VST instruments seen as VST effect instead

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onehunkytenor
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Finale Version: 27.3.0.137
Operating System: Windows

Post by onehunkytenor » Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:46 pm

I have a small handful of VST instruments and VST effects installed. All is good.

I recently decided that the soft piano provided by Spitfire LABS wasn't cutting it and went hunting for another (affordable) piano VST.

After settling on the sound and price of Waves' Grand Rhapsody, I installed it through Waves Central (the latter has worked nicely for several effects -- zero issues).

Unfortunately, Grand Rhapsody shows up as an effect rather than an instrument. Their tech support sees "Finale" in my request and says "oh no, we don't support that"... good luck... and, well... yeah. That's gone about as well as you might expect.

I have tried a bunch of things and so far nothing has worked. Grand Rhapsody actually plays nicely via the mouse when I select it as an effect from within Finale. Obviously, that's not the sort of functionality I'm after, however...

Any ideas on how to get Waves' Grand Rhapsody VST instrument to show up as an instrument and not an effect in Finale?

Cheers


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