Yes, you can use Finale to play back Kontakt, Opus 1, Opus 2, Vienna Concert Guitar, Horizon Series, Mallets, and Propellerheads Reason.  If you’re in a hurry, just check out the REVIEW section at the end of the document.

Finale CAN control external synthesizers, but it cannot control stand-alone and VST samplers simultaneously.  It’s a bit of a weird limitation.

 In summary, you CAN use Finale to control these other devices, but only notation-locked people would actually want to do this; dedicated sequencers such as Digital Performer or Cakewalk are designed for this type of use and handle it much better.  Sibelius is much easier to get at when it comes to MIDI routing because it doesn’t make a bad attempt at being a sampler.  I’ll put up a document about that at some point, but if you’re trying to do this type of thing in Sibelius, check out the section here about the IAC MIDI bus, and that should help you out.

 I’m providing this document free of charge under the condition that it NOT be reposted anywhere.  You may use it for your personal use only.  Hope it helps someone.

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Finale Plays EWQL and GPO.pdf