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Using the Skinner Organ in Sibelius 7 Sounds

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Using the Skinner Organ in Sibelius 7 Sounds
How to control the Skinner Organ stops in Sibelius 7 Sounds to access all of it's sound variations.

Last Updated : June 3, 2013
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The Skinner organ in Sibelius 7 Sounds requires commands placed in ‘Staff Text’ to choose between the various stops (sound variations).  Technique Text is usually used as the preferred text object as it defaults to positioning itself above the stave, but you can use any ‘staff text’ like Expression or Plain text etc too if you wish.
 
The various commands for changing the Stops can be found on page 52 of the Sibelius 7 Sounds User Reference that can be downloaded here:
 
http://www.sibelius.com/download/documentation/index.html
 
*Note; the commands vary between the ‘Great’, ‘Swell’, and ‘Pedal’ definitions of the Skinner organ.  So, if you’ve chosen Skinner Organ Great (when you created the instrument stave, or selected it from the Mixer window), make sure you use the commands listed under ‘Dict item’ for the Great organ, as opposed to those listed for the Skinner Organ,  Swell or Pedal definitions.  E.g. (image taken from the Sibelius 7 Sounds reference):
 
Annotated Sibelius 7 Sounds reference instructions
 
 
The way it works is this:
 
  1. Select the organ stave at the position from which you want to use a particular Stop and create a technique text object (Ctrl-T on Windows or Command-T on Mac).
     
  2. When you see the blinking cursor, either copy/paste in the command you want to use from the appropriate instrument Dict. Item command list in the Sibelius 7 Sounds Reference on page 52 (recommended), or type it in manually (not recommended - if you type it in wrong it won’t work!).  It should look something like this for the Great organ starting with ‘Full Organ’ and switching to ‘harmonic’ for instance:

    Organ stave with technique text for stop change example
     

  3. Note the hidden ‘nat.’ text objects.  These are entered in technique text too, and should always precede a stop change command as they do in the image above.  This resets all the virtual stops to neutral, so a new stop/combination can be called on without conflict from previous stops that may have been open.  You don’t have to hide them (via Home Tab > Edit > Hide or Show), but it keeps the score looking neater.
     
  4. Play your score and have a listen to the change in sound timbre.
 
 
Please see the Video tutorial and demonstration below if you have trouble following the above instructions:
 
(Video coming very soon)

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