drive, it doesn't answer your question. As >> far as I can tell (and I'll admit here that I've not yet upgraded to >> 2012), you can probably safely decline to install Garritan instruments >> and the Aria player without losing any Finale functionality, although of >> the two, the largest is probably the Garritan instruments library. I'd >> guess the Aria player is small enough to not make much difference. The >> other things that one might choose not to install are, again, small >> enough not to make much difference in the final analysis. > > But without the Garritan sounds installed there's no need to install the > Aria player, since it's only there to play the Garritan sounds through. > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale