jsaras
I'll offer one quick tip for using GPO4 with the orchestral template. Turn on the "stereo stage" control on the Aria player, but turn off the Ambience reverb. Then, you can disable the early reflection sends in the template.
If you want to contact me via email, I can send you the 4 basic multis I use in GPO4 (strings, woodwinds, brass, perc) that have all the reverbs, etc., all self-contained within the Aria player itself.
Here's what it sounds like in action: http://www.audiorecordingandservices.com/GPO_ET_Adventures_Earth.mp3
Jonas! You're so industrious! re: your tip about using the "stereo stage" but turning off Ambience is well taken. I never use Aria's built-in reverb, preferring to deal with effects and most everything else in regards to mixing in Sonar. I just use Aria, and the Kontakt Player before it, as a conduit to get sound into Sonar tracks where I do all panning, volume control, mixing etc.
I'll be emailing you, because I would be very interested to see how you've adapted your template for GPO4. I'm not sure how you mean you've made it all self-contained in Aria - I guess you're using the Aria mixer more than I described above. But you must still be using sends in Sonar for reverb, since we're agreeing to not use Ambience.
Well, I don't need to guess at what you've done - I want to see it! - Thanks for your posted demo, it sounds wonderful.
Be talking again soon via email.
Randy B.