During our Finale Intensive Course, someone asked me how to apply vibrato to a flute.
It is true that the flute sound “Flute Player 1” of Garritan Instruments for Finale (GIFF) set up using the Setup Wizard in Finale does not have vibrato. However, Finale does not have a function to apply vibrato to a given note during playback, so in this case the answer is to use “Flute Solo” which already has vibrato applied in the Setup Wizard.
By the way, GIFF is originally based on a paid product called Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 (GPO5), which has a flute sound source with a key switch called “Flute Solo KS”.
In “Flute Solo KS”, the default MIDI note number 0 (i.e. key switch 0) loads a sound source with vibrato applied, but if you place an expression marking on the score with a command to switch the MIDI note number to 2, a non-vibrato sound source will be loaded.
Unlike GIFF, GPO5 is not included with Finale and must be purchased separately, so this is understandable, but the expression marking with the command to switch the MIDI note number to 2 is not built into Finale by default, so you need to create it yourself by opening the “Preferences > Human Playback > Instrument Techniques” dialog box.
However, you can find the method by searching for “key switch” in the user manual, and the work is not that difficult. If you're interested, it might be fun to try out various things.
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