Is it possible to combine two separate Instrument Techniques?

[heinzfan]

I searched Finale's help and this forum. I have two separate sets of instrument techniques - one for Garritan that comes pre-installed, and a separate one for third-party sample sets. I can select one or the other, but don't see any way of combining both sets into a single set of preferences other than to manually add the individual techniques from one set to the other. Is there any easier way to do this that I'm missing?

[Jetcopy]

From my experience, you need to create a custom set of HP preferences which would contain the Garritan sounds you use as well as other samples like VSL. I wish there was an automatic way of doing this, but I think the easiest route would be to duplicate your Garritan preferences, give it a different name, then manually add your VSL instrument preferences or other sounds you use.

[heinzfan]

Thanks, that's what I suspected.

[zuill]

If the issue is keyswitches, when all else fails, you can create custom keyswitch expressions for that, unique to the sample set being used.

Zuill