Playback templates (containing endpoint setups, expression maps and percussion maps) are available for various sample libraries.
Below is a list of the options currently available, including expression maps that you can use to create your own playback templates.
This page will be updated as new ones are made available. If you have a playback template you’d like us to link to or add then please let us know by email.
NB: Please note some of these are links to external sites. Steinberg cannot be held responsible for downloads from external websites.
| Brand | Library | Download | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustic Samples | VHorns Saxophones and Brass (VHorns website) | download | |
| Acoustic Samples | VWinds Double Reeds (VWinds website) | download | |
| Audio Imperia | Solo Strings (Solos website) | forum | |
| Big Fish Audio | Vintage Big Band (website) | download | |
| Big Fish Audio | Vintage Horns (website) | download | |
| Big Fish Audio | Vintage Horns 2 (website) | download | |
| Cinematic Studio | Strings (website) | forum | |
| EastWest | Hollywood Brass | forum | |
| EastWest | Hollywood Choir | forum | |
| EastWest | Hollywood Strings (website) | forum | |
| EastWest | Hollywood Woodwinds | forum | |
| EastWest | Symphonic Orchestra (EWQLSO) | forum | |
| EastWest | Symphonic Orchestra Gold (EWQLSO Gold) | forum | |
| e-instruments | Cremona Quartet (website) | forum | |
| Embertone | Joshua Bell Violin (website) | forum | |
| Fable Sounds | Broadway Big Band (website) | download | |
| Fable Sounds | Broadway Lites (website) | download | |
| Fable Sounds | Broadway Gig (website) | download | |
| Finale / Garritan | Finale Default Sounds (Feb ’25) if you didn’t purchase the extra GPO5 with Finale |
download | |
| Finale / Garritan | Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 (GPO5 website) (Oct ’24) based on the fantastic work by Ben Byram-Wigfield here on the forum |
download | |
| Finale / Garritan | Jazz and Big Band (JABB website) (Feb ’23) | download | |
| IK Multimedia | Miroslav Philharmonik 1 | forum | |
| Modartt | Organteq (website) | forum | |
| Modartt | Harp (website) | forum | |
| Native Instruments | Cremona Quartet – see e-instruments above (website) | ||
| Native Instruments | Jacob Collier Audience Choir (website) | download | |
| Native Instruments | Komplete – see Orchestral Tools Berklee – some are included with that download | ||
| NotePerformer | Official playback template installed automatically when purchasing and installing NotePerformer (website) | website | |
| NotePerformer | NotePerformer (individual outputs) | forum | |
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Orchestral Tools
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Berklee playback template (Feb ’23) (website) | download | |
| Orchestral Tools | Berklee with NI Komplete, HSSE+HSO (Feb ’23) For ease of use, some combined playback templates using either NI Komplete and/or the Dorico default HSSE+HSO sounds as fallbacks for instruments that aren’t included in the Berklee Orchestral Tools Orchestra |
download | |
| Orchestral Tools | Duplex Saxophones (website) | forum | |
| Orchestral Tools | Harpsichords (website) | forum | |
| Orchestral Tools | Miroire (website) | forum | |
| Orchestral Tools | Muted Brass (website) | forum | |
| Orchestral Tools | Symphonic Strings (website) | forum | |
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Sample Modeling
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Sample Modeling expression maps (website) | forum | |
| SoundIron | Olympus Choir Elements – upgrade from the Olympus Choir Micro in Dorico Elements & Pro (Steinberg website) | article | |
| Spitfire | Abbey Road Two Professional (website) | download | |
| Spitfire | BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO website) | article | |
| Spitfire | Eric Whitacre Choir (website) | article | |
| Spitfire | Spitfire Percussion | website | |
| Spitfire | Solo Strings (website) | forum and forum |
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| Steinberg | Iconica Sections & Players (inc. optional VEPro template) (website) | article | |
| Steinberg | Steinberg instruments, inc. CI Marimba, Harpsichord 1738, Electric Bass, MGuitar, TGuitar | article | |
| Steinberg | Simon Phillips Jazz Drums (website) | download | |
| Steinberg | Simon Phillips Studio Drums (website) | download | |
| Steinberg | Simon Phillips Vintage Drums (website) | download | |
| Straight Ahead Samples | Atomic Big Band! The Horns v1.1 including the New Standard Solo Series (website) | download | |
| Tapspace | Score Sauce template includes a playback template for Virtual Drumline (VDL) | website | |
| Vienna Symphonic Library | VSL Dorico Wizard for all VSL Libraries | article |
If you can’t find what you need here, try this forum post for templates from other Dorico users or asking on our forum