Howdy GPO5 owners.
This morning I spent some time creating what I feel would be an ideal ARIA controls layout.
Stereo Stage returned to its previous position for all instruments, but nudged slightly to the left making a little more room for ... three rows of five instrument controls.

This would allow a complete new line of ADSR controls, plus Tone control  at the top and ...
the restoration of the controls that used to be available in GPO4, arranged in another row plus ...
The Mute button and new Offset control, with the ModWheel positioned on the far right.
 

 
It's true that with five to a line they're a little closer together, but too close?
Do we need to restore Var1 and Var2, etc.?
Now this is just the xml for the GUI, not the completed sfz code to make all instruments work like this.
That will take a little longer ... actually more than a little longer, but I'd do it for one group of instruments at a time.
Feedback welcomed.

SysExJohn,
 
Is it possible to make the Aria Player scaleable? Some of us older users find it a bit hard to read. It would be great if we could make it larger.
 
Just a thought.

The design looks fine to me, John. One thing I noticed with this new Aria, specifically the new way to navigate to an instrument: Sometimes when I have used the new drop-down list, I somehow get the instrument I've chosen on all the open slots! So I've gone back to the old way. Has anyone else had this happen? Is it a bug?

SysExJohn
Sorry to hear that, Fleer. My sincere condolences.
Anything to do with recent events?
 

No, a father of a good friend. Natural causes at almost ninety. Thanks for asking. Will look into the xml stuff tomorrow.

joel77
Is it possible to make the Aria Player scaleable? Some of us older users find it a bit hard to read. It would be great if we could make it larger.
 
Just a thought.

And not a bad thought either, Joel. I'm one of those older (though not yet aged) users too!
(The big seven zero is just three months away.)
But not by me, I'm afraid.
It was one of my concerns, shuffling things closer together, that the interface might become too crowded.
I would need access to areas of code privy only to Plogue, the authors of ARIA.
Regards,
John.
 

michael diemer
The design looks fine to me, John. One thing I noticed with this new Aria, specifically the new way to navigate to an instrument: Sometimes when I have used the new drop-down list, I somehow get the instrument I've chosen on all the open slots! So I've gone back to the old way. Has anyone else had this happen? Is it a bug?

 
Thanks for the feedback, Michael.
No, I can't say that I've ever had that problem.
Whether I use drag and drop or double click it seems, so far, to perform okay.
It sounds like you have a unique bug.
 
I must say, looking at the sfz code, the next part looks a lot more daunting, in areas with which I am much less familiar. But, nothing ventured ...
 
Regards,
John.

Fleer
No, a father of a good friend. Natural causes at almost ninety. Thanks for asking. Will look into the xml stuff tomorrow.

Pleased to hear it's not in the light of past occurrences.
I look forward to hearing from you.
 
 

Cheers, John.
The three files "brass.xml", "brass_legato.xml" and "toggle_mute.xml" are indeed in the GUI folder (under Library > Application Support > Garritan > Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 > GUI).

Excellent, Fleer, a good start.
And do you have a 'Banks' library at the same level as 'GUI' and within that a library called 'Standard' and another called 'Notation' (if you installed the notation)?
As well as those, also at the same level as 'GUI' do you have another called 'Instruments'?
If so, then I suspect the structure and the way of controlling ARIA is the same, but I'll have to check the detail.
 
Yesterday (Sunday) I began to deconstruct some of the sfz files to understand exactly how some parts work.
It's nowhere near as straightforward as the xml, but I'll persevere. There are some parts that don't appear to follow the information set out in the sfz documentation I have. (Principally, chapter 13 and appendix of Simon Cann's book "Cakewalk Synthesizers 2nd edition.)
Regards,
John.

SysExJohn
Excellent, Fleer, a good start.
And do you have a 'Banks' library at the same level as 'GUI' and within that a library called 'Standard' and another called 'Notation' (if you installed the notation)?
As well as those, also at the same level as 'GUI' do you have another called 'Instruments'?

Exactly as you described, John, all there.